Domain Extensions

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …