Afilias announced today the first and only top-level domain (TLD) dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is now open for registration: “dot LGBT” or .LGBT. All LGBT community members and businesses, organizations and other entities serving the community may register for a .LGBT domain name immediately. Roland LaPlante, Chief Marketing Officer of Afilias is … [Read more...]
Architelos Reports New gTLD’s Have 1/4 of the Level Of Abuse Found In Legacy Extensions, But…
Architelos.com, a issued today a report on the state of domain name abuse in new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) space in 2014, the first full year when many new gTLDs were launched and operated. This report focuses on the detection of domain abuse (spam, phishing, malware) as monitored by the Architelos NameSentrySM service, and not the efficacy of their abuse mitigation … [Read more...]
.Com Top 116 Million Active Domain Names For The 1st Time & Is Up 600K Registrations Since December 31
The number of active .Com domain names has passed the 116 million mark for the firs time in history. At the end of 2014 there were 15.3 million .Com domain registered in the active zone file, meaning that .Com registrations have increase 600,000 domain names in the first 5 weeks of 2015. The number of new gTLD's is stilling at 4,288,778 according to ntldstats.com up from the 3,650,000 new … [Read more...]
The DNA.org Global Domain Name Preferences Survey: 85% Type Domains Into Browsers
The DNA.org, a trade association whose members include new gTLD registries, domain name registrars and consultants to the industry (Disclaimer a company I'm a Director of RightoftheDot.com is a member of the DNA) released the results of a poll conducted by Research Now a a global firm headquartered in the U.S., the Global Domain Name Preferences … [Read more...]
Donuts Expects To Wind Up With About 200 New gTLD’s
In a press release it issued today Donuts said it expected to win up operating around 200 new gTLD's. ""Donuts Inc., the world's largest registry for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), marked the one-year anniversary of general availability of new Internet identities today, reporting that its 150 live gTLDs are home to more than 1.2 million registrations, accounting for nearly 1/3 of … [Read more...]
Are New gTLDs More Memorable than Country Code Domains ?
Stuart Fuller, director, commercial operations at NetNames spoke with FE Brandwagon/FinancialExpress.com and gave his view why the new gtlds are more memorable and why brands can have more security if they take the time to get their own Dot Brand. NetNames also put together a couple of graphics on the topic. From the article: Could you elaborate on how the new domain system will … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Registers Over 9,000 .Hosting Domains
Frank Schilling's North Sound Names registered over 9,000 domain names in the new gTLD .Hosting on January 31th .Hosting which is owned by Frank Schilling's Uniregistry had about 2,312 domain names registrations as of January 30th, now has over 11,600 registered domain names. Mr. Schilling has long said he would go ahead and register domain names he thought would be premium domain names … [Read more...]