Another official round of releasing reserved .ME domain names (188 in total) has just fade out at Sedo. The auctions ran for a week. As of an hour before the deadline there were about $65k of bids (half of that of the previous auction). Throughout the game, air.me was the front runner though it was [...] Continue reading →

Despite ICANN’s “reveal day” where the list of new TLD applications received will be published being scheduled only for June 13th, many of the applicants feel it’s appropiate to reveal their applications today – a day after the TLD Application Window closed. The DirectI group of companies applied for a total of 31 generic and [...] Continue reading →

Thank to DomainIncite for spotting this announcement, Google just announced it applies for 2 more Top-Level Domains: .DOCS .LOL Reasons are explained on this post.Did you check Registries.tel... Visit the LinkedIn group: "new generic Top-Level Domains" and its +750 members today. [...] Continue reading →

Search engine optimization — SEO, may seem like alchemy to the uninitiated. But there is a science to it. Search engines reward pages with the right combination of ranking factors, or “signals.” SEO is about ensuring your content generates the right type of signals. The Seo table below, by SearchEngineLand, summarizes the major factors to [...] Continue reading →

Google is the first company to announce that it has applied for the new top-level domain .lol. It’s one of several new gTLDs Google has applied for — including .google, .youtube and .docs — according to a blog post from chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf: we decided to submit applications for new TLDs, which generally [...] Continue reading →

It's official. After more than six grueling years of work for ICANN and the wider community, the new Top-Level Domain (TLD) application process finally closed a few hours ago. ICANN's Chief Operating Officer later advised the community in a release that just over 1900 applications had been submitted in the TAS [...] Continue reading →

The CEO of Momentous’ .sucks new gTLD applicant reckons smart brands will embrace the cheeky concept. I chatted to John Berard, CEO of Momentous subsidiary Vox Populi Registry, this afternoon for a piece in The Register, and he reckons .sucks isn’t the money-grubbing scam many people will say it is. “If some people think this [...] Continue reading →