Domain Extensions

.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 …

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 …

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 …

I wrote this and then totally forget to post it. Here are the domain name registration results from last week’s 3 New gTLD launches: .BAYERN launched on the 30th of September and got 19,170 domains …

This week 5 New gTLDs enter General Availability, no New gTLD enters the EAP General Availability and no strings enter the landrush phase. This is the slowest week in New gTLDs since February when it …

As of November 3, it will be possible to register two-character domains at .pt. Terms & Conditions are already available for consultation at dns.pt. .PT is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Portugal. Sedo …

Yesterday was the final day to apply with priority for .NYC domain names. Today there are 3,441 registered .nyc domains in the zones. The .NYC priority program was designed to prevent someone else from registering …

Today is the final day to apply with priority for .NYC domain names. Applications for priority requests will be received until October 3, 11AM New York time, but some registration sites are expected to close …

Freenom will soon relaunch the .GQ top level domain – the domain extension of Equatorial Guinea – and  give all .GQ domains away for free. I think that the GQ magazine will not be too …

Another first from the .London registry, Valideus and Minds + Machines. I was just informed something remarkable about .London Priority Domains that have more than 1 application and therefore are entering an auction in a …

Donuts released its latest newsletter and announced that it has brought 147 new gTLDs to the public, “offering more choice, specificity and meaningfulness to businesses and individuals worldwide”. They also announced that they exceeded 1,000,000 …

As of August 2014 the total number of domains across all Top Level Domains (TLDs)  stood at 282.5 million (including new gTLDs). This represents a growth of roughly 1.6% since May 2014 (4.5 million registrations). …

The .nz registry has started offering shorter .nz (New Zealand) ccTLD domain names. From yesterday 1pm, 30 September 2014, ‘second level’ domains like the .co in ‘.co.nz’ and the .org in ‘.org.nz’ became optional. You’ll …

Today, the first .cymru and .wales websites will go live when Wales’ First Minister and the National Assembly’s Presiding Officer officially switch over the first tranche of websites to their new internet domains, marking a …