Domain Extensions

Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 3 New gTLDs yesterday: .Codes, .Farm and .Viajes (travel in Spanish). This seem like a slow week for Donuts with weak strings. I don’t know the Spanish …

Future Media Architects, Inc. (FMA) owned by domainer Thunayan K AL-Ghanim (aka “Elequa”) is dropping thousands of 3 letter .info. FMA owns domain names such as media.com, multimedia.com, fm.com mp3.tv, dj.net and i.net. I read a …

New gTLDs surpassed 500,000 domain name registrations today reaching 531,665 registrations with the help of 5 Uniregistry new gtlds that launched yesterday and .buzz. Here are their first day registration numbers: buzz  796 gift  4894 …

The Italian Registry (.it) Registro.it have published their ‘Yearbook 2013’ covering the events of the Registry over 2013.  Click to open the Yearbook. Quarter.it is born, the first quarterly report by .it Registry, with the …

Have you heard of “What Box Holdings“, “Plan Bee LLC” and “Thomas A. Brackey II“? If you are looking to buy a New gTLD domain name you probably have. They managed to register more than …

The .Rich New gTLD entered general availability last week (April 10). No one noticed because no one is buying .rich domains. And the reason is that the registration and renewal cost is set at about …

Applicant Auction, that offers private auctions for resolving gTLD contention, claims they are getting an increasing number of requests from applicants who want to avoid the ICANN Last Resort auction. A common question is: What …

The Qualified Launch Program (QLP) Addendum is available for new gTLD registry operators as of 10 April 2014. The QLP Addendum allows a registry operator to register up to 100 domain names to third parties …

The .guru New gTLD was the first string to reach 50,000 registrations last night. The total number of domain names of all new gTLDs is at 481,773. The number is higher if you count the …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 3-31-14 to 4-6-14 were $2.042.237. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …

This past week the following 5 Donuts New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .international, .coffee, .house, .solar and .florist. The total Donuts EAP purchases from the first 3 EAP days is at about $42,500 …

The .VG zone has been re-delegated to the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Virgin Islands (TRC). This re-delegation is related to the dispute with the former registry operator Meridian TLD that operated the .VG registry without …

The Uniregistry Affiliate Plus (UAP) Program that allows DomainNameSales.com parking customers another avenue by which they can monetize their names has published a “how to” guide. Last week Uniregistry announced the new domain name affiliate …

Famous Four Media, the registry operator for Domain Venture Partners (one of the largest portfolio applicant groups leading this revolution with 57 applications) is delighted to announce the successful resolution of the contention set for …