Tag Archives: new domain names

Fri 19th February 2016
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Domain Registration on Record Pace? Over 750K Added Yesterday Alone - Registrations of domain names seem to be going on at a record pace. Yesterday saw the number of domain registrations across all Top Level Domain (TLD) names have a net add of over 750,000 domains according to registrarstats.com “Net Add” mean its the amount of domains registered less the number of domain names deleted. The gross numbers of domain names registered yesterday were close to 900,000. These total include all legacy domain names extensions like .com, .net and .org (22 in total) and ... read more ...
Wed 13th January 2016
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.Auto .Car, .Cars Get 1st day Registrations during $60K Per Domain - The 1st day of the Early Access Program (EAP) opened up yesterday for the new gTLD’s .Auto, .Car and .Cars with day 1 prices set at $59,049.99 for each domain name at Godaddy and there appears to have been some takers at that price. NEXTEV USA, Inc registered the domain names on January 12th: nextev.car we.car NEXTEV USA seems to be the US operations of a Planned Chinese car manufacture who is looking to produce cars to compete with Telsa. NextEV intends to begin with an electric supercar, the ... read more ...
Fri 20th November 2015
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XYZ & Negari Beats Verisign In Federal Court, Again: CentralNic Too - .XYZ has just won another court battle against Verisign (VRSN). Back three weeks ago a Federal Court dismissed a case brought by Verisign against XYZ.com,  the registry for .XYZ and Daniel Negari personally alleging  false advertising by granting XYZ and Negari a short summary judgement opinion. Now in a second case in Verisign sued XYZ.COM, DANIEL NEGARI and CentralNic,  which is the back-end provider for the .XYZ registry,  for tortuous interference and business conspiracy relating to changing ... read more ...
 
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Radix: .ONLINE Fastest New gTLD to Sell 100,000 Domains - Radix the registry for .ONLINE announced today that .Online is the fastest gTLD to sell 100,000 domains names since their launch less than 3 months ago. After a very successful launch which broke all new gTLD records with 38,000 domain names registered in the first 24 hours of General Availability, .online surpassed 100,000 domain registrations this morning. The 100,000th domain to be registered was myfamilyroots.online that came through eNom. This milestone comes at a time as Radix also surpasses ... read more ...
Mon 12th October 2015
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New Domain Extension .Cloud Announces 1st Three Pioneers: Sets Out Launch Dates - The new domain name extension .cloud, announced today over the coming weeks, more than 30 Pioneers will begin using .cloud domains starting with ScreenCloud, a London-founded SaaS company, which is “creating powerful, easy-to-use products to help businesses and retailers take control of their digital signage. Screen.Cloud has built the new. cloud into its entire company branding, recognizing the relevance of the domain over a standard .com alternative.” “Pioneers range from market leaders ... read more ...
Sun 27th September 2015
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Amazon Turns On AmazonRegistry.com To Sell New gTLD Domain Names - Amazon applied for 76 new generic top-level domain names (gTLD’s). When Amazon applied for their new gTLD’s they applied to operate them on a closed basis meaning the public would not be able to register any domain names without Amazon allocating them, but the Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) to ICANN nixed the plan for the most part, while still allowing .Brand Applications. Amazon won the rights to some of new gTLD’s it applied for; In an ICANN Auction of Last Resort, which results are ... read more ...
Mon 1st June 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
This week: .Porn and .Adult - This was supposed to be a big week with .sucks going into general availability, but that launch has been delayed by 3 weeks. It’s still going to be a big for new top level domain names, though: the entry of .adult and .porn will surely generate mainstream press. Here’s a run down of new TLDs hitting the market this week: .Tirol, a domain name for the Austrian state of Tyrol, goes live today. On Wednesday, the heavily restricted .pharmacy domain name goes into general availability. Qualified ... read more ...