The City of New York has reserved roughly 400 neighborhood names for use by community groups to develop new online hubs for civic engagement, online organizing and information-sharing. Neighborhood names are now available and will …
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This Is Why .Club Became The Premiere Sponsor Of THE Domain Conference
Jeff Sass, .CLUB’s Chief Marketing Officer, wrote an article announcing the .club sponsorship of THE Domain Conference and explaining why the .club registry chose to sponsor the event. The conference is using a .club domain …
Read More ».DK Domain Names Introduce Validation
As from 1 March 2015, DK Hostmaster requires that all Danish registrants can be validated. This means, that your name and address must match the information about you in the CPR or CVR register to …
Read More »Rightside 2014 Results: Revenue Up 14%, 150,000 New gTLD Registrations
Rightside Group, Ltd. today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2014. “Rightside closed 2014 with a strong quarter of revenue growth across each area of our business. Additionally, …
Read More »Rightside Buys .NEWS Domain Name Extension
Rightside has bought the .NEWS domain name extension, to be released later this year. “The .NEWS extension will offer media outlets, journalists, radio and television personalities, and online news aggregators the opportunity to distinguish themselves …
Read More »1st Year .College Registrations Are Free For Trademark Holders, Brands, .edu & .ac.uk Domain Registrants
The XYZ registry announced the official launch schedule for the .College extension, which will enter its Sunrise phase on March 17. Let’s hope that .College will be different than .XYZ because I actually like the …
Read More »Starting Dot Passed The 10,000-Domain Threshold
iStarting Dot, the registry operator for new generic top-level domains (new gTLD) .BIO, .ARCHI & .SKI, announced that the company has achieved a milestone for a young registry operator in the gTLD space: this week …
Read More »1 & 2 Character .FR Domain Names Opening To The General Public Today
On February 16, 2015, Afnic is extending the registration of domain names under the .fr TLD consisting of only one or two character(s) to the general public. Since December 9, 2014, Afnic has allowed the …
Read More »NewYork.Cab Has A $11,500 Bid At Flippa But There Is A Catch
The domain name NewYork.Cab is at auction at Flippa with 2 days left. There have been 41 bids already and the domain name has a $11,500 bid but things are not so simple as they …
Read More »Jeffrey Sass of .Club: “We’re Asking the Wrong Questions”
Jeffrey Sass, CMO of .CLUB, wrote a very interesting article on CircleId called “We’re Asking the Wrong Questions”. Here are some of the points he made: “The story so far has been fairly predictable: registries …
Read More »Funniest Flippa Auction Ever Ends In A Few Hours: “New gtlds ruined me! IM BROKE!”
The funniest Flippa auction ever ends in a few hours and it it getting a few bids because people find it hilarious. This is the title of probably the funniest Flippa auction ever: “New gtlds …
Read More »New gTLD Weekly Launch Review: .Delivery, .Energy, .LGBT, .Casa, .Work
This week 5 New gTLDs enter General Availability, 0 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 1 strings enter the landrush phase. Afilias launches .LGBT on the 10th of February. Minds & Machines launches
Read More »2-Factor Authentication Now Available To All .UK Domain Registrants
Nominet has been investing significantly to help all .uk owners protect their domains. Following a successful launch to registrars last October, from today, registrants can opt to use two-factor authentication access to Nominet’s Online Services. …
Read More »DNA Survey: 85% Of People Type Domains Into Browsers & 60% Want More Domain Extensions
The Domain Name Association (DNA) announced the results of a recent global survey to ascertain Internet users’ attitudes toward new Internet domain-name extensions, such as “.club” and “.global,” that are being released through ICANN’s “New …
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