There’s plenty of dysfunction at auDA, the .au policy and regulatory body, but one thing they’ve been pushing ahead with is second level .au registrations. At the auDA board meeting on 20 May, 3 years and one month after the Board originally approved second level registrations, the Board agreed to [...] Continue reading →

Getting your hands around the data is paramount when it comes to working with domain traffic monetisation. I’ve had a number of readers ask me to write further about how ParkLogic conducts a traffic test and whether it really is worth all the hassle. The first thing we ask for is [...] Continue reading →

Verisign released their first quarter DNIB report for 2019. Notable findings in the report include: ·         Q1 2019 closed with approximately 351.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a 0.9 percent increase compared to the fourth quarter of 2018 and a 5.4 percent increase year-over-year ·         .com and .net TLDs had a [...] Continue reading →

New gTLDs are called New gTLDs. Period. This is the only way the industry can understand what we are talking about. All other people just calls everything “domains” or a few people call them “new domains”. Nobody knows that gtlds are Generic Top-Level Domains. I am sure there are domainers that don’t know that. It [...] Continue reading →

Verisign has released their latest Domain Name Industry Brief covering 1Q-2019. There is good news for .coms and ccTLDs and a mixed bag for new gTLDs. [...] Continue reading →

In 2012, ICANN started the monumental process of releasing the new class of domain extensions. This represented the largest introduction of new extensions in over two decades. As such, over 1,900 applications were submitted to ICANN, with 751 of those applications being contested. Large corporations such as Google and Amazon submitted 101 and 76 applications [...] Continue reading →

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released its 2019 Broadband Deployment Report on Wednesday stating the digital divide is shrinking substantially, and more Americans than ever have access to high-speed broadband. According to the report, "the number of Americans with access to at least 250 Mbps/25 Mbps broadband grew in 2017 by [...] Continue reading →