The new playing field : gTLDs with Sevan Derderian
Sevan Derderian works with the business development team of Uniregistry, as an experienced domain professional. A year and a half since the launch of the new gTLDs that have expanded the Internet name space by more than 6 million domains, there are still some skeptics out there. Sevan’s recent post addresses these concerns, stating: “Since […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Page Howe : Los Angeles residents should get a .LA domain
Domain investor Page Howe has been an early adopter of new gTLDs; a year after the Internet name space expanded to hundreds of new extensions, Howe is working on a different kind of brand. As the Chief Engagement Officer of dot .LA domain ccTLD that serves as a brand and locale indicator, Page is promoting […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .XYZ registrations dip below 800,000 domains “in the zone”
We’ve been following the performance of the .XYZ gTLD and post weekly reports on its numbers. The news is that dot .XYZ domains have now less than 800,000 registrations, dropping from 803,856 to a new total of 791,038 XYZ domains. The numbers represent the number active domains that exist in the zone file, and therefore […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.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 © 2025 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 © 2025 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 © 2025 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 © 2025 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 © 2025 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 © 2025 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 […]
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