Domain Extensions

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. …

Google had a presentation on New gTLDs called “Who cares about new domain names? We do. If you want happy users, then you should too.” at the Google I/O in San Francisco. This is how …

With the Launch of the New .BAR New gTLD for Bars and Nightclubs, Domain Company Punto 2012 Commits to an Annual $10,000 Donation to the Meksiko School in Bar, Montenegro, until 2024. .BAR domain was …

Global registry services provider Afilias announced that July 22, 2014, is the sunrise start date for its newest generic top-level domain (gTLD): .BLACK. Following the close of sunrise, general availability is scheduled to commence on …

Sometimes I get some comment that I think is priceless. I think that all people should read these comments and share them with the world. Yes, I am kidding about the sharing part… Here is …