Domain Extensions

SLAM Strategy, a digital strategy company from Adelaide Australia, published a social media report today that focused on DotBrand New gTLD applicants. The study focused on 647 brands that applied for ICANN gTLDs to look …

I was doing some quarterly taxes and I found by accident that Go Daddy owes me some money once again. $150 this time. Do you remember how I found out that Go Daddy was owning …

Punto 2012 (using the CentralNic backend) launched 2 of it’s New gTLDs yesterday: .bar and .rest. The first day, or rather first hours, registration numbers were ok for .bar, especially considering the $70 registration fee, …

This week 8 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability. Today, the 14th of July, Punto 2012 (CentralNic) has 2 of it’s New gTLDs entering general availability: …

.BAR, a domain designed for bars and nightclubs, and .REST, the abbreviation for “restaurant” are launching simultaneously in order to create a space on the Internet specifically for the food and beverage industry. The domains …

The .Club registry published a video in YouTube to highlight some of the sites that are already using .CLUB, as well as some of the advertising and promotion they’ve done over the past few months. …

            During the ICANN 50  meeting in London, the .CLUB team was visited by a crew from Germany’s leading International broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) who was there to cover the way …

This autumn, .SE will conduct an auction to release more of the .se domain names that are not currently possible to register. The domain names are two-character country codes, such as no.se, tv.se and pr.se …

.Global domains had a great auction at ICANN 50 but that didn’t continue to the extended auction at Namejet. No .Global domains were sold at the namejet extended auction because no domain reached it’s reserve. …

Go Daddy run a .Ninja, .Reviews and .Futbol New gTLD premium auction 3 weeks ago that sold 9 domains. The domains were sold by their registry which is Rightside. A reader complained the other day …

Donuts launched .Services, that entered the real (no-EAP) General Availability, yesterday Wednesday, July 9th 2014. The first day, or rather first hours, registration numbers were ok. .Services had 4,584 domain registrations. That is about what .photos …

Following a public consultation, the Minister of Business and Growth has decided to extend DIFO’s permission to be registry for the .dk domain names. Since 1999, Danish Internet Forum (DIFO) has had the license to …

So far 12 registries have requested ICANN to allowed to sell 2-character New gTLD domains names: .DEALS, XN–FJQ720A, .CITY, .XYZ, .COLLEGE, .GOP, .TRADE, .WEBCAM, .BID, .HEALTHCARE, .WORLD, .BAND. ICANN opened a comment period yesterday 8 …

Uniregistry launched .Christmas and .BlackFriday yesterday Thusday, July 8th 2014. The first day, or rather first hours, registration numbers were not very impressive. .Christmas had 419 domain registrations and .BlackFriday 401 registrations. These numbers include …