We seemed to have started the new year with a whole new lot of domain names in our monthly reports. As we make our way through the new gTLD standings for January, you’re going to see a completely different picture. .ACCOUNTANT is number 1 for the month. .TOP was the undisputed domain extension last year and has now taken the number 5 position. Let’s see what the first month of the new year has to…
In recent times, we’ve seen a major shift in the domains industry. With .COM names becoming scarce, the new gTLDs have gained a lot of popularity, to say the least. .XYZ has taken the market by storm, nTLDs like .ONLINE and .TECH have made a record number of registrations. As a reseller, you’re probably all too familiar with gTLDs and the rise. But the rise of these 1,800+ new TLDs has opened up the risk…
In October 2016 at the CA/Browser Forum in Redmond, Washington, Google software engineer Ryan Sleevi announced Google’s move to make Certificate Transparency mandatory for Chrome web browsing. What’s the big deal about HTTPS and Digital Certificates? The Certificate Transparency is an open source framework by Google that monitors and audits domain certificates. How? If you’ve recently surfed the Internet on your Chrome browser, you’ve probably noticed an indicator next to a domain name. An indicator…
Here are the numbers to sum up our final new gTLD report of the year, and I must say that things are looking a lot different. We have 5 new entrants for the month while .TOP and .XYZ have continued to stick to the positions for the entire year. The year end promos that were running was a causative factor for having 5 new entrants for December. So that’s something fresh! Let’s take a look…
Hey folks, I’m sure you know that we were running BlackFriday promos on some of our new gTLDs in the last week of November. When I had a look at the numbers, I honestly thought there was an error in data. But after a double-check, the data was correct and this month’s nTLD adds are the most erratic so far. The common trend in our report does not reflect for November owing to the BlackFriday…
If you or your customers plan to transfer a domain name in the near future, read on to find out about new policy changes that may impact your transfer process. Through this blog we hope to cover the following points, What the IRTP is How this impacts you What ResellerClub is doing to aid you in this process FAQ’s What is the IRTP? ‘The Inter Registrar Transfer Policy’ is a new transfer policy by ICANN…
It’s been 16 years since .INFO was introduced to the world. The rollout of the .INFO new gTLD had commenced on July 25th, 2001; the first new gTLD Sunrise Period to ever occur and registrations hit an impressive 300,000 on September 30, that very year. With the number of Internet users gaining momentum, businesses and individuals needed a new territory to create and share vital information. Owing to a high demand for fresher, globally recognized…
With a view to providing a level playing field to Indian Service Providers providing taxable ‘online information and database access or retrieval [OIDAR] services’ including electronic services in India, the Indian Government has made some revisions in its policies. The service tax exemption given to products in this category which may include Domain Names and Hosting has been withdrawn with effect from 1 December, 2016 for such services ‘provided in India’ by service providers located…
We’ve been doing our new month-on-month new gTLD reports for a while now, and the share of domain adds for this month are taking a tighter share than September’s. .TOP and .XYZ have been leading the group for a while. The rest of the new gTLDs are in spitting distance of each other. We also have a new entrant for this month, .TRADE joins our report at number 14 for the month of October. You…
Hey folks, the new gTLD numbers for September are here! Once again, .TOP & .XYZ take the first two spots with .TOP having the lion’s share of new gTLD adds. We also have a new entrant to our report, .SHOP! In other news, the Radix TLDs continue to be a part of our report occasionally shifting positions. You can have a look at the infographic below for more details: 1) .TOP still number one -…