A new report on .au, the Australian ccTLD, reveals that almost 50 percent of all .au domain names are between nine and 15 characters in length, while New South Wales claims the honour of the …
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83% Of Lawyers Not Eager To Get .Lawyer Or .Attorney Domains
Here are the results of the latest Law Times online poll. According to the poll, the majority of respondents aren’t too eager to register a .lawyer or a .attorney domain name for their websites. 83% …
Read More »GOV.UK Gets 8 Million Unique Visitors Per Week And Reaches 1 Billion Visits In Total
The United Kingdom government’s GOV.UK website gets just over eight million visits every week on average the Cabinet Office announced. Launched 2 years ago, GOV.UK brings together government services and information online. As the first …
Read More »Bluehost Runs Breast Cancer Campaign At Pink.Host (And Will Also Get Blue.Host)
Bluehost is turning Pink this entire month. October is the month for breast cancer awareness and Bluehost is running a special campaign for it on an alternate URL www.pink.host, pink being the color of solidarity …
Read More »New gTLD Weekly Launch Review: .Realtor, .Army, .Navy, .Airforce, .Vet, .Healthcare, .OOO
This week 7 New gTLDs enter General Availability, no New gTLD enters the EAP General Availability and no string enters the landrush phase. Rightside enters general availability for 4 of its extensions on the 22nd …
Read More »ICANN Will Release 2-Character New gTLD Domain Names
During ICANN 51 in Los Angeles on the 16th of October the ICANN Board decided the introduction of 2-character domain names in the New gTLD namespace. ICANN decided that the proposed registry service for the …
Read More ».SE Auctions 349 Blocked Domains (no.se, tv.se, pr.se, it.se, usa.se)
Sweden’s Internet Infrastructure Foundation (.SE) will conduct multiple auctions to release more of the .se domain names that are not currently possible to register. The domain names are two-character country codes, such as no.se, tv.se, …
Read More »Reports On ICANN 51 In Los Angeles
CENTR, the association of Internet Country Code Top Level Domain Registries, has released its full report on the ICANN 51 Meeting held last week in Los Angeles. The report covers in detail the sessions held by …
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Registrations: .Okinawa 640, Google’s .Soy 182
Here are the domain name registration results from this week’s 2 New gTLD launches: .Okinawa entered general availability on the 14th of October. Okinawa prefecture is located in the southernmost of Japan. The purpose of …
Read More »Afnic 2013 Report: 13.7 Million Euros Turnover, 2.7 Million Domains, 8.2% Growth For .FR
The Afnic annual report sheds new light on major events that have marked the development of the Association in 2013: The consolidation of the French legal framework for domain names, the growth of the .fr …
Read More ».Fr Allows Registration Of 1 And 2 Character(s) Domain Names
As of December 8, 2014, it will be possible to register a domain name consisting of only one or two alphanumeric character(s) under the .fr. .Fr is the ccTLD of France. The opening will take …
Read More »Rightside To Launch 11 New Domains In 2014 & Plans GoDaddy Promotion On Veterans Day
Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME) announced today it will launch 11 additional Top Level Domains (TLDs) by the end of 2014, bringing its in-market portfolio to 28. “The diverse group of TLDs is expected to appeal …
Read More »IoN Magazine: New Magazine Dedicated To The Domain Name Industry
IoN Magazine (Standing for ‘Internet of Names’) is a new magazine dedicated to the domain name system industry. It provides the latest news, views, reviews, a quintessential guide to ICANN conferences – and occasionally hopes …
Read More »TLD Registry Launches ChineseLandrush.com V3.0
TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), has updated their New gTLD tool at ChineseLandrush.com that helps non-Chinese speakers to understand and invest in Chinese domains. At ChineseLandrush.com, …
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