new gtld

The twenty remaining applicants for the gTLDs .corp, .home and .mail could get the option to bow out with a full refund as early as January. The ICANN board of directors earlier this month discussed several options for how to treat the in-limbo applications, one of which was a refund...

.CLUB Domains has published the results of some research it commissioned into media mentions of new gTLDs that show .club coming out on top. It’s an interesting new way to compare the relative success of new gTLDs based on usage or eyeballs rather than registration volumes, even if the report...

Neustar, Inc. today announced that it has revamped its global website and that it is moving to its own .brand extension. Neustar’s new website is moving from Neustar.biz to Home.Neustar All of Neustar’s digital assets will utilize its new ‘.neustar’ TLD “to increase the effectiveness and...

Bot it won’t be easy to register them. Amazon.com is making .bot domain names available to the public on Tuesday starting at 6 a.m. The company has been testing different business models for its new top level domain names and this domain is no exception. Registration of the domain names will...

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Like many things in the new top level domain name program, the launch and acceptance of .brand top level domain names has been slower than a lot of people hoped. But slowly but surely, new websites on domain extensions matching brands are finding their way to the internet. The .Brand Registry...

As part of our third anniversary to celebrate .xyz as the most popular new domain in the world, XYZ introduced the 1.111B® Class as a new platform for innovation and creativity that leverages the full power of the DNS. On 11/11, this new class of .xyz domains – all 6, 7, 8, and 9-digit numerics...

.London will start popping up in The Underground, on billboards and TV. The .London top level domain name is about to get a lot more exposure in London. The registry is beginning a major online and offline marketing campaign based on fictional companies from various London neighborhoods. Ads...

Despite a slow start for some domains, I’m still a fan of city new top level domain names. City names only have to create awareness in a small geographic area. This should be easier than global awareness. Still, it’s going to require usage and promotion to make people in cities that have their...

The days of many notable top level domain names entering general availability are long gone, but there’s a noteworthy launch today: .Boston. Domain names ending in .boston will be available today starting at 16:00 UTC, which is noon EDT. Standard prices are fairly low; GoDaddy is charging...

What other registrars will stop carrying new gTLDs?

EFF and Public Knowledge released a whitepaper titled Which Internet registries offer the best protection for domain owners? It turns out that not every top-level domain is created equal when it comes to protecting the domain holder’s rights. Depending on where you register your domain, a...

Source - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/how-threats-against-domain-names-used-censor-content Whitepaper - https://www.eff.org/files/2017/07/26/domain_registry_whitepaper.pdf

New gTLDs have lost 2.3 million domain names in the past 8 weeks. There are now about 22 million new gtld domain registrations. According to Namestat.org there have been 4.3 million domain names removed from zone files while there have been 2 million new registrations. The domains that have...

How are premium domains doing for registries and registrars? Here’s some insight. Radix just released some data on its premium domain sales in new top level domains for the first half of the year, and it paints a decent picture of how premium domains are doing for both registries and...

WordPress and its company Knock Knock WHOIS There that owns the rights to the .blog domains announced an amendment to the .blog Registry-Registrar Agreement. Changes will be effective on July 15th, 2017. WordPress said that keeping things simple allows registrars and resellers to focus on their...

This is not going to be an all inclusive list as some domain sales go unreported and some I’ve heard of which are not listed, such as “Homes.Forsale” and “Houses.Forsale”, but this will give you a good idea of the types of names changing hands and the types of dots which are building momentum...

I’ve never sold a .AI domain name. I have sold .COMs in the past (sold Movon.com last month), and lately .IO domains have been doing okay for me (sold Arthur.io last month) but I’ve never sold a .AI domain name…but I think I might this month. It’s going to be a different deal than I’ve done...

.CLUB Domains announced today that China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has granted a license to .CLUB’s Beijing based wholly foreign-owned entity (WFOE) company, making it among the very first foreign registries of a new gTLD (generic top-level domain) to be approved by the...

Total with sunrise and landrush now tops 21,000. The .blog domain name is off to a pretty good start in terms of domain name registrations. 19,035 domain names were registered during the first 24 hours of general availability, the registry confirmed to Domain Name Wire. That makes a total of...