Three years and 3 months after entering general availability, Radix’s .online has become their first new gTLD to hit the one million registrations mark, and the fifth overall. Today there are 1.012 million .online registrations according to nTLDStats, 604,00 of which are parked, the highest proportion of the top 5 new gTLDs by registration numbers. […]

Globally domain name registrations have grown 2.0% in the 12 months to the end of June, the latest CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q2/2018 reports, but growth rates vary markedly among top level domains. For example, in the 12 months .com grew 5.2% while their Verisign stablemate .net declined 6.0%. The CENTR report covers the global […]

Despite a campaign from some in the domain name industry led by the Internet Commerce Association, the NTIA and Verisign announced Thursday they had agreed to extend and modify the Cooperative Agreement with steep registry fees to be expected. “These modifications”, the NTIA says, “are in line with policy priorities of the Trump Administration.” “The […]

Anyone thinking of going to NamesCon 2019 in January at the New Tropicana Las Vegas and who hasn’t yet got a ticket might want to think about taking advantage of the autumn pricing available until the end of November, or even their Halloween Flash Sale next week from 29 October to 1 November. Autumn (or […]

Verisign have released their latest list of top trending keywords in English for .com and .net registrations for the month of September. “Florence” made it to both the .com and .net lists following Hurricane Florence that brought catastrophic flooding to the Carolinas in the eastern United States in September. With more than 300 million domain […]

ICANN will hold its 63rd Public Meeting (ICANN63) in the Barcelona International Convention Centre from 20 to 25 October. ICANN63 is hosted by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Business, through the Secretary of State for Digital Advancement, and Red.es, a public corporate entity responsible for managing the Internet Domain Name Registry for the country […]

Nominet, best known for managing .uk, is donating £1 for every new .uk domain name registered to BBC Children in Need until Monday 19th November. With a minimum commitment of £200k from new domain registrations, funds raised will go towards projects that use digital or new technology to support disadvantaged children and young people across […]

GoDaddy’s founder Bob Parsons has announced he will resign from the company’s board of directors on Friday 5 October to devote his full-time efforts to the array of businesses he created under the Yam WorldWide Umbrella, 7 years after he sold the company and ceased being the company CEO. A serial entrepreneur, Parsons founded GoDaddy […]

ICANN today [27 Sep] announced that it will hold a webinar on 8 October 2018 from 15:00 to 16:00 UTC to provide an update on recent ICANN data protection and privacy activities related to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To facilitate global participation, interpretation services will be available in Arabic, Chinese, French, […]