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...]
.Org Adds 130K Registrations, Tops 10.5 Million: Registrants In China Own 3.2%
Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org, .ngo and .ong domains, today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report "The Dashboard." The .Org domain name extension, added 130,865 additional registrations over the last 12 months, bringing the total domains under management (DUM) to 10,547,247. Other findings outlined in The Dashboard include: .org … [Read more...]
Famous Four Media Becomes 3rd New gTLD Registry To Pass 1 Million Domains
According to a Press Release out today, Famous Four Media has become the 3rd new gTLD registry to pass one million domain names. Donuts was the first to hit 1,000,000 domain registrations but they offer well over 100 new domain extensions for sale. .XYZ was the second registry to hit 1,000,000 domain names but they did that only on 1 new domain extension .XYZ. According to the press … [Read more...]
Publicly Traded Co. Registers 44 Domains Calling Donald Trump a Bully Among Other Things
Symform, Inc. which was acquired by Quantum Corporation for $500,000 in 2014, registered 44 domain names at corporate domain name registrar MarkMonitor according to whois records yesterday, all relating to US presidential candidate Donald Trump in less than a flattering fashion. Quantum Corporation is a publicly traded company on NYSE: QTM Qauntum has a market cap of $207 Million. Both … [Read more...]
Google’s Alphabet Fires Up .Com/.Net Registrations Too Including Some of Google’s
As we noted earlier today over 6,000 .XYZ new gTLD domain names were registered yesterday, after Google Inc. announced it's holding company Alphabet Inc., using the domain name ABC.XYZ. It is interesting though, as Mike pointed out that of the 6,000 newly registered .xyz domains registered yesterday hundreds of them related to ABC, Alphabet and XYZ. I wanted to compare that to .com / .net … [Read more...]