Domain Name News

ICANN announced that on February 11th, 10 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 144 new gTLD strings. The 10 new gTLDs are: .CARDS, .FOUNDATION, .REVIEWS, .FUTBOL, .VISION, .CONDOS, .VILLAS, .PARTS, .PRODUCTIONS, .MAISON. …

Experts will throw light on generic top level domains (GTLDs) – which represent the biggest revolution since the inception of the Internet – at a one-day seminar titled ‘Dot Dubai & Expo 2020’ (www.azna.com) to …

Donuts entered general availability for the following 7 New gTLDs today: .construction, .contractors, .directory, .kitchen, .land, .technology and .today. You can register a (.construction, .contractors, .directory, .kitchen, .land, .technology and .today) domain name using the …

IBM filed a URS complaint at the National Arbitration Forum on the 6th of February for 2 domain names: ibm.ventures ibm.guru This was the first URS complaint filled for any New gTLD domain name. Through …

ICM Registry, the .xxx registry, has revised prices on 238 .xxx domain names at its reserved/premium domain name list. Most of the domains (229) got a large increase in price and only 8 domains were …

Guru.com, a freelance marketplace, is the big winner from the first New gTLDs roll out in the past couple of weeks that included the .guru New gTLD. Up until now .guru is by far the …

European Commission Commission to pursue role as honest broker in future global negotiations on Internet Governance The European Commission has published its waited for Communication on Internet Governance. In the wake of large-scale Internet surveillance …

Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, and .CLUB Domains have partnered to offer a Winter Sports Auction of never before released .CLUB domain names. Taking place February 19-26, this auction will include …

I am having an argument with Go Daddy about this so called blog DigiInno (.com) that steals all the posts from domaining.com. I know that this domain is not hosted with Go Daddy but they …

The first ever UDRP complaint for a New gTLD domain name was filed today, February 11th, at WIPO. The UDRP complaint with WIPO Case Number D2014-0206 was filed by Canyon Bicycles GmbH, a German bicycle …

ICANN opened a comment period today, 11 February 2014, and until 11 March 2014 to solicit community input regarding a proposed review mechanism to address perceived inconsistent Expert Determinations in the String Confusion Objection process …

Last week 7 new gTLD domain names sold for $12,539,99 a piece in the first few hours and then something remarkable happened. The domain name cree.lighting was registered for $12,500 at Name.com. What was remarkable …

AspireVeloTech, known as the world’s largest dealer of Chris King bicycle components, bought one of the very first top level domains (TLD’s) that became available on February 5th. The company bought AVT.bike when general availability …

The number of domain name registrations from the 14 first Donuts New gTLDs surpassed 50000 yesterday. The zone file domain name total is actually 49980 but zone files don’t include domain names without nameservers so …