Domain Extensions

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 …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s 6 New gTLD launches: 4 Donuts New gTLDs went out of EAP and entered the real (reg-fee) General Availability on the 10th of …

Global travel and entertainment company One Degree World launched the first 8 out of 300 partner portfolio websites. Websites are build on a series of newly released TLDs including .BUZZ, .NINJA and .VEGAS. “Launching the …

Rightside Group, Ltd. hosted its first Investor & Analyst Day on Friday, December 5, at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City. The event featured presentations by eight members of Rightside’s management team, with in-depth …

ICANN shared some data about the considerable progress made to deploy Internationalized Domain Names in the Domain Name System (DNS) root zone file. In 2010, hostnames used in the DNS were limited to a subset …

The .Paris registry announced that the .paris has been successful with 12,000 purchased domain names so far. “A week after the public opening , the new web address Paris has already surpassed the 12,000 websites …

Only 8,16% of all 70k registered .guru domains have been renewed so far, 2 months before a lot of domains start expiring. As expected EAP renewal rate is higher. Of course most people wait until …

TLD Registry Ltd, the exclusive owner/operator of the Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, today announced a partnership agreement with Internet advising and consulting firm, RightoftheDot, LLC (ROTD). “ROTD …

fTLD Registry Services, LLC announced an agreement with Symantec Corporation to provide verification services for the “.bank” and “.insurance” generic top-level domains. In this role, Symantec will add a layer of protection to the new …

This week 6 New gTLDs enter General Availability, no New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 0 strings enter the landrush phase. 4 Donuts New gTLDs are out of EAP and enter the real …

CentralNic plc announced today that it has sold a number of premium domain names for US$2.5 million, satisfied in cash. CentralNic said that the release of new Top-Level Domains has been slower than anticipated. The …

Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME) is hosting its first Investor & Analyst Day event today from 10:30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. ET at Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. The event will feature key members of Rightside’s …

TLD Registry, the exclusive owner/operator of the Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, today announced three newest members of the board: Chairwoman of the board Kirsi Eräkangas(伊可思),Vice Chairman Harri …