Domain Extensions

Afnic’s annual general meeting was held on June 12, 2015. On the same occasion, the association published its 2014 Activity report. For Afnic, 2014 in many ways was a year of opening, in every sense …

Yesterday I published the story of the domain names ads.porn and ads.adult that were deleted by the registry because of an administrative mistake had not put the domains on the reserved list. I searched to …

A reader named James complained that the .porn and .adult registry deleted 2 domains after he had successfully registered them for about 2 days. James pre-ordered the domain names and got them in General Availability …

Donuts has decided not to release any of the 2 character domains (LL ,LN, NL, NN) yet. Last month Donuts announced the availability of more than one million previously unavailable web addresses across its top-level …

Today, Tuesday evening, June 9, 6:15 PM, the .NYC Domain Meetup (see details) is to examine “souvenirs.nyc” and the great placement it is receiving on Google search. Within a month of launch Souvenirs.nyc is #1 …

The domain names KimKardashian .Porn and KimKardashian .Adult were registered yesterday. And not by Kim herself or her representatives. .Porn and .Adult new domain names launched yesterday and 3,756 new domains were registered in the …

.Porn and .Adult new domain names launched yesterday and today they have 9,322 and 7,637 domain names registrations respectively. The total .porn and .adult domain name registrations before the general availability yesterday were

.Porn and .Adult new domain names launched  today. Here is a look at the sunrise and domain matching program. Only holders of registered trademarks in the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) were eligible to participate in the …

.PORN and .ADULT domain names are launching today. Open domain name registration starts on June 4th, 2015 at

In our Domain Name Industry Report for April 2015 Afnic studied the major trends in the domain name market in 2014. It seemed interesting to try to extend these trends for “Legacy gTLDs” or traditional …

The usTLD Stakeholder Council is seeking comments on its recommendation to continue the suspension of the kids.us namespace through the end of the current .US contract term. The recommendation follows a report of the Kids.us …

CENTR Board members and Management gathered in Florence on 11-12 May 2015 for a strategic retreat with the aim of defining long-term strategy plans for the organisation. After having reviewed and assessed the current environment …

Earlier today, the number of domain names in Famous Four Media registries surpassed half a million. This equates to nearly 10% of all domains registered under ICANN’s new gTLD program. Of course the number includes …

The Pirate Bay will soon be leaving the  Swedish ccTLD domain name (thepiratebay.se). The popular torrent website will move to various ccTLDs around the world. TorrentFreak.com reported that earlier today the Stockholm District Court ordered …