Domain Extensions

ICANN plans to release an authorization process by 1 December that no longer requires Registry operators to reserve all number/letter (2a), letter/number (a2), or number/number (22) New gTLD domain names at the second-level. This category …

Go Daddy published an article called “Take your next great idea (or not) to the domain aftermarket”. The article talks about what you can do with the domain names you have and don’t need. There …

At month-end September, the contribution of “traditional” generic TLDs (.com, .biz, .info, etc.) to net market growth in 2014 was 45% against 75% in March 2014. The October 2014 edition of the Afnic Industry Report …

Following a 90-day public consultation period, ICANN is implementing a solution to allow new gTLD registries to release names from their Second-level Domain (SLD) Block Lists while complying with all Rights Protection Mechanism requirements. ICANN …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced that following the recent series of private auctions, the Company has gained, in aggregate, cash of approximately $8.4 million through withdrawing its applications on .book, .cloud, .dog, .site, …

Donuts and its New Domain Names were showcased on the television show Cycle America, filmed on-location in September at Interbike in Las Vegas. The Annual Interbike International Bicycle Exposition is “where the bicycle industry gathers …

Rightside Group, Ltd. announced it is partnering with Bandzoogle, a company whose technology platform is used by over 20,000 bands and musicians to power their websites and online stores. Bandzoogle is offering Rightside’s Top Level …

This week 5 New gTLDs enters General Availability, 1 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 2 strings enter the landrush phase. On the 11th of November an Australian geo New gTLDs is launching: …

A newly formed entity owned by Radix, Tucows and Namecheap won the auction, paying more than $10 million, to operate the .online registry for an undisclosed amount. Each of Radix, Tucows and NameCheap will contribute …

The Mayor’s London Enterprise Panel (LEP), the local enterprise partnership for London, has become the first Mayoral body to adopt a Dot London web domain, as it launched its new website this week – lep.london. …

The SWITCH foundation will stop selling .ch domain names as of the beginning of January 2015 and successively hand over the related client support to its business partners, the registrars. The basis for this change …

TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), has made further improvements to their New gTLD tool located at ChineseLandrush.com that helps non-Chinese speakers to understand and invest in …

Teresa Boardman, a real estate broker, wrote a piece on inman.com on the New gTLD .realtor. I have been following the article for a week now and there are now over 50 comments from realtors. …

Following the recent signing of the .PORN and .ADULT registry contracts and after a lengthy negotiation with ICANN, ICM Registry, the .XXX registry, provided today its launch dates for .PORN and .ADULT. Starting March 1, …