A New Way to Value Registry Business -
CEY — a new metric and the key to understanding the value of a registry
There's a new site on the web — nTLDstats.com — that has a ton of valuable information about the new gTLD program. It shows numbers of registrations by registry, registrar, registry service provides — all the "Rs" in the domain name industry. It has quickly become the place where people go to measure how the industry, and the competitors in it, are doing.
There's only one problem — not all domain registrations ... read more ...
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Tue 26th August 2014
Mon 25th August 2014
DotHIV Launching With A Social Purpose & a $200 Price Tag On Thursday - The .Hiv registry sent us this information on the launch of the new gTLD .Hiv
The domain is not being offered by some of the bigger registrars and is priced around between $196 and $230 a year at some of the registrars I checked, although a portion of the price is being given to HIV and AIDS charities.
Here are some of the registrars that you can register a .HIV domain name at:
NetNames.com
Marcaria
Safe names
Markmonitor
Blacknight
101domain
Moniker.com
Tucows
United Domains
Epag
Key Systems
1 and ... read more ...
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Monday, August 25, 2014
DNS Policy Notes for August 25, 2014
by Thomas O'Toole
Collected news and opinion about the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the domain name business, Internet governance, and misc other cyberlaw topics for August 25, 2014.Breaking the Silence on Internet GovernanceVia the World Economic Forum:Inspired by the NETmundial meeting ... read more ...
Sun 24th August 2014
New gTLD Domain Name Registrations Break 2 Million But There Are Lots Of … - According to nTLDstats.com the number of new gTLD registration broke through the 2 million mark today and sits at 2,011,549.
However there are plenty of caveats and asterisks to go around.
Its interesting to note that there are only 666,394 distinct registrants for the over 2 Million domain names, meaning that the average registrant owns over 3 new gTLD domain names.
cnnic.cn the registry of two IDN gTLD extensions registered and reserved over 55,000 of the 2 million domains just this week. You ... read more ...
Registry Registers & Reserves over 33500 New gTLD’s For .公司 (Business … - The registry we wrote about the other day which registered and reserved over 23,500 domain names for a new gTLD IDN has done it again with another new gTLD IDN.
This time Computer Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China Internet Network Information Center registered and reserved over 33,500 domain names for the extension .公司 which means “business organization”
You can read more about this application here
The number of reserved and registered domains in .公司 (Business ... read more ...
Quebec to Launch Its Own Internet Domain: dot-Quebec -
Montreal, Quebec – It may cause the rest of the nation to roll its eyes and once again mutter in frustration why this eccentric province insists on being non-germane, but the province is nonetheless poised to begin using its own suffix for websites. While the rest of Canada uses the standard .com or .ca suffixes, websites will soon sprout up using .quebec as their suffix. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization managing internet standards, ... read more ...
Fri 22nd August 2014
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TLD Ace pays OSHA fine, plans expansion -
Posted: Friday, August 22, 2014 12:54 pm
TLD Ace pays OSHA fine, plans expansion
By Howard French
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Le nom de domaine .quebec devient un suffixe pour Internet -
Dès cet automne, le nom de domaine .quebec sera disponible comme suffixe aux adresses URL pour les sites Internet, faisant ainsi du Québec le seul secteur du Canada avec sa propre signature à la place des traditionnels .com et .ca.
Le .quebec fait partie d'une nouvelle vague de noms de domaine de premier niveau pour les codes génériques (gTLD) récemment autorisés par la Société pour l'attribution des noms de domaine et des numéros sur Internet (ICANN) afin d'offrir de ... read more ...
This Weeks New gTLD 1st Day Totals: .Bio 2679; .Haus 1261; .Tax 1135; .Cash … - The zone files for the new gTLD that launched on Wednesday updated later than usual this week but here are the 1st day totals for the new gTLD’s that launched this week.
The totals include domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders as well as those registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) or Landrush, as well as during the 1st day of general availability.
.Bio 2,679
.Haus 1,261
.Tax 1,135
.Cash 1,026
.Investments 876
.Fund 772
Haus is the German word meaning house.
.Investments ... read more ...
Quebec to get its own distinct internet domain name -
MONTREAL – Quebec will soon enjoy distinct status in Canada and across the World Wide Web, thanks to recognition by the global Internet body.This fall, the domain name .quebec will be available to serve as a URL suffix for websites, making the province the only Canadian jurisdiction with its own signature as an alternative to old standards, like .com and .ca.
The .quebec suffix is among a wave of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) recently authorized by the Internet Corporation for Assigned ... read more ...
Registry For New gTLD IDN .网络 (Network) Registers & Reserves Over 23K … - A new gTLD IDN .网络 which means network in Chinese (xn--io0a7i) registered and reserved over 23,500 domain names yesterday increasing the overall number of new gTLD registered to 1.96 million according to ntldstats.com.
The registry of the IDN new gTLD is Computer Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China Internet Network Information Center)
You can read more about about their application here.
The extension which seems to either be in landrush or has wrapped up its ... read more ...
Thu 21st August 2014
With New Vanity Domains Your Website Could End In ".beer," ".cooking," and More -
click to enlarge Elina Shatkin Beer sampler at Beer Belly ... read more ...
ANA: “Hard to Imagine That Most of The Already-Launched TLDs Will Be Around … - The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) an opponent of the new gTLD program wrote a post on its corporate blog today asking “Already Launched New gTLD’s : Is Anyone Out There?”
The post is a “report” written by their general counsel Reed Smith LLP, and Brad R. Newberg of the firm wrote the piece which gave its rundown of the state of the new gTLD program and is definitely worth a read.
Here are the highlights:
This post asks the question: Putting aside cybersquatters, domainers (those ... read more ...
How to make a name for yourself in the new era of the internet -
Securing a new and original domain name can be a tricky task – especially when you consider there are 276 million registered domain names already taken.
Anyone who has attempted to buy a domain ending in ‘.com’ or ‘co.uk’ recently will likely have experienced a slew of ‘sorry, that domain is not available’ rejections from the registration site.
Demand for new domains isn’t slowing down either; in the first quarter of 2014, an additional five million domain names were added to the ... read more ...
India’s first ever International Domain Conference to be held in Hyderabad -
Wed 20th August 2014
Shorter .nz domain names to go up for grabs -
If you already own a .co.nz, .net.nz or other .nz domain name, you may be eligible to register the shorter version of your domain name ahead of everyone else.
The Domain Name Commission Limited has announced the date from when it will be possible to register .nz domain names. From 30 September 2014 it will be possible to register shorter, more concise domain names. Rather than registering anyname.co.nz, for example, you will be able to register anyname.nz.
Shorter is better
There ... read more ...
.Cash & .Tax Launch Today Here Are The Registered Domain Names - We have chatted earlier this week about the new domain names registered in two of the 5 new gTLD’s going live today, .Fund and .Investments and thought we would let you know what domain names were not going to be available when General Registration opens today for .Cash and .Tax.
We think .Tax is going to be the weakest of the 4 new Donuts extensions launching today.
Although its the cheapest of the four new gTLD’s extension in terms of registration prices, we think the application for .tax ... read more ...
TRA allows individuals to register Omani domain names -
Oman's Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA) has made way for individuals to register a website or a domain name in their name under the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .om and .oman in Arabic. According to Muscat Daily, the authority has amended some provisions of the statute regulating domain names. The change comes into effect from 10 September.
The applicant of a domain name under ccTLD .om and .oman in Arabic must be an Omani citizen, or one of the administrative ... read more ...
276 Million Domains and Counting -
On a year-over-year basis, total global TLD registrations grew by 7.5 percent or 19.3 million new domain name registrations. While overall growth is high, the .com and .net TLDs only grew by 4 percent year-over year.
VeriSign manages both the .com and .net registries under contract with ICANN and the U.S Department of Commerce. The .net registry contract was renewed in 2011 and gives VeriSign control until 2017. The .com TLD contract was last renewed by VeriSign in 2012.
At the end of the first ... read more ...
Tue 19th August 2014
420K ICANN Collision New gTLD Domains Start The Process of Being Freed As … - There are a ton of new gTLD’s being “registered” today.
Many readers have written and commented about the volume of domain “registered” today and that these registrations may screw up the new gTLD stats when the zone files update tomorrow.
However the vast majority are domain names on the ICANN Collision list and appears to be a technical entry, rather than a real domain registration, one of the steps in the domain name being freed.
According to Registered.Today over 420,000 new gTLD ... read more ...
Global meet on web domains in India -
Around 2,000 applications for new generic top level domains (gTLD – .com or .net extensions in web names) have been received
Indian Domain Owners Association (IDOA) will host a first ever international domain conference in India here on August 24.
“India is the first venue for World Domain Day (WDD) conference to promote domain name revolution. The new wave of top level domains will create a completely new Internet landscape forever,” Prakhar Bindal, CEO Axsiom.com, said, announcing ... read more ...
.Investments Launches Today Here Are The Domains Taken In Sunrise & EAP - The new gTLD .investments goes into general availability today meaning it can be registered on a first come first serve basis.
The registration price is high at a whopping $129.99 registration price at Godaddy.com
Here are the more interesting domain names registered in Sunrise for trademark holders and in the Early Access Program for a higher one time fee.
Either way these domain names are no longer available:
about.investments
abudhabi.investments
accelerator.investments
advisorshares.investments
aia.investments
allfundsbank.investments
alternative.investments
amazon.investments
amerivest.investments
amil.investments
anf.investments
angel.investments
apax.investments
aqr.investments
bcv.investments
berkeley.investments
bgc.investments
bitcoin.investments
bitcoins.investments
bitpay.investments
blackstone.investments
bny.investments
bond.investments
bonds.investments
broker.investments
brokers.investments
buildingblocks.investments
business.investments
caixabank.investments
cantor.investments
ccre.investments
cip.investments
coin.investments
corporatepartners.investments
costar.investments
costargroup.investments
crowd.investments
csg.investments
csgp.investments
danskebank.investments
darby.investments
dubai.investments
eight.investments
expat.investments
firstcitizens.investments
firststate.investments
florida.investments
foreign.investments
franklin.investments
franklintempleton.investments
fxcm.investments
gasnatural.investments
glacier.investments
global.investments
goldmansachs.investments
good.investments
great.investments
hightech.investments
homesteadfunds.investments
iam.investments
icap.investments
imx.investments
intuit.investments
johnhancock.investments
jointhenation.investments
jti.investments
kbc.investments
koc.investments
lasvegas.investments
lazard.investments
libertymutual.investments
libertymutualinsurance.investments
lowrisk.investments
macau.investments
make.investments
makemoney.investments
marijuana.investments
market.investments
mellon.investments
miami.investments
microsoft.investments
mill.investments
moodys.investments
mortgage.investments
mutualfund.investments
mytrade.investments
nationwidebank.investments
naughty.investments
nestegg.investments
newyork.investments
one.investments
papermoney.investments
park.investments
peak.investments
pennystock.investments
prime.investments
putnam.investments
rbc.investments
reit.investments
roofing.investments
royal.investments
royalbank.investments
scotland.investments
scout.investments
showcase.investments
smart.investments
southflorida.investments
steadfast.investments
stock.investments
stockmarket.investments
stocks.investments
tech.investments
templeton.investments
the.investments
thebankofnewyork.investments
thehartford.investments
thinkmoney.investments
titan.investments
trustmark.investments
veo.investments
vpi.investments
vtb.investments
wallstreet.investments
weed.investments
worst.investments
wrap.investments
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TLD – .bide pour le .archi ? -
les nouveaux TLD (Top-Level Domain) (Domaine de premier niveau) en comportent au moins un, parmi les 371 nouveaux gTLD (G pour générique), concernant le monde de l’architecture le “.archi“ lancé en grande pompe avec l’appui de vedettes régionales vieillissantes comme Paul Andreu en personne, (http://dot-archi.com). Deux mois après son ouverture publique à la réservation le .archi ne recueille au niveau mondial, et à la date du 19 août 2014,) que 1330 demandes de réservation ... read more ...
TLD internet : Le .paris brûle t’il … les planches ? -
97 à la date du 18 août 2014 ! Certes le .paris est encore en “sunrise“ c’est à dire une période de pré-réservation plus onéreuse, et devant être accepté par l’entité gérant ce tld (ici la ville de Paris elle même.) Il n’empêche nous sommes loin des discours fanfaronnants faisant croire à un réel engouement sur le site, moche et ringard dédié à cet événement http://mondomaine.paris
les nouveaux noms de domaines génériques (371) autorisés par l’ICANN, ... read more ...