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EURid has been confirmed as the registry manager of the .eu top-level domain for the next five years, with the European Commission Decision (2014/207/EU), published in the Official Journal of the European Union (L109). “We …

The New gTLDs .red, .blue and .pink launched today by Afilias. The .BLUE, .RED, .PINK general availability period opened at 16:00:00 UTC on April 17, 2014. A lot of people complained that they couldn’t find …

Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 3 New gTLDs yesterday: .Codes, .Farm and .Viajes (travel in Spanish). This seem like a slow week for Donuts with weak strings. I don’t know the Spanish …

123-Reg.co.uk send an email to all it’s customers as phishing emails were sent to several customers. Here is the email: Dear Customer, It has come to our attention that some customers may have received an …

Future Media Architects, Inc. (FMA) owned by domainer Thunayan K AL-Ghanim (aka “Elequa”) is dropping thousands of 3 letter .info. FMA owns domain names such as media.com, multimedia.com, fm.com mp3.tv, dj.net and i.net. I read a …

New gTLDs surpassed 500,000 domain name registrations today reaching 531,665 registrations with the help of 5 Uniregistry new gtlds that launched yesterday and .buzz. Here are their first day registration numbers: buzz  796 gift  4894 …

The Italian Registry (.it) Registro.it have published their ‘Yearbook 2013’ covering the events of the Registry over 2013.  Click to open the Yearbook. Quarter.it is born, the first quarterly report by .it Registry, with the …

Have you heard of “What Box Holdings“, “Plan Bee LLC” and “Thomas A. Brackey II“? If you are looking to buy a New gTLD domain name you probably have. They managed to register more than …

The .Rich New gTLD entered general availability last week (April 10). No one noticed because no one is buying .rich domains. And the reason is that the registration and renewal cost is set at about …

Applicant Auction, that offers private auctions for resolving gTLD contention, claims they are getting an increasing number of requests from applicants who want to avoid the ICANN Last Resort auction. A common question is: What …