Reveal Day triggers a lot of deadlines, but applicants still don’t know for sure when it will be. One representative of UDRP applicants is urging ICANN to finalize the timeline for the next steps in the process. I doubt he’s the only one. Jeffrey Neuman of JNJ Solutions has sent a letter to ICANN asking […]

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Chris Ambler won’t end up running .web, but perhaps .epic. Verisign is introducing .web this year, but the idea for the domain dates back more than three decades. Today’s guest was there at the beginning. Chris Ambler, Director of Domains for Registered Agents, Inc., discusses the long and winding history of .web and his role […]

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Domain pitched to sports teams, clubs, sailing crews, etc. INWX Domains GmbH, a domain name registrar based in Berlin, announced that it has applied for the .crew top level domains. The company stated the domain is: for groups that achieve things together: esports and gaming teams, film and production crews, clubs and associations, music and […]

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The Netherlands will have three local TLDs. Twente, a region in eastern Netherlands, is getting its own top level domain. Dotlocal announced it submitted an application for .twente in this year’s top level domain expansion round. Twente has over 600,000 residents. Dotlocal applied for .amsterdam in the last round. That namespace currently has about 18,000 […]

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Editor’s note: When you see a nonsensical expired domain sell for lots of money, it’s likely that the buyer purchased it for the SEO value instead of the domain itself. After a long absence, I’m excited to have Sean Markey back to cover these domains and other SEO-related topics. Leave a comment if you have […]

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