UniForum, which runs South Africa’s .za country code, reportedly is applying to ICANN for three local city top-level domains. Das Unternehmen, which also goes by the name of ZA Central Registry, is going for .capetown, .durban and .joburg (for Johannesburg), according to a report in MyBroadband.co.za. That’s in addition to its controversial African Union-backed .africa [...] Lesen Sie weiter →

Top Level Domain Holdings has been backed by the city of Budapest as the official applicant for the .budapest generic top-level domain. If the application is approved, TLDH subsidiary Minds + Machines will run the back-end registry and the city will receive a share of the revenue. TLDH has previously announced deals with local [...] Lesen Sie weiter →

DomainDiction, a new marketing company set up to help new generic top-level domain registries, officially launches today. The largely European company, headed by France-based CEO Jennie-Marie Larsen, says it is “the first marketing consultancy dedicated solely to Top Level Domains”. Larsen started off her career in the domain name industry at NeuStar, and was most [...] Lesen Sie weiter →

Sint Maarten’s new .sx country-code top-level domain has been online for at least a couple months now, but Google’s Chrome browser appears to be still a bit wary of it. Typing “registry.sx” und “nic.sx” into Chrome’s combined URL/search bar today, instead of being sent to my chosen destination I was instead sent to a page [...] Lesen Sie weiter →

Companies applying to ICANN for “dot-brand” top-level domains are among those signing up for Pool.com’s new digital archery service, according to Rob Hall, CEO of parent Momentous. The company launched its Digital Archery Engine last month, not too long after ICANN confirmed its controversial method of batching new gTLD applications for processing. Jetzt, Pool is [...] Lesen Sie weiter →

Mesh Digital, owner of the Domainmonster and Domainbox registrars, has been acquired by rival/partner Hosting Europe Group for an undisclosed sum. Operating mainly in the UK and Germany, the buyer says it is the largest privately owned hosting company in Europe, already the owner of large registrars including 123-reg/Webfusion, a Mesh reseller. “They’ve been a [...] Lesen Sie weiter →

Irish small businesses overwhelmingly chose .com domains over .ie and .eu during the first year of a Blacknight Solutions web presence freebie initiative. Blacknight said today signed up 10,000 Irish small business customers through Getting Business Online, a partnership with Google and the local postal service, which it launched a year ago. The scheme, die [...] Lesen Sie weiter →