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This Week: Your Dog Can Finally Register a .pet Domain Name

A new domain name for furry friends becomes available this week. There’s one new top level domain name entering general availability this week: .Pet from Afilias launches on Tuesday. The good news for pet lovers is that they won’t have to pay much to get Fido a domain name. Registrars I checked this morning are…
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Van Couvering Ousted From M+M, Replaced By PR Guy With Channel Focus

Antony Van Couvering has been fired as CEO of Minds + Machines and replaced by someone who was until very recently the company’s agency PR guy. Neither Van Couvering, the company, nor incoming CEO Toby Hall, have disclosed the reason for his ouster. But I suspect the “differences and disagreements” that Van Couvering alluded to…

Antony Van Couvering Out As CEO of Minds & Machines

I received a press release this morning announcing that Antony Van Couvering is no longer CEO of Minds & Machines, the company he founded. I did a quick Google search to confirm the report, and I saw that Antony published an article about this on CircleID: I Got Fired. Here’s an excerpt about the news from the press release: Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), the publicly quoted owner and operator of Internet top-level domains, announces that Antony Van Couvering is no longer the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr Van Couvering was removed from office with immediate effect by means ��’ Read More

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Radix Ready to Launch .store Extension

After competing with six other applicants including Google and Amazon, Radix prevailed and won the right to operate the .Store new gTLD domain extension. Sunrise for this extension will begin on April 6th. General availability, when anyone can hand register available .Store domain names, will begin on June 14. One advantage that Radix has is that it is launching before a competing .Shop extension. I think being first to market is key when it comes to competing extensions. I would imagine the first target audience for .Store domain names is companies who already use “Store” in their brand names. According ��’ Read More

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Sedo Showing Off New Domain Extensions at SXSW

Sedo is opening its “Sedo.com Domain Village” at this year’s South by Southwest conference in Austin. The exhibition area is intended to inform SXSW attendees about the new domain extensions and how they can be used. Sedo is partnering with Uniregistry, Radix, Rightside, .club, .me, .top, .asia, .rest and .bar for this year’s appearance. According to a Sedo press release touting the Sedo Domain Village, the company is expecting to see 20,000 visitors between March 12th and 17th. Last year, over 8,000 people visited Sedo’s frozen yogurt truck. I presume that last year’s exhibit was successful enough to warrant an ��’ Read More

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New gTLDs Add Over 1 Million Domain Registrations in Just Last 5 Days

According to ntldstats.com, the number of new gTLD’s domain registrations grew by 1.1 million domains, in just the last 5 days. In terms of percentage of increase, the 1.1 million increase in new gTLD domain names, is close to a 9% increase in just 5 days. On February 13th, there were a total of 12,675,000…
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Tesla Finally Acquires Tesla.com Domain Name

Tesla.com now forwards to TeslaMotors.com. Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) has finally acquired the Tesla.com domain name. It is now forwarding Tesla.com to TeslaMotors.com. The domain name was registered in 1992, well before the company was formed. The earliest whois record at DomainTools shows that the same person has owned the domain name since at least 2002,…
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DCA Fails .africa Evaluation

DotConnectAfrice application for the .africa gTLD has, as expected, failed its ICANN evaluation for want of government support. The official decision (pdf) was handed down overnight. According to the Extended Evaluation panel, DCA’s “required documentation of support or non-objection was either not provided or did not meet the criteria”. In other words, DCA did not…

In Less Than 2 Years, .xyz Passes 14 Year Old .biz to Become 5th Largest Domain Extension

The new gTLD domain name extension, .XYZ is which won’t be two years old until, June of this year, just surpassed the domain extension .Biz which has been around since 2001 in the number of domain registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com, .XYZ now has 2,369,039 domain name registered which passed .Biz which has 2,305,687 domains registered…
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New gTLD Report: Some TLDs Experience Up to a 40% Squating Rate

Mark Monitor published its latest gTLD (NgTLD) Quarterly Report, which delivers unique insight into the new gTLD Program. The report provides detailed information on .Brand registration and marketing activity, current trends and news relevant to businesses and brand owners. Report highlights…