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I checked out the zone files from 4 new gTLDs that completed sunrise and went into general availability (Early Access Program (EAP)) on Wednesday and here are the results. Zone files only include domain names …

Neustar, the .biz and .us registry, launched what is one of the very first .brand New gTLDs: .neustar. The website is located at nic.neustar. Neustar currently intends for the .neustar gTLD to be used exclusively …

Since the end of January, Donuts has launched 25 new gTLDs that have entered the general availability (GA) phase, and another 4 are in the Early Access Program (EAP) GA. Uniregistry has launched 2 new …

I noticed that a UDRP complaint was filed for the domain name AirtelGuru.com. Although this seems like the regular UDRP complaint, I am not sure that it is. That is because with the introduction of …

Web.com Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:WWWW), a leading provider of Internet services and online marketing solutions for small businesses, announced today that it has acquired SnapNames from KeyDrive S.A. SnapNames is a leader in the daily online …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 2-17-14 to 2-23-14 were $1.848.381. This report includes some New gTLD pre-registration auctions at Go Daddy such as, nano.technology for …

The new* ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and registrar agreement requires all domain name owners to verify their contact details. According to the new rule, email verification is required so that domains …

Virgin and Richard Branson filed 4 URS complaints on 5 different New gTLD domain names in the past couple of days: richardbranson.holdings – richardbranson.ventures virgingalactic.guru virginaustralia.holdings branson.guru Virgin had a DPML block for the term “Virgin” …

ICANN did a blog post today reassuring European Registrars about the Data Retention Specification of 2013 RAA. Some people from the US may not understand how big the problem is here in the EU. The …

The first 2 New gTLDs launched by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry on Tuesday. Most notably Go Daddy, the world number 1 registrar,  bought GoDaddy.sexy and GoDaddy.tattoo. Go Daddy registered godaddy.sexy in sunrise but got GoDaddy.tattoo during …