Domain Name News

FinanceIt.ca Raises $13 Million & Looks to Expand Into US Market

According to a press release out today FinanceIt, has raised a $13 million Series A financing. The company owns the domain name Financeit.ca “which is today a Canada-only play”…

Nominate Approves .UK Domain Names; .co.UK Holders to Get 1st Shot

Nominet the company that runs the .UK ccTLD on behalf of the United Kindom announced today that it was going ahead with its controversial plan to domain go launch the shorter .uk domain name not only to compete with all the thousands of new gTLD’s most notably .London, but to bring the UK into line with other European countries such as France (.fr), Germany (.de) and Ireland (.ie)…

Nominet Approves Direct Second-level .UK Domains

Get ready for a backlash — Nominet has committed to start offering second-level domain names under .uk for the first time. Starting next year, you’ll be able to register example.uk, rather than only third-level names such as example.co.uk and example.org.uk. The announcement today comes after at least two consultation periods over the last year or…

These are The Top 50 Name Collisions

Having spent the last 36 hours crunching ICANN’s lists of almost 10 million new gTLD name collisions, the DI PRO collisions database is back online, and we can start reporting some interesting facts. First, while we reported yesterday that 1,318 new gTLD applicants will be asked to block a total of 9.8 million unique domain…

GACmail? Belgium Denies .spa gTLD Shakedown

The Belgian government has denied claims that the city of Spa tried to shake down new gTLD applicants for money in exchange for not objecting to their .spa applications. The Belgian Governmental Advisory Committee representative said this afternoon that Belgium was “extremely unhappy” that the “disrespectful allusions” got an airing during a meeting with the…

Panel Denies Community Objections Against .hotel Applicant

Objectors were upset with single registrant application for .hotel. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has denied two community objections filed against .hotel applicant Booking.com. The cases were filed by Hotel Consumer Protection Coalition and HOTREC, Hotels, Restaurants & Cafés in Europe, and the cases were consolidated. Although there were 7 applications for the .hotel…

.Horse Domain Registry Service Offered

.HORSE has announced it is offering a service in which horse industry professionals and enthusiasts can reserve a domain name ending in .horse, which is among a group of new domains now approved to increase choices in the domain name space.

Seven More Donuts gTLDs Delegated

Donuts had seven new gTLDs added to the DNS root zone today. The strings are: .diamonds, .tips, .photography, .directory, .kitchen, .enterprises and .today. The nic.tld domains in each are already resolving, redirecting users to Donuts’ official site at donuts.co. There are now 31 live new gTLDs, 26 of which belong to Donuts subsidiaries.

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Forget New TLDs, New 844 Numbers are Coming Soon!

New toll free numbers are coming out next month, and services offer to pre-register them much like new top level domain names. New TLDs are coming, but not as soon as new 844 toll free numbers. The new numbers will be released next month. Much like with new TLDs, companies are happy to help you…

Yahoo! Domain Auction Now Has Over 500 Domain Names

More domains, including several hundred from Associated Content, have been added to the Yahoo! domain auction. The list of domain names Yahoo! is offering in a domain name auction currently running on Sedo has expanded to over 500 domain names. Many of them are listed with reserves below $5,000 and some are below $1,000. The…