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“Perhaps it is better to be the leader on a few high-potential TLDs than to be in “pole position” on a TLD artificially inflated by short-term promotional tactics.” OUCH! This is a conclusion of the …

Here are the domain name registration results from yesterday’s 5 New gTLD launches: 4 Donuts New gTLDs were out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general availability on Wednesday: .Loans, .Life, …

On 17 September 2014, an Auction conducted by ICANN’s authorized Auction service provider, Power Auctions LLC, was held to resolve string contention sets for three new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) strings; BUY, TECH, and VIP. …

I was bidding on a domain at Go Daddy auctions and there was one bidder that was increasing the bid by $10 on my proxy bid every 5 minutes. It is very frustrating because the …

Uniregistry has 2 buses going around Los Angeles, California with a .Sexy ad on them: http://areyou.sexy. The ad was a great idea as it will increase New gTLD recognition to all kinds of people on the …

Afilias today announced that six leading organic brands are participating in the .ORGANIC domain pioneer program and plan to launch .ORGANIC sites soon. These brands include: Rodale Institute — Organic pioneers since 1947, the Rodale Institute …

The European Registries for Internet Domains (EURid), published their comprehensive World Report on Internationalized Domain Names 2014. The New gTLD chapter features TLD Registry‘s 2 IDN New gTLDs, Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese …

It’s a mad, mad, mad world. I had another deal gone bad after another buyer disappeared. I had 3 bad deals in a week last month and a few others. So after the deal I …

DotGreen Community, Inc. and Afilias announced today their partnership supporting the .green Top Level Domain (TLD). .Green is touted as “the world’s first TLD for the growing green economy, businesses, social and environmental initiatives.” The …

GoDaddy launched a new 2014 advertising campaign with 2 new television commercials, online and print advertising and social media engagements. The rollout is part of GoDaddy’s overall mission to target small business owners. The new …