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New .ORGANIC Top-Level Domain Opens to Serve the Organic Community

Global registry operator Afilias has announced that the fresh new, socially responsible top-level domain .ORGANIC is now open for registration by all bona fide organic producers and others who serve the organic community.

.Host Announces Top Global Players As Pioneer Partners

The Pioneer lineup includes big international names like MediaTemple, Bluehost, OVH, Arvixe, and the UK2 Group, in addition to regional leaders such as Natro (Turkey) and UOL (Brazil), HostPapa (Canada), Blacknight (Ireland).

Public Interest Registry Releases Bi-Annual Report, .Org Domain Registrations Pass 10.4 Million

Public Interest Registry - the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain - today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report, "The Dashboard," detailing the worldwide growth of .org over the past year.

Public Interest Registry to Speak About Upcoming Launch of .ngo and .ong Domains for NPOs

With the launch of the .ngo and .ong domains just around the corner, Rebecca Regan-Sachs, a representative of Public Interest Registry, will lend her expertise in online fundraising and brand identity at this year's International Workshop on Resource Mobilisation (IWRM) Southern Africa.

Landrush Opens for .Website, .Press and .Host

Radix concluded sunrise for the first batch of its extensions - .website, .press and .host last week. .website alone saw more than 600 orders, making it one of the biggest new gTLD sunrises to date.

Afilias Announces General Availability of .BLACK Top-Level Domain

Global registry services provider Afilias today announced the general availability of its newest generic top level domain (gTLD): .BLACK.

Last Lap of .WEBSITE, .PRESS and .HOST Sunrise

Only 10 days are left before Radix's first three TLDs, .website, .host and .press exit Sunrise on 22nd August '14. Brands registered with the TMCH have the last 10 days left to take advantage of this Sunrise opportunity.

New .ORGANIC Domain Sunrise Begins, Creating Verified Space ?for Organic Products and Services

The sunrise period allows qualified trademark holders to register names immediately; other members of the organic community can register names beginning September 15.

New from Verisign Labs - Measuring Privacy Disclosures in URL Query Strings

Andrew G. West, a Research Scientist in Verisign Labs, along with collaborator and U.S. Naval Academy professor Adam J. Aviv examined nearly 900 million user-submitted URLs to gauge the prevalence and severity of privacy leaks.

Four Reasons to Move from .COM to Your .BRAND Domain

Ask Google, Amazon, AXA and hundreds of other brands: branded top-level domains are the future of the web. Since 2012, when the ICANN opened up applications for new TLDs, more than 600 businesses have submitted applications for branded TLDs.