Domain Extensions

Afilias today announced the first phase of the introduction of a new generic top-level domain that is dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and those who serve it: dot LGBT or .LGBT. The …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s 7 New gTLD launches: On the 1st of December, 2 Russian geo New gTLDs launched: .moscow and .МОСКВА (xn--80adxhks). Moscow is the capital …

The 2nd annual NamesCon domain name conference, to be held in Las Vegas in January 2015, announced a major lecture series presented by TLD Registry, the world’s leading Chinese domain name registry. TLD Registry is …

Minds + Machines Group Limited announced that following the recent series of private auctions, the Company will receive in aggregate $4.4 million (approximately £2.8 million) for withdrawing its applications on .latino, .school and a third …

Today, December 2 2014, .Paris domains opened to everyone at a “first come, first served” basis. Looking for a typically Parisian address at an affordable price? .paris is the new Parisian top-level domain (TLD) which …

This is one of the biggest weeks in New gTLD launches. This week 7 New gTLDs enter General Availability, 6 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 0 strings enter the landrush phase. On …

The Premium Names list for the new .cymru and .wales domain names is published, ready for applications from 29 December 2014 when anyone can apply for domain names that have not been registered in the …

The gTLD strategy blog published an article on how “How New gTLDs Are Playing a Role in Black Friday Marketing and Holiday Marketing in 2014”. It has some interesting stats on what companies have registered and …

NetNames published an article on black friday and New gTLD domain names. The article is mostly targeted to brand owners and protecting their brand online. Here are a few highlights:

Coffee.club, a subscription-based coffee club that delivers among the freshest access to organic, ethically sourced roasted beans on the market today, announces its launch on Black Friday to appeal to the more than 54 percent …

8 New TLDs are releasing over 160,000 collision domains names today. Internet Corporation of Names and Numbers (ICANN) required that millions of domain names were reserved when these New gTLDs first entered general availability. Now …

.HOST has released a wave of over 120,000 new domain names for public registration today. These names were previously blocked in compliance with ICANN’s regulations on name collisions. The latest launch comes after a 90-day …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s 6 New gTLD launches: On the 24th of November .gent launched and it got 1,277 domain name registrations on its first day. Gent (or …

This week 6 New gTLDs enters General Availability, 0 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 0 string enter the landrush phase. On the 24th of November .gent is launching. Gent (or rather Ghent) is …