Domain Name News

This past week the following 4 New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .photos, .shoes, .careers and .recipes. This week 4 New gTLD domain names sold for about $12,500+ in the Early Access Program (EAP): …

Today, Neustar Inc. (NYSE:NSR) announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded the company the contract to continue administering the .US Top Level Domain (TLD), the official country code domain of the United States. …

The Trademark Clearinghouse has published it’s latest stats. So far 26,802 marks have been submitted to the Trademark Clearinghouse as of the 28th of February. The number was 23,024 on the 21st of January that …

To ensure that you have the latest information on the New gTLD launch dates, Afilias has created the release date chart below. This chart is your authoritative source for the Afilias launch dates. Afilias does …

Registrations of .CLUB web addressses come from broad range of verticals, including global sports teams, luxury brands, retail loyalty programs and more. Early Sunrise registrations of the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD) are …

As more and more Sunrises are launched, the Trademark Clearinghouse wishes to inform Trademark Holders on the different gTLDs launching and the strategy behind them. During the upcoming webinar, they invite Jeffrey Saas, CMO of. …

Once a domain name is registered, the challenge facing all registrants is promoting their new website. Working with eTurboNews, the .travel Registry has designed a registration bonus program to help with that challenge. The .travel …

Kuboo, Inc., (OTC Pink: SGTB) dba Safe Communications, Inc. (“Safe”), and Northsight Capital, Inc.(OTCBB: NCAP)(OTCQB: NCAP), announced today that Northsight Capital (“NCAP”), Safe’s 80% owned subsidiary, has signed a letter of intent to acquire approximately …

WHO: Jeremiah Johnston, General Counsel, Sedo.com WHAT: “The Discussion’s Over: New Domains Are Here” WHEN: Monday, March 10, 2014 at 12:30 p.m. CST WHERE:         Austin Convention Center , Ballroom E SXSW …

ICANN announced today the upcoming launch of the new Global Domains Division (GDD) Portal, which is anticipated to go live in mid-March 2014. This new tool provides a centralized location for new gTLD Registry Operators …

Easyspace, one of the UK’s leading ICANN accredited domain name registrar and web hosting companies, will be offering the new .Club domain name extension after signing a Registry-Registrar agreement with .CLUB Domains, LLC. In pre-registrations …

In the past week (Feb 17 to Feb 23), 667 (743 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.8 last week). Only 241 (268 last week) domains from …

I checked out the zone files from 4 new gTLDs that completed sunrise and went into general availability (Early Access Program (EAP)) on Wednesday and here are the results. Zone files only include domain names …

Neustar, the .biz and .us registry, launched what is one of the very first .brand New gTLDs: .neustar. The website is located at nic.neustar. Neustar currently intends for the .neustar gTLD to be used exclusively …