Donuts released two new gTLD’s into General Availability yesterday (GA) when domains could be registered on a 1st come, 1st served basis. Including all domain registrations during the Sunrise Period for trademark…
Author: Michael Berkens
Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.
“Protecting Internet Freedom Act” Introduced By Cruz
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) introduced the Protecting Internet Freedom Act, which “would prevent the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) from allowing the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority…
SportsAuthority.com With Over 100 Million Visitors a Year Hits The Auction Block
Hilco Streambank is auctioning off the intellectual property assets of The Sports Authority, Inc.., including its brands, trademarks, patents and web and customer assets and the domain names owned by the company…
Over 600 .Group Domains Registered Through Sunrise & EAP; Let’s Take a Look
The new gTLD .Group which goes into General Availability (GA) on Wednesday has, as of publication, over 600 domain name registered through Sunrise and the Early Access Program (EAP) I thought I…
New gTLD’s Registrations Blows Past The 21 Million Mark; Chinese Registrants Fall to 46%
The zone files finally updated for Thursday and Friday,and there are now more than 21 million new gTLD domain names registered. Yesterday we reported the .XYZ passed .info but did not have…
Breaking: .XYZ Passes .Info With Over 5.5 Million Registrations; Now 4th Biggest gTLD In the World
The new gTLD .XYZ has passed .info to become the 4th most registered Generic Top Level Domain Extension in the world. According to RegistrarStats.com, .info has 5,508,922 domain names registered. The zone…
Just Released: Searchable Tool To Find Available .XYZ Domains Taken in .Com, .Net & .Org
The .XYZ registry just released a tool that finds available .XYZ domain names that are registered in .Com, .Net and .Org I’m told the database is over 2 million domain names. I…