1st Day New gTLD Radix Totals: .Website 6342; .Press 800; .Host 780 … - Three new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA) yesterday all operated by Radix and the totals after the first day of general availability including domain names registered during the Sunrise period for Trademark holders and during Landrush a period where registrant could pay more money for early access to the domain names are as follows: .Website 6,342 .Press 800 .Host 780 Yesterday afternoon Radix put out a press release saying that they had registered over 6,500 .Website domain names in ... read more ...

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Backing from City of Las Vegas Helped .VEGAS Draw Plenty of Attention to Their … - That's why city and registry officials chose to celebrate the debut at City Hall in front of a giant 3-D .VEGAS logo display, complete with showgirls.Dignitaries on hand for the start of .VEGAS ... read more ...

Amazon Scoops Up the ‘.Buy’ Domain for $4.6 Million - Looking to branch out beyond ".com," Amazon is the new proud owner of the ".buy" generic top-level domain (gTLD) after paying nearly $4.6 million at auction. The online retail giant reportedly beat out Google and two other companies in the auction, where the ".tech" and ".vip." domains were also sold for millions. The auction was run by ICANN, the nonprofit organization that oversees Internet domain names. Although the domain is sure to be valuable, it's still just a consolation prize for the ... read more ...

Amazon Beats Google, Pays $4.6 Million For .Buy Top-Level Domain - Amazon beat Google in an ICANN auction on Wednesday, and won the rights to operate the .buy top-level domain with a bid of $4,588,888. ICANN reports that there were four bidders for .buy — Amazon, Google (via its Charleston Road Registry subsidiary), Dot Buy and Bitter Sunset. Only Amazon and Google bid more than $1.5 million to operate the new gTLD. ICANN calls these “string contention” auctions, and describes the process this way: String contention occurs when ... read more ...

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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Church 4044; .Guide 3387; .Life 2106; .Loans 632 … - Five new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA) on Wednesday. Including domains registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and by those willing to pay an extra charge to register domain name in the Early Access Program (EAP) prior to GA here are the number of domain name registrations after the first day of GA: .Church 4,044 .Guide 3,387 .Life 2,106 .Loans 632 .Republican 385 So we have further indication that religion beats politics. In general the political domains have been a ... read more ...

.Guide Going Live Wed Has More Registrations Than 4 M + M gTLD’s Have After … - .Guide which goes into general availability tomorrow, Wednesday September 17th already has more registrations than four strings of Minds + Machines after their first day of GA yesterday. .Guide is sitting at 403 domain name all registered in Sunrise by trademark holders and in the Early Access Program (EAP), while .fishing after its first day of GA is sitting at 387, .Horse is sitting at 327, Country (owned jointly with Uniregistry) is sitting at 220 and .Rodeo is at 107. At 403 registrations .Guide ... read more ...

.XYZ 1st New gTLD To Break 500000 Registrations - .XYZ has become the first new gTLD to break the 500,000 registration mark. According to ntldstats.com has 501,459 domain registrations. A little of 377,000 of these registrations are from Network Solutions which as we at TheDomains.com discovered early on, are free registrations. Onamae.com a Japanese registrar owned by GMO has over 55,000 of the registrations. Xin Net Technology Corporation a Chinese registrar has the third most .XYZ domain registrations at just over 26,500. It should be noted that ... read more ...

ICANN New gTLD Auctions Scheduled For Next Week Include 1st Between … - There are three ICANN new gTLD contention resolution auctions scheduled for next week and for the first time Amazon and Google will go head to head for a new gTLD extension in an auction whose results including the amount paid will be made public. Not only will Google and Amazon duke it out for .Buy but they will be joined by Donuts and Famous Four Media. In the new gTLD ICANN auction for .Tech will include; Frank Schilling’s Uniregisty, Donuts, Google, Minds + Machines and Straat.co the group ... read more ...

1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Digital 2658; .Finance 1057; .Insure 788 … - 4 New gTLD’s went into the 1st day of general availability (GA) yesterday. Here are the number of new gTLD registrations after the 1st day of General Availability (GA) for the 4 extensions which includes the domain name registered by Trademark holders in the Sunrise Period and the domains registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) for which people paid extra money to get early access to the domains: .Digital 2,658 .Finance 1,057 .Insure 788 .Accountants 371 We should note that there is already ... read more ...