Domain Extensions

Go Daddy starts an auction featuring 25 premium .Ninja, .Reviews and .Futbol New gTLD domain names today, 9th of June. The domains are being sold by their registry which is Rightside. The auction includes domains …

Last month I wrote how a brand strategy company named LOGOS Identity Branding (LOGOS comes from the Greek word λόγος that means speech) bought the New gTLD domain name Christian.Education for about $2,000. The domain …

In a private deal, Famous Four Media has sold a package of 15 domain names to a single buyer. The deal, worth $175,000, was for adult oriented terms in the .WEBCAM registry. “We are delighted …

Starting Dot announced that the .BIO New gTLD was delegated on June 2, 2014 and the proposed Sunrise date to ICANN is as early as June 11, 2014, at 10:00 UTC. Here is the announcement:

Famous Four Media, the registry operator for Domain Venture Partners, one of the largest portfolio applicants for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), is pleased to announce Domain Venture Partners’ acquisition of the .RACING and …

On 4 June 2014 ICANN through its authorized auction services provider, Power Auctions LLC, completed the first auction to resolve a contention set for a new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) string. Contention sets are groups …

Daniel Negari has tried to lie and deceive everybody and climb his way up to the top spot of New gTLDs. Well guess what Daniel? You failed. .XYZ is down at the 34th place of …

.XYZ entered general availability yesterday and after the first few hours it had reached 14,924 registrations. It now ranks 15th among New gTLDs, just below .directory. That is hardly the performance expected from the NEXT …

There were 22 domains sold in the first 3 Donuts EAP days for .rentals, .vacations, .flights, .cruises and .villas  for a total of about $50,000 or more including the premium domains. The .dance auction at …

NameJet partnered with Rightside Registry to offer 20 .DANCE premium domain names like music.dance and 1.dance. 13 of the 20 domains were sold in the auction. The domain name pole.dance got the highest bid with …

.Ninja had a good 1st day yesterday as it entered general availability.The Rightside New gTLD reached 5,199 registrations after a just a few hours. That includes sunrise and landrush registrations. .Guru had 12,435 registrations after …

Architelos signed a NameSentry (automated domain name abuse detection and mitigation services) referral agreement with Verisign. Architelos will provide NameSentry at a discounted rate to new generic top-level domain (gTLD) registry operators that use Verisign as …

Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain – opened yesterday the general availability of three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organisation” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one …

On Monday June 2nd, 2014, as part of the all-new Moniker experience, Moniker will begin to offer access to over 1,000 domain extensions including new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). Moniker has not yet signed …