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Buy a $10k .club, Get a Free T-shirt
December 13, 2016 @ 3:13 AM.CLUB Domains will today release 9,200 previously reserved .club names into the channel at premium prices. The registry is also offering free T-shirts to the first 500 people to purchase a premium name for $59.99 and more, personalized with said name. While the names will become available at 1500 UTC today, the full list is…
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.telnic Changes Will Nuke Existing .tel Sites
December 12, 2016 @ 12:48 PMOwners of .tel domains will need to recreate their “sites” when new service is launched. As I reported back in October, .Tel registry Telnic is removing restrictions on how the domains are used and hosted. Currently, .Tel domain names must point to a “website” created on Telnic’s platform (it’s actually data in the DNS). This…
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.sucks Domain to Drop Its Price 99% in January
December 12, 2016 @ 12:22 PMBrand owners, beware. The .sucks top level domain name has been slow to take off, rendering its alleged “extortion” strategy wounded. But this might change next month. .Sucks registry Vox Populi will begin a rebate program in January that will temporarily drop the wholesale price of .sucks domains to $1.99 ($19.99 for premiums). That’s a…
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Amazon Updates Its New Top Level Domain Website to Prepare for Launch
December 12, 2016 @ 11:52 AMAmazon shows progress on new TLD rollout. Amazon.com has updated its AmazonRegistry.com web site to promote its upcoming top level domain name launches. The page currently focuses on the French-language .moi domain name. It is due to hit general availability on February 28, 2017. You can search for a .moi domain name in the search…
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ICANN Picks Madrid for Next gTLD Industry Meeting
December 9, 2016 @ 3:24 AMICANN’s Global Domains Division has invited the domain industry to Madrid for next year’s GDD Industry Summit. The meeting will be held at the drably named NH Collection Madrid Eurobuilding hotel from May 8 to 11 2017. The timing may be fortuitous for intercontinental travelers — it ends just a couple of days before the…
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Donuts to Hold Off On Chinese IDNS Until It Gets MIIT Approval
December 8, 2016 @ 6:21 AMFinal dates not set for for Chinese internationalized domain names. Top level domain name company Donuts is currently running sunrise for four Chinese IDN domain names, but it has yet to set general availability dates for the four domains. Some registrars had planned to offer the domains in general availability by the end of this…
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.org Non-profit is Looking for New Members of Board of Directors
December 7, 2016 @ 2:36 PMWant to be on the board of a non-profit domain name registry? Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit that runs the .org top level domain name and a few related new TLDs, is looking for new members for its Board of Directors. Nominations, including self-nominations, are due by December 11. This role is not to…
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.org Non-profit is Looking for New Members of Board of Directors
December 7, 2016 @ 2:36 PMWant to be on the board of a non-profit domain name registry? Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit that runs the .org top level domain name and a few related new TLDs, is looking for new members for its Board of Directors. Nominations, including self-nominations, are due by December 11. This role is not to…
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Who Goes to ICANN Meetings? Here's an Answer
December 7, 2016 @ 6:27 AMMeeting in India set a record thanks to over 2,000 first-time attendees from Asia. Last month’s ICANN meeting in Hyderabad, India, set an all-time record for attendance at an ICANN meeting. There were 3,182 people, breaking the previous record of 3,155 for ICANN50 in London. That London meeting in Summer 2014 was big because new…
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ICANN 57 Brings in ThoUSAnds of Noobs
December 7, 2016 @ 5:18 AMICANN 57 set new records in terms of attendance, with a large majority of participants total newbies who’d never been to an ICANN meeting before. The meeting, held in Hyderabad, India last month, had 3,182 attendees, and first-timers outnumbered veterans over two-to-one. The previous record was 3,115 total participants, set at ICANN 50 in London…
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