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.Com dominates North America. What about the ROW?

Country code domains are still the majority outside of North America. Take a look at the chart above. What do you notice? While .com dominates North America, it is secondary in ICANN’s other four regions. It’s easy to be United States-centric, but the reality of domain name demand is very different around the world. Afnic, […]

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June 6, 2019 Andrew Allemann .fr, afnic, country code domains, topstory

New gTLDs slip again in Q1

The number of domains registered in new gTLDs slipped again in the first quarter, but it was not as bad as it could have been. Verisign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief, out today, reports that new gTLD domains dropped by 800,000 sequentially ...

May 31, 2019 Kevin Murphy dnib, domain name industry brief, Domain Registries, Famous Four Media, ffm, grs domains

These 27 companies have ditched the .com for their dot-brand

Earlier today, I listed what I believe might be the top 10 dot-brand gTLDs with the most active web sites, but noted that it was probably a rubbish way to gauge the success of the dot-brand concept. As a follow-up, I thought I’d figure out which ...

May 29, 2019 Kevin Murphy Domain Registries, dot-brands

Two Letter Domain Names – What’s your favourite Two Letter Dot Com Domain Name?

Two Letter Domain Names are extremely rare domain name asset, There are only 676 available combinations of two letter domain…

May 3, 2019 Robbie domain holdings, Domaining.com, dot com, IF, IF.com, two letter domains, two letters

ICA rallies the troops to defeat .org price hikes. It won’t work

Over 100 letters have been sent to ICANN opposing the proposed lifting of price caps in .org, after the Internet Commerce Association reached out to rally its supporters. This is an atypically large response to an ICANN public comment period, and there...

April 25, 2019 Kevin Murphy Domain Registries, internet commerce association, ppsai, price caps, renewal

KPMG dumps .com for dot-brand gTLD

KPMG has become the latest company to dump its .com domain in favor of its dot-brand gTLD. The company recently announced that it is now using home.kpmg as its primary web site domain, replacing kpmg.com. The migration appears to be complete already. U...

April 12, 2019 Kevin Murphy Domain Registries, dot-brands, kpmg, pwc

ICA to hold public update for domain owners

Domain investor advocacy group will make its next member call public. The Internet Commerce Association (ICA), a group that advocates for domain name owners, is holding a public webcast on Friday to update domain investors on policy issues. This is ICA’s first public call; previous updates have been for members only. The webcast is scheduled […]

April 8, 2019 Andrew Allemann domain name policy, Policy & Law, price increases

.com outsells new gTLDs by 2:1 in 2018

The number of registered .com domains increased by more than double the growth of all new gTLDs last year, according to figures from Verisign. The latest Domain Name Industry Brief reports that .com grew by 7.1 million names in 2018, while new gTLDs gr...

April 2, 2019 Kevin Murphy dnib, domain name industry brief, Domain Registries

Phishing still on the decline, despite Whois privacy

The number of detected phishing attacks almost halved last year, despite the fact that new Whois privacy rules have made it cheaper for attackers to hide their identities. There were 138,328 attacks in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to the Anti-...

March 5, 2019 Kevin Murphy apwg, Domain Policy, phishing, Spam

Court rules generic dictionary domains CAN be trademarked

A US appeals court has ruled that generic, dictionary domain names can be trademarked. The hotel-booking web site Booking.com was told last week that it is in fact eligible to have “Booking.com” registered as a trademark, over the objection...

February 11, 2019 Kevin Murphy Domain Policy

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