Domain Extensions

We have not even reached the first year anniversary of the first New gTLD and marks are already expiring at the TMCH. So far 33,902 marks have been submitted to the Trademark Clearinghouse as of …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s 3 New gTLD launches: On the 18th of November the Canadian geo New gTLD .quebec launched and got 3,911 domain name registrations. Quebec …

Dish DBS Corporation won today the auction for the .Dot New gTLD for just $700,000. Dish beat .dot other applicant Google’s company Charleston Road Registry Inc. This was the cheapest

Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, unveiled “OnGood” – the new brand identity for the upcoming .ngo & .ong domains and their accompanying suite of services. Set to launch in early …

As many of you know Google applied for the .Google New gTLD and the application was accepted by ICANN as a .brand string. Google has since signed the registry contract with ICANN and the New …

The .NYC Advisory Board published a report on the .NYC Landrush that involved 10,506 domain names. My estimate is that the .nyc landrush revenue was at about $1.2 to $1.3 million. This includes the landrush …

Aruba S.p.A. (http://www.aruba.it), a company offering web hosting, certified email and domain names services as well as a cloud provider in Europe (http://www.arubacloud.com) since 2011, has been awarded the .cloud extension, thus supporting Aruba’s ambitious …

This week 3 New gTLDs enters General Availability, 0 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 1 string enters the landrush phase. On the 18th of November an Canadian geo New gTLDs is launching: …

TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), was awarded with the Best Marketing by a New gTLD trophy for 2014 at Brandma’s China New gTLD Roadshow. In the presentation, on …

Frank Schilling left a comment on a .realtor post at thedomains.com talking about what he thinks is the best New gTLD string related to real estate and property. Of course he thought the his company’s …

Chick-fil-A, the American fast food restaurant chain, bought 8 new .restaurant domain names costing thousands of dollars each. Waste of money, if you ask me. .Restaurant, a New gTLD launched by Donuts, is out of …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s 4 New gTLD launches: On the 11th of November an Australian geo New gTLDs launched: .melbourne. Melbourne’s population is 4,347,955. .Melbourne got

Minds + Machines and the registrar Hexonet mistakenly priced a lot of premium domains and those domains were sold at cheap standard prices. The problem affects domains registered in the past 2 months such as …

A new forum dedicated to New gTLDs was launched at gTLD.link. The new domain name forum was created by domainers Phil Harris and Chad Wright. The New gTLD domain forum was launched before 3 weeks and …