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.NYC domains are 2 years old and celebrate by releasing about 3,800 .nyc “premium domain names” today. Starting on Monday, October 10 at 3:00pm EDT, these .nyc premium domain names will be offered to the …

The domain name home.nyc is now not part of the .nyc auction as it was registered for $30 because of a glitch. Yesterday it was announced that there is going to be a .NYC premium …

GoDaddy and Verisign will be running a new presidential election TV campaign through the U.S. Election Day on November 8. Two different TV commercials were produced by GoDaddy’s own in-house team in mid-September. The spots …

Auctions.nyc and the City of New York announced the first auction of .nyc premium domains. Starting October 24, twenty high value .nyc domain names associated with Living in NYC will be available to New Yorkers …

ICANN announced that the October 2018 ICANN meeting will be held in Barcelona, Spain. The decision came as ICANN intended to hold its third Public Meeting of 2018 in the Europe region. After a review …

These are the new domain name extensions (New gTLDs) that are launching in 2016 and 2017. The list includes highly anticipated domain extensions such as .Shop that was purchased for $41.5 million, .Blog bought for …

New .blog domain names (like myname.blog) will be available for anyone to register on November 21. .Blog domains are owned and managed by the popular blog software platform WordPress. You can now apply to get a …

A company from Belgium named ‘CKL Holdings N.V. naamloze vennootschap (nv)’ has applied for about 68 trademarks at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Most of the applications were made in the past few months and …

The domain name CourtneyLove.com expired and was auctioned yesterday at GoDaddy for $3,350. The GoDaddy auction for the 18 year old domain name attracted some interest and 38 bids were made from 12 bidders. The domain was originally …

On 27 July 2016, Power Auctions LLC, ICANN’s authorized auction service provider, conducted a New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Program auction to resolve contention for .WEB and .WEBS. Auction serves as the method of last resort for …

Starting with August 29, 2016 nic.at releases one and two character domains under the TLD .at. Until now the minimum length of a domain name under the top-level domain .at has been three characters. This …

The domain name PokemonGo.net was auctioned on Saturday, July 16, for $20,950. The domain PokemonGo.net was originally registered in 2008, it expired in 2011 and re-registered. Then this July it expired and was again available …

Nintendo, the owner of the newly released game Pokemon Go, bought the domain name Pokemon.Club. The domain name was bought from the .Club registry as the domain name was reserved by the registry due to …

Nominet, the .UK registry, released an annual summary of domain name disputes brought before its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) in 2015. A total of 728 complaints were made to Nominet in 2015, just two more …