The Q1 2021 New gTLD Quarterly Report from our MarkMonitor™ team examines .kpmg usage, new gTLD Alexa.com rankings, recent launch analyses, and potential policy effects on .brand ‘next round’ applicants. Download to the right of this post. With the end of March upon us already, we take a fresh look at .kpmg and its ongoing […]
Cast your .vote for the most interesting New gTLD development in Q4 [Report]
The Q4 New gTLD Quarterly Report from our MarkMonitor™ team explores U.S. election usage, ESG domain activity and DNS abuse trends. Read more. 2020 has been extremely eventful, so it follows that the domain industry has continued to experience perpetual change, progress and uncertainty in the last three months of the year. In our Q4 […]
Advantages of splitting portfolios among several domain registrars: busting the myths
By Statton Hammock, Vice-President Head of IP Strategy, Government & Industry Relations, Clarivate Analytics and Christopher Melka, Program Manager, MarkMonitor Thinking of splitting your domain portfolio among multiple registrars? We believe that the reasons not to split a domain portfolio may outweigh the reasons to break one up. In this blog, we ‘bust’ a […]
Internet domain name ownership data: understanding changes and useful suggestions for Customs
This article was originally published on WCO News. Check out a new piece from Brian King, Director of Internet Policy and Industry Affairs, MarkMonitor, for WCO Magazine. Computers identify websites with an IP address, a long string of numbers separated by periods, which are difficult for humans to remember. Websites also have an address, made […]
2019: a year of innovation for New gTLDs
It has been a year of change for the domain industry, with products and services within the New generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) space continuing to expand in both breadth and complexity. We have seen developments in the launches of TLDs (such as .SPORT in January and .NEW in October), new blocking products including AdultBlock […]