ICANN .WTF ? New web site on WHOIS privacy reform issues
ICANN is about to taste some of its own medicine, after opponents of a pending WHOIS privacy reform launched a protest web site. Operating from ICANN.WTF, the web site contains a letter addressing ICANN on the issue of privacy, mirroring the public letter drafted by civil rights groups. Naturally, the WHOIS info of ICANN.WTF is […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Minds And Machines marketing : Video spot airs at Discovery Channel television
Minds & Machines are busy marketing their range of new gTLDs, in an ever expanding Internet namespace. The British corporation invested millions in 34 new gTLD applications and also has millions in cash from such gTLD auctions, clearly, a profitable model. A new promotional spot by Minds & Machines aired yesterday on NewsWatchTV – the […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Stuart Lawley : Celebrating 12 years at the helm of the ICM Registry
The new gTLD program appears to be a common reality these days, but in the months before the final approval of hundreds of gTLD strings, dot .XXX led the pack. Stuart Lawley, Chairman and President of the ICM Registry LLC, celebrates 12 years as a domain industry innovator with the company. A little bit of […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ICANN to Bangladesh about .Bangla : If you don’t use it, you lose it
ICANN’s rules on new gTLD applications are clear: if you don’t use it, you lose it. With that basic rule in mind, Bangladesh – the country – has lost the rights of using dot .Bangla, because they failed to launch it within three years of getting approval in 2012. Bangladesh uses .BD for its national […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .BANK enters general availability with 3,000 applications
According to a release by the Registry managing dot .BANK domains, during the first 10 minutes of General Availability more than 3,000 applications were received. That’s in addition to the 782 applications for .BANK domains that were reserved during the Sunrise Period, for banks whose names have previously been registered in an international trademark directory. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Wrongside : Cleveland.Rocks is an overpriced domain at $55,000 dollars
Rightside is getting some positive publicity with the sale of Autism.Rocks for a reported $100,000 dollars. Let’s not forget Elliot Silver‘s cause-driven registration of TeamSilver.Rocks to benefit the Dana-Farber cancer research institute. While the use of “rocks” is rather outdated, we still like this late 90’s buzzword, as much as “far out” from the 70’s […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Startup names : Spend $11 bucks for a .LINK instead of $85,000 dollars for a .COM
The new Internet namespace has proven to be valuable for startup companies; limited budgets save a lot of money for development, versus domain names. Before the launch of several hundred new gTLDs tailored to many different specific uses, companies would be stuck with secondary tier domain names. In the past, once these companies raised more […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.More than 700 domain applications : Dot .BANK enters General Availability next week
The General Availability period of Dot .BANK is five days away; the June 24th launch is highly anticipated by a number of large financial institutions, that have applied for their brands and names in the dot .BANK gTLD. Dot .BANK is the result of two years of proactive action by the fTLD Registry’s coalition to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.‘In the wild’ domains : New website by The Domain Name Association launches
We often post photos of domain name instances in public, that are non-COM, and our roster of such ccTLDs and TLDs is growing. Not to be outdone, The Domain Name Association (theDNA) is launching a new web site, according to .CLUB officer Jeff Sass, who is on the board of directors at DNA. The launch […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Zone file records for .XYZ domains drop below the 860,000 mark
It’s been a week since we reported the apparent reversing of dot .XYZ domain registrations. In a nutshell: Dot .XYZ domains did not reach the projected and anticipated “magic” number of 1,000,000 registrations, despite wishful thinking by the XYZ Registry. Instead, several thousand .XYZ domains began to drop, and the current numbers show a downwards […]
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