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On 27 January 2016, Power Auctions LLC, ICANN‘s authorized auction service provider, conducted a New gTLD Program Auction to resolve string contention for one new generic top-level domain (gTLD) contention set: .SHOP. This set was …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX) announced its expansion into the Chinese market with the appointment  of  the highly respected registry service company, ZDNS, as its local infrastructure partner. The Company has also appointed Allegravita LLC, a …

Donuts Inc. today announced that the .WINE and .VIN gTLDs will be available for general registration tomorrow January 20. The announcement follows an active two month Sunrise period during which more than

Sunrise for .cars, .car and .auto ended a few days back and a few of the biggest companies in the world bought domain names. The domains were not necessarily bought by car manufacturers (Open, Honda, …

Tthe NamesCon 2016 auction made $1,495,400 selling 92 of the 131 domain names. The highest sale was Lawn.com that went for $240,000. Most of New gTLDs in the auction sold and were sold for good …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX) announced its agreement to acquire a 99% interest in Boston TLD Management LLC (“BTM”), the owner of rights to the .boston geo-TLD, and the agreement of its subsidiary, Minds …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced that approximately 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in the third quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 299 million worldwide across all …

ThePirateBay.com plus 6 other domain names have been suspended. The Pirate Bay’s original .org domain name ThePirateBay.org has passed the ICANN email verification is working properly after being suspended for a few days pending the …

The Pirate Bay’s original .org domain name had stopped working as the domain name had not passed the ICANN email verification while the domain name was registered with EuroDNS. ThePirateBay.org has since been moved to …

The Pirate Bay’s original .org domain name has stopped working as the domain name has not passed the ICANN email verification as TorrentFreak is reporting. “Many people still used the .org as a redirect to …

GoDaddy Inc. announced its acquisition of the vast majority of domain names in the Worldwide Media, Inc. domain name portfolio. This acquisition consists of approximately 70,000 domain names, including 373.com, Faculty.com, CarAuctions.com, and iBill.com. It …

Radix closed the holiday sales with 35,000+ paid registrations across the .online, .site, .website, .space, .tech, .press and .host TLDs. Radix has been actively working behind the scenes to create a splash across the domain …

Cars Registry, a joint venture between XYZ and Uniregistry, announced the availability of three new domain extensions: .Cars, .Car, and .Auto. Between December 9th and January 12th, these domains will first be made available exclusively to trademark holders …

For the first time after 7 years Domaining Europe is moving from Spain to The Hague/Netherlands. Dietmar Stefitz, the event organizer, wanted to make it just after “TheNextWeb” in Amsterdam, so you have the possibility to …