Tag Archives: Donuts

Thu 23rd July 2015
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"Spa Community" gets .Spa domain name - Group wins Community Priority Evaluation for .Spa. Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council Limited has won (for now) the sole right to operate the .Spa top level domain name after winning a Community Priority Evaluation for the name. The group scored 14 points (pdf) out of 16 to prevail. It lost one point for “Content and Use” and one for “Community Endorsement” under support. According to its application, Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council Limited “is the regional coordinating body ... read more ...
Wed 15th July 2015
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Microsoft registers generics as they come off collision list - Tech giant registers domains such as desktop.computer and computer.systems. Microsoft has started registering generic/descriptive new top level domain names as they are released from the collision list. Specifically, Microsoft has registered at least a half dozen domain names in Donuts’ domains that were recently released as part of the registry’s phased release of names: arcade.zone 7/1 download.center 7/1 developer.center 7/1 desktop.computer 7/8 datacenter.systems 7/8 computer.systems 7/13 The ... read more ...
Tue 7th July 2015
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Andee Hill joins Donuts as relationship to domain name investors - Hill will work with domain name investors. Donuts has hired Andee Hill as Director of Business Development, the company announced today. She will handle relationships with domain name investors and report directly to co-founder and EVP for Business Development Dan Schindler. Hill most recently was founder of EscrowHill, an escrow service for domain names. Prior to that, she worked for Escrow.com. EscrowHill recently closed up shop by selling its escrow application to the law firm Greenberg Lieberman ... read more ...
Mon 29th June 2015
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This week's new TLDs: .Golf, .Gold and .Date - Famous Four Media releases three domain names this week and Donuts sends four to Early Access. Famous Four Media launches three top level domain names in general availability on Wednesday. All of the domain names can be registered for about $25-$30. .Date: This domain name will compete with two from Donuts: .Dating (3,000 registrations) and .Singles (6,000 registrations). .Faith: KeepThe.Faith? Donuts has had success with .Church with over 11,000 registrations. Faith is broader, but .Church has ... read more ...
Thu 11th June 2015
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Donuts starts releasing name collision domains - First batch of domains is now available for registration. Donuts has begun releasing domain names that were originally held back due to name collision concerns. The first set of domain names, all related to photography, became available yesterday. They are currently running through Early Access, which means they are going through a sort of Dutch auction for seven days. Next Wednesday the domains will become available at regular prices. (About 2% of domains have premium prices attached to them.) Domains ... read more ...
Mon 8th June 2015
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New gTLD's Top 6 Million Domain Registrations & We Break Down The Numbers - The number of new gTLD registrations has topped 6 million according to ntldstats.com Lets break down the numbers by looking at the difference from our last report published on April 10th, when new gTLD domain registrations broke the 5 Million mark (Referred to as the April Report or April numbers) .Science owned by Famous Four Media added 200,000 registrations. .Science was launched and heavily promoted by AlpNames.com which gave away 50K or more free domains and has been selling them for $.49 thereafter. .Party ... read more ...
Tue 26th May 2015
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This week's new TLDs: .Apartments - You can move into a .apartments domain name this week. Donuts releases one domain name in regularly-priced general availability this week and some good ones enter Early Access. .Apartments launches on Wednesday, with many registrars offering prices around $50. This should be a great domain name for geo domains. You might want to look for lesser-known location names and state abbreviations. For example, you can pick up TX.apartments (short for Texas) at a premium price of about $150 per year. (You ... read more ...
Mon 25th May 2015
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One Company Just Spent Over $150K In .Apartments Domains & Donuts Makes Over $220K Just In Day 1 - Donuts just I believe set a new gTLD record for selling 21 new gTLD’s on the 1st day of the Early Access Program (EAP) in which wholesale prices are $10K and retail prices range from around $11K to $12,500. Meaning that Donuts took $210,000 in just EAP fees for day 1 of EAP plus many of those domain name also had a premium price. One company, registered 16 domain names on the 1st day EAP spending what basically amounts to what they could have spent to apply for the whole .apartment new gTLD by ... read more ...
Tue 19th May 2015
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Donuts to start releasing collision and 2 impression domains subsequent month - Names will be released in batches over two months. Top level domain name company Donuts will begin making domain names from collision lists, along with certain two character domain names, available next month. The domain names will be released in batches related to categories of domains, such as photography domains and financial domains. This industry-batching should allow the company to market the availability to their target audiences. Most of the names that will be released are on the name collision ... read more ...
Mon 18th May 2015
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Donuts To Release Over 1 Million New gTLD Domains Starting Jun 10th - According to an email we received tonight Donuts is going to release more than one million previously unavailable new gTLD domain names, including permissible two character addresses Donuts will offer registrations via our Early Access Program (EAP) for the first seven days of their availability The release of these names will begin on June 10, 2015 and will be staggered in batches (see dates below).   Here are the new gTLD extensions associated with each category: ... read more ...
Sun 17th May 2015
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Looks Likes Coupons.com Got $4.8 Million For Withdrawing Its .Coupons New gTLD App - According to Tweets from George Kirikos and Daniel Negari it appears that Coupons.com made a cool $4.8 Million dollars for withdrawing its application for the new gTLD .Coupons George found an SEC filing that showed Coupons.com received $4.8 million dollars from the sale of a domain name. Coupons.com withdrew its application to operate the new gTLD .Coupons which left Donuts, the only applicant for .Coupons the winner of what appears to have been a private auction or some other method to privately ... read more ...
Tue 12th May 2015
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This week's new TLDs: .Design and 4 Early Access - .Design enters GA and Donuts releases four more domain names. Only one top level domain name enters true general availability this week: .Design went live this morning U.S. time. The domain name is being offered (fittingly) by Top Level Design. You can read more about the hotly contest auction for this top level domain, and listen to Top Level Design founder Ray King discuss why he thinks this domain offers so much opportunity. GoDaddy is offering .Design domains with a first year price of $29.99, ... read more ...
Thu 16th April 2015
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Donuts' new TLD renovation rates operation from 55% to 72% - Company releases updated figures for renewal rates. New top level domain name company Donuts has released updated renewal rates for the first 25 top level domain names it launched. Rates range from about 55% to 72%, well under the company’s predicted 80% renewal rate. (The company now says it expects rates to trend toward 80% later in the year.) The highest renewal rate belongs to .technology at 71.7%. The lowest is .directory at just 54.7%. .Guru, which received more first year registrations than ... read more ...
Wed 8th April 2015
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Donuts hurdles .Charity decision - Company invokes Independent Review Process over year-old objection decision. New top level domain name company Donuts has filed for an Independent Review Process over a community objection decision for .Charity. The Independent Objector filed community objections against both Donuts and Famous Four Media for their .charity applications. Surprisingly, the panelist ruled that the objection prevailed against Donuts but failed again Famous Four Media. The panelist’s decision was based on a Public Interest ... read more ...
Mon 6th April 2015
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Donuts files engaging heading applications - Donuts files trademark applications, likely for marketing campaign. Top level domain name registry Donuts has filed two interesting trademark applications. The applications are for the marks: I Am.___________ We Are.__________ My guess is this is for a marketing campaign, as it runs nicely with its current video ads that show a number of options to the right of the dot. I can imagine a campaign in which I Am. is followed by everything from .contractors to .dental. The trademark applications were ... read more ...
Thu 2nd April 2015
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Donuts’ selling descent tops list of most-read stories for Mar on WTR - Trevor Little wrote on World Trademark Review that Donuts marketing offensive was the most read story for March. From the article: The campaign is aimed at spreading the new gTLD gospel to small businesses in the US. While unlikely to be the turning point in terms of wider public awareness of new gTLDs, the campaign will do no harm in spreading the gTLD message and will be welcomed by registrars. We argued that it is also a development worth noting by brand owners. Elsewhere in the gTLD world, there ... read more ...
Tue 31st March 2015
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Why Donuts is divulgence domain name renovation rates - By predicting and revealing renewals, Donuts hopes to get registrars and domain name investors on board. Donuts has posted an update on its renewal rates, showing an overall 68.4% rate after ten days. The update also highlights a reason Donuts predicted its renewal rates ahead of time and has continuously revealed its rates now that domains are expiring: It’s marketing. Co-founder Richard Tindal explains that renewal rates on Donuts domains are much higher than those of .com domain names registered ... read more ...
Fri 27th March 2015
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Donuts: “We’ve labelled a product aloft utterly simply since we consider it’s significantly superior,” - Xconomy.com did an article on the new gtlds and had a focus on Donuts and they got quotes from Richard Tindal a co-founder and COO. Again I think some of the quotes are way off base. Tindal talks about Donuts pricing being higher because it is a superior product. No new gtld currently is superior to .com that is just patently false and this type of stuff is what hurts the new gtlds in discussions and debates imo. Tindal does have the good sense to admit that awareness of the new gtlds is still very ... read more ...
Wed 25th March 2015
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Are we astounded by Donuts' renovation rates? - Latest day was 61%, but it might be too early to draw conclusions. New top level domain name mega-registry Donuts has been blogging daily renewal rate data for its first domain names released nearly 14 months ago. The most recent data show a 71% renewal rate for the 37,857 Donuts domain names that have exited the renewal grace period. This includes 14 top level domains, and the majority of these names were registered in general availability. Comparing day 4 to day 3, the renewal rate dropped to about ... read more ...
Mon 23rd March 2015
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Donuts Suffers the 1st Overall Negative Domain Day -   The new gTLD Registry, Donuts suffered its first net negative domain day since becoming a registry; where the number of new domain names registered were exceeded by the number of new gTLD deleted or removed from the zone file for non-renewal. According to ntldstats.com Donuts had a net loss of 63 domain names yesterday on  March 22nd. You can see this by checking out this chart and mousing over yesterday. Donuts is now reporting its renewal stats on its company blog and updating it daily. Donuts ... read more ...
 
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Donuts' initial new domain names are starting to drop… - Donuts’ first domain name registrations are starting to drop. Here are initial numbers. Donuts is releasing renewal numbers for its new TLDs daily as the first batch of names exit the auto-renew grace period. Yesterday, Donuts COO and Co-Founder Richard Tindal blogged results for the 6,352 Donuts domains that exited the grace period as of Saturday. Of these, 85.3% were renewed. About one third of these domain names were sunrise registrations, which should have a higher-than-normal renewal rate. ... read more ...
Sun 15th March 2015
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Donuts To Initiate First Advertising Campaign - MediaPost published an article a couple hours ago on Donuts initiating its first advertising campaign. Comments from Jeff Davidoff the CMO at Donuts are quoted in the article. One interesting quote, “Dot-com doesn’t mean anything. The Google algorithm looks for meaning and connects the word with relevant content. Marketers really need to focus on the quality of the content and the connection with the domain name.” From the article: The campaign will run video and banner ads online for 60 days ... read more ...
Fri 13th March 2015
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Donuts hurdles ICANN's .Doctor decision - Stethoscope may be required to register a .Doctor domain name. Donuts has filed a reconsideration request after ICANN decided to slam the door on who can register a domain name under the .doctor top level domain name. Last month, ICANN’s New gTLD Program Committee determined that .Doctor should be a namespace restricted only to “legitimate medical practitioners”. This eliminates a number of possible uses of the .doctor domain name. For example, brands like Rug Doctor and Lawn Doctor wouldn’t ... read more ...
Tue 10th March 2015
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This week's new TLDs: Mo Money, Mo Domains - Four domain names launch this week, including .money. Donuts releases four new top level domain names this Wednesday: .Money, .Legal, .Memorial and .Coach. Ironically, .Money costs the least money of the four. A couple registrars I checked are offering the domain name for $28 per year. .Legal, .Memorial and .Coach are all priced about $50 retail. Many of these domain names are similar to other existing domains. .Money will compete with .Cash (4,200 domains) and .Finance (2,600 domains). .Legal is ... read more ...
Tue 3rd March 2015
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This week's new TLDs: .WhosWho and 4 EAPs - There aren’t many who’s registering this new domain name. Only one non-brand new top level domain name goes live this week in general availability, and it’s a rather unique one. .Whoswho went live yesterday. It appears to have only gotten about a dozen registrations on its first day and only has 22 names in the zone file so far. This isn’t too surprising. First of all, .whoswho is somewhat akin to .CEO. You can argue it fails the douche test. Second, whoswho is a somewhat strange term. I ... read more ...