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Tag: gTLD
Brits confused by new TLDs, survey indicates
95 percent of Brits are unaware about the different phases involved with new Top-Level Domains (TLDs) claims Sedo.
Verisign: Web crosses 271 million domains mark
Latest report from Verisign reveals that around 271 million domain names have been registered on the web as of December last year. The Domain Name Industry Brief report published quarterly by Verisign…
‘.London’ domains to launch on April 29
Dot London Domains Ltd has announced that the new .london web address will be open to public on 29 April 2014. This makes London, the UK capital one of the first cities…
New DotShabaka domain goes live
The launch of Arabic dot-shabaka (شبكة.) extension has marked the beginning of a new era for internet registrations. The Arabic net address ending in شبكة. – pronounced dot shabaka, and meaning web…
Scotland gets its own .scot domain
Scotland’s wait for its own dotScot domain is finally over with the announcement confirming that anyone with a Scotland connection will now be able to apply to use the new “.scot” domain….
DNSSEC surpasses 50% implementation milestone
ICANN has announced that majority of top level domains in the root have DNSSEC and the overall implementation of the DNS Security Extensions has surpassed 50 percent milestone. Described as one of…
Nine new gTLDs including .guru, .singles, .clothing up for grabs
Internet Corporate for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced the availability of nine new gTLDs including .guru, .singles, and .clothing. To be made available from January 2014 publicly, the new gTLDs…
London gets its own gTLD ‘.london’
London is the first city in the world to have been granted its own gTLD ‘.London’ and will be made available to thousands of businesses in the city starting spring 2014. The…
GoDaddy waves green at gTLD land rush; initiates sale of first batch of domain names
GoDaddy has opened doors to prospects for the first registration of new domains as a part of ICANN’s generic top-level domain (gTLD) plan. The domain dealer has announced that it will be…
ICANN begins gTLD expansion
Internet’s governing body, ICANN, has signaled the massive expansion of internet domain names by rolling out four new gTLD. The new domain names that are set to go live are regional domain…