The first .wales and .cymru domain names will go live later today. As we’ve noted elsewhere, the launch of new TLDs is giving cultural and linguistic communities their own space online. From early this morning the launch has been garnering quite a bit of mainstream media: The Guardian ITV Wales BBC Wales Wales Online… Continue reading First .Cymru and .Wales Domains Go Live
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Guess The Number of .Website Registrations & Win A GoPro!
Radix Registry, the company behind .website, .host and .press, is running a giveaway / competition for the launch of .website. The .website launch is now scheduled to take place this afternoon at 1600 UTC. If you can guess correctly the number of .website domain names that are registered during the first day of GA (general… Continue reading Guess The Number of .Website Registrations & Win A GoPro!
S4C, The National Assembly of Wales and others Back .Wales & .Cymru
Getting “anchor tenants” for a new top level domain can be a challenge. However, in the case of .wales & .cymru it looks like the strings have hit a chord, if you’ll excuse the pun. Last month during the opening ceremony of the ICANN meeting in London it was announced that the Welsh government would… Continue reading S4C, The National Assembly of Wales and others Back .Wales & .Cymru
DotGreen Is No More
Kevin reported on this last night. As you can see from the reactions to his post a lot of people are surprised, shocked and even quite upset that the DotGreen application has been withdrawn. It’s not the only application for the string, which is why it was withdrawn, but to many people in the ICANN… Continue reading DotGreen Is No More
Melbourne IT Sells Off Brand Services Division
Melbourne IT has sold off its corporate domains business to CSC domains. They’d previously acquired the division in 2008 when they bought Verisign’s DBMS business for US$50 million. The sale netted the company AU$152.5 million (approximately US$157 million, EUR120 million). Here’s the full release: MELBOURNE, Australia – 12 March 2013 – Melbourne IT (ASX: MLB)… Continue reading Melbourne IT Sells Off Brand Services Division
ICANN Sets Firm Launch Date For New TLDs
ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé has announced a firm date for new TLD launch. In a video interview, with Brad White, Fadi Chehadé put April 23rd as a date when the first new TLD could be delegated. He admits, however, that the date may “slip”, though this time the “slippage” should be days or weeks and not… Continue reading ICANN Sets Firm Launch Date For New TLDs
GoDaddy Hiring New CEO Techcrunch Don’t Check Basic Facts
The job vacancy may not have been announced yet, but GoDaddy will be looking for a new CEO. Warren Adelman was officially made CEO of GoDaddy back in December of last year. Andrew Allemann of DomainNameWire was one of the first to break the story yesterday and also managed to get GoDaddy’s founder, Bob Parsons,… Continue reading GoDaddy Hiring New CEO Techcrunch Don’t Check Basic Facts
DotCo Celebrates 2 Years In Operation
CoInternet aka .co launched 2 years ago today. They’ve pushed out a nice infographic to highlight some of their achievements: Have you registered any .co domains?
Irony: Centralnic Create Brand Confusion With New Company Brand Name
I guess this was inevitable. There are a bunch of domain and internet related companies out there that have totally forgettable and unoriginal names. At some point there’s going to be confusion between two or more of them. But you’d also think that any sane company would do a small bit of due diligence to… Continue reading Irony: Centralnic Create Brand Confusion With New Company Brand Name
Co.no To Go Live July 4th
Co.no will be going live on July 4th 2012 ie. in two days time. The operator for co.no was involved in a court case with the Norwegian domain registry (Norid), but won. According to an email they sent to their partners this evening co.no domains will be activated at 10 am CET on July 4th.… Continue reading Co.no To Go Live July 4th