Domain Extensions

Donuts, a New gTLD registry with more than 50 New gTLDs already released, is performing scheduled maintenance today. The time frame for the maintenance is as follows: August 25, 2014, 21 :00 – 22:30 GMT …

This week 7 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 7 New gTLDs enter a landrush phase. .HIV also enters general availability on the 26th of …

ICANN has opened a comment period to obtain community input on the proposed amendments to the Registry Agreements of several registry operators: .SOHU, .IMMO, .SAARLAND, .CLUB. The proposals requess the release of all two-character ASCII …

Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 7 New gTLD launches: On Monday the 18th of August .Career entered General Availability and got 2,838 domain name registrations in the zone files after …

From 15 September, Nominet will begin emailing registrants with rights to a short .uk domain under the .uk 5-year reservation mechanism.  This step is part of a wider programme of communication and outreach committed to as …

Some of the early adopters of the .Vegas domain are beginning to come online now that .Vegas is out of the sunrise trademark phase of the roll out. One of the newest sites to launch …

The South Florida Business Journal posted an article yesterday with the title “Fort Lauderdale-based domain .club is one of top-selling web newcomers”. The Fort Lauderdale-based domain .club is leading a pack of newly established alternatives …

ICANN has announced that 24 more New gTLDs have been delegated for a total of 370 new gTLD strings. Here are some of the more important of the latest 24 new gTLDs: .diet, .hosting, .property, …

The National Association of Realtors announced that the new .REALTOR top-level domain will be available October 23, 2014 to members of NAR and the Canadian Real Estate Association. The top-level domain will be made available …

RetailMeNot, Inc. registered 849 .codes domain names in Sunrise without owning any of the corresponding trademarks. The domains were all registered at the 101Domain registrar. The list includes many keyword domains as well as trademark …

ARI Registry Services, an Australian company offering New gTLD registry services, published a blog article criticizing the purchase of the domain name racing.com for $500,000+. The domain name racing.com was bought by Australian south east …

Donuts is doing some direct end-user promotion of it’s new top level domains (TLDs) this week by exhibiting at the Womens Wear Daily Magic (WWDMAGIC) 2014 fashion event that takes place in Las Vegas. The …

This week 7 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability. Donuts enters EAP General Availability for the following 4 New gTLDs on Wednesday, August 20th 2014: .Discount, …

Uniregistry registrar sent out a press release to promote the New gTLDs that are available to register. The press release talks about the dozens of New gTLDs and mainly promotes Uniregistry’s strings: .guitars, .sexy, .link, …