Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Sat 18th April 2015
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Having Some .Fun? Oriental.com Beats Google & .Buzz to The New gTLD .Fun - .Fun which was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month has been resolved with Oriental Trading Company, Inc who owns the domain Oriental.com prevailing in a private auction beating Google and the company that owns and operates .Buzz .Fun will be the only new gTLD that Oriental Trading Company, Inc. will operate.  The company applied for .Party but did not prevail (Famous Four Media won) According to its application, the Oriental Trading Company, Inc. (OTC) plans to operate ... read more ...
Fri 17th April 2015
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1st Day New gTLD Totals .Fashion 2,182; .Garden 388: Science Passes .XXX & .Pro - Two new gTLD’s were released this week by Minds + Machines After domain name registrations made in Sunrise by Trademark Holders .Fashion has 2,182 registrations. .Garden on the other hand only grew to 388 domain registrations. On another note .Science which was released about a month ago by Famous Four Media, now has skyrocketed to the 6th most registered new gTLD’s (actually number 5 if you disregard the IDN of 网址 (xn--ses554g) which has about 350,000 registry owned domains) with over 118,000 ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Looking To Cash in With .News - Jacob Demmitt wrote a post on the Upstart section of BizJournals.com. The article led with the launch of the .news extension and how Rightside plans to cash in. Taryn Naidu the CEO of Rightside is interviewed and gives some commentary. In the article which I quoted below, Naidu says we are seeing five and six figure sales. I would imagine he is talking about the Coffee.club and Wine.Club sales, I have not heard of a Rightside string selling for six figures. From the article: The company wouldn’t ... read more ...
Thu 16th April 2015
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Free .REALTOR Domains Expanded To Local & State Realtor® Associations & Brokerages On May 7 - “The National Association of Realtors® top-level domain .REALTOR will be available to local and state Realtor® associations as well as brokerages in the U.S. and Canada starting May 7. State and Local REALTOR® Member Boards, and REALTOR® owned and operated MLSs have the opportunity to receive a FREE .REALTOR domain for up to 5 years” Since the .REALTOR top-level domain became available to NAR members in October 2014, more than 95,000 domains have been claimed on a free basis. .Realtor has ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins The New gTLD .Theater - Donuts has won another private auction for a new gTLD, this time the right to operate the new domain extension . The only other applicant for .Theater, KBE gTLD Holding Inc. of Brooklyn New York, whose web address is broadwayacrossamerica.com, withdrew its application Some of the new gTLD’s in that vertical include .broadway, .tickets and .show .Theater was scheduled to go to an ICANN auction later this month There are now only 4 ICANN Contention Last Resort auctions scheduled for April; .Living, ... read more ...
Wed 15th April 2015
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Tom Delonge, Ex Lead Singer/Guitarist of Blink 182 Launches New Site On ToTheStars.Media -         Tom Delonge best known as the former guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the American rock band Blink-182 has launched a new site on the new gTLD ToTheStars.Media Mr. Delonge is already running a Twitter account under ToTheStars in which it says: “The Official Twitter for To The Stars.. Alternative Media Entertainment.” Although the Twitter account lists the URL of the site as tothestarsinc.com, that domain name is re-directing to the .Media domain and the logo makes it clear that ... read more ...
 
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Chat Center ditches a .me and moves to a .Center - John Biggs wrote an article on Tech Crunch yesterday with regards to Chat Center, according to its description Chat Center is the best way to help customers or friends connect with you for Chat. Once you install the app you can claim a Chat Name. This name can be expressed as a URL. From the article: When we last left ChatCenter it was running on the URL chatcenter.me and was aimed at creating a one-stop spot for chatting. Now, a few months later, it has moved from a freemium product and gone full ... read more ...
Tue 14th April 2015
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eMarketer Report: The Domain Name Explosion: Hundreds of New Choices Beyond .com Mean New Marketing Considerations" - eMarketer.com has put out a research paper on the new gtlds titled, “The Domain Name Explosion: Hundreds of New Choices Beyond .com Mean New Marketing Considerations” This report was a paid report, as I called the company about referencing it they also included it in the newsletter section which is available to everyone.(thank you Priscilla) The report draws on data from the Domain Name Association and ntldstats as well as a few others. From the report: ... read more ...
 
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Forget $2,499; Network Solutions Is Charging $4K For A Premium .Sucks Registration - Hundreds of stories have covered the launch of .Sucks and the suggested retail price of $2,499 for a one year registration of a “premium” domain. However all the registry Vox Populi can do is charge the registrars the wholesale cost of the domain names and suggest a retail price. Each domain registrar can then set the price they want to charge their customers for the domain name. We understand that the wholesale cost of a premium .Sucks registration that the registry is charging the registrars ... read more ...
Mon 13th April 2015
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.Poker Passes 500 Registrations In Sunrise & Landrush -     .Poker will launch into general availability on April 21. Through Sunrise and Landrush there are already over 500 .poker domain registrations (506) to be exact I do not thing domain names that got more than one landrush application and therefore heading to auction are included in the totals or in the zone file. Here are the more interesting .poker registrations: 007.poker 32red.poker 365.poker 3cardpokerpoker.com 7cardsstud.poker 7cardstud.poker 888.poker 8888.poker americascardroom.poker andrew.poker android.poker apple.poker appt.poker aria.poker axa.poker azimut.poker b10.poker backing.poker baidu.poker bellagio.poker bet365.poker betcoin.poker betcris.poker betfair.poker bets10.poker betsafe.poker betsson.poker betstars.poker betwin.poker biggame.poker bigwin.poker blackchip.poker blitz.poker blogger.poker bluff.poker bodog.poker borgata.poker bovada.poker boylepokerpoker.com boylesports.poker brian.poker brown.poker bwin.poker byron.poker californiaonline.poker cash.poker cashgames.poker celebrity.poker cloud.poker club.poker crown.poker cyber.poker duel.poker eureka.poker excalibur.poker extreme.poker florida.poker freetexasholdem.poker fulltilt.poker game.poker get.poker getstaked.poker google.poker goplay.poker grosvenor.poker guide.poker hall.poker hardrock.poker highstake.poker instagram.poker intelli.poker jamesbond.poker juegos.poker king.poker learnplaying.poker letitride.poker linkedin.poker live.poker macau.poker mgm.poker michael.poker microsoft.poker mike.poker mint.poker mirage.poker mohamed.poker monte-carlo.poker monte-carlo-casino.poker msn.poker naughty.poker newjersey.poker newyork.poker next.poker nike.poker office.poker omaha.poker onlinetournaments.poker open.poker party.poker paypal.poker perfect.poker planet.poker playmoney.poker pocketfives.poker redbull.poker rich.poker ritz.poker rollsroyce.poker rookie.poker rush.poker school.poker sevencardsstud.poker sky.poker snap.poker spiele.poker sportsbook.poker stars.poker team.poker theborgata.poker theritz.poker thompson.poker tilt.poker titan.poker true.poker university.poker usa.poker viagra.poker vip.poker virgin.poker watch.poker wins.poker worldtour.poker wpt.poker wtp.poker wynn.poker xbox.poker xxx.poker youtube.poker youwin.poker ... read more ...
Sun 12th April 2015
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Sex Domains Big Business In Australia - Iconic.Sydney published an article about Sex and Domains, there is a combo, they go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly. Apparently sex related names are becoming a popular choice with the new Aussie based gtlds. From the article: Overall, adult industry domain names accounted for just over 5% of last week’s registrations, making them more popular than food and hospitality (3.7%), beauty and cosmetics (2.9%) and medical services (2.6%). The sex industry: driving online innovation? The fact ... read more ...
 
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Why .Com Probably Won't Get NetFlixed By The New Gtlds - Alex Kehr wrote an article on his personal blog, titled “Why .COM will probably get Netflixed by New TLDs” The article is about the relationship of .com and new gtlds being analogous to Blockbuster and NetFlix. I think he is misguided in his interpretation. The other thing missing from the article is that Alex works for Name.com who is owned by Rightside. It helps the reader know where you are coming from and where your particular bias may lie. From the article: The .COM domain is starting to ... read more ...
Sat 11th April 2015
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ICANN Really .Sucks By Saying They Don't Regulate Content: Anyone Remember .XXX? - After collecting over 1/3 of a billion dollars in application fees, ICANN attempted to pass off the whole .Sucks issue to law enforcement this week, asking them for an opinion, which is very unlikely to come, of whether the .sucks roll-out violates US or Canadian federal law. ICANN is quoted as saying it was “concerned about the contentions of illicit actions” by Vox Populi but that it lacks the expertise or jurisdiction to evaluate them”. Really? Basically ICANN just “ratted out” one of ... read more ...
Fri 10th April 2015
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New gTLD's Registrations Top 5 Million; .Science & .Link Break 100K: We Break Down a Numbers - The number of new gTLD domain name registrations have topped 5 Million for the first time, according to ntldstats.com Here are the top 30 most registered new gTLDs: Domain                Total Reg  % of all Reg Now let’s go behind the numbers. .XYZ as we have spoken about numerous times includes about 375,000 free registrations that were stuffed into Network Solutions customer accounts which represented about 43% of its registrations. The next five top-selling registrars for .XYZ ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames Is Holding Auction of 36 Registry Owned .Yoga Domain Names - SnapNames.com is holding an auction of  36 .Yoga domain names. About 1/2 the domain names have a reserve range price of $1k or less. Many are at no reserve and only one domain has a high range reserve of $2,500 All of the 36 .Yoga domain names are owned by the registry, Minds + Machines (LSE: MMX). The auction closes on May 4th at 3:15pm EST in accordance with Snapnames.com normal closing rules. As of publication one domain, Practice.yoga has a bid,  but has not hit reserve. Here is the entire ... read more ...
Thu 9th April 2015
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Namejet.com Holding No Reserve Auction Of Over 250 Short .BUZZ Domain Names - Namejet.com is holding no reserve auction of over 250.short Buzz domains. All of the domains are short, most are 4 letters  (5 letters is the longest) as well as some 3 letter words. The domain have to be back-ordered by dates starting as soon as April 16th but they are staggered, with the last one’s needing to be back-ordered by May 3rd. Here is the list of domain names, which all require a $69 bid to enter the auction and the date each must be back-ordered by. As usually all back-orders must ... read more ...
 
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.Wedding Winds Up With 1,254 Domain Registrations After It's First Day Of General Availability - Minds + Machines launched .Wedding into general availability yesterday where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Including domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise period, .Wedding ended its first day of GA with 1,254 registrations according to ntldstats.com 1and1.com and Godaddy.com were the top two domain name registrars where .Wedding domain names were registered. .Wedding has variable pricing on premium domain names. You can see the list of ... read more ...
 
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Study of 10K People: 49% of Consumers Are Uncomfortable With Vising A Site Using A New gTLD - Global information assurance firm, NCC Group released the results of The New Internet Study, today of 10,000 people. NCC Group questioned 10,000 consumers across the US and UK regarding their attitudes to these new gTLDs. 49% of respondents said they felt uncomfortable visiting a web site using a new gTLD domain. 42% of web users reported feeling less secure online since their introduction while 35% feel just as secure. Other finding from the study: · 45% of those we surveyed said they would feel ... read more ...
Wed 8th April 2015
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FastCompany Covers The New gTLD's: Highlights Coffee.Club - Fast Company just gave some love to the new gTLD program with a using Coffee.club as one of the success stories “Instead of having only a few meaningless TLDs like .com, .net, .biz, and country codes like .ly, the organization agreed to usher in a more freeform system: Why not have more specific options like .dentist and .nyc? The proliferation of new domains opens up a world of new branding opportunities for companies. For a dentist who has long lived on page five of Google’s search results ... read more ...
Mon 6th April 2015
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Dot Website Hits 50,000 Registrations - Dot Webstie hits the 50,000 registration mark Radix released some stats about one of their strings today, Dot Website went over 50,000 regs, they did actually give my OnlineCasino.website sale a mention. To be fair it was not for a huge amount but profit is profit (non premium registation of $14.99).  I have mentioned that .website was a generic string that I have speculated in, for full disclosure I do own one other .website domain. I think it was important for Radix to win .site so that they own ... read more ...
Sun 5th April 2015
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$7,500 For Easter.Sucks + 3K A Year, Or EasterSucks.com For $8 A Year? - The new gTLD program was supposed to in part  index the domain name by verticals, interests   and geographical areas. They jury is still out on whether a photographer named John Smith would be better off with John Smith.Photography or JohnSmith.com or JohnSmithPhotographer.com However when it comes to some extensions like .sucks where the selling point is the expression of free speech it gets a little more complicated. Consider someone who hates the once a year holiday of Easter. So if you have ... read more ...
Sat 4th April 2015
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NYPost.com: "Gotham’s ‘.nyc’ is fastest flourishing city domain on Internet" - Josh Kosman wrote a an article on Friday night with regards to .NYC and the rest of the new city gtlds. Kosman used data from Domain Punch that stipulated that 72,000 freebies should not be included in the totals for .Berlin, so with that technicality, .NYC is the leader in paid registrations. From the article: New York City is on the fast track to becoming the dot-com capital of the world. The rush to grab the city’s digital real estate — or addresses ending in .nyc — has made the Big Apple’s ... read more ...
 
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Registrar Promo Leads to 10,000 Paid .Link Registrations Per Frank Schilling Tweet -

Frank Schilling tweeted out late tonight that there were 10,000 new .link registrations combined as a outcome of a registrar promo.

Via: thedomains.com

Thu 2nd April 2015
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You May Have To go To Auction To Get Your Brand.Sucks Domain - According to a press release we received toady by the registrar 101Domain.com, now that the .Sucks domain extension has launched they are pricing the “reserved” .sucks domains at $2,199 well below the $2,499 suggested retail price, however the PR makes it clear that you could wind up in an auction for a yourbrand.sucks domain. Here is the info from the PR: There are two distinct launch phases for the .SUCKS extension: TMCH Sunrise Phase, for those validated in the Trademark Clearinghouse Begins ... read more ...
 
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Donuts’ selling descent tops list of most-read stories for Mar on WTR - Trevor Little wrote on World Trademark Review that Donuts marketing offensive was the most read story for March. From the article: The campaign is aimed at spreading the new gTLD gospel to small businesses in the US. While unlikely to be the turning point in terms of wider public awareness of new gTLDs, the campaign will do no harm in spreading the gTLD message and will be welcomed by registrars. We argued that it is also a development worth noting by brand owners. Elsewhere in the gTLD world, there ... read more ...