How Much Should Startups Budget for a Decent Domain Name?

The Startup Domain Name Price Guide from Name Ninja

Bill Sweetman from NameNinja has released a handy little guide to domain name pricing for startups. While the guide is aimed at businesses starting out, the information around domain name pricing is applicable to anyone who wants to either “upgrade” their online brand or launch a new one. The guide focusses primarily on .com domain… Continue reading How Much Should Startups Budget for a Decent Domain Name?

Brands and Domains Early Bird Tickets go on Sale

Brands and Domains is a domain event that focuses on brand owners and how they are using or potentially could use top level domains. And in this context when we say “top level domain” what we mean is the likes of Sony running the .sony TLD. The event is scheduled to be held in The… Continue reading Brands and Domains Early Bird Tickets go on Sale

ICANN Announces Date and Venue for 2017 GDD Summit

NH Collection Madrid Eurobuilding

ICANN has formally announced both the dates and the venue of the GDD Summit 2017. This year’s event was held in Amsterdam, while 2017 will see the event move to Madrid. The venue for the event is the NH Collection Madrid Eurobuilding in central Madrid. Choosing Madrid as the venue for the meeting will probably suit… Continue reading ICANN Announces Date and Venue for 2017 GDD Summit

DNS Belgium Adds Registrar Association and Others To Board

DNS Belgium, who run both the .be ccTLD as well as .brussels and .vlaanderen, have announced some additions to their board of directors. The newly formed Belgian Registrars Association, Bereas, is joining the board, as is Comeos, BeCommerce and IAB Belgium. Full details in the release below: Leuven, 20 June 2016 — DNS Belgium, the… Continue reading DNS Belgium Adds Registrar Association and Others To Board

French Supermarket Giant LeClerc Turns On DotBrand

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… Continue reading French Supermarket Giant LeClerc Turns On DotBrand

Preliminary Agenda For Domaining Europe Released

The preliminary agenda for Domaining Europe has been released. The event runs over 3 days, with day 1 (Sunday) being dedicated to networking and 1 to 1 meetings. Monday and Tuesday are themed, with Monday focussing on .com and “legacy” domains, while Tuesday’s focus will switch to new TLDs and future rounds. There will be a… Continue reading Preliminary Agenda For Domaining Europe Released

Over 19 Thousand Welsh Domains Registered

The first .wales and .cymru domains went live back in September 2014. Just over a year later there are now over 19 thousand .wales and .cymru domains registered. The .wales domain extension appears to have been significantly more popular than the Welsh language version .cymru, with approximately twice as many registrations so far. In terms… Continue reading Over 19 Thousand Welsh Domains Registered

ICANN55 Preparation Webinar For Business Stakeholders

ICANN’s business engagement team are organising a webinar next week to help prepare business stakeholders for the upcoming meeting in Marrakech. Topics being covered include: ICANN55 Public Meeting in Marrakech and sessions of interest Opportunities to follow, participate and join the work of business stakeholders in their various constituency groups Latest topics in the Internet… Continue reading ICANN55 Preparation Webinar For Business Stakeholders

Apple Launches Apple.news

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… Continue reading Apple Launches Apple.news

P is for Proxy

Last night Google unveiled their new plans for global domination, which involves the company morphing into something new “Alphabet“. And new TLD types around the globe rejoiced, as the online behemoth chose to use a .xyz domain name for their big reveal (They also made a funny reference to another .xyz in the source code… Continue reading P is for Proxy

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