Domain Extensions

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 …

ICANN decided, at the Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors that was held on 26 June 2014 in London England, the redelegation of the .GW domain representing Guinea-Bissau. Kuo-Wei Wu introduced the agenda …

Hexonet suspended one of my domains after their 2013 RAA verification email went straight to spam. I wrote a few months back about the Enom and Tucows problem that was that they didn’t use their …

I haven’t made a post with New gTLD launches in the past couple of months because I thought that most people knew about them but a few of my readers complained so this weekly post …

A regular meeting of the New gTLD Program Committee of the ICANN Board of Directors was held in London, England on 21 June 2014. The Committee engaged in a discussion concerning applications for several adult-oriented …

Following the recent launch of the new internet top-level domain .London and of the buydomains.london website for SMEs to obtain their .london domain names, Ben Crawford, CEO of buydomains.london parent company CentralNic has launched a …

China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) prepares to launch “.Gongsi” (“.COM” in Chinese) and “.Wangluo” (“.NET” in Chinese), new Chinese-language top-level domains with IP Mirror. “Gongsi” and “Wangluo” are Chinese phonetic spellings to mean “Company” …

DomainHoldings.com announced the highest New gTLD sale to date. They sold, on behalf of the owner, the domain name Luxury.Estate For $50,000. The seller bought the domain name on the 5th day of EAP with …

.UK domains were launched by Nominet on the 10th of June. Today Nominet announced that these new, short .uk domains have passed the 100,000 registrations milestone, contributing to the biggest-selling month Nominet – the internet …

Namejet had a .Menu auction that featured 32 .menu domain names but none of them sold. 6 of the domains got at least the opening $69 bid but none of them reached the reserve. Proteindiet.menu …

.London says that they are expecting 50,000 applications until one month from now when .london will enter the launch phase. Those who have applied through the ICANN trademark clearing house will also be given priority. …