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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, …
Read More »What New Yorkers Really Think About the New .NYC Domain (Infographic)
Research from 1&1 Internet of 1,000 New York City consumers revealed New Yorker perceptions and expectations for the new .nyc domains. Some Key Findings: 82% of NYC consumers experience frustration when trying to find a …
Read More »New gTLD Weekly Launch Review: .Okinawa, .Soy, .Healthcare, .Army, .Navy, .Airforce, .Vet
This week 2 New gTLDs enter General Availability, 5 New gTLD enters the EAP General Availability and 1 string enters the landrush phase. .Okinawa enters general availability on the 14th of October. Okinawa prefecture is …
Read More »Donuts Reaches 1 Million New gTLD Domains With Heavenly.Coffee
Donuts Inc. today registered its one millionth Internet address, making the company the first new gTLD provider to reach that total. Heavenly.COFFEE became the one millionth address registered across all Donuts gTLDs. The milestone registration …
Read More »Meet the Pioneers of .London Domains (video)
Meet the pioneers of .London in the video below as a host of high profile professionals including the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, Storm Model Agency, Absolutely Magazine, Hexagon Classics, London Dance Academy and White …
Read More »Internet.bs Plans Important Changes
Registrar Internet.bs, that was recently bought by CentralNic Group PLC, has planned some important changes in the near future. It will soon be offering domains under several new TLD extensions including select new gTLDs and …
Read More »What (Bad) .NYC Domains Were Registered In Priority Period
I checked all .NYC priority domains to find what domains were registered and if these domains were any good. What I found might be surprising to some. Most domains are bad. Really bad. No thinking …
Read More »Radix Buys .Tech From dot Tech LLC And Plans A Q1 2015 Launch
Radix announced the addition of .tech to its portfolio of new gTLDs. .Tech is an extension dedicated to the technology community, created and conceived for use by startups, software, hardware, hi-tech corporations and technical professionals. …
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Registrations: .NYC 26853, .City 4094, .Lawyer 3240, .Attorney 2156, .Desi 320
Here are the domain name registration results from this week’s 5 New gTLD launches: .Desi launched on the 6th of October and got 320 domains in its first day of general availability. 1 Donuts New gTLD …
Read More ».NYC Has 26,853 Domain Name Registrations After Its 1st Day
.NYC launched today and the 1st day results are not as good as expected. .NYC added 20,455 domains after its general availability launch. So it now has a total of 26,853 registered domain names. I …
Read More »Greater New York Chamber of Commerce Partners With Encirca To Offer .NYC Domains
.NYC, the Internet’s newest domain extension goes on sale to the general public today the 8th of October. All individuals & businesses with a physical address in New York City are now eligible to purchase …
Read More »The Battle For 2 Character Domains in New gTLDs Continues
The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) send a letter to ICANN on the 10th of September about the release of 2 character domain names in New gTLDs that a lot of registries are now requesting. It …
Read More »The National Association of Realtors Wins Rights to .RealEstate Top-Level Domain
The National Association of Realtors® has won the rights to the new .realestate top-level domain. NAR intends to use the .realestate domain along with the recently acquired .REALTOR domain to create order for real estate …
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