The British tabloid newspaper, or “red top”, has bought the dailymail.com domain in a deal rumoured to be in excess of £1 million as the paper looks to broaden its…
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Monthly Archives: January 2014
It was for a fortnight and there were 40 sales for the latest Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales, but it saw 2014 get moving with a trio…
Registrations for .uk domains at the second level such as name.uk will become available on 10 June 2014 the registry announced. In a separate announcement, Nominet announced they have approved…
In its Beijing Communiqué, the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) issued advice to the ICANN Board of Directors regarding New gTLD applications.
[news release] Innovative ideas and programs that make the Internet better for all Canadians could receive up to $100,000 in funding from the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, the organization that…
Donuts is kicking off the general availability period for seven of its new gTLDs, marking the beginning of a new era for the internet in which users will have unprecedented…
It’s official! .CLUB is now ready to, the registry says, change internet history by being the first mass-appeal new gTLD to hit the internet! The Sunrise period commenced 28 January…
With new gTLDs becoming available to the public for the first time at the end of January, Donuts, the leading applicant for new gTLDs, has announced they are rapidly increasing…
If high profile support counts in getting your new gTLD approved, you can’t beat James Bond’s support of .scot.
If you register a domain name in one of Rightside’s gTLDs, you will be banned from “banned from using it to mock the company or any of its employees or…
ICANN has made a preliminary determination that it is prepared to grant a data retention waiver request submitted by Registrar OVH SAS under the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (the “2013…
Keyword-rich domains do not help a website become more relevant to the topic. That is what Duane Forrester, a Senior Product Manager at Bing wrote on the company blog in…
[announcement] Following the decision to move APRICOT 2014 from Bangkok earlier this week, APIA and APNIC announce today that APRICOT 2014 will now be held in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Petaling…
CENTR recently published their latest newsletter for January 2014 with a number of articles and statistics including:
Domain name sales have eased their way into 2014 with the top reported sale in the first week of 2014 being ia.ca, selling for C$63,000 ($58,590) through ExcellentDomains.ca.