On 17 September 2014, an Auction conducted by ICANN‘s authorized Auction service provider, Power Auctions LLC, was held to resolve string contention sets for three new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) strings; BUY, TECH, and VIP. String contention occurs when more than one applicant has applied for the same or a confusingly similar gTLD. The [...] Continue reading →

The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) today announced that it has finalized and published the group’s Guidelines for Decision Making [PDF, 125 KB]. The objective of the document is to assist the ICG in optimizing productivity and effectiveness in the process of making decisions. To view all ICG documents, calls for [...] Continue reading →

Domainers that skip the auction threads of the popular domain forums do so at their own risk. The beauty of the one dollar domain is that once the normal tricks of developing a website and enhancing content for SEO optimization are ingrained, value builds with the additional of each domain. Because for the experienced domainer [...] Continue reading →

Apple Inc. doesn’t show a lot of “love” towards domain names as they often launch products without the matching domain name. iPad.com is a clear example of this. It’s a domain they very likely could have purchased prior to launching the iPad but did not and have not purchased it since either! In general, Apple [...] Continue reading →

Befitting its status as the new gTLD representing the Entertainment Capital of the World, .VEGAS had a very splashy General Availability debut Monday in Las Vegas. The new extension is also benefiting from its partnership with the City of Las Vegas who gets 10% from each .VEGAS registration. [...] Continue reading →

We never heard of Adhesive before, but apparently they collect and analyze data related to the “stickiness” of online shoppers. The company operated from Adhesive.co, and somewhere along the road they decided the name was too “soft.” Maybe they were told that the .com company, that produces real adhesive glue, was supposedly stealing their thunder. [...] Continue reading →

According to a press release we just received from Radix, the new gTLD .WEBSITE, that went into General Availability today has already surpassed 6,500 domains in the first 4 hours “We have been confident about .website right from the start and these numbers just reinforce the potential the TLD holds.” said Sandeep Ramchandani, Radix business [...] Continue reading →