Twitter starts supporting (some) new gTLDs Twitter has started recognizing new gTLDs on its web page and on Tweetdeck. As of some point in the last 48 hours, you can type something like “nic.berlin” or “fire.plumbing” in a tweet and Twitter will automatically turn it into a clickable link. The switcheroo seems to have happened in the last two days, as ...
DomainIncite.com - 16 hr 6 min ago
.secure applicant loses CTO to Yahoo! Yahoo has reportedly hired a new chief information security officer in the form of Alex Stamos, outspoken CTO of .secure new gTLD applicant Artemis Internet. The news of Stamos’ departure was first reported by Re/code, citing unnamed sources, a week ago. Stamos did not respond to a DI request for comment but I gather he’s...
DomainIncite.com - 16 hr 57 min ago
Go Daddy risking Oscars wrath with .buzz premium domains? The new gTLD registry Dot Strategy included many famous brands on its list of premium .buzz names, including two that could get its partner, Go Daddy-owned Afternic, in hot water. Until a couple of hours ago, nic.buzz carried what appeared to be thousands of premium listings, organized by category and carrying prices of $1,000 and [&...
DomainIncite.com - 17 hr 43 min ago
Final .eco applicant completes evaluation Planet Dot Eco has finally passed its ICANN evaluation, meaning the four-way contention set for one of the oldest public new gTLD ideas, .eco, can move forward a little. In its Initial Evaluation last August, the company scored a miserable 1 point on its financial evaluation, failing to hit the target of 8 points, and […]
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DomainIncite.com - 18 hr 53 min ago
Google’s first new gTLD racks up 2,300 domains Google’s Charleston Road Registry reached 2,300 .みんな domain names on the new gTLD’s first day of general availability, immediately making it the biggest IDN gTLD by volume so far. The string is Japanese for “everyone”. As you might expect, it’s an unrestricted space. About 230 names — 10% of the TL...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 7:9
New gTLDs pass 200,000 registrations The number of domain names in new gTLDs passed 200,000 last night, according to zone files. The exact number, according to the DI PRO database, is 201,178. It’s based on incremental organic growth over the last week since the last batch of new gTLDs went into general availability, rather than any big launch events or […]
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DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 15:20
.club “will overtake .guru” in week one Now that we’ve seen how many domain names are actually being sold in new gTLDs, you might reasonably expect some registries to rein in their more ambitious sales targets. Not so with .CLUB Domains, which plans to go to general availability with .club on May 7. CEO Colin Campbell told DI today that he’s sticking […]
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DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 10:27
Van Gelder rebrands to Milathan Domain name consultant Stephane Van Gelder has changed the name of his company from Stephane Van Gelder Consulting to Milathan. The name, Van Gelder tells us, is a “derivative of words in Hindi that mean ‘union’ or ‘meeting’ in the sense of bringing people together”. Milathan’s tagline will b...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 10:14
US revives .kids.us in new Neustrar contract Neustar has been awarded a new three-to-five-year contract to manage the .us ccTLD, under a deal with the US Department of Commerce announced today. It’s a renewal of a role that Neustar has held since .us was relaunched in 2001, but the new contract come with a few notable new provisions. First, it seems that […]
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DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 10:5
ICANN hires Walmart alum as CIO ICANN has hired itself a new C-level executive. Ashwin Rangan started today as chief innovation and information officer, meaning he’s going to be in charge of ICANN’s oft-criticized IT systems. He most recently held the CIO role at Edwards Lifesciences, but he’s also held similar positions at MarketShare, Walmart, a...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, March 3, 2014 - 17:10
Afilias wins .green auction Afilias won the auction for the .green new gTLD, it emerged today. Rightside withdrew its application for the string in the last few days, according to the ICANN web site, leaving Afilias the only remaining applicant in the four-way contention set. Top Level Domain Holdings said last week that it had lost a private auction […]
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DomainIncite.com - Monday, March 3, 2014 - 13:25
SnapNames acquired by Web.com Web.com has acquired domain name dropcatcher SnapNames for an undisclosed sum, according to press releases from it and former owner KeyDrive, confirming reports from Friday. Web.com said the deal will be “immaterial” to its 2014 financial results. The Nasdaq-listed company already owns leading registrars Network Solutions...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, March 3, 2014 - 10:23
TMCH sends out 17,500 Trademark Claims notices in a month Wow. Just four weeks after the first new gTLDs went into general availability, the Trademark Clearinghouse has already sent out over 17,500 Trademark Claims notices to would-be registrants. A Claims notice is a warning that is generated whenever somebody attempts to register a domain name that exactly matches a trademark listed in th...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, March 3, 2014 - 9:47
Delays still dog many new gTLD applicants With dozens of new gTLDs currently live and on sale, it’s easy to forget that many applicants are still in ICANN limbo due to several still-unresolved issues with the evaluation process. The New gTLD Applicant Group wrote to ICANN on Friday to express many of these concerns. First, NTAG is upset that resolution of the […]...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, March 3, 2014 - 6:51
Disappointing .sexy launch shows the importance of the channel .sexy not so sexy after all? Uniregistry’s first new gTLDs to launch, .sexy and .tattoo, have showed a poor first-day performance after the company failed to secure Go Daddy as a registrar partner. During the 60-day sunrise period and the first 30 hours of general availability, .sexy sold just shy of 2,700 domains, judging by [...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 6:22
New gTLD registries given way to free up millions of blocked names Up to 9.8 million new gTLD domain names are to get a get-out-of-jail card, with the publication yesterday of ICANN’s plan to mitigate the risk of damaging name collisions. AS a loyal DI reader, the details of the plan will not come as a great surprise. It was developed by JAS Global Advisors and previewed […]
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DomainIncite.com - Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 4:54
Here’s why registrars are boycotting .sexy Will .sexy and .tattoo trip on the starting blocks today due to registrars’ fears about competition and Whois privacy? Uniregistry went into general availability at 1600 UTC today with the two new gTLDs — its first to market — but it did so without the support of some of the biggest registrars. Go Daddy — [...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 11:53
Mistake blamed for “Germans only” .voting policy It seems the new gTLD .voting will not be restricted to Germans after all. We reported earlier today that .voting registry Valuetainment had submitted a registration policy that required all registrants to have a presence in Germany. The language used in the policy was identical to that found in the equivalent policy for .ruhr, a [&#...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 8:10
Pirate Bay a victim as Go Daddy suspends hundreds of new gTLD domains New gTLDs may have only been in general availability for a few weeks, but there’s already evidence of substantial abuse. Go Daddy has suspended at least 305 new gTLD domain names, putting them on its spam-and-abuse.com name servers, standard Go Daddy practice for domains suspected of abuse. Over 250 of these were put on the [&#...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 6:0
.wedding and .green gTLD auctions raise millions Two more new gTLDs — .wedding and .green — have been auctioned off, with proceeds amounting to millions of dollars. Top Level Domain Holdings said in a press release that it won .wedding and lost .green, which cost it a net $2.23 million. That’s the amount it paid for .wedding, minus its share of the […]
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DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 4:11
