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Brand & Domains Event to be Held in Montréal

July 9, 2019 by Michele Neylon

The Brand Registry Group (BRG) will be holding a one day conference on the sidelines of the upcoming ICANN meeting in Montréal. The event is aimed at brand owners who either have a TLD of their own or who might be considering applying for one in the future. While the full schedule for the event is not available yet the overview is: Come and find out how dotBrands are … [Read more...] about Brand & Domains Event to be Held in Montréal

New Brexit Party Misses Out on Domain

April 15, 2019 by Michele Neylon

Screenshot of site being used by Anti-Brexit group

Nigel Farage's latest political vehicle The Brexit Party launched last week. However you'll notice that it's using a .org domain name. The exact match .com domain name was snapped up by a group of pro-EU campaigners: TheBrexitParty.com was registered with GoDaddy on October 26th 2018, while the domain Farage's party is using is TheBrexitParty.org which was … [Read more...] about New Brexit Party Misses Out on Domain

Dutch Registry Unveils NL Branding

July 14, 2017 by Michele Neylon

SIDN, the ccTLD registry for .nl, has unveiled new branding for the .nl ccTLD. Up until now the branding available was focussed on either SIDN itself or its registrars. There was no real ".nl brand" per se. The registry explain their rationale in an email to registrars: In March 2016, we introduced our new corporate logo and SIDN Registrar logo. The SIDN Registrar logo … [Read more...] about Dutch Registry Unveils NL Branding

DotArt Registry Announces Early Adopters Including Some of the World’s Most Famous Museums

November 27, 2016 by Michele Neylon

dot art registry logo

The .art domain will launch its sunrise phase in early December. Their sunrise period will run from December 7 2016 through to February 7 2017. According to their site the domain will enter general availability in May 2017. While details on pricing and other aspects of the registry's launch plans haven't been announced yet, the registry has announced their "early adopters" … [Read more...] about DotArt Registry Announces Early Adopters Including Some of the World’s Most Famous Museums

IEDR Advertise During Ireland – New Zealand Rugby Match

November 6, 2016 by Michele Neylon

Spotted by several of my eagle eyed friends:   … [Read more...] about IEDR Advertise During Ireland – New Zealand Rugby Match

IEDR Launching New Radio Ad Campaign

September 12, 2016 by Michele Neylon

The IEDR are launching a new radio advertising campaign across Ireland. Unlike some of their previous campaigns the focus this time round is firmly on .ie domain names and does not mention IEDR at all. The campaign features two adverts (below) which emphasise how the .ie ccTLD is linked to Ireland. They also mention that .ie is considered to be "secure" based on McAfee … [Read more...] about IEDR Launching New Radio Ad Campaign

French Supermarket Giant LeClerc Turns On DotBrand

April 15, 2016 by Michele Neylon

Earlier this week French supermarket giant E.Leclerc launched a new site for their sports' goods. The key change? The new site lives at sport.leclerc. Leclerc, which employs over 94 thousand people, is one of the companies that opted to get its own "dotbrand". While some companies have rolled out a variety of different things on their own domain extension it's still rare to see … [Read more...] about French Supermarket Giant LeClerc Turns On DotBrand

GoDaddy Pulls Out Of SuperBowl

December 19, 2015 by Michele Neylon

GoDaddy logo

According to an article over on Market Watch GoDaddy will not be advertising during Super Bowl 50 next February. GoDaddy had been running ads during the Super Bowl for the last 10 years with several of its adverts attracting plenty of controversy. Some of the earlier ads they ran featured the GoDaddy girls, like this one: https://youtu.be/3vWu8SAzQPE Over the years … [Read more...] about GoDaddy Pulls Out Of SuperBowl

DotGlobal Registry Giving Away Premium Names

November 29, 2015 by Michele Neylon

Dotglobal Christmas 2015

The guys over at the .global registry are doing something a little different for Christmas. They've giving away premium domain name every day of advent! Every day from December 1st until December 24th you can enter a draw to win a premium .global domain name: We will be giving away one valuable premium domain name every day up to December 24th.  We have 24 .GLOBAL premium … [Read more...] about DotGlobal Registry Giving Away Premium Names

Apple Launches Apple.news

September 22, 2015 by Michele Neylon

Apple has adopted a .news domain name for its new "News" application / service which is a builtin feature of iOS9. Apple.news points to the page on the Apple site with an overview of the new service: For some bizarre reason they haven't redirect the non-HTTPS traffic to the same place, so trying to type apple.news into a browser will leave  you thinking that the … [Read more...] about Apple Launches Apple.news

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