Domain Extensions

We are now reaching the first year anniversary of the first New gTLDs and already 1,626 marks have expired at the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). So far 34,400 marks have been submitted to the Trademark Clearinghouse …

We are now just a week away from the first anniversary of the New gTLD program launch. It all started when 7 New gTLDs from Donuts were released on the 29th of January 2014. That …

Rightside released thousands of domains names that were originally blocked on the ICANN Name Collision List on January 17, 2015. Complete lists of the collision domains are available to download. The domain names were on …

Registry operator Dot Scot Registry Limited announced the release of some of its reserved .SCOT domains from the Name Collision List on the 6th of January after which all names are in the general pool …

I noticed an auction at Flippa for the domain USA.Vacations that ended a few days back. High bid was $800 and the domain didn’t sell but what is quite interesting are the comments. It seems …

This week 3 New gTLD enter General Availability, 2 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 1 string enter the landrush phase. 2 geo New gTLDs from Belgium enter general availability this week: .brussels …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from last week’s 3 New gTLD launches: One Donuts New gTLD was out of EAP and into real (reg-fee) General Availability on the 14th of January …

2014 was a great year at OnlineDomain.com in terms of views and visitors. It was the first full year of blogging even though the blog was launched in 2012. The year 2014 had about 325k+ …

The live domain name auction at Namescon.com was held in Las Vegas at the Tropicana hotel and was conducted by RightoftheDot.com with online bidding and viewing on SnapNames.com. The auction sold $990,851 worth of domain …

The final list of the domain names that are going to be auctioned today is out. The live domain name auction at Namescon.com is today and will be conducted by RightoftheDot.com with online bidding and …

.CLUB Domains and One Degree World Systems, Inc. announced today the sale of the domain Vegas.CLUB for $100,000, as well as the formation of a partnership to launch and operate the Vegas.CLUB website as a destination …

Only 10% of all 70k registered .guru domains have been renewed so far, 1 month before a lot of domains start expiring. As expected EAP renewal rate is higher. Actually there 78,839 .guru domains today …

This week 3 New gTLD enter General Availability, 1 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 2 strings enters the landrush phase. Rightside has 2 New gTLDs out of EAP and into General Availability on …

I am here at NamesCon 2015 and I was at a session and someone said that it is difficult to get an estimate of how much revenue New gTLD registries are getting because of the …