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June may be celebrated as Pride Month in some parts of the world, but the occasion hasn’t had a huge impact on registrations in the .gay gTLD, which launched late last year. Zone files show 11,323 active .gay domains yesterday, up by 723 compared...
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June 28, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.gay, Domain Registries, pride, top level design
Top Level Design has revealed the launch plan for its .gay gTLD, after almost a year of delays. General availability was originally planned for October last year, but it was pushed out twice, first due to marketing reasons and then because of coronavir...
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August 19, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.gay, Domain Registries, eap, ga, top level design
Ray King discusses the .gay launch and some domainer-friendly upgrades at Porkbun. My guest this week was the very first guest on the Domain Name Wire podcast back in 2014. Ray King runs two domain name companies: Top Level Design and Porkbun. Today, Ray talks about .gay, the new top level domain that his company […]
Post link: Oh Hey .Gay – DNW Podcast #299
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August 17, 2020 Andrew Allemann
.gay, Podcasts
Top Level Design is delaying its general-availability launch of .gay domains for an indeterminate period due to the coronavirus pandemic. The company said that the new gTLD, which had been slated to go GA May 20, will instead carry on in its trademark ...
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April 7, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.gay, coronavirus, Domain Registries, ga, top level design
The long-fought, once-controversial gTLD .gay is to launch a month from now. Top Level Design, which won the string at auction against three other applicants last February, this week informed registrars that its sunrise period will begin February 10 th...
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January 10, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.gay, centerlink, Domain Registries, eap, glaad, premiums, top level design
The new gTLD .gay, which was often used as an example of a controversial TLD that could be blocked from the DNS, has finally made it to the DNS. While no .gay domains are currently resolving, the TLD itself was added to the root zone over the weekend. ...
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August 12, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.gay, delegation, Domain Registries, IANA, root, top level design
We won’t be seeing .gay on the internet this year. Top Level Design has postponed the release of its hard-won gTLD until the second quarter of 2020, having recently said it was planning an October 2019 launch. The company told registrars yesterda...
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June 18, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.gay, Domain Registries, top level design
Seven years after four companies applied for the .gay top-level domain, we finally have a winner. Three applicants, including the community-driven bid that has been fighting ICANN for exclusive recognition for years, this week withdrew their applicatio...
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February 20, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.gay, cep, cpe, Domain Registries, irp, mmx, top level design
ICANN has responded harshly to claims that a probe of its handling of applications for the .gay gTLD was fixed from the outset. Writing to dotgay LLC lawyer Arif Ali this week, ICANN lawyer Kate Wallace said claims that the investigation “had a p...
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March 7, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.gay, cpe, Domain Policy, eiu, fti
A few weeks ago, when I was reporting the conclusions of a probe into ICANN’s new gTLD program, I wrote a prediction on a piece of paper and placed it into a sealed envelope.* I wrote: “They’re gonna call this a whitewash.” And ...
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January 31, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.gay, cpe, Domain Policy, dotmusic, eiu, fti, irp