Donuts Wins .School Beating Minds + Machines, Fegistry & Uniregistry - Donuts has won the new gTLD string .School beating out Minds + Machines, Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry and Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. The new gTLD .School was scheduled to go to ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. .School is an interesting one because there is a lot of vertical competition in the new gTLD space. Donuts already launched .education which has over 13,000 domain name registrations and .university which has over 2,200 domain name registrations. The  same company that operates ... read more ...

Donuts Beats Famous Four Media To The New gTLD .Football - Donuts which lost the new gTLD  .Basketball yesterday, won the rights to .Football today. The only other applicant for .Football was Famous Four Media, which was also a losing applicant for .Basketball. .Football was scheduled to go to ICANN’s Last Resort Auction later this month According to its application Donuts: “.Football is a generic term and its second level names will be attractive to a variety of Internet users. .FOOTBALL will be attractive to the millions of enthusiasts worldwide who ... read more ...

Donuts Wins .Golf Beating Famous Four ,TLD Assets, & Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry - Donuts has won the new gTLD extension .Golf beating out Famous Four Media, TLD Assets which owns the new gTLD .Irish and  Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry. We reported eailer today that Donuts won the new gTLD .Football as well. The ICANN last resort auction for .Golf was scheduled to take place later this month. No details about how the string was settled or how much was paid is available. According to Donuts application “.GOLF will be very attractive to the many tens of thousands of golfers (professional ... read more ...

Symantec Wins .SECURITY Over Donuts and Defender Security - Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ;SYMC) has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Security beating Donuts and Defender Security. You might recall that Defender Security, filed Legal Rights Objections to all other applicants in .Home which was subsequently knocked out by domain collision. .Security was one of 11 new gTLD’s that are scheduled to be auctioned off in the ICANN Last Resort Auction in December. There will also be a new gTLD .Secure. According to its application here is what Symantec Corporation ... read more ...

Uniregistry: .Click new gTLD Generated Over 10000 Registrations In First 24 Hours - In a comment left by Frank Schilling on TheDomains.com, on our post about yesterday Uniregistry’s new gTLD first day totals, more than 10,000 domain names were registered in the first 24 hours. The stats we published earlier today were based on the last zone file update which usually cuts off at midnight,  which showed the first day total of general availability for .Click was some 3,800 domain names At 10,000 registrations .Click would become the 63rd most registered new gTLD domain name extension ... read more ...

Released From Collision Today: 120K .Host; 10k .Website & 5K .Press New … - Radix the registry for the new gTLD .Host, .Website and .Press is releasing 135,000 new gTLD domain names from that were on the ICANN collision  list today at 1400 UTC 20k .Host new gTLD domain names; 10k .Website domain names and 5k .Press domains will be released. All of these domains were held by by the registry Name Collision list will be released today at for registration Here is the entire list of domain names: Name Collision List for website, press and host If you haven’t read through one ... read more ...

Everyone Can Participate in ICANN Decisions ? Come On… - I participated in the French RINDD last week in Paris: RINDD stands for "Rencontres Internationales des Noms de Domaine". The translation would be "The International Domain Name Conference". This event is organized once a year by SafeBrands, a French Registrar. Many participants were there: the ICANN, Law Firms, Donuts, other new gTLD applicants, back-end Registries and many experts. Round Tables and debates There were round tables on several subjects and it was particularly appreciated ... read more ...

Utility to Small Business of New Top Level Domain Names Questioned - This spring,  ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the  non-profit private organization charged with coordinating internet addresses, released 600 new generic top level domain (gTLD) names, including .technology and  .nyc.  Until this year, organizations were restricted to a couple of dozen top level domains, such as .com, .org, .net, or country code domains such as .CO.UK. In 2011, ICANN decided to permit the creation of completely new gTLDs.  From 2012 until ... read more ...

Domain Name .Africa Faces Hurdles – Q&A with Sophia Bekele - DotConnectAfrica (DCA) Trust and DCA Registry CEO Ms. Sophia Bekele recently participated in a QA with Mr. Gareth Van Zyl of Fin24.com, SouthAfrica, based on some pointed questions presented by the tech journalist to inquire into the current state of affairs regarding the .Africa new gTLD name and the attendant Independent Review Panel proceeding. In addition to explaining the current status of the IRP Process with ICANN, the CEO of DCA Registry also used the opportunity to expound on ... read more ...

1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Top 10298; .Quebec 4902: .ENGINEER 523 - We have numbers for the three new gTLD’s that launched this week. .Top which launched on the November 18th has according to ntldstats.com 10,298 domains registered. The registry for .Top is “Jiangsu Bangning Science Technology Co.,Ltd.” which is also the backend for the extension and is also a  domain name registrar Out of the 10,298 domain names registered, Jiangsu registered 2,521 of the domains. Another China based registrar, Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd. had the ... read more ...

Radix Launches .space – "Domains with Personality" - Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 20, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Radix, Asia’s largest portfolio nTLD applicant, launched its latest high potential domain extension, .space into Sunrise on 17th November 2014. The extension is positioned as a much needed platform for individuals, freelancers and professionals alike to present their own unique personality to the world via a short, memorable and meaningful online address..space gives a user a broad namespace to create a website that represents them ... read more ...

Aruba Becomes Official Registry For .Cloud gTLD - The much anticipated global top level domain .cloud has found itself an official registrar in Aruba. The Italian internet services provider made its name in web hosting and email hosting before it began selling cloud services. Since Aruba’s has begun focusing more cloud, the company has become an immensely popular resource European businesses wanting to streamline their operations. Arubacloud.com is Aruba’s flagship cloud offering and it seems as if the upstart European hosting provider ... read more ...

Aruba Wins Prestigious .cloud Top Level Domain - LONDON, November 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Italian company has been awarded this gTLD instead of six of the most well-known internet companies who also applied. Aruba will set up the Official Registry for .cloud, expanding its already strong European cloud footprint, globally. Aruba S.p.A. (http://www.aruba.it), a leader in web hosting, certified email and domain names services as well as a leading cloud provider in Europe (http://www.arubacloud.com) since 2011, has been awarded the .cloud ... read more ...

TLD Registry Wins Best Marketing Award at China New gTLD Roadshow - On Thursday November 13, in the closing minutes of the final day of Brandma's China New gTLD Roadshow, we were surprised and delighted to be awarded with the Best Marketing by a New gTLD trophy for 2014. In the presentation, in China's domain name capital of Xiamen, Brandma CEO and ICANN board member Ching Chiao praised the advances that TLD Registry has brought to the entire industry of fully-Chinese domain names. "No other registry has helped the awareness of the importance and value ... read more ...

New .WINE and .VIN Are Now Political Tools - The more I follow the .WINE .VIN opera, the more I start to believe that the idea is either to kill both new gTLD applications to free space in Round 2 of the ICANN new gTLD program or make this subject a political tool "only" to increase Europe's presence in ICANN decisions. Flying high above the sky If there still is a wish from the European Commission to help .WINE and .VIN to become the strongest identity European wines could ever have on Internet, I would like to understand why the ... read more ...

.Realtor: Is it The Best Example Of How Slow End User Adoption Of New gTLD … - The National Association of Realtors launched .Realtor about 3 weeks ago on October 23rd To date there have been less than 85,000 .Realtor domain names registered. The good news is that the extension has by far the lowest rate of parked domains with just over 1% of all .Realtor domain names being parked.  According to ntldstats.com out of the 84,615 .Realtor domain names registered only 1,066 or 1.26% are “Parked” Now here is the bad news for the gTLD’s. According to the National Association ... read more ...

Italian company Aruba beats Amazon, Google to .cloud domain - Italian web hosting and cloud services company Aruba S.p.A. has won the auction to sell domains ending in .cloud, beating off competition from Amazon, Google and Symantic, reports The Register. The auction is a result of the decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to create scores of new gTLD domain name extensions. Arezzo-based Aruba has been active in the Italian market for over 20 years and has been a cloud provider since 2011. However, Amazon did win ... read more ...

Amazon wins right to sell .pay and .buy domains - © Finextra Research 2014 Contact usEditorial Sales and Membership Follow usLinkedIn Twitter <!--Facebook--> RSS Feeds Daily ... read more ...

1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Melbourne 2518: .Restaurant 2389; .Gifts 1010; .Sarl … - 4 new gTLD entered General Availability (GA) yesterday (.Melbourne was on Tuesday local time) and including all Sunrise domain name registrations by trademark holdersm and all registrations under the landrush in the case of .Melbourne and the Early Access Program for those willing to pay an additional amount to get early access to a domain name here are the totals after the 1st day of GA: .Melbourne 2,518 .Restaurant 2,389 .Gifts 1,010 .Sarl 176 We should note that Uniregistry launched ;Gift a while ... read more ...

Tucows Reports & Plans Repurchase $8 Million in Shares - Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) reported earnings for the third quarter of 2014 after the market closed. Net revenue for the third quarter of 2014 increased 9% to $38.9 million from $35.6 million for the third quarter of 2013. Net income for the third quarter of 2014 was $2.7 million, or $0.24 per share, compared with $2.6 million, or $0.24 per share, for the third quarter of 2013. Net income for both the third quarters of 2013 and 2014 included the contribution of confidential arrangements related ... read more ...