Domain Extensions

Internet platform business and backend TLD provider CentralNic announced that it doubled its revenue in 2014, to £6.07mln from £3.05mln in 2013. The group finished 2014 with 3

Jeff Sass, the ‎Chief Marketing Officer of .Club, delivered yet another great presentation on the 2nd day of the Domaining Europe 2015 Conference in Valencia, Spain. Jeff Sass, who has been very busy marketing .club …

New gTLDs accounted for 21% of the net growth of the domain name market in 2014. “The recent publication of the ICANN reports for the month of December 2014 enables us to finally take stock …

Minds + Machines Group Limited provided an update on its portfolio of generic top-level domains and registrar operations ahead of the Company’s year-end financials. The purpose of the update is to: provide shareholders with a …

160,000+ previously reserved “ICANN collision” names are now available for registration across 8 Afilias New gTLDs. Couldn’t register for great names like caribbean.blue, bake.organic, or planet.red? Now you can. Or maybe you can’t because Afilias …

The New gTLD program started over a year ago and New gTLD domains have been expiring and then dropping for about 2 months now. But one thing remains the same. New gTLDs are yet not …

I got an inquiry for one of my New gTLD domain names today at the DomainNameSales.com. It turned out not to be a prospective buyer but it was really interesting how this internet user from …

Donuts released the renewal rates for its first 25 New gTLDs and 180,000 domains and the overall renewal rate seems to be closer to 65% (probably lower) so far rather than the projected 80%. The …

Yesterday I made a post about hundreds of 2-letter .berlin domain names that were registered by a .berlin registry partner against ICANN rules. It turns out that the problem was much deeper than I thought. …

All 676 combinations of 2-letter .berlin New gTLD domain names were registered yesterday against ICANN rules that prohibit the registration of all 2-letter domain names in New gTLDs. Domain names like us.berlin, uk.berlin and aa.berlin …

A previous post contained a list of 89 .sucks domain names that have been registered by trademark holders during the first few days of the sunrise period for .sucks. Here is what a search for …

We are just a few days into the sunrise period for .sucks and more .sucks domain name registrations are registered (or rather applied for) daily. Latest registrations include domain names registered by Toms, Uber,

I have been holding this story for a while but I guess it is time to post it now. On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 I was attending what was probably the last session at NamesCon 2015 …

Starting Dot, the registry of .ski, .bio and .archi, launched the inaugural edition of the “PREMIUM TLD 50“, ranking of the world’s top 50 premium generic top-level Internet domains (gTLDs). The Premium TLD 50 measures …