With ICANN’s announcement on Friday that 2,091 applications have been submitted with another 214 pending awaiting payment, the question now becomes how many Unique applications will there be for new gTLD? There…
How Hot Are .Me Domains? This Company Covered By TechCrunch Goes With A Typo Of a Hack
A Techcrunch story last week passed through the domain name community without comment but it caught my eye since the story was about a tec company not only building their brand around…
Google’s Penguin Update Has WebMasterWorld’s Forum On Fire
Google’s Penguin update to its algorithm, has a lot of people on the WebmasterWorld.com Forum chatting about its effect Most comments are detecting changes to their own sites and pages. As usually…
Namecheap.com Hits The 3 Million Mark
Namecheap.com just hit the 3 million domain under management milestone. The countdown on the site is as of publication 3,001,439 domain names. In celebration of the 3 millionth domain name, NameCheap.com gave…
.XXX Adds Only 12,500 Registrations In January
The ICANN monthly reports are out for January and .XXX now has 119K registered domain names. In December, the ICANN report showed .XXX 106,500 registrations. In the January report the total number…
GirlsGoneWild Loses Its 1st UDRP On GirlsGoneWild.name & The Domain Holder Didn’t Even Defend It
Path Media Holdings, LLC (“Complainant”) just suffered what appears to be its 1st loss on a UDRP on its Girls Gone Wild Trademark on the domain name girlsgonewild.name And here’s the most…
Breaking: ICANN 2,305 New gTLD Applications Received To Date; 2,091 Paid For
ICANN just announced tonight that when the TAS system was taken down there were 2,091 applications, either submitted or in progress. In addition, there were 214 potential applications that were registered prior…