Tag Archives: .vote

Thu 16th July 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
TLD Profile: .Vote - .Vote gains traction with states and presidential hopefuls. This is the first in a series of articles in collaboration with ICANNWiki, the wiki for the domain name industry. Each article, written by Editor and Community Manager Dustin Phillips, will provide an in-depth profile of a top level domain name. The new .vote gTLD is a joint venture between Afilias and two investors based in Utah, creating Monolith Registry. Its mission is to create a segment of the internet that provides reliable political ... read more ...
Mon 11th May 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Despite domestic domain name news, domestic new TLDs not holding off - Political new top level domain names are not getting much attention. With all of the news recently about presidential candidates not registering relevant domain names, you’d think political new top level domain names would see a boost. Yet, they continue to struggle. Consider Rightside’s .democrat and .republican. The former has about 1,300 registrations and the latter just 800. .Vote also has fewer than 1,000 names in the zone file (and .voto is about 250) despite the registry striking deals ... read more ...