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T.R.A.F.F.I.C. announced the Nominees for the 2014 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARDS today. Here a few thoughts I had after I read the nominations list: People seem to be tired of awards. Not a lot of votes were …

Radix concluded sunrise for the first batch of its extensions – .website, .press and .host last week. .website alone saw more than 600 orders, making it one of the biggest new gTLD sunrises to date. …

T.R.A.F.F.I.C. announced the Nominees for the 2014 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARDS.  Each of these Nominees received nominations from at least 3 individuals. While nominations are open industry wide, voting is not. You MUST be on the TRAFFIC …

Public Interest Registry, the .org registry, released today the bi-annual report on the growth of .org domains. The report reveals that in the past twelve months the total number of .org domains under management increased …

DropCatch.com announced today that it has opened it’s domain name backordering API to it’s customers. DropCatch.com has exposed 2 API functions so that you can programmatically backorder domains. This feature makes use of NameBright.com API …

The first World Domain Day conference started on Sunday the 24th August at the Avasa Hotel, High Tech City, Hyderbad, India and ends today but Snapnames auction is under way and ends tomorrow. WDD (World …

On 14 August ICANN posted the Enhancing ICANN Accountability and Governance: Process and Next Steps. Since posting, ICANN received some questions that are compiled here together with items perhaps useful to be addressed for the …

.HIV New gTLD enters general availability today with a registration/renewal fee of about $200 or more and with a charity model I just don’t understand how it will work. .HIV registration fees vary wildly depending …

This weekend New gTLDs reached 2 million domain name registrations as anyone can see at ntldstats.com. 2,012,434 domains to be exact was the first number above the 2 million mark. But should anybody care about …

The European Domain Centre posted today an Expert Roundup about “What’s the future for the new gTLDs?”. New gTLDs reached 2 million registrations yesterday and Christopher Hofman asked 12 domain name experts such as Frank …