Cypriot entrepreneur Constantine Roussos has beaten 7 other applicants, including Google, Donuts, Radix and Amazon, for the right to operate the .music new gTLD. “If someone told me back then…
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The .blog new gTLD hit the 200,000 registrations mark on 1 April with the registry, Knock Knock Whois There, announcing the milestone last week along with a renewal rate of…
Neustar, Public Interest Registry (PIR) and Verisign have joined the United States government in a battle against illegal opioid distribution. With almost $6 billion in new funding over the past…
Donuts announced Monday that the registry fee it charges for most of its top-level domains will be increasing on 1 October. Until that time all registered domains may be renewed…
OK, apologies to The Automatic, but it’s come over the hill on 1 April and .monster has now launched its General Availability. It will be followed by another new gTLD…
Verisign have announced a few enhancements to their domain name suggestion tool NameStudio API that improves suggestions for users in some non-English languages, for personal names and based on location….
There were approximately 348.7 million domain names registered across all TLDs at the end of 2018, an increase of approximately 6.3 million, or 1.8%, compared to the third quarter of…
The now defunct AlpNames, who had its Registrar Accreditation Agreement terminated by ICANN this week after the discounted registrar appears to have disappeared, has a history of being a home…
There are around 348 million domain names under management around the world and in the year to the end of January 2019, growth slowed to its lowest ever year-on-year rate…
Neustar has won 2 awards for a marketing campaign they ran in Australia to promote .co at the Summit International Awards – a ‘Platinum’ prize in Marketing Effectiveness and an…
There are probably now over 157 million .com and .net domain names registered around the world and registrations can reflect global and/or American trends, events and/or news. So Verisign release…
.ASIA domain names are now licensed for sale in China, the Hong Kong-based DotAsia Organisation announced in February. Following receiving accreditation from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT),…
Minds + Machines (MMX) have started 2019 on a high with the release of a company update last week for the year to the end of 2018. During the 12…
Growth and GDPR implementation along with the high costs of domain transfers among gTLDs due to ICANN policies were among the lowlights of 2018 for Openprovider’s Founder and CEO Arno…
Public Interest Registry (PIR) announced Tuesday the addition of three new members to their executive team – Judy Song-Marshall, Chief of Staff; Joe Abley, Chief Technology Officer and Anand Vora,…