TechCrunch.com published a great story about the money floating around in the domain industry entitled “”The silent evolution of domain names””. People in the domain space are mentioned include Rob Grant as…
Category: New gTLD’s
An illustrated look at the .Shop launch
The folks over at NtldStats.com published an infographic on InfoGr.Am that delves into the numbers on .Shop. Some of the numbers include: 19,291 people registered one or more .shop domains within the…
Donuts Launches DPML Plus To Protect Trademarks & 3 Typos for $9,999 For 10 Yrs
The largest new gTLD operator in terms of number of new domain extensions, Donuts Inc. today announced DPML Plus, an enhancement to its existing Domains Protected Marks List product that it developed…
Must Read Story: Nominet Overcharges .UK Customers To Pay For Cheaper New gTLD’s
Kieren McCarthy published a post yesterday entitled “The Great British domain name rip-off: Overcharged .uk customers help pay for cheaper .vodka; Time for competition authorities to take a hard look at Nominet”…
Rightside Launches .Games & Shares Rise Over 5%
Rightside Group LTD (NASDAQ: NAME) launched the .GAMES domain extension today. The Sunrise Phase where trademark holders could preregister names, .GAMES became Rightside’s number-one performing new top level-domain (TLD), seeing applications from…
.NYC to Hold 1st Ever Premium Name Domain Name Auction of 20 .NYC Domain Names
.NYC announced it would be holding its 1st premium domain auction to begin on October 24th. Only businesses, organizations and individuals with a physical address in the five boroughs are eligible to…
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Starts Deleting Its 230,000 Uniregistry Domains
On Thursday Frank Schilling North Sound Names started to delete the registrations for the approximately 230,000 domain names it registered in Uniregistry new gTLD extensions. Yesterday over 100,000 domain names owned by…