CSC Issues "New gTLD Utilization Report" .Global Enters "Alternative Top 10" List - Brand protection and domain registrar, Corporate Service Company (CSC) issued its latest “New gTLD Utilization Report” which is designed to update digital marketers and their peers in legal and IT about how new gTLDs are being adopted. The report also examines how .brand domains are being used and how effectively the new generic TLDs are penetrating the Alexa.com, top one million websites (a potential indicator for TLD utilization).
On the Brand front in CSC’s December report, there were 75 ... read more ...
Tag Archives: .global
Tue 9th February 2016
Wed 2nd December 2015
.Global Is Giving Away A Premium Domain Everyday Until Christmas: Housing.Global Was The 1st -
.Global is giving away a FREE Premium domain name a day, everyday until Christmas.
The daily contest started yesterday and the first domain name won was housing.global and Damon Barnard was the lucky winner
In all there are $50,000 worth of .GLOBAL premium names to be won!
You need to enter the contest each day for a chance to win the domain name for that day.
Today’s free domain name is LowFare.Global.
.Global does not have a premium renewal fee so all these premium domain names will renew ... read more ...
Wed 28th January 2015
.Global Puts Up Site With Over 3,500 Domains/ Many Previous Premiums Available For Registration - The .Global registry has put up a site to highlight over 3,500 domain names that are available for immediate registration many of which were formally on the reserved/restricted list.
Domain names registered through January 31st are also eligible for the $25 per domain rebate for those that register 10 or more domains.
Each listed domain name is click-able from the site, which will tell you if they are still available (some have been taken) and gives you some suggested registrars where the domain ... read more ...
Fri 23rd January 2015
.Global Registry Offering A $25 Cash Back Rebate, But only for 8 Days - The .Global new gTLD registry just launched a cash back program to give people who register 10 or more .Global Domain names a cash back bonus of $25 per domain.
“This is a limited time offer only available between Friday 23th of January and Saturday 31st of January.”
For details on how to apply for the cashback, please click here.
It doesn’t matter which registrar that sells .global registrations you use to get the cash back bonus.
The $25 per domain will be sent by the registry to your paypal ... read more ...
Wed 27th August 2014
.Global Ends Sunrise With Almost 400 Registrations, Apple Registers 22 - .Global just ended it Sunrise period and did very well, getting almost 400 registrations by trademark holders.
Apple was the largest registrant with 22 domain name registrations although Microsoft, Sun, Amazon, Google, HSBC, Ford, Dell, are just some of the big brand holders that participated.
In all 2.2 domains were registered per registrant on average.
A Sunrise application cost $250, $150 application fee, and $100 registration fee, so .Global made back $100K of it $185K application fee just ... read more ...
Wed 9th July 2014
.Global NameJet.com Auction Closes in 3 Hours; Invest.global Is Leading The Pack @ $1,400 - The .Global premium domain auction starts to close at 3PM EST on NameJet.com
The domains in this auction are domain names that were in the live auction that was held in London during ICANN a couple of weeks ago and produced over $63,000 in sales
Many of these domains received bids in the live auction but failed to reach reserve, however the registry agreed to lower the reserves on a lot of these domain names for the Namejet.com auction.
As of publication invest.global is the highest domain with the ... read more ...
Mon 7th July 2014
The Namejet .Global Domain Auction Closes In 48 Hours & Reserves Have Been Lowered - Following on the heels of the highly successful Live .Global auction held in London during ICANN where over $63,000 in .Global domain names sold, the remaining domains that didn’t sell are at auction at Namejet.com
As of publication, out of the 47 domain names in the auction all but 11 have opening bids.
The auction closes on Wednesday starting at 3PM EST/ 12PM PST.
The best part of the auction is that the registry agreed to lower the reserve on a lot of the domains in the NameJet.com auction ... read more ...
Wed 2nd July 2014
WSJ.com Covers New gTLD Domain Extensions Highlighting .Global: “We Spent $10M” -
WSJ.com Live Covered the new gTLD domain name program today on WSJ Live and the star of the 3 minute segment was .Global
The segment was entitled Bye ‘Dot Com,’ 1300 New Domains Blowing You Away.
“You know ‘dot com’ and ‘dot org’ but over the next few years you could be using more than 1300 new domain names. The WSJ’s Ramy Inocencio speaks with Dot Global CEO Rolf Larsen on what expansion means for you.”
In the interview Rolf told WSJ.com that the application cost him ... read more ...
Wed 25th June 2014
Impressive formula from .Global domain name auction -
.Global auction sells 35 domain names for a total of $63,780.
.Global held a live domain name auction in London yesterday afternoon, and the results were quite impressive.
The $63,780 in sales across 35 of 82 domain names far surpassed those I asked in a “straw poll” prior to the auction. It certainly exceeded my expectations.
I think a key moment was the 12th lot for flights.global. The preceding nine lots failed to sell, and a $5,000 bid on flights.global was ... read more ...
Tue 24th June 2014
Pictures from a biggest domain name eventuality ever -
Scenes from the first day of ICANN 50 in London.
Close to 3,500 people registered for the ICANN 50 meeting in London this week, making it the biggest domain-name related event ever.
The surge in attendance has to do with a confluence of events, especially the U.S. government’s recent plans to eventually no longer be involved with the contract related to IANA functionality.
ICANN books meeting venues well in advance, so it wasn’t able to switch up venues to accommodate ... read more ...