They gained 3.2 million registrations in a few days, jumping from 2.893 million registrations on 30 May 2016 to 6.122 million on 3 June on the back of a discounted promotion, but is the .xyz new gTLD now paying the price as those domain names come up for renewal? Registrations for .xyz peaked at 6.705…
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.CLUB Turns 2, .PRESS Supports Press Freedom and .BLOG Joins i2Coalition
The .club new generic top level domain has celebrated its second birthday as domains under management continue to steadily rise, with registrations currently closing in on 935,000, making it the ninth largest of the new gTLDs. The registry operator in celebrating their birthday welcomes the celebrities, businesses, bloggers, clubs, athletes, artists, bands and nearly 200,000…
Slow Week For Big Reported Domain Sales, But A Huge Unreported Sale
For only the third time in 10 weeks, the top reported sale on the Domain Name Journal chart for the week ending 23 April failed to reach the six-figure mark. And in the most recent chart the sale was a relatively small one compared to some of the sales that usually top the chart with…
AYDACFU ? Guess the meaning and win $500
When you go to Gen.xyz the homepage shows a little graphic with an off button with the acronym AYDACFU. When the button is on the homepage has the following text: For every website, everywhere® When you click this link you are taken to a page that has a countdown clock, .XYZ will have it’s reveal…
URS is MIA in .Net Renewal RA by Philip Corwin, Internet Commerce Association
The Proposed Renewal of the .Net Registry Agreement (RA) was published for public comment by ICANN on April 20th. The biggest surprise about the proposed contract is how little it differs from the current one between ICANN and Verisign. Conspicuously absent from the agreement is the new gTLD rights protection mechanism (RPM) of Uniform Rapid…