Domain Extensions

New gTLD registries and registrars have a long way to go trying to make New gTLD domain names available to everyone. There is no consistency and every registrar has it’s own confusing  rules that most …

Radix concluded sunrise for the first batch of its extensions – .website, .press and .host last week. .website alone saw more than 600 orders, making it one of the biggest new gTLD sunrises to date. …

.HIV New gTLD enters general availability today with a registration/renewal fee of about $200 or more and with a charity model I just don’t understand how it will work. .HIV registration fees vary wildly depending …

This weekend New gTLDs reached 2 million domain name registrations as anyone can see at ntldstats.com. 2,012,434 domains to be exact was the first number above the 2 million mark. But should anybody care about …

The European Domain Centre posted today an Expert Roundup about “What’s the future for the new gTLDs?”. New gTLDs reached 2 million registrations yesterday and Christopher Hofman asked 12 domain name experts such as Frank …

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 …