Apple Inc. has secured the domain name AppleID.com according to whois records from a Hiroshi Kaneko of Toyko. The domain name was registered May 26, 2004 and held the same registrant email ever since being created, which indicates that Hiroshi has owned the domain name ever since creation. The Apple Id is a "user name" used for iTunes, iCloud and many of Apple's products and … [Read more...]
Donuts To Release Over 1 Million New gTLD Domains Starting June 10th
According to an email we received tonight Donuts is going to release more than one million previously unavailable new gTLD domain names, including permissible two character addresses Donuts will offer registrations via our Early Access Program (EAP) for the first seven days of their availability The release of these names will begin on June 10, 2015 and will be staggered in batches (see … [Read more...]
With 10 Applicants .Art Gets Scheduled For An ICANN Last Resort Auction
The new gTLD .Art just got on the ICANN schedule for a last resort auction. There are 10 applicants for .Art and the ICANN auction is scheduled tentatively for July 2015. .Art is the only new gTLD that is currently scheduled for an ICANN auction. Here are the 10 Applicants; some are portfolio applicants as well as some one-off applicants that only applied for … [Read more...]
CNBC.com: Covers New gTLD’s: 1and1 says New gTLD Account For 15% of Their New Biz
CNBC.com just covered the new gTLD roll out once again in a story entitled "Dot-com to .pizza: Welcome to the Web domain Rush" with a subtitle of "The Internet's long-restricted virtual real estate market is open for business." The most interest part of the story comes from 1and1.com which says "new gTLDs already account for about 15% of 1and1's new business" "It's lucrative, too, with the … [Read more...]
The Eiffel Tower has Moved; Well On The Internet From .Com To a .Paris
One of the most prominent landmarks on this planet has changed its address on the Internet. The official site for the Eiffel Tower has changed the domain name from Eiffel-Tower.com (English) and Tour-Eiffel.fr (French) to the domain name TourEiffel.Paris. Eiffel-Tower.com had been the official site for the world-famous Paris landmark since at least 2007 according to Screenshots.com The … [Read more...]
4 New gTLD Launches This Week & Registrations To Date; .Style; .Chat; .Bingo & .Tennis
This is a busy week for new gTLD Launches with 4 new domain extensions. All four new gTLD went through a Early Access Program (EAP) for those that were willing to pay an extra fee to get access prior to General Available. Here are the new domain extensions launching this week and the number of registrations through Sunrise and the Early Access Program (EAP). .Style 293 .Chat … [Read more...]
Domain Movers: 31.com, KD.com, Swiggy.com and Many More Domains
Here we go with the latest installment of Domain Movers, where I detect domain names that have been recently acquired mostly by large corporations or domains simply moving by large companies. These are often early detections, so this information may relate to new brands, services, products, companies etc. Here we go! The Boeing Company has registered the domain name CustomHanger.com . The … [Read more...]