Domain Extensions

.London Priority Period ended on the 31st of July and was a bloody mess as the English say. In the priority period, that was kind of like a landrush with an extra twist, where anybody …

.NYC new extension entered landrush yesterday and New York’s new mayor Bill de Blasio is endorsing the New gTLD. “This is a chance for more New Yorkers to claim their piece of the City’s high-demand …

TLD Registry’s CEO Arto Isokoski and CMO Simon Cousins will be highlighted guest speakers at India’s inaugural World Domain Day. TLD Registry has released 2 new gTLDs, Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), …

This week 7 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability. Today, the 4th of August .NYC enters the landrush phase. This will probably be the largest geo …

Today, 4th of August, .NYC enters the landrush phase. This will probably be the largest geo New gTLD in terms of the number of domain name registrations. Only people and businesses with a real New …

The .Mail New gTLD was stopped by ICANN’s “Name Collision Occurrence Management Framework”. .Mail is the 3rd New gTLD after .Home and .Corp that was stopped by ICANN because of collisions. This is great news …

Last week I wrote about a Go Daddy customer that was complaining that he registered 2 .xyz domains in June and Go Daddy removed the 2 domains from his account in July and registered the …

Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 4 New gTLD launches: Yesterday 30th of July 4 Donuts New gTLDs went out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general …

I haven’t done this post since May and since then ICANN has announced that 87 New gTLDs have been delegated for a total of 346 new gTLD strings. Here are some of the more important …

ICANN published today the latest Community Priority Evaluation results. New gTLD Applicant Interlink Co., Ltd. prevailed in a community priority evaluation for the New gTLD .Osaka getting 15 out of the maximum 16 points. Osaka …

Key-Systems GmbH based in Germany will support the dotHIV initiative with a fundraising for the start of .hiv. The domain registrar will donate 30 Euro (about $40) to the dotHIV association for each of the …

The Trademark Clearinghouse has published it’s latest stats. So far 31,866 marks have been submitted to the Trademark Clearinghouse as of the 28th of July 2014. The number of marks were 30,916 on the 19th …

Following recent press comment, Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), the publicly quoted owner and operator of Internet top-level domains, announced that its client, Celebrate Broadway, Inc., has secured the sole application status for .broadway. …

This is how you do marketing in a big city for a geo New gTLD like .London. You target the most popular transportation service. And in this case it is the London Underground. That and …