In a historic move, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved its long-discussed New gTLD Program.
Archive for the 'Generic (gTLD)' Category
ICM Registry (the firm behind .XXX), has announced two different registration phases before General Availability:
Continue reading ‘.XXX Launch Process starts on September 2011′
The introduction of the New Top Level Domain (TLD) .XXX has officially been announced and will begin on September 7th, 2011. Marcaria.com is already an Accredited Registrar and will thus be part of the very expected launch!
Continue reading ‘The brand new .XXX Top Level Domain is coming soon!’
Today the General Availability phase of short and numeric .tel domain names is starting. Continue reading ‘General Availability of Short and Numeric .tel domains!’
More than 100 proposals have been announced for when ICANN begins taking applications for new domain extensions (gTLDs), according to statistics from Adrenaline TLD (who wants to apply for a number of sporting-related gTLDs such as .SKI, .BIKE and .SURF). Continue reading ‘New domain extensions: geographic domain names dominate proposed gTLDs’
Domain Registrar VeriSign announced domain statistics: second quarter (2010) ended with approximately 101.5 million active domain names in the adjusted zone for .com and .net.
Continue reading ‘Domain statistics: over 100 million .COM and .NET domains’
The Domain Name Industry closed 2009 with more than 192 million domain name registrations across all of the Top Level Domain Names (TLDs), an increase of nearly 15 million domain name registrations since the end of 2008.
In terms of total registrations, .com continues to have the highest base followed by .cn (China), .de (Germany), .net, .uk (United Kingdom), .org, .info, .nl (Netherlands), .eu (European Union), and .ru (Russia).
The last quarter of 2009 ended with 78.6 million ccTLD domain name registrations, an increase of nearly 7.5 million domain name registrations since the end of 2008. Continue reading ‘Internet Tops 192 Million Domain Name Registrations’
