Donuts Wins Private Auction For New gTLD .Pizza; Minds + Machines Wins … - Minds + Machines, (AIM:MMX) has won the private auction for the new gTLD .Fashion The three losing applicants in the private auction held last week for .Fashion were Uniregistry, Donuts and Famous Four Media. The losing bidders for the new gTLD .Pizza were, Asiamix Digital Limited,Minds + Machines, and Uniregistry. Uniregistry previously announced they won the private auctions for the new gTLD extensions of .Help and .Diet from last weeks private auction. Famous Four previously announced the won ... read more ...

Famous Four Wins New gTLD Private Auctions For .Cricket and .Racing -       Famous Four Media, the registry operator for Domain Venture Partners, announced today that they were the winning bidders at the private new gTLD auctions for the domain nams.RACING and .CRICKET. Both domain extensions will be added to the portfolio of 17 registries in which Domain Venture Partners has ownership. The other applicants for .Cricket were Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (Minds + Machines) and Donuts. The other applicants for .Racing were Donuts and Uniregistry. There were ... read more ...

Easyspace Unleashes .Ninja Domain Name - New gTLD for Software Experts Such as Web Developers Game Designers Goes on General Sale Glasgow, United Kingdom (PRWEB UK) 30 May 2014 ICANN accredited UK domain name provider Easyspace has unleashed the new generic Top-Level Domain Name (gTLD) .Ninja. .Ninja is the new domain name for people who want to identify themselves online by their expertise. It is suitable for people with software skills such as web developers and game designers to those who are experts in cooking or dancing. Sarah ... read more ...

Are Nexus Requirements Good or Bad? - I believe that geographic new gTLD extensions are going to be successful. Cities have a built-in audience of businesses and residents who may wish to purchase their business or keyword domain name in their local extension. There are two different approaches to selling their domain names, and one involves limiting sales to entities within the geographic area and the other involves selling domain names to anyone. I am curious to know your thoughts on which is the better approach. .NYC domain ... read more ...

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 ...

.Club Passes .Berlin & Is Now 2nd Most Registered new Domain Extension -       .Club just passed .Berlin on ntldstats.com, to become the 2nd most registered new domain extension (New gTLD). .Club is just short of 50,000 registrations while .Berlin is sitting just past 48,000 .Guru continues to led all new gTLD’s with over 57,000 registrations. .Photography has topped 35,000 registrations. .Email has topped 30,000 registrations There are now over 794,000 new gTLD domain names registered and with the launch of several new gTLD’s today when the root zone file next ... read more ...

African Union-sponsored gTLD suffers major setback - The launch of the .africa generic top-level domain (gTLD), sponsored by the African Union, will have to wait until the resolution of a legal dispute over how the management of the domain was awarded. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) awarded the management of .africa to South Africa's ZA Central Registry (ZACR) last year. But last week, the International Center for Dispute Resolution issued an injunction in favor of Kenya-based DotConnectAfrica Trust, which also applied ... read more ...

More Stats For Domain Lovers: Namestat.org, Includes Fastest Growing New … -     We just came across another site offering new gTLD stats at Namestat.org The site offers a section entitled “Fastest Growing gTLD’s and not surprisingly .Club is leading the way. Here are the top 10 Fastest Growing new gTLD’s according to the site: .club .guru .email .today .solutions .agency .company .cool .zone .photography Interestingly the second or third gTLD with the most registrations, .Berlin is not on the list nor is .Expert that just launched last week and has over 10,000 registrations ... read more ...

2nd Most Expensive New gTLD .Luxury Goes Live Today After Racking Up Over … - The new gTLD .Luxury goes live today into general availability. It is the 2nd most expensive new gTLD with a retail  price of around $800 depending on the registrar which is second only to .Rich which has a registration price of $2,500 or more and has only 38 registrations to date. A list of all registrars carrying .Luxury is here. The registry already secured over 600 Sunrise trademarks which I believe is the highest number of Sunrise registrations of any new gTLD to date. Beyond the high price, ... read more ...

Applicant For New gTLD .TVS Files UDRP On TVS.com; With Revenues Of $5.7 … - For the first time an applicant for a new gTLD has filed a UDRP against the matching .com T V SUNDRAM IYENGAR SONS LIMITED out of India applied to operate the new gTLD .TVS The company owns the domain name TVS.in but operates it main site out of  tvsiyengar.com As we told you yesterday, the domain name TVS.com is 17 years old with the current owner PA Gordon which owns the domain name getaway.com has owned the domain for at least 12 years according to domaintools.com The domain name has an original ... read more ...

Skeptical of the new gTLD insurgence? Finding the pièce de résistance — the … - Will the launch of new gTLDs really transform the Internet as ICANN has envisioned? Without a doubt, the increase of gTLDs at the root level will create competition and diversity, and foster innovation — simply because the option is there. Innovation takes time and often does not happen until the tools to foster it are in place. With new gTLDs, however, also comes resistance, as there is with any new concept that has the power to change an industry and the way we do business. One ... read more ...

Whether Republican, Democrat or Independent, the ‘.gop’ gTLD is one to consider - ‘.gop’, now in sunrise, is notable as it is the only new gTLD in the first round of applications to be operated by a political party. However, one commentator has urged brands to consider the string when devising their registration strategies, no matter what their political persuasion. The GOP acronym stands for ‘Grand Old Party’, an alternative name for the Republican Party in the United States. Run by registry operator Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), the ‘.gop’ ... read more ...

Tucows Reports Earnings & New gTLD’s Accounted For 6.5% of Total New Sales - Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC), a global provider of domain names and other Internet services, today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014 Beginning in the first quarter of 2014, Tucows has reclassified its revenue streams into Domain Services and Network Access Services. Domain Services includes Wholesale OpenSRS (Domain Service and Value Added Services), Retail (Hover) and Portfolio. Network Access Services includes Ting. “Our performance in the first ... read more ...

If it ain’t broke, why fix it? - A multi-government Internet forum is already doing its job. Why have another body? Recent media reports have given voice to India’s call for the establishment of a global agency to manage the Internet. India wants a multi-government role in formulating Internet governance rules. The rationale is that this will reduce the grip of western powers and increase the country’s own influence in framing Internet-related policies.ICANN’s doing fineMany other countries also subscribe to this line ... read more ...