Saxo Bank has changed its primary website domain name from SaxoBank.com to Home.Saxo. As you can see, the company is using its own branded .Saxo domain name. According to its website, “Saxo Bank A/S is a fully licensed and regulated Danish bank specialising in online trading and investment across global financial markets.”

News of the change was written about in an article on LeapRate.com, and the company mentioned the article in a tweet earlier this morning:

It ´s here! We are pleased to announce the release of our new website –> https://t.co/n41FrcILEJ @LeapRate article: https://t.co/I80U7m3Rza pic.twitter.com/CcI04f2yqR

— Saxo Bank (@saxobank) October 19, 2016

The article did not have any

The .GOP domain name extension is operated by Minds & Machines the Republican State Leadership Committee (see Mike’s article for more details). For those outside the United States, “GOP” is an acronym that stands for “Grand Old Party,” which is a nickname for the US Republican Party. The general idea behind the extension is that people associated with the party could use .GOP domain names for political related websites, although I do not believe their are any registration restrictions.

The other day, I saw a retweet on Twitter mentioning a newly launched website, DonaldTrump.GOP. I thought was interesting because it used  a .GOP domain name, which I don’t see regularly:

Exactly. I am adding Republicans that supported Trump all this time to this site so they can’t run away from it: https://t.co/jIKUwHQhmv https://t.co/d5tT9rrfC0

— Matt Ortega (@MattOrtega) October 8, 2016

The registrant of DonaldTrump.GOP  is not using this particular .GOP domain name in support of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump. In fact, the domain name is owned and operated by

It looks like .Shop did very well in its first day of general availability. According to OnlineDomain.com, Domain Name Wire,  and DomainIncite.com, over 50,000 .Shop domain names were registered during the first day the domain names were available  to be hand registered.

In an unrelated article I published yesterday, John asked if I (or any related entity of mine) registered any .Shop domain names. I did not register any .Shop domain names and I have no plans to buy any. I am sure there are people in the domain space who bought .Shop domain names, but I am not a participant in the new gTLD space, aside from a Donald Trumpesque handful of investments like n.Ventures and n.Holdings.

As I have said like a broken record for a few years dating back to .CO, if I see