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.pw Announces Single Character Domain Names Auction

.pw Registry has seen over 250,000 domain names being registered within the first 3 months since the start of its General Availability phase, making it the most successful TLD launch since .co.

Radix’s Uncontested .host gTLD Passes ICANN’s Initial Evaluation, Set to Go Live in January 2014

Radix Registry has announced that its bid for the operation of the generic top level domain (gTLD) .host has passed the initial evaluation stage in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) new gTLD program.

Radix Registry Announces Launch of Pre-Registration for .host Domains

Once active, .host aims to be the preferred domain extension for web hosts, ASPs, ISVs, cloud service providers, data centers and other entities within the web hosting industry.

U.pw Acquired by Viral Media Start Up, Upworthy, with 10.4 Million Readers

The .PW Registry announced the sale of U.pw to the viral media startup, Upworthy. The company acquired U.pw at an undisclosed price, earlier this month. Based all around the United States, Upworthy is a quickly growing media start up that has garnered 10.4 million monthly readers within a year from launch. Business Insider has named them the "fastest growing media company in history."

Afilias Joins Internet Infrastructure Coalition

The Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition), a group of global Internet infrastructure providers and technology firms who support the growth of the Internet, introduced Afilias as its newest member. A global leader in advanced registry services, Afilias will be the first registry to join i2Coalition.

Radix Registry Passes 4 New gTLD Initial Evaluations

Directi, under its new brand Radix, had applied for 31 strings comprising several generic and mass market names. A month back, it was announced that Directi, Tucows and Namecheap will join forces to manage the .online registry, the string which successfully cleared the initial evaluation as mentioned earlier.

DomainsBot to Help Professionals Find .PRO Internet Addresses More Easily

RegistryPRO, the ICANN-designated operator of the .PRO top-level domain and a subsidiary of leading registry services provider Afilias, today announced that DomainsBot will now include .PRO in their domain name search and suggestion tool, used by the majority of the world's best-known Internet domain name retailers, including 101Domains, Blacknight, MeshDigital, Net4In and Tucows.

The Ratings Are In: Measuring .ORG’s Trust and Success in Numbers

We were pleased to find that a large majority of all respondents (90%) associate a .ORG web address with the words "non-profit," "trusted," "exclusive," or a combination of all three. Furthermore, nearly half (49%) of the respondents polled would choose to purchase a .ORG domain to relay information about a cause that they were passionate about.

dot Brand or dot What? Consumers Unaware of New TLDs, Including .Google, .Microsoft and .Nike

Afilias Limited, a global provider of domain registry services, has announced the results of research on consumer attitudes towards the hundreds of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) that will launch beginning in 2013.

.PW General Availability Opens With More Than 4000 Orders in 30 Minutes

The newest TLD has fast gained worldwide acceptance with over 110 active registrars signing up from 32 countries to offer .PW domain names to customers; launched as the Professional Web at the ICANN Meeting in Toronto, .PW is a new namespace operated by the Directi Group.