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Weekly Launch Guide May 26, 2025

Please find the upcoming and ongoing launch information below.

Phase & Extension
Launching in next 30 Days
Start Date Order Entry
Deadline Date
First-come First-served (FCFS) Suggested Users
Limited Round 2
.th 1-Jun-2025 29-Jul-2025 Yes Applications are limited to Thai citizens, organizations according to Thai law, owners of trademarks registered with the Thai Department of Intellectual Property or international trademarks with a local representative office (Local Agent Service is not available). Domain registrations are limited to exact match or abbreviations of the organization name or exact match of the trademark.
Phase & Extension
Future & Ongoing Launch Phases
Start Date Order Entry
Deadline Date
First-come First-served (FCFS) Suggested Users
General Availability
.free
.hot
.spot
19-May-2025 n/a Yes No restrictions.
Landrush
.kw 23-March-2025 19-Sept-2025 Yes Exact trademark match required for registration.
General Availability
.kw TBD n/a Yes TBD
Limited Round 3
.th 1-Oct-2025 27-Nov-2025 Yes Applications are limited to Thai citizens, organizations according to Thai law, owners of trademarks registered with the Thai Department of Intellectual Property or international trademarks with a local representative office (Local Agent Service is not available). Domain registrations are limited to exact match or abbreviations of the organization name or exact match of the trademark.

Spotlight

Premium Domain Name changes at Internet Naming Co.

Internet Naming Co. has updated their premium pricing structure for .CLICK, .HELP, .FORUM, .BAR, and .REST domains on May 15th, 2025. As part of this restructuring, the registry will also be removing over 1.1 million names from its premium list and releasing over 15,000 names from its reserved list. Please contact your Customer Service Team if you would like to review names being released for registration.

.KW

The Kuwait domain registry has announced the availability of top-level .KW domain registrations for the first time. This launch will take place between September 2024 and September 2025, beginning with a 6-month long Sunrise period. Applications during Sunrise will require a matching trademark and will be accepted on a first-come, first served basis. International trademarks are welcome, no local presence in Kuwait will be required.

Global Block update

Brand Safety Alliance the operator of Global Block product continues to experience a significant service interruption affecting the .SD ccTLD (Sudan) within the GlobalBlock Service. The .SD ccTLD is currently offline and as a result, the Global Block service is temporarily unable to support blocking under this TLD.  All block registrations submitted after December 10, 2024, have been impacted, and will be activated immediately once the registry is back online.

Affected extensions include: .sd; .com.sd; .info.sd; .net.sd; .org.sd; .tv.sd

New extensions offered  :

Japan  – .AD.JP