Two new gTLD's launched into general availability (GA) yesterday .Live and .Studio both owned by Rightside (NAME) and one launched Tuesday offered by InterNetX; .SRL Including domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and those registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid an extra fee to register domain names before (GA); here are the totals for … [Read more...]
CENTR 3Q Report; There Are 298.4 Million Domains up 1.6%
CENTR’spublished its DomainWire Stat Report for the third quarter of 2015, covering status and trends in global top-level domains. CENTR is the association of European country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries According to the report there are now over 1,000 top level domains available with combined registrations at 298.4 million. Combined growth over the third quarter of 2015 was … [Read more...]
UDRP Filed on Gorgonzola.xyz By Owner of Gorgonzola.com
The "Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola" just filed a UDRP on the domain name Gorgonzola.xyz Gorgonzola of course is a cheese, and Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola translates to "Consortium for the Protection of the Gorgonzola Cheese" yes seriously and they own the domain name Gorgonzola.com. Its pretty amazing how much you learn writing a blog: "Following … [Read more...]
Paul Vixie, Member Internet Hall of Fame: “New gTLD program is a Money Grab & Mistake”
Dr Paul Vixie, a member of the Internet Hall of Fame has called the new gTLD program a money grab and a mistake and called out ICANN for allowing it to happen saying it "indicates corruption." ZDNet.com, published a post about Dr. Vixie remarks from the Ruxcon information security conference in Melbourne on Sunday. According to Wikipedia.org, Dr. Vixie is "an Internet pioneer, the author … [Read more...]
Here Are The 1st Domains In The New Domain Extension .NRA: ColdDeadHands.NRA
The National Rifle Association, which applied to operate the new domain extension .NRA, registered its 1st domain names and we have the list for you. According to their application to ICANN to operate the new gTLD .NRA, "All domains under this TLD will be managed by the NRA, so they will only be made available to organizations and individuals that have been personally approved and … [Read more...]
.XYZ is Back Over 1 Million Domain Registrations & None Of Them Are Free
The new domain extension .XYZ has crossed the 1 Million domain name registration mark again. However now all of the "free" Network Solutions (NetSol) domain names that were stuffed into customers accounts on a non-automatic renewal basis have run their course. So all remaining Netsol registrations for an .XYZ domain exist because the owner paid to register or renew the domain According to … [Read more...]
36% Of All US Banks Have Purchased a .Bank Domain Name
fTLD Registry the operator for .Bank announced today that 36% of U.S. banks have purchased a .BANK domain name and many are planning as using them for their online banking operations making .Bank the first break out success of the new gTLD program from an end user perceptive. "Since May 2015, 2,465 banks have purchased one or more .BANK domain names— signaling their commitment to providing a … [Read more...]