Domain Extensions

TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), has created a tool available at ChineseLandrush.com to help non-Chinese speakers to understand and invest in Chinese domains. At ChineseLandrush.com, visitors …

Tech Crunch did a piece today criticizing Apple for uploading the latest U2 album to all iTunes users. Did Apple hire the same marketing firm that Daniel Negari is using for .XYZ? Is Tim Cook …

Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 7 New gTLD launches: .Global and .Yokohama entered general availability on the 9th of September. Both were flops. .Global reached 1,630 registrations and .yokohama had …

.London, one of the biggest geo New gTLDs, entered general availability yesterday Tuesday the 9th of September. .London got 12,423 new domain name registrations on it’s first day. .London also had 22,633 domains from it’s …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN“) is seeking one or more provider(s) to conduct an economic study examining pricing trends and other competition indicators in the global domain name system (DNS) market. …

Afilias.info did a blog post on .भारत (.Bharat), which means India in the Hindi language that was inaugurated on August 27 in New Delhi by Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad, India’s Minister of Law & Justice …

Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced that the first .nyc websites have gone live. The owners of these domain names, officially called “.nyc Founders,” represent a diverse group of New Yorkers—including First Lady Chirlane McCray—and …

This week 6 New gTLDs enter General Availability, another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 1 New gTLD enters a landrush phase. .London, one of the biggest geo New gTLDs, enters general …

Here are the domain name registration results of last week’s 2 Geo New gTLD launches: .Cologne and .Koeln entered general availability on Friday the 5th of September after a week of an Early Access Program …

Dolly Parton, the legendary Queen of Country, has registered queenof.country, dolly.country, and dollyparton.country and has agreed to be part of the .country pioneer program, which provides domain names to musicians, businesses, and organizations before the …

Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 7 New gTLD launches: Uniregistry launched 3 strings yesterday the 3rd of September: .hiphop, .audio and .juegos (games in Spanish). As expected most good domains …

ICANN announced that New gTLD applicants can now get a 9 month extension on executing the Registry Agreement. All applicants (including those that wish to qualify as a .Brand TLD) seeking an extension to the …

This week 9 New gTLDs enter General Availability, another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 1 New gTLD enters a landrush phase. Uniregistry is launching 3 strings on the 3rd of September: …

Businesses that have already registered their trade marks with ICANN’s Trademark Clearing House can now apply to secure their new .cymru and .wales domains. This Sunrise phase prioritises and secures trade mark rights, provided there …