- + Nominet brings back second-level .uk proposal—Nominet has resurrected Direct.uk, its plan to allow people to register domain names directly under .uk. But the proposal, which was killed off in Feb...
- + Nominet brings back second-level .uk domains proposal—Nominet has resurrected Direct.uk, its plan to allow people to register domain names directly under .uk. But the proposal, which was killed off in Feb...
- + Demand Media commits Designs.com to new gTLDs—Demand Media has announced a new web publishing service that it says is designed specifically for new gTLD registrants, at the category-killing domain...
- + Google beaten in new gTLD contention set—When it comes to new gTLDs, Google is not invulnerable. Japanese web portal NTT Resonant, a subsidiary of the country’s incumbent national telco...
- + Verisign steps up anti-gTLD campaign with attack on ICANN’s war chest—Verisign wants ICANN to publish a list of all the reasons it might be sued over the new gTLD program, claiming security and stability risks might be o...
- + Are some new gTLD evaluations getting screwed up?—At least two new gTLD applicants reckon ICANN has screwed up their Initial Evaluation, flunking their applications due to missing or mishandled commun...
- + Innovative Auctions hires storied new employee—Innovative Auctions, which is running private new gTLD auctions, has hired a poker-playing former Google engineer and grandson of Nobel-winning econom...
- + Four failures and 92 passes in latest new gTLD results—ICANN has just released 96 new Initial Evaluation results, a batch which doubles the number of failures the first phase of the new gTLD program has pr...
- + Get live new gTLD program stats—Today DI PRO is launching a new live dashboard for new gTLD program statistics. The idea is to give users quick and easy access to key program metrics...
- + Donuts loses five of the first six new gTLD auctions—The full results of the first six new gTLD auctions are now known. Donuts lost five of them, raising millions of dollars in the process. Here are the ...
- + ICANN hires former ARI exec to head gTLD relations—Krista Papac, formerly chief strategy officer with AusRegistry and ARI Registry Services, has joined ICANN as gTLD registry services director. It appe...
- + Hong Kong telco drops dot-brand gTLD bid—Hong Kong Telecom has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .香港電訊, the Chinese-script version of its brand. The proposed single-registrant gTLD w...
- + Microsoft objects to Google’s dotless domains plan—Microsoft has strongly urged ICANN to reject Google’s plan for a “dotless” .search gTLD. In a letter sent a couple of weeks ago and ...
- + Directi launches pre-reg site for .host gTLD—Directi is to offer preregistration for its uncontested gTLD applications, and it’s starting with .host. The company will accept expressions of ...
- + Uniregistry is too .sexy for new gTLD objection—.SX Registry has asked for its formal objection to Uniregistry’s .sexy gTLD application to be withdrawn, we understand. It’s believed to b...
- + China pushes .pw to over 250,000 names—Directi’s .PW Registry has taken over 250,000 domain registrations in the two and a half months since it launched, largely thanks to growth in C...
- + Late new gTLD objections “not unfair”—ICANN Ombudsman Chris LaHatte has ruled that the decision to accept formal new gTLD objections sent one minute after the filing deadline “does n...
- + Engineering Russia’s Cyrillic revolution [Guest Post]—Russian domain entrepreneur Sergey Sharikov has ambitions to spread the use of his language’s alphabet on the Internet far beyond its current st...
- + Watch .club win its new gTLD for $[censored]—As we reported earlier in the week, .CLUB Domains was one of the first companies to win its new gTLD auction and now the company has published a short...
- + Watch .club wins its new gTLD for $[censored]—As we reported earlier in the week, .CLUB Domains was one of the first companies to win its new gTLD auction and now the company has published a short...
- + Big week for new gTLDs as 114 apps pass—ICANN has just released this week’s Initial Evaluation results and it’s the biggest dump to date, with 114 applications getting through to...
- + Atallah shunted sideways in ICANN exec rejig—ICANN has a new COO, after incumbent Akram Atallah was moved into a new role as head of a new Generic Domains Division. The organization has hired Sus...
- + Six private new gTLD auctions raise $9m—We now know (roughly) how much a new gTLD is worth. The new gTLD contention sets for .club, .college, .luxury, .photography, .red, and .vote have been...
- + Private auction settles .club fight—.CLUB Domains has won the right to launch the .club gTLD at a private auction against two other applicants, according to an announcement from the comp...
- + L’Oreal’s dot-brand bites the dust—Beauty products maker L’Oreal has withdrawn its new gTLD application for .loreal. I did not see this one coming. L’Oreal is among the most...
- + L’oreal’s dot-brand bites the dust—Beauty products maker L’oreal has withdrawn its new gTLD application for .loreal. I did not see this one coming. L’Oreal is among the most...
- + Plural gTLDs could be a casualty as ICANN accepts big chunk of GAC advice—ICANN has accepted nine pieces of Governmental Advisory Committee advice pertaining to new gTLDs, essentially killing off two applications and putting...
- + The official (unrealistic) go-live date for new gTLDs is September 28—September 28 could be (won’t be) the launch date of the first new gTLD sunrise period, according to a (unrealistic) timetable released by ICANN ...
- + GNSO wins minor victory in Trademark+50 dispute—The ICANN board has rescheduled an important decision for trademark owners, apparently at the behest of members of the Generic Names Supporting Organi...
- + Donuts withdraws its .vote bid, raising questions about new gTLD auctions—One down, only 306 to go! Donuts has withdrawn its application for the .vote new gTLD, leaving an Afilias joint venture as the sole remaining applican...
- + Donuts withdrawns its .vote bid, raising questions about new gTLD auctions—One down, only 306 to go! Donuts has withdrawn its application for the .vote new gTLD, leaving an Afilias joint venture as the sole remaining applican...
- + Today’s new gTLD withdrawals: .play and .design—Two new gTLD applications have been withdrawn today: Directi’s .play and Starting Dot’s .design. They’re the second application to b...
- + Todays new gTLD withdrawals: .play and .design—Two new gTLD applications have been withdrawn today: Directi’s .play and Starting Dot’s .design. They’re the second application to b...
- + Huge registrar shake-up coming to .biz and .info—Afilias and Neustar will be soon able to sell .biz and .info domains direct, and will have to shut down registrars that refuse to sign up to the new 2...
- + Uncontested .catalonia drops out of gTLD race—The regional Government of Catalonia has withdrawn its application for .catalonia. This is a bit of a weird one. The application was designated offic...
- + TLDH bags $10m in share sale—Top Level Domain Holdings has raised roughly $10 million by selling shares to institutional investors and directors. The company, listed on the Altern...
- + Directi’s t.co? Single-letter .pw sold to Upworthy—Directi has sold u.pw to social media linking service Upworthy for what is likely to be a five-figure sum. Upworthy will use the domain for its custom...
- + ICANN hires new VP from Yahoo!—ICANN has poached a Yahoo! executive to head up its outreach efforts in Asia. Singapore-based Kuek Yu-Chuang, who held a similar role at Yahoo, has be...
- + .eu registry contract up for grabs—The European Commission has opened up the .eu registry contract to competitive bidding. The sort-of ccTLD has been managed by EurID since it launched ...
- + Four registrars terminated—Four small domain name registrars have lost their ICANN accreditation and their domain names have been transferred to another. ICANN announced on Frid...
- + ICM price cut sees 10 times more .xxx sales—ICM Registry saw 13,348 newly added .xxx domain name registrations in May, a period during which it and its registrars were offering the names at .com...
- + Verisign says people might die if new gTLDs are delegated—If there was any doubt in your mind that Verisign is trying to delay the launch of new gTLDs, its latest letter to ICANN and the Governmental Advisory...
- + ICANN reveals 81 passes and one failure in latest new gTLD results batch—The weekly batch of new gTLD Initial Evaluation results have just been published, revealing 81 passes and one failure — the first failure that i...
- + ICANN won’t say how Demand Media passed its new gTLD background check—After badgering ICANN for a few weeks, I’ve finally got a firm “no comment” on the question of how new gTLD applicant Demand Media m...
- + Private gTLD auctions really will be private—The first new gTLD auctions to be held by Innovative Auctions is set to take place on Monday, but we won’t know which applicants took part until...
- + Chinese geo gTLD bidder drops out of two-way fight—The Chinese government-controlled news agency Xinhua has dropped out of the race for the new gTLD .广东 — the local name of Guangdong, China’...
- + Tiny Tokelau now has the biggest ccTLD in the world—The .tk domain is now the biggest ccTLD in the world, according to the latest stats from Centr. In its just-published biannual Domainwire Stat Report,...
- + Go Daddy IPO “not off the table”—Go Daddy may be on the IPO track with its new investors and management. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal about the possibility of going public, CEO...
- + .club could be a seven-figure new gTLD auction—It looks like the .club gTLD is heading to auction. Donuts confirmed tonight that its two rival applicants for the string have agreed to an auction ru...
- + Domains seized as part of Liberty Reserve money laundering sting—The US government seized five domain names and is going after dozens more as part of its crackdown on Liberty Reserve, a digital currency provider app...
- + The True Historie of Trademark+50 and the Deathe of the GNSO (Parte the Thirde)—ICANN’s decision to press ahead with the “Trademark+50″ trademark protection mechanism over the objections of much of the community ...
- + A little iCal tool that might make your ICANN life a little easier—I’ve created a little free service that might make it a little easier for regular participants in ICANN public comment periods to keep track of ...
- + Two more new gTLD bids bite the dust—ICANN appears to have formally killed off two new gTLD applications that had asked for subsidized application fees. The bids for .idn and .ummah both ...
- + Now we’re getting serious: 92 new gTLD bids pass—ICANN has stepped up the pace of its Initial Evaluation results schedule, this evening publishing the results of 92 new gTLD applications. Application...
- + Bill Sweetman goes “ninja” with new consulting firm—Bill Sweetman, who recently resigned as head of Tucows’ domain portfolio business, has reemerged with his own “boutique” consulting ...
- + Porn.com owner buys porn.xxx—PimpRoll, a pornography publisher and owner of porn.com, has bought the domain name porn.xxx from registry manager ICM Registry, it has just been anno...
- + Is the .home new gTLD doomed? ICANN poses study of security risks—ICANN has set up a study into whether certain applied-for new gTLD strings pose a security risk to the internet, admitting that some gTLDs may be reje...
- + Blow to domainers as Arab center approved to settle cybersquatting disputes—ICANN has approved a new UDRP resolution provider, the first to be based in the Arab region, despite the objections of domainers. The Arab Center for ...
- + No Las Vegas, alas. ICANN picks LA for 2014 meeting—ICANN has picked Los Angeles for the third of its three 2014 public meetings. The decision was approved by its board of directors at its retreat in Am...
- + Directi gets into the subdomain game—Directi, fresh from relaunching .pw, will shortly start selling third-level domain names under .in.net, mimicking the pseudo-TLD business model most o...
- + Did GMO flunk evaluation on 27 gTLDs? CentralNic takes over the whole lot—Did would-be new gTLD registry services provider GMO Registry fail its ICANN technical evaluations? The Japanese company has made a deal that will see...
- + The 10 dumbest moments from that new TLDs Congressional hearing—The US House of Representatives last week held an oversight hearing into ICANN’s new top-level domains program. As I may have mentioned, the Ho...
- + Cute infographic shows contents of the root—This ICANN infographic is a nice way to easily visualize all of the currently live and approved top-level domains on the internet. (click to enlarge)...
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