The latest Wix.com commercial starring Heidi Klum is another example of how to make a great TV ad relating to websites and domain names. I wrote about Wix.com a few months back after they aired …
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Donuts Has Started Releasing 1.369 Million Reserved Collision Domain Names
Beginning last week, Donuts Inc., started releasing for registration 1.369 million previously reserved domain names. The domains were initially reserved because of collisions. The company is making these names available in batches each week between …
Read More »Afnic 2014 Report: .FR Grows 5%, Opens 1 & 2 Character Registrations
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 …
Read More »More Domains Deleted By ICM Registry: buy.porn, host.porn, hosting.porn etc.
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 …
Read More »ICM Registry Deletes The Domains ads.porn & ads.adult Because Of A “Mistake”
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 …
Read More »Donuts Will Not Release 2-Character Domains Yet (Will Be Released On September 9th)
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 …
Read More ».NYC Domain Meetup Today In New York City
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 …
Read More »KimKardashian .Porn & KimKardashian .Adult Domains Get Registered
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 …
Read More ».Porn & .Adult Get 3,756 New Domain Registrations On Their 1st Day
.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
Read More »Would You Register Your Name Or Trademark In A .Porn Domain And Not In .Adult & Vice Versa?
.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 …
Read More ».PORN and .ADULT Domains Launch Today
.PORN and .ADULT domain names are launching today. Open domain name registration starts on June 4th, 2015 at
Read More »“The domain name market: 2017, year of consolidation?”
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 …
Read More »Should Kids.us Remain Suspended?
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 …
Read More »ccTLD Community Pulls Together To Face Upcoming Challenges
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 …
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