Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Fri 22nd May 2015
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.GOP Video Promotes Use, But No Major Presidential Candidate Seems To Own One - In a new video posted by the .GOP registry, they boast about it being the only new gTLD owned by a political party and of course that is true, as the other political domain names, .Democrat, .Republican. .Vote and .Voting are owned by for profit non-affiliated registries. The .GOP gTLD is owned by Republican State Leadership Committee, Inc. an affiliate to the republican party. The video’s most talked about site is  StopHillary.Gop which is being forwarded to a .com; a site under GOP.com which ... read more ...
Thu 21st May 2015
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Name.com: 50% Off Premium Priced Domains On 4 New gTLD's Extension For 2 Hours Today - The domain name registrar, Name.com is offering 50% of of premium registrations (first year only) for the following new gTLD  extensions today only for 2 hours: .CONSULTING .SOFTWARE .MARKET .REVIEWS. The Domain Happy Hour is from 3–5 p.m. MST today. “That includes some pretty great available premiums, like Colorado.market, StockMarket.consulting, Action.software, and Gaming.reviews.” The promo code will be revealed on the Happy Hour page at 3 p.m. Thursday. “The Promotion does not apply ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .One 3,434; .Chat 1,826; .Style 1,033; .Tennis 733; .Bingo 472 - Five new gTLD new domain extensions launched into general availability (GA) yesterday. Including domain names registered during the Sunrise period by Trademark holders and those registered for an extra fee in the Early Access Program (RAP) here are the totals after the first day of GA. .One 3,434 .Chat 1,826 .Style 1,033 .Tennis 733 .Bingo 472 As for .One a substantial percentage, over 45% were registered at German based United-Domains and their sister registrar 1and1.com. At 1and1.com the ... read more ...
Wed 20th May 2015
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This Guy Want You To Pay A Tax On "Parked" 'Unused" Or "Idle" Domains - In a story published by Circleid.com written by  Alex Tajirian, CEO at DomainMart,  Mr. Tajirian suggests that all parked, “unused” or “idle” pages need to have a Tax imposed on them to reduce cybersquatting, even if the domain name is generic. Mr. Tajirian proposes that all “parked” domains or “unused” or “idle” domains be subject a tax similar to a property tax for real estate: “We need a tax.” “Right now a tax is the weapon needed by the domain name community. We face ... 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 ...
 
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With 10 Applicants .Art Gets Scheduled For An ICANN Last Resort Auction - The new gTLD .Art just got on the ICANN schedule for a last resort auction. There are 10 applicants for .Art and the ICANN auction is scheduled tentatively for July 2015. .Art is the only new gTLD that is currently scheduled for an ICANN auction. Here are the 10 Applicants; some are portfolio applicants as well as some one-off applicants that only applied for .Art: Donuts Uniregistry Minds + Machines Afilias Top Level Design, LLC (.design, .wiki, .ink) Merchant Law Group LLP UK Creative Ideas Limited ... read more ...
 
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CNBC.com: Covers New gTLD's: 1and1 says New gTLD Account For 15% of Their New Biz -

Michael Berkens, Esq. is a owner and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also a co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. that sole around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in Dec 2015 and now owns around 5K domain names . Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com that is a consultant in a new gTLD space and a attorney of super reward domains. Michael was also one of a 5 Judges comparison for a a Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com competition this year.

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The Eiffel Tower has Moved; Well On The Internet From .Com To a .Paris - One of the most prominent landmarks on this planet has changed its address on the Internet. The official site for the Eiffel Tower has changed the domain name from Eiffel-Tower.com (English)  and Tour-Eiffel.fr (French) to the domain name TourEiffel.Paris. Eiffel-Tower.com had been the official site for the world-famous Paris landmark since at least 2007 according to Screenshots.com The domain names Eiffel-tower.com and Tour-Eiffel.fr are now being forwarded to its new Internet home at TourEiffel.Paris. The ... read more ...
 
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4 New gTLD Launches This Week & Registrations To Date; .Style; .Chat; .Bingo & .Tennis - This is a busy week for new gTLD Launches with 4 new domain extensions. All four new gTLD went through a Early Access Program (EAP) for those that were willing to pay an extra fee to get access prior to General Available. Here are the new domain extensions launching this week and the number of registrations through Sunrise and the Early Access Program (EAP). .Style 293 .Chat 285 .Bingo 151 .Tennis 125 All four launch into GA on Wednesday.   ... 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 ...
Sat 16th May 2015
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CEO of .Design on ReDesigning The Success Of A New gTLD Launch - This is a guest post by Ray King the CEO of Top Level Design, a new domain registry behind the new gTLD’s .Design, .Wiki and .ink. Mr. King  has also founded Semaphore, Inc, SnapNames, Inc, AboutUs, Inc. and ICANNWiki (501c3). The post appears here unedited: We at Top Level Design believe that .design had the most successful launch of any generic new TLD to date. Not only that, I think we are well on our way to proving that a new TLD can justify a premium cost when it offers better, more meaningful ... read more ...
Fri 15th May 2015
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Mayor Of New York Brags On .NYC: 97% Of Registrants Own 10 or Less Domains - The Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio today announced “that just six months after its historic public launch, the. nyc top-level domain has become the fastest-growing city domain in the world – racking up over 75,000 registrations to date.” Mayor Bill de Blasio is quoted as saying: “New York is the only city with top-level Internet domain exclusively reserved for its residents and businesses.” “Now you can add the City’s web domain to the long list of things New York City is known for ... read more ...
 
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According to SecureList.com New gTLDs are a strike with Spammers and Cybercriminals - According to SecureList.com there is one group that is taking to the new gtlds, that group is spammers. Stating that spammers and cybercriminals have found the new strings to be an excellent tool to promote illegal campaigns. It is a pretty extensive article that is filled with examples, I am sure this will rally the anti new gtld participants to say, “We told you so” I am sure the pro new g crowd will see it as propaganda or a paid piece. SecureList is published by Kaspersky Lab. From the article: Spammers ... read more ...
Thu 14th May 2015
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.XYZ Starts Taking Domain Registrations Directly From Its Site -           .XYZ sent out an email the other day announcing that they were taking live domain name direct registrations from their registry site at Gen.xyz for .XYZ domains While a lot of new gTLD registries look like they take registrations from their registry site,  I believe that .XYZ joins only Uniregisty as a registry, to have live domain name registrations from the registry site. .XYZ appears to be a domain name registrar reseller, rather than have their own Registrar credentials. I would ... read more ...
 
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.Design Winds Up With Over 5K Domain Registrations After 1st Day - .Design which launched into general availability (GA) on Tuesday wound up with 5,204 domain registrations according to ntldstats.com. The 5,204 domain names include all registrations during the Sunrise period by Trademark Holders and those who paid an extra fee to get early access to domain registrations ahead of GA (Early Access Program). We chatted yesterday that mostly every domain name was available in the launch of .Design including single and two letter domain names, three-letter domains, Geo ... read more ...
Wed 13th May 2015
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Co. Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Mango.UK; Owns New gTLD .Mango -

Michael Berkens, Esq. is a owner and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also a co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. that sole around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in Dec 2015 and now owns around 5K domain names . Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com that is a consultant in a new gTLD space and a attorney of super reward domains. Michael was also one of a 5 Judges comparison for a a Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com competition this year.

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Here Is The Statement Phil Corwin Of The ICA Will Be Giving To The House Judiciary Committee - Here is the Statement of Philip S. Corwin,  Counsel, Internet Commerce Association   will give today to the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet The hearing is entitled: “Stakeholder Perspectives on ICANN: The .Sucks Domain and Essential Steps to Guarantee Trust and Accountability in the Internet’s Operation” The hearing should have a live webcast here and is scheduled to start at 10am EST Here is Mr. Corwin statement and there are some ... read more ...
Tue 12th May 2015
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GM Becomes 1st Fortune 50 Company To Launch a Site On a New gTLD: GeneralMotors.Green -   General Motors has become the 1st Fortune 50 Company to launch a site on a new gTLD domain, in this case GeneralMotors.green Although other bloggers have pointed out Fortune 50 companies have acquired and activated new gTLD domain names, they are mostly re-directing the new gTLD domains to existing .com sites. GM maybe the 1st to actually launch a targeted site on a new gTLD without re-directing to  another domain name especially a .com. Moreover not only is GM using the .green domain name for ... read more ...
 
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.Design Is Live & Almost Everything is Available Including Single Letter & Two Letter Domains: My.Design - .Design just launched today into general availability and virtually every domain name is available including single letters and two letter domain names, for a price. Domain names like E.Design and A.Design and X.Design can be registered for $6,500 with renewal pricing at $6,500 a year at Godaddy (i.Design and u.design are either taken or reserved). You.Design is likewise priced around $6,500 a year. We.design is priced at $2,500 a year as is Tv.Design Domains like Great.Design and Top/Design are ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Gets .Games; Uniregistry Got .Game - Domaininvesting.com, posted today that Uniregistry declared victory getting the new gTLD .Game in as a private auction beating out Google (Charleston Road Registry, Inc.), Amazon, Dot Game Limited, Beijing Gamease Age Digital Technology Co., Ltd. However the contention set also included the new gTLD .Games whose application was not withdrawn meaning it seems that in the private auction the parties decided that there will be a .Game and .Games known as indirect contention. Donuts was the only applicant ... read more ...
Mon 11th May 2015
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.Sucks Registry Goes On Offense & Threatens To Sue ICANN For Defamation/Breach of Contract - In a sternly worded letter sent to ICANN today by the attorney’s representing Vox Populi the operator of the .Sucks registry put ICANN on notice that they believe ICANN has defamed the registry and its own rules and regulation and made it clear a lawsuit maybe forthcoming The letter was written by R. David Hosp a principal  in the law firm of the New York firm of Fish Richardson P.C. Here is the letter unedited, our comments follow: “”This firm represents ICANN’s contractual partner, Vox ... read more ...
Sun 10th May 2015
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Those Involved With .Sucks Took Care Of Themselves - Since Domainincite.com has been putting out a few stories about the new gTLD .sucks leading up the hearing in Washington on Wednesday here,  here and here,  that the Internet Commerce Association’s own Phil Corwin will be testifying in front of, I thought I would point out some domain names that are not going to be available to be registered in the .sucks extension. It’s not clear if the domain names are registered or if they are reserved or blocked off by the registry but none are available ... read more ...
Fri 8th May 2015
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AdWeek "Should Your Shop Purchase a .Agency Domain ?" - AdWeek.com published an article on whether advertising agencies should step up and register a .agency domain. In the article there were a few people quoted, Mason Cole from Donuts who runs .agency, David Mitnick, an intellectual property lawyer and founder of domain name and brand monitoring services company DomainSkate, and Mark Ervin, chief brand officer at Big Communications, based out of Alabama. The one thing I found interesting in the article was that Mitnick said he felt it would be big brands ... read more ...
Thu 7th May 2015
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Rightside Made $7.2 Million On Losing New gTLD Auctions: Name.com Revenue Up 30% - Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. Share are up fractionally in aftermarket trading. First Quarter 2015 Financial Highlights Registrar services revenue increased 12% to $42.0 million compared to $37.5 million primarily due to new gTLD registrations, improved performance by existing resellers and the continued onboarding of eNom wholesale partners. Registry services revenue increased to $1.6 million compared to $42 thousand. Aftermarket ... read more ...
 
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What Do You Get From 10K Free Domains? Some Great; Some Horrible; Lots of TM Infringing - As we wrote yesterday a domain registrar AlpNames.com was offering free .Party domains for registration, so we went in to get a sample of the 10,000+ domains that were registered under the new gTLD yesterday. Not surprisingly I found some horrible registrations, a lot of trademark infringing registrations and some domain I wish I would have registered. On the horrible side I found the soon to be very valuable domain names of ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.party ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp.party On ... read more ...