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Ashton Kutcher bought a couple of domains for her daughter but he missed an important one and he and Milan Kunis don’t own AshtonKutcher.com or MilaKunis.com. This is the latest SEO study: New gTLD Domains …

Ashton Kutcher was on the show Conan, with Conan O’Brien, last night. The interview was all about her daughter Wyatt Isabelle Kutcher. Ashton Kutcher and his fiancée Mila Kunis had their first child in September 30th. The …

This week 1 New gTLDs enters General Availability, 2 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and no string enters the landrush phase. Rightside enters Early Access Program (EAP) for 2 of its extensions on …

TLD Registry, operator of 2 new gTLD IDNs in Chinese, .在线 (Chinese Online) and, .中文网 (Chinese Website) announced that it opened its new China headquarters in Beijing’s Zhongguancun, also known as “China’s Silicon Valley”. The …

There were 16 4-figure sales domains yesterday and on top of that there was the sale of the domain RookiePoker.com for $20,000 by Michael Berkens. Do you know what is the best way to motivate …

Michele Neylon the Chair of the Registrar Stakeholder Group (RrSG) send a letter to ICANN’s Steve Crocker and Fadi Chehadé asking them to select a new ICANN 52 conference location as soon as possible. “It …

Total Websites performed an important SEO study on New gTLDs and EMDs. They started by doubting Matt Cutts that EMDs and gTLDs both do not play a significant role, if any, in SEO rankings: “However, as …

ICANN New gTLD auction proceeds are at about $26 million so far. Almost all money comes from the 2 most recent auctions that included New gTLDs such as .tech and .realty. .Auctions are the

Do you know what is the best way to motivate yourself starting a new project? Take a domain name that has traffic and more than $100 per year in PPC and change the nameservers from …

Website attorney Steven Rinehart recently won several new UDRP domain name disputes involving common law trademarks. Rinehart issued a press release about successfully establishing common law trademarks rights for two attorneys who were the target …

It has been about 9 months since the New gTLD program started. So now we are about 3 months away from the first New gTLD domain renewals. So what do you intent to do? Renew …

This is one of the reasons that I don’t attend any ICANN conferences. The other is that most are too far away from Greece. I watched the closing interview of ICANN 51. ICANN’s Brad White …

CentralNic plc today announced that its client Top Level Design LLC (“Top Level Design”), has succeeded in beating seven other companies to successfully acquire the rights to the new Top-Level Domain (“TLD”) .DESIGN. CentralNic has …

ICANN issued a statement regarding the ICANN 52 meeting in Marrakech, Morocco. Following Morocco’s recent request to postpone the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament because of possible African travel restrictions, ICANN is in active and …