The blog

Explore the latest .blog news, updates, and expert tips to take your blog to the next level.

  • What is a blog?

    The word “blog” came from “weblog” — but not how you might think. Peter Merholz, a blogging pioneer, jokingly broke “weblog” into two words on his web page, “we blog,”…

  • 100,000 .blogs

    100,000 .blogs

    We’re proud to celebrate one of our biggest milestones to date: 100,000 .blog registrations! It was only eight months ago that .blog domains became available to the general public. Since…

  • RRA Updates and our Commitment to Pricing Stability

    At Knock Knock WHOIS There, we believe that keeping things simple allows registrars and resellers to focus on their core business. For this reason, we recently made the decision to…

  • .blog Marketing Resources

    When it comes to new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), education is paramount for usage. TLDs like .com, .net, and .org are stable pillars of the domain name space, but the…

  • Where Blogs Come From

    We’ve come a long way from the blogs of the early 1990s. From the first weblog, in which bloggers were logging their daily lives on the web to today’s expansive…

  • .blog Joins the i2Coalition

    With a little less than a year under our belt since the launch of .blog, Knock Knock WHOIS There (KKWT) is ready to tackle broader issues facing our community. With their…

  • Announcing .blog Marketing Programs for 2017

    Since the beginning, our approach at Knock Knock WHOIS There has been slow and steady wins the race. We strongly believe in working towards long-term, data-informed objectives rather than prioritizing…