According to a press release we received today, Co.com LLC and CentralNic (LSE: CNIC) announced an agreement today, under which CentralNic will provide the technical registry services to make co.com domain names available through registrars worldwide. With the introduction of co.com, companies who missed out will have a second opportunity to get a generic and global domain name ending in .com … [Read more...]
.XYZ One Of The 1st New gTLD’s To Launch Opens Up Pre-Registration
The registry for the new gTLD .XYZ has just opened up preregistrations. While preregistrations for new gTLD's is nothing new the fact that this is being done at the registry level is different. Many registrars and auction houses opened up preregistrations over the last couple of years but in this case it is the registry itself taking the preregistrations. As always there is no cost to … [Read more...]
CentralNic Formally Announces September IPO
Today CentralNic, formally announced its plans for a September IPO on the AIM Market (“AIM”) of the London Stock Exchange. "CentralNic is a registry service provider which supports top level domains (“TLDs” such as .la) and second level domains (“SLDs” such as .uk.com), distributing and powering domain names that end with those TLDs and SLDs, such as www.artweek.la and … [Read more...]