Tag: TLDs

This Small Company Is Battling Amazon For The Next .COM
XYZ.com is bringing the new domain extensions .xyz and .College to the Internet as part of the new gTLD program. It's also in a battle with Amazon and others to bring .Now to marke...
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Demand Media Announces Significant Steps For Domain Business
Demand Media has a few pieces of domain-related news this morning. Its United TLD subsidiary is now officially an ICANN accredited gTLD registry, eNom and Name.com have signed the...
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GoDaddy Readies For New TLDs With Afternic Acquisition
GoDaddy announced on Thursday that it has acquired domain name aftermarket company Afternic as it prepares for new TLDs. The company will keep Afternic's staff in the Boston Area....
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Google Talks Geotargeting And Generic ccTLDs
Google's latest Webmaster Help video deals with ccTLDs and geotargeting - specifically Google's view of a developer grabbing a ccTLD that is generally associated with a country the...
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WordPress.com Now Lets Users Register .CO Domains
Automattic announced today that it has added .CO as a new top-level domain option for WordPress.com users. This joins other options like .ME, .COM, .NET, and .ORG. It will cost you...
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Google Updates Indexing To Treat TLDs Differently
Google has been updating its indexing systems to treat some TLDs differently than in the past. Some country-code TLDs are being treated as generic TLDs. The list, which may sti...
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Matt Cutts Talks Location And ccTLDs
In Google's latest Webmaster Help video, Matt Cutts discusses location and ccTLDs. Specifically, he responds to the following user-submitted question: We have a vanity doma...
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Demand Media’s eNom Teams Up With Parallels On TLDs
Demand Media announced today that its domain registrar eNom's Top Level Domain (TLD) program is included in the latest version of Parallels Plesk Panel and in Parallels Domain Nam...
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Demand Media Acquires Domain Registrar Name.com
Demand Media announced on Monday that it has acquired Name.com, a Denver-based domain registrar. The company says the acquisition is intended to...
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Google Apps Now Offers 30 TLDs (Including ccTLDs)
Google announced today that Google Apps now offers 30 top-level domain options, including 22 country code TLDs (ccTLDs). Google has partnered with...
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ICANN System for New gTLDs Still Offline
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' system for submitting applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) has...
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Google To Get gTLDs, Report Says
ICANN will release its full list of applications for the new generic top-lev...
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gTLD Applicants To Be Listed By ICANN At Month’s End
ICANN plans to release a full list of applications for the new generic top-level domains on April 30. The list will specify who all applied for which domains. That should be intere...
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ICANN Closes gTLD Registration
You can no longer register for the new gTLDs with ICANN. Registration closed on Thursday, March 29. ICANN says there were only 839 registered users in the application system on Mar...
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Google Will Need Time To Learn About How To Rank New TLDs
We recently talked about a post Google's Matt Cutts made to...
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