.Music LLC sought reconsideration for Community Priority Evaluation in an effort to be given priority over others who are interested in running .music. .Music LLC believed that when their application was looked at that the panel failed to comply with already established ICANN policies. The board governance committee denied the reconsideration request. From the report released by ICANN The … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Top 10,298; .Quebec 4,902: .ENGINEER 523
We have numbers for the three new gTLD's that launched this week. .Top which launched on the November 18th has according to ntldstats.com 10,298 domains registered. The registry for .Top is "Jiangsu Bangning Science & Technology Co.,Ltd." which is also the backend for the extension and is also a domain name registrar Out of the 10,298 domain names registered, Jiangsu registered … [Read more...]
Aruba.It Formally Announces It Acquired .Cloud Beating Out Google & Amazon
10 days ago we told you at TheDomains.com that Aruba S.p.A. (www.aruba.it) beat out Amazon, Google and Donuts to win the new gTLD .Cloud Today the company finally put out a press release: "Aruba wins … [Read more...]
Godaddy Becomes 1st Domain Registrar To Top 500,000 New gTLD Registrations
According to ntldstats.com, Godaddy.com has become the first domain name registration to have registered more than 500,000 domain names. Godaddy has 500,091 new gTLD domain names under registration, 100,000 more than the second closest domain registrar, Network Solution which topped the 400,000 domain mark although around 377K of the 400,000 Network Solutions domain names were given to … [Read more...]
The Government of Quebec Ends Its Participation In The .Quebec Days Before The Extension Launches
According to ici.radio-canada.ca, the Government of Quebec has decided to end its participation in the new gTLD .Quebec, just days before .Quebec launches. According to the story the Government has decided not to change Government websites to .Quebec and will instead retain all of its Website to end in .gouv.qc.ca . The Government told the The Canadian Press on Friday … [Read more...]
.Realtor: Is it The Best Example Of How Slow End User Adoption Of New gTLD May Be?
The National Association of Realtors launched .Realtor about 3 weeks ago on October 23rd To date there have been less than 85,000 .Realtor domain names registered. The good news is that the extension has by far the lowest rate of parked domains with just over 1% of all .Realtor domain names being parked. According to ntldstats.com out of the 84,615 .Realtor domain names registered only … [Read more...]
PIR Operator Of .Org Reveals Its OnGood Campaign For The New gTLD’s .NGO & .ONG
Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org extension, today unveiled “OnGood” – the new brand identity for the upcoming .ngo & .ong domain extensions along with their accompanying suite of services. Set to launch in early 2015, OnGood is an online community designed with and for NGOs and nonprofits worldwide, providing them with a suite of online services to help … [Read more...]