The .blog new gTLD has reached its 100,000th registration 8 months after launching its General Availability. After around 20,000 registrations in the first week, registrations have continued steadily upward with…
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Registrations among new gTLDs aren’t in freefall, but numbers continue to drop as registrations come up for renewal and, for some, following heavily discounted promotions, registrants aren’t renewing.
The auDA CEO Cameron Boardman has once again been caught out. Not content with hiding key documents from members by deleting historical information from the website, Boardman along with new…
Last week we noted that after 12 sales charts in a row of 6, and sometimes 7, figure domain name sales, there were none! But in the latest sales chart…
In the ongoing debacle at auDA, it’s hard not to notice what happens in other organisations, even in the domain name industry.
[news release] Today (24 July), ICANN published the results of the ICANN59 participant survey, and the technical, demographic, and attendance statistics. There are two reports – the Community Feedback report…
On Monday 31 July, auDA members get to have their say on the current Chair, and whether they have had enough of the ongoing destruction of the organisation’s transparency and…
[news release] How much should startup founders budget to purchase their desired domain name? Name Ninja, the Toronto-based domain name brokerage firm that helps companies acquire already-registered domain names, has…
Single and 2 character .vegas domain names have been released by Dot Vegas Inc. Now for the first time people can register names like x.vegas, 8.vegas, tv.vegas, vr.vegas.
ICANN has opened registrations for ICANN60, which will also be the ICANN Annual General Meeting.
CENTR is holding the third edition of its Awards this year and a new category has been launched for registrars to vote for the “Registry of the Year”.
[news release] auDA (.au Domain Administration Ltd) together with the Government of Timor-Leste and APTLD (Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association) are today (18 July) pleased to announce the signing…
The Jordan National Information Technology Center has announced it halved the registration fees for .jo domain names on 1 July.
If you’ve read my blogs in the past, you’ll know that I’m really passionate about the benefits that .brands can deliver to organizations and their customers. We are now half…
Once upon a time not that many years ago, the growth in domain name registrations each year was like growth in the Chinese economy – well over 10%. These days…