InterNetX: How European online shops pick their TLDs

Posted by DomainGang on January 20, 2023, at 9:35 am

Despite a more or less unified economy, Europe‘s diversity still maintains a multi-faced market that plays an important role in the digital scene. The relationship between e-commerce and domains is strongly intertwined. InterNetX set out to explore the domain names of European online shops by looking at the use of TLDs in this region. InterNetX […]

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InterNetX: Some fresh new gTLDs in 2022

Posted by DomainGang on December 13, 2022, at 9:36 am

A decade after the first new gTLD round, we’re still getting a batch of new extensions; InterNetX has shared a fresh report for new gTLDs (and a ccTLD) that reached General Availability (GA) this year: .day – 1 February 2022 This extension is perfect for creating domain hacks and names to celebrate your special days. […]

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Domain data: TLD adoption among Affiliate World exhibitors

Posted by DomainGang on December 1, 2022, at 11:30 am

Real world adoption of TLDs can be gauged at industry events, when peers promote brands, products and services. Affiliate World held a two day event in Bangkok, inviting professionals from all over the world to connect and trade. Sedo attended the Affiliate World / Asia conference, one of more than 200 exhibitors participating. The event […]

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Malicious domains: .xyz, .icu, .ru, follow .com as worst actors overall

Posted by DomainGang on November 18, 2021, at 9:20 am

Researchers at Palo Alto Networks took a deep dive into the TLDs commonly used by threat actors and why they are being chosen. The categories picked for analysis are malware, phishing, command and control (C2), and grayware: adware, “joke malware,” spyware. Palo Alto Networks analyzed domains categorized by their Advanced URL Filtering service, and that […]

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Who won the bidding of the recent UNR TLD auction?

Posted by DomainGang on May 7, 2021, at 12:48 pm

Frank Schilling’s Uni Naming & Registry (UNR) held the biggest no reserve auction of TLDs in a while, with 23 gTLDs on the chopping block at once. The registration and qualification process lasted several weeks and the final auction took place from April 28th-30th. According to UNR, more than 250 businesses and individuals signed up […]

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Frank Schilling’s second big moment

Posted by DomainGang on April 24, 2021, at 4:19 pm

Frank Schilling’s big moment arrived when GoDaddy acquired parts of Uniregistry assets, along with his well-established domain portfolio of several thousand domain names. A year has passed since that sale became public, and Frank Schilling’s second big moment has arrived. The ongoing auction of Uni Naming & Registry, the managing company of 23 gTLDs, has […]

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Transfer these #domain names away from Uniregistry asap

Posted by DomainGang on April 14, 2021, at 9:52 am

If you have certain TLDs, ccTLDs and gTLDs at Uniregistry, begin the process of transferring your domain names out. By the end of June 2021, Uniregistry is phasing out support for a number of top level domains, citing lack of registration volume. This is the list of TLDs Uniregistry will no longer be supporting: .cam […]

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.QPON? New TLD about to (re)launch

Posted by DomainGang on April 9, 2021, at 10:08 am

When you roll out a new TLD based on a word, it makes sense to at least keep the spelling right. Dot .QPON got creative, taking the word “coupon” to another level. It makes sense, as Amazon runs the dot .Coupon Registry. The competition from other TLDs does not end there, dot .Coupons is another […]

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UNR extends deadline for auction of 23 TLDs

Posted by DomainGang on April 8, 2021, at 6:27 pm

Frank Schilling’s Uni Naming & Registry (UNR) has pushed back the date of the auction by a week, giving the opportunity to potential suitors to sign up. Note: UNR is a premium sponsor of DomainGang. The new date is now April 28th and the public auction involves 23 TLDs: .audio, .blackfriday, .christmas, .click, .country, .diet, […]

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Downtime at #eNom reveals a handy TLD, gTLD and ccTLD chart

Posted by DomainGang on April 7, 2020, at 3:24 pm

Domain registrar eNom is having a scheduled downtime for some of its functions currently. In particular, the following activities are offline at the time of this post: Availability Checks Whois Services Domain Purchases Domain Renewals Domain Updates That’s pretty much anything you need to do with managing your domains at eNom! 🙂 But wait, there’s […]

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Digital #brands in 2018 : City #TLD performance report from #DOTZON Consulting

Posted by DomainGang on August 1, 2018, at 9:50 am

Digital brands have increased their footprint with the introduction of new gTLDs. German consulting group DOTZON, operates from the domain name Dotzon.Consulting which is a perfect fit for their brand. The company has composed a report on digital city brands, geographical identifiers at the TLD level: “[…] the Digital City Brand is much more than […]

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TLDs.com : Generic #domain about #TLDs ends at five figures!

Posted by DomainGang on April 23, 2018, at 3:59 pm

As we predicted, the domain name TLDs.com ended at five figures at DropCatch. After a long auction, the domain ended up at $11,161 dollars. WOW! There is no way that an “end user” bid on this domain-specific domain name; some domain investor really wanted this domain about TLDs! 😀 Spending “five figs” as one would […]

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