Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), reported the record-breaking launch of its .vip top-level domain that entered General Availability at 1600hrs UTC on 17 May 2016. As of 1600hrs UTC on 22 May 2016, registrations …

An auction of several .vip, .xyz and .top (among others) domain names was staged on Alibaba’s AliAuction (TaoBao.com) platform in China on Friday May 20. The auction featured 6 .vip domains, 6 .xyz domains, 6 …

.VIP broke several New gTLD domain registration records since its launch yesterday. It has been the fasted registered New Extension for the first 3 hours since the General Availability since the NEW gTLD program started …

Namejet released it’s April 2016 domain name auctions report that includes a lot of 5N .com and 3L .net domains. Namejet sold 187 (325 domains in March) domains for a total of $1,250,443 ($2,166,399 in …

CentralNic sent out a chilling email informing several of its clients that the domains they have bought, build into websites and have been renewing for years will be deleted in a year from now. CentralNic …

There were quite a few LLLL.com domain name sales these 2 months, many .io domains and a few New gTLDs. Highest domain name sale for the month April at Flippa was QTO.com that sold for $23,508. The …

The latest edition of the bi-monthly CSC® Digital Brand Services’ New gTLD Utilization Report shows both the number of .brands and generic TLDs in the Alexa Top 1M increasing by over 30% since the February …

Colin Campbell, CEO of .Club, wrote an article on CircleID titled: “Usage Trumps Registrations: Why Past TLDs Failed and Why Many Will Follow in Their Path“. Colin makes some very interesting points: We saw highly …

Highest domain name sale this month at Flippa was retard.com that sold for $61,936. The domain name nerdy.com was sold for $60,000. There were 63 LLLL.com domain name sales this month! Prices range from yeps.com at $4,605 down …

Cybersquatting disputes relating to new gTLDs accounted for 10.5% of WIPO’s UDRP caseload in 2015, which covered a total of 4,364 domain names.  Among these names, .XYZ, .CLUB and .EMAIL were the most common new …

A panel of experts discussed the results of the New gTLD program at the WorldHostingDays 2016 (WHD.GLOBAL) in Rust, Germany. Most of the experts agreed that registration numbers aren’t everything and that projects by large …

Namejet released it’s February 2016 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 287 (301 domains in January) domains for $2,787,626 ($2,459,845 in January). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am …

The report shows that .com is used as top level domain by 49.6% of all the websites. The only two New gTLDs that are used in more than 0.1% of websites are .xyz and .club. …

Namejet released it’s January 2016 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 301 (383 domains in December) domains for $2,459,845 ($2,964,861 in December). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am …