A Word’s Worth: Contention Sets and New gTLD Auctions - Depending on the person, the word auction can bring to mind a dusty, hot structure full of livestock and a fast-talking announcer with a Western lilt to his voice or a cool, quiet room of well-dressed art patrons waiting for the next Impressionist masterpiece to be unveiled in a stately building on the Upper East Side.Aside from applicants for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and those in the ICANN community, most people probably don’t think of auctions as a way to resolve what are essentially ... read more ...

.Ninja Wins The Week With 5200 Registrations; .Rentals 5K+; .immobilien 4.5K … - Yesterday marked the first day of General Availability for several new domain extensions (new gTLD’s)  and .Ninja led the way ending with 5,200 registrations. Closely behind .Ninja was .Rentals which is sitting at 5,044 domains. .immobilien which translates into “real estate” closed it first day with 4,500 registrations. After those three  new extensions it was a large drop off to .Vacations which had  1,581 domains registered after it first day of GA .Flights came in with just 822 registrations ... read more ...

.Club Overtake .Guru To Become The Most Registered New gTLD -       .Club has passed .Guru to become the new gTLD with the most registrations. According to ntldstats.com, .CLub now has 59,400 domain names registered beating .Guru by just 120 registrations which is sitting at 59,240. .Club also the fastest growing extension according to namestat.org, given the extension a rating of 100 on the scale of 100, while .Guru is still number three on the top 10 fastest growing list but only has a rating of 21. In other new gTLD number news there are now more than ... read more ...

Architelos Signs NameSentry Referral Agreement with Verisign - Related: Press Release, News Architelos, Inc., the premier provider of automated domain name abuse detection and mitigation services, announced it has signed a referral agreement with Verisign for NameSentry. Under the terms of the agreement, Architelos will provide NameSentry at a discounted rate to new generic top-level domain (gTLD) registry operators that use Verisign as their back-end registry services provider. Architelos' pioneering NameSentry? service enables new gTLDs to not only ... read more ...

PIR Registry (.Org) Launches 3 New gTLD IDN’s Of Organization Into General … - “The Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, launches General Availability for its three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organization” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one in Devanagari (.संगठन), one in Cyrillic (.орг), and one in simplified Chinese (.机构). “The launch of these international domain names allows us to continue expanding upon our ongoing mission of making the Internet a global, ... read more ...

QNET Gets Exclusive URL That Will Change the Internet Forever - QNET Gets Exclusive URL That Will Change the Internet Forever PRWEB.COM Newswire Hong Kong (PRWEB) May 23, 2014 Asian Direct Selling Company, QNET has secured its own top-level domain .quest, making it one of only a few hundred companies in the world to be part of the first wave that will eventually transform almost every URL on the Internet. QNET has already begun thinking about how it will use the .quest domain but it is not likely to see it anywhere before early 2015. QNET ... read more ...

New generic top-level domain names do more harm than good - It’s been a few months now since the bevy of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) were made available. These were supposed to rock the domain name registration business and change the Internet landscape forever. We’re all used to the traditional TLDs, such as .net, .com and .org, and the point of the initiative is to add a bunch of new gTLDs to create more options because the Internet is running out of good domain names to use. Now if I own a tattoo parlor, I can register company.tattoo. ... read more ...

New generic top-level domain names do more harm than good - It’s been a few months now since the bevy of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) were made available. These were supposed to rock the domain name registration business and change the Internet landscape forever. We’re all used to the traditional TLDs, such as .net, .com and .org, and the point of the initiative is to add a bunch of new gTLDs to create more options because the Internet is running out of good domain names to use. Now if I own a tattoo parlor, I can register company.tattoo. ... read more ...

.Foundation Gets 1393 Registrations On Day-1; .Dance 881; .Exposed 746 … - The new gTLD stats just updated for the 5 new gTLD that went into general availability yesterday and the numbers were pretty low. 5 new gTLD went into general availability yesterday and numbers are less than impressive. Including Sunrise domain registrations here are the numbers according to ntldstats.com: . Foundation 1,393; .Dance 881; .Exposed 746 .Democrat 535 and Best just 79 domain names. .Exposed and .Foundation were Donuts extensions, while Rightside has their first two new gTLD’s rollout, ... read more ...