Domain Extensions

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s 2 New gTLD launches: Rightside had 2 New gTLDs out of EAP and into General Availability on the 24th of December: .Dentist and …

Architelos, Inc., a provider of automated domain name abuse detection and mitigation services, has added Famous Four Media to its expanding roster of NameSentry clients. Famous Four Media will be implementing NameSentry for current and …

Verisign, the .com and .net registry, published a post called “What’s Really New in the New gTLD Space?” in its blog. It has some interesting stats in it although some are not so accurate. Here …

This week 2 New gTLD enter General Availability, 0 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 1 string enter the landrush phase. Rightside has 2 New gTLDs entering geberal availability on the 24th of …

The total number of .eu registrations grew by 4.7% in Q3 2014 compared with the same quarter last year, according to the progress report released by the .eu registry EURid. “As the new gTLDs continue …

Sedo announced its 2014 list of the highest-valued public New gTLD and IDN New gTLD domain sales of the year. In 2014, the highest sale of a new gTLD name was a confidential sale for …

TLD Registry Ltd, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, announced that is proud to be responsible for the full layout and design of the Domain Name …

Today the 17th of December 2014, an Auction conducted by ICANN’s authorized Auction service provider, Power Auctions LLC, was held to resolve string contention sets for two new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) strings; .MLS, and …

An Education Advisory Committee recommended that Kids.us should remain suspended. The Kids.us Education Advisory Committee was convened in April 2014 to consider the ongoing suspension of the kids.us third-level namespace, as well as to contemplate future …

This week no New gTLD enters General Availability, 2 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 3 strings enter the landrush phase. Rightside has 2 New gTLDs entering EAP on the 17th of December: …

This is a follow up to my 1st .NYC report because now .nyc zone is more representative and reflects the true registration patterns of people of New York. There were 13,669 registrants that only bought …

One Degree World plans to launch more than 1,300 new travel related websites on New gTLD domain names. A few days back I wrote how global travel and entertainment company One Degree World launched their …

The .Club registry team traveled to Orlando last week to attend one of the biggest WordPress events in Florida, WordCamp Orlando. “As you probably know, WordPress is an amazingly powerful software platform for creating a great …

I don’t know why ICANN bothered with any of rules on reserved domains in New gTLD contracts and agreements. One after the other all the reserved domains are released anyway. After the release of 2-character …