Domain Name News

#McConnelling is the latest trend to hit Twitter and YouTube thanks to Jon Stewart and Mitch McConnell, a United States Republican Party Senator from Kentucky. The trend started when Jon Stewart made fun of Mitch …

Is .Uno The First Cybersquatting Registry or are they just running a cheap PR trick to draw attention to their New gTLD? I noticed that Dot Latin LLC, the .uno registry, used the 1API registrar …

Donuts published yesterday some stas on how their New gTLD registry is doing up to now. Here are the numbers: The numbers continue to grow during the 25th anniversary year of the Internet and the most …

Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information and analytics, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire .CO Internet S.A.S. and certain associated assets. .CO Internet is the …

ICANN announced that 7 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 180 new gTLD strings. The 7 new gTLDs are: COLOGNE, AXA, WEBCAM, TRADE, JETZT, DNP and INK. Check out the Launch dates …

This past week the following 6 Donuts New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .academy, .center, .company, .computer, .management and .systems. Some of the sales are difficult to find as a few domains don’t have …

The following 6 Donuts New gTLDs went out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general availability yesterday: .ACADEMY .CENTER .COMPANY .COMPUTER .MANAGEMENT .SYSTEMS. Also .Uno went into general availability yesterday. Here are …

Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 5 New gTLDs today: .Training .Support .Solutions .Builders and .Email. There is also .Uno coming out today. The most promising New gTLDs are probably .Training and .Support. …

ICANN is publishing the schedule [PDF, 376 KB] of the upcoming Auctions for unresolved contention sets. The first Auction Event is scheduled for 4 June 2014. As described in Module 4 of the Applicant Guidebook, …

Donuts wrote to ICANN Board Chairman Steven Crocker yesterday asking ICANN to put an end to the delay involving its application for .SPA New gTLD. Here is the complete letter: Dear Steve: We strongly urge the Board to advance the .SPA TLD through the processes enshrined in the Applicant Guidebook. While we respect the concerns raised by the City of Spa and the Belgian Government, we are confident that we have thoroughly addressed those issues, and that 

I posted some of .domains purchases in my post about .domains domain name sales. I was asked to post my best .domains purchases and had a glance and picked 14 of them. A reader asked …

Yesterday .Berlin, the first geographic/city New gTLD string went into general availability and it got 31,956 registrations in it’s first day. .Menu started on Monday and it got 1649 registrations in it’s first day. According …

On average, 81% of .eu domain names were renewed in 2013, according to the latest progress report from the .eu registry EURid. This is the seventh year running that .eu has maintained such a high …

The New gTLD domain name hustler.clothing has been suspended for 2 weeks now. The domain name is owned by Larry Flint Productions that is the owner of Hustler magazine and hustler.com. The domain was suspended …