new gtld

.VIP domain names launch today, 17 May 2016, at 16:00 UTC. The time for general availability is 11:00 EST and 24:00 for Beijing, China. .VIP is a Minds + Machines new domain extension and this is the first New gTLD they are launching in 2016 and since the change in leadership they had. Last...

One of the big questions regarding brands that use their branded new gTLD extension is what the company will choose for the left of the dot. It looks like Canon recently made the decision to use its .Canon extension, and company management decided on Global.Canon for the company home page. The...

WordPress.com owner Automattic has outed itself as the bankroll behind the winner of the .blog auction and the new owner of the forthcoming new gTLD. Founder Matt Mullenweg also revealed that the company paid around $19 million for the domain at private auction in February 2015, about $1...

Just a few months after Uniregistry bought out Donuts to win .shopping, Donuts has bought the pre-launch gTLD back. Donuts has also bought live gTLD .jetzt from a Swedish company. The .shopping deal is a weird one. Uniregistry and Donuts were the only two applicants for .shopping, until...

Lawsuit involved switching backend providers for three top level domain names. Verisign and XYZ have reached a settlement in one of their ongoing lawsuits. Verisign sued XYZ last year after XYZ acquired the rights to the .theatre, .security and .protection top level domains. The original...

Donuts has emerged the victor of the .doctor gTLD contention set. Competing applicants Radix and The Medical Registry both withdrew their applications last week. The string wasn’t due to head to its ICANN last-resort auction until May 25, indicating that the contention set was settled...

“IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG), has released one and two-character domains across its portfolio of financial Top Level Domains (TLDs), (new gTLD’s) which include .Markets, .Forex, .Broker, .Trading, .CFD, and .Spreadbetting. Prices start from $200, with the domain names are available on a...

It has been 2 years since .Club was launched. More than 720,000 .club have been sold so far to more than 132,000 unique registrants from 130 countries. According to the .club registry there are more than 56,000 active websites and they have made more than $3.5 million in premium domain name...

Donuts’ first investment is in a geo fencing company. Top level domain name company Donuts has made the first of what promises to be many investments through its new Donuts Labs program. Through Donuts Labs, the company is putting its capital and registry knowledge to work by investing in...

XYZ and Radix propel CentralNic’s registry growth. CentralNic now has over 4 million domain names on its new top level domain registry services platform, the company announced today. It provides registry services to .xyz, which accounts for about three-quarters of the total. Its other major...

Company that uses ATProperties.com wanted the “domain hack”. Illinois real estate company @Properties has failed to get the domain name AT.properties in a UDRP. @Properties uses the domain name atproperties.com, and also registeredatproperties in multiple top level domains, including .cc...

Rightside, a new domain name extension registry, today announced it has secured the .GAMES domain extension. Rightside plans to launch .GAMES in Q3 2016 starting at a standard wholesale price of $12.00. Rightside believes .GAMES fits nicely into its portfolio of 40 domain names like .LIVE...

Elliot Silver shares his thoughts regarding new gTLD appraisal: If an appraisal can’t be at least somewhat accurate, it doesn’t make sense to even try. I want to share some of the reasons for why I think it would be impossible to give an appraisal of new domain extensions: There is a lack of...

Hexonet starts offering Donuts and Rightside backorders for dropping domain names on May 1, 2016. The backorder service will be catching about 400 New gTLDs in total. HEXONET will continue to add backordering for even more new gTLDs in the coming months. Pricing available here

In the increasingly visible battle over privacy on the internet, a dark web tool used to encrypt and make individual connections on the internet less traceable called “Tor” has just reached 1 million users on Facebook. Alec Muffett, a software engineer for Security Infrastructure at Facebook...

.Tech, the New gTLD from Radix registry, reached 100,000 domain name registrations this morning. According to NameStat .tech is the 22nd new extension in terms of domain name registrations. Radix has several partners like GoDaddy, Namecheap, Hover, Name.com, etc. that have fueled this growth...

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 report. Source

Dominion Registries, the .homes registry, announced today that a special Request for Proposal (RFP) period has opened for a group of premium .Homes domain names. The .Homes domain names open for this RFP period include: Dream.Homes Ocean.Homes Mountain.Homes Urban.Homes Country.Homes...

If you register the domain of a personal name and claim it’s about your future daughter, why would you then offer it for sale? In the case of the domain Emmy.CLUB, the owner offered it for sale for $9,999 dollars. Meanwhile, the holder of the trademark for EMMY wasn’t emmy-used. “Respondent...

Marketplace lending company Lending Club, which has a market cap of nearly $3.0 billion, bought the domain name Lending.club for $25,000 from the registry last month. The domain name now forwards to Lending.club. The domain name was one of two the .Club registry sold for over $20,000 last...