Domain Extensions

Tim Culpepper, a Military Intelligence officer in the U.S. Army and a domain investor operating out of San Antonio, Texas, began his online business in 2009, so he could pay off his college loans. He …

With startups in mind, the .Club registry took to the streets of San Francisco for the Launch Hackathon and Festival, held at the Fort Mason Center. This was .Club’s first participation in a hackathon and …

Rightside is releasing today, March 18, 20,000+ two-character domains for each of the Top Level Domains (TLDs) in its portfolio, which includes such extensions as .SOCIAL and .ATTORNEY. These two-character domain names, such as 2b.social, …

Following the launch of the new .cymru and .wales domains, all remaining Premium Names will be available from Tuesday 31st March at 12.00 noon on a first come, first-served basis. This means that over

Nominet, the .uk registry, is consulting on a proposed policy to clarify what data about domain-holders is published in the .UK WHOIS and, regardless of what’s published, ensure they have the accurate data essential for …

Donuts launched its first advertising campaign today called “Freedom of Choice”. Here is the first video released.

Today the “Freedom of Choice” advertising campaign launched by Donuts “to shake up the domain name space by shining the spotlight on the breadth and depth of new, creative choices now available in Internet naming.” …

Anti-Phishing Working Group, Inc. published the Global Phishing Survey “Trends and Domain Name Use in 1H2014“. This report examines all the phishing attacks detected in the first half of 2014 (January 1 to June 30). …

Rightside announced that on March 18 it will release certain two-character domains for each of the Top Level Domains (TLDs) in its portfolio, which includes such extensions as .SOCIAL and .ATTORNEY. These two-character domain names, …

Global registry services provider and poker fan Afilias announced that today is the start of the landrush period for the new “dot POKER” or .POKER top level domain. From March 10 through April 9, 2015, anyone may …

OpenSRS, the domain name reseller services division of Tucows, published a blog post called “What we have learned from selling 100,000 new gTLDs“. I found the post very interesting and so would you. The post …

The.Club registry published a video with 21 golf and country clubs that use .club domain names. The video was prepared for presentation at the CMAA World Conference and Club Business Expo (March 8-12, 2015). CMAA …

Minds + Machines Group Limited announced that the Company has gained, in aggregate, net proceeds of US$1.68 million (approximately £1.1 million) following the withdrawal of its applications for .app, .soccer, and .beauty. .app was settled …

In what seems to be one of the worst decisions in domain name history I just lost the domain name ini.gr (INI.gr) to PepsiCo Greece. PepsiCo wanted to register ivi.gr (IVI.gr) but couldn’t because I …