Facebook launched their gaming creator portal on a .GG domain. The country code for Guernsey has become popular for esports. Facebook is using the domain name FB.GG. Some background: Wikipedia info .gg is the country code top-level domain for the crown dependency of Guernsey, including the islands of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou and Lihou (plus several uninhabited islands and … [Read more...]
Red.ca sells for $20,000
Namepros member MapleDots reported that they purchased the premium one word domain Red.ca for $20,000. MapleDots said they will be re-branding the domain as a Canadian Domain Re-seller. This would be a top 50 all time sale in .ca according to Namebio. Red.com manufactures digital cinematography and photography cameras and accessories. Congrats to both the buyer and seller. … [Read more...]
Amazon has purchased Amazon.se for an estimated $554,500
In an article on TheLocal.se there is a report that Amazon quietly purchased Amazon.se for $554,500. Tip of the cap to Aaron Strong for the info. Only a few days after it was announced that Amazon is to establish three data centres in Sweden, it has now emerged that the American e-commerce and computing giant has quietly purchased the rights to a key Swedish domain name. The "Amazon.se" … [Read more...]
Popular Topic at ICANN 58 “Two-Character Domain Names in the New gTLD Namespace”
Centr.org published their report on ICANN 58 for the most part it was a lot of technical things that our readers might not be highly interested in. The one topic that might be of interest centered around the release of LL domain names that correlate to matching cctlds. Relevance to ccTLDs These discussions are highly relevant for ccTLDs, for which the release of the corresponding country … [Read more...]
CENTR Report: 309.4 Million Domains At End of 2016
DomainWire Global TLD Stat Report published its CENTR’s quarterly publication covering status and trends in global top-level domains with a focus on European ccTLDs (country code top-level domains). At the end of Q4 2016 there were 309.4 million domain names across all top-level domains (TLDs) globally. Net growth over the quarter was around 1.03 million (0.3%) - a large decrease compared … [Read more...]
.US Wants to Sell 1 & 2 Character Domains & Allow Privacy on All .US Registrations
On Thursday, December 15th The .US Registry opened two issues up for requests for public comment. All comment should be emailed to stakeholdercouncil@neustar.us The first issue relates to the potential release of 1 and 2 character .US domains. The second relates to the potential allowance of .US registrants to utilize privacy protection services. The comment period for both requests … [Read more...]
.LA Announces Premium Domains & The .LA Bear
Page Howe, Chief Evangelist for the .LA domain space announced the new Fall promotions Today including winning a .LA Bear and release 1K+ Premium domain names. "Join our community and win a .LA Bear. We are giving away random .LA Bears to social media likes, follows and email subscribers. Help us name our .LA Bear and win a deluxe version. Follow us on Facebook, like us on Twitter or signup for … [Read more...]
