Domain Extensions

Donuts Inc., the world’s largest registry for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), marked the one-year anniversary of general availability of new Internet identities, reporting that its 150 now live gTLDs are home to more than 1.2 …

Neustar, Inc. announced results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2014 and provided guidance. Results for Fourth Quarter 2014 Compared to Fourth Quarter 2013 Revenue increased 6% to $252.4 million Marketing Services revenue increased 8% …

This week 0 New gTLDs enter General Availability, 2 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 0 strings enter the landrush phase. 2 Donuts New gTLDs enters EAP General Availability on the 4th of …

TLD Registry Ltd, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, ran a masterclass on Chinese Domaining during the NamesCon 2015 conference in Las Vegas. Chinese IDN experts …

This is the title of probably the funniest Flippa auction ever: “New gtlds ruined me! IM BROKE! – New gtld portfolio! -NO RESERVE- Take advantage” “New gtlds portfolio! NO RESERVE – New gtlds ruined me! …

The .GLOBAL registry released more than 3,500 domain names to the market for purchase. Most of the domains were previously reserved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) because of Name Collisions, …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from last week’s 5 New gTLD launches: Rightside had 2 New gTLDs out of EAP and into General Availability on the 28th of January 2015: .Band and …

Typosquatting in .UK domain names is going crazy and few companies have noticed. Most of the top 120 UK websites have had their domain names registered in .uk by typosquatters. Companies such as Google, Amazon …

.SPACE, Radix’s 4th new gTLD, went into general availability today at 16:00 UTC. Radix says that “.SPACE primarily caters to passionate, driven individuals and groups who want to carve out a personalized space online. It …

More than 1,000 premium domain names, among them jackpot.vegas, doctor.vegas and golf.vegas, were recently released for public availability. This exclusive list is held by Dot Vegas, Inc., the registry operator of .vegas, and includes names …

This must be one of the most surprising things I have discovered about New gTLDs. I have been following New gTLD launches for a year now, and even before than, and this somehow escaped my …

The January 2015 edition of the Afnic Industry Report on Domain Names reviews the developments and trends in the French domain name market in 2014 after the opening of the new gTLDs. The .fr TLD …

This week 5 New gTLD enter General Availability, 0 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 0 strings enter the landrush phase. Rightside has 2 New gTLDs out of EAP and into General Availability on …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from last week’s 3 New gTLD launches: Two geo New gTLDs from Belgium entered general availability this week: .brussels and .vlaanderen. According to NameStat.org .Brussels had …