Domainbox Industry News

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Nominet announces that .UK TLD is launching 10th June 2014

Nominet have today released the news that .UK is set to become available this summer – the 10th June – to be exact. On Nominets new site they state this is going to be ‘a shorter, sharper domain name which puts the emphasis firmly on your website name – exactly where it should be.’ This will bring new opportunities for you to create an online identity for your customers or build on an already growing one – just in time for the release of many new gTLDs over the coming four years. But don’t worry…

Friday, January 24, 2014

ICANN announces root zone expanded with over 100 new GTLDs

With 2014 well in progress ICANN have announced that the number of new GTLDs delegated to the root zone has now topped 100. With a rapid expansion from the 22 previous standard GTLDs ICANN have signified their intent of ensuring that 2014 is the year of these GTLDs with plenty more to be added shortly. "There are now almost five times more generic Top-Level Domains than there were only a few months ago and that translates to greater consumer choice," said Akram Atallah, President of ICANN's Global Domains Division. "We are as eager as everyone else to see what type of innovation th…