Domain Extensions

Uniregistry just announced today that it now supports premium New gTLD domain name registrations and transfers from the Donuts and Rightside registries. Up until last week, that I last tried it, you couldn’t transfer a …

Connectingnyc.org published a status report doing an evaluation of the .nyc extension at its 6 month anniversary. The report has many interesting stats including the percentage of parked domains (74.27%), although I am not sure …

ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) announced that .PORN and .ADULT are available for the next thirty days to trademark holders who are registered in the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). Domain …

.Cymru and .Wales sold over 5,000 domain names in the first 24 hours of general availability and more than a 1,000 domains in the first hour. New Welsh domain names – .cymru and .wales – …

Radix, a new gTLD registry, has reached an agreement with auction partners Tucows and Namecheap to assume full ownership and operation of the .online TLD. Radix has already launched many new gTLDs such as .website, …

Christopher Hofman, founder of the  European Domain Centre, published an infographic showing all domain name extensions. It starts in 1985 with .com and .edu and ends 30 years later, in 2015, with extensions such as …

In early February 2015, CENTR’s ccTLD full members aggregate registrations crossed the 70 million mark. This number includes 57 ccTLDs and IDN ccTLDs in 49 countries. CENTR’s full members have benefited from a 45% growth …

Google won today the auction for the .APP extension. Google paid $25 million dollars for the right to sell the .APP new domains. I wish Google good luck on getting their money back ($25,001,000 was …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …