Tag Archives: Afilias

Afilias announced its intention to apply for admission of its issued and to be issued Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange (“Admission”) and to conduct a placing …

Global registry services provider Afilias announced that July 22, 2014, is the sunrise start date for its newest generic top-level domain (gTLD): .BLACK. Following the close of sunrise, general availability is scheduled to commence on …

On 4 June 2014 ICANN through its authorized auction services provider, Power Auctions LLC, completed the first auction to resolve a contention set for a new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) string. Contention sets are groups …

To ensure that you have the latest information on the New gTLD launch dates, Afilias has created the release date chart below. This chart is your authoritative source for the Afilias launch dates. Afilias does …

If you weren’t able to attend Afilias CMO Roland LaPlante’s recent webinar on “The Practicalities of a New Domain Launch,” you can watch it here. Since there’s a lot more to launching a new top-level …

The Domain Name Association (DNA), the global trade association for the internet domain industry, has welcomed eight new members from all over the world, bringing the total to 30. The newest members are:

Sedo partnered with Afilias to auction a list of 158 Premium .INFO domains for the first time. Each name was listed with a low 1-99 USD reserve. The auctions ended on May 5 2013. The list included domains with German, French and Spanish terms such as wein.info, …

ICANN posted today for public comment the proposed agreements for renewal of the Registry Agreement for .INFO and for .BIZ. This proposals are a result of discussions between ICANN/Afilias Limited and ICANN/Neustar, Inc. respectively. After review of …

ICANN posted for public comment the proposed renewal agreements of the .INFO and .BIZ Registries. The new contracts will have a 6 year duration spanning up to 2019. Afilias Limited, the .info registry, and Neustar, the .biz registry, as per …

After the first 2 GoDaddy/Afilias auctions (See here the results of the 1st .info auction and the results of the 2nd .info auction) and the Namejet/Afilias auction, the next batch of premium .info domains moves once again to a …

Namejet partnered with Afilias to auction a list of 79 Premium .INFO domains for the first time. Each name was listed with No Reserve. The auctions ran from May 3rd to May 10th. Here are some …

This past week 3 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. These 3 withdrawn applications bring the total of withdrawn gTLD applications to 66. WellPoint, …

This past week 6 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. These 6 withdrawn applications bring the total of withdrawn gTLD applications to 63. Following …

Namejet partnered with Afilias to auction a list of 79 Premium .INFO domains for the first time. The list includes domains such as books.info, gold.info, casinos.info, shop.info, stocks.info and a lot more. Each name is …