Domain Name News

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 …

I posted an article yesterday about Go Daddy not refunding the Early Access Program (EAP) fee of Donuts EAP pre-registrations. A few hours later I received an email from the “Office of the CEO – …

On the 12th of March ICANN granted a data retention waiver to European registrar OVH SAS. There are a lot more registrars that are waiting for this waiver such as Irish Registrar Blacknight that Is …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the global leader in domain names, today provided a statement on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) announcement of its intent to transition key Internet domain name functions. The announcement …

I started writing this post thinking of one thing and realized that something else was more important. Look at the conclusion at the end of this post. This blew my mind. I am sure a …

ICANN Board Chair, Steve Crocker, reacts to U.S. decision to transfer stewardship of important Internet technical functions:

To support and enhance the multistakeholder model of Internet policymaking and governance, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced on Friday its intent to transition key Internet domain name functions to …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 3-3-14 to 3-9-14 were $1.907.184. This report includes some nice .co sales such as how.co for $13,890, eyecandy.co for $4,999 and reve.co …

Almost half (46%) of Brits say best thing the web has given each of us is an ability to quickly find answers to our questions, according to a new poll from Nominet, the internet company …

ICANN announced that 4 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 173 new gTLD strings. The 4 new gTLDs are: .世界 (xn--rhqv96g) – Chinese for “world/shijie”, .机构 (xn--nqv7f) – Chinese for “agencies/institutions”, .”संगठन …

Virtual, Inc. (http://www.virtualmgmt.com), a technology-focused association management company, has recently signed new clients in three distinctively different sectors: the Domain Name Association (DNA), the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, and the Feldenkrais Guild of North …

ICANN just opened a comment period for the “Draft Implementation Plan for WHOIS Online Accuracy Reporting System”. ICANN plans to release a request for proposal (RFP) after the ICANN Singapore 2014 Meeting to solicit vendor …