Architelos puts out a State of Abuse report that looks at which domain extensions are being used the most for things like spam and phishing. Their latest report shows data from May,…
Category: New gTLD’s
Presidential Candidate & Governor Of Wisc Scott Walker Gets SW.Gop Domain
The Republican Presidential Candidate & Governor Of Wisconsin, Scott Walker has gotten a new gTLD domain name SW.Gop. The domain name is currently resolving to the Governor’s instagram account. The Governor already owns…
AlpNames.com Starts Selling Premium .Science, .Party and .Cricket Domains Starting At $230
AlpNames.com just send out an email announcing they are starting to sell the premium domain names of three Famous Four Domain extension .Science, .Party and .Cricket and launched Premium.AlpNames.com. These are domain…
.LGBT Pride Program Launched: $20 Per Domain Registration Will Be Contributed To The “It Gets Better Project”
The .LGBT domain registry operator Afilias announced the launch of the .LGBT Pride Program in celebration of two recent victories for LGBT equality: the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling regarding the right to…
Barclays has a home at Home.Barclays – Dot Com Redirects but not the .Co.uk
Barclays has found a home now at Home.Barclays, back in May they said they would be transitioning away from the .com and the .co.uk. They said they would be adding a layer…
TldOperator.Help to Host Two Webinars on June 30
There will be two webinars tomorrow that will look to help new gtld applicants and registries to find ways to spread the word on the new gtlds. Registering for the webinars takes…
ICANN Best Estimate For New gTLD Renewal Rate 50%; 25% For Free Domains: 35% Worst Case
In releasing its 2016 operating budget ICANN made some estimate for the purposes of budgeting revenue from new gTLD’s. ICANN is saying its “Best” estimate is that the average renewal rate will…