Domain Extensions

Wales’ First Minister, Carwyn Jones, announced at ICANN London today that the Welsh Government plans to begin a switch of its official internet address from .gov.uk to .cymru and .wales from next year. The Welsh …

Namejet was running a .Build New gTLD “premium” domain auction for the past 10 days. I say “premium” because this is one of the New gTLDs that don’t make any sense to me. New gTLDs …

Radix, a new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Registry from Asia, is launching the .press gTLD for the global journalism, PR, media and publishing community. .press domains will be available starting 24th June, 2014. The …

Go Daddy .Ninja, .Reviews and .Futbol New gTLD premium auction sold 9 domains. The domains were sold by their registry which is Rightside. The auction included 25 domains and the highest bid was for e.ninja …

I received an email from a reader called Gao Tianyong from Beijing describing his horror story dealing with the .ng registry. .NG is the ccTLD for Nigeria. The reader is not a native English speaker …

Welsh businesses and individuals can stand out from the online crowd now that .cymru and .wales have got the official go-ahead. For those keen to promote their association with Brand Wales, Nominet is publishing the …

I got an email from 101domain.com saying that the .berlin registry ended early the .BERLIN promotion that was to run until Friday June 20th, 2014. According to the dotBERLIN registry, demand was exceedingly above their …

It seems that all Namejet .XYZ auctions have been cancelled. I checked today and all auctions display this message “We’re sorry, this auction was cancelled.” and the high bid is set to $0. Back in …

On July 1, Neustar will become one of the first country-code top-level domains to implement the usTLD Rapid Suspension Procedure (“usRS”). Although this new mechanism has been introduced with the new generic top-level domains approved …

Go Daddy just released it’s new TV ad featuring New gTLD domain names and having the domain name Theresa.Photography as an example. The TV ad features many New gTLD strings such as .guru, .expert, .ninja, …

I wrote a post on Monday about the .berlin registry offering free .berlin domain names. It is not mandatory for the registrars to offer .berlin domains for free so you can see different prices. Registrars …

The .BID & .TRADE Premium auction ended today at Sedo. The auction had 35 .bid and .trade New gTLD domains that all had a 1,000 – 4,999 USD reserve that was not reached. So no …

Radix, the .website registry, announced .Website’s launch timeline. Radix calls .website “The first true alternative to .com hits the market this summer.”. It launches into Sunrise on June 24, 2014. .Eebsite Landrush starts on Aug. …

Norway’s .NO domain is available for registration to private individuals as of today, June 17 2014. Starting on 17 June, everyone in Norway can register their own domain name directly within .no. On this date …