Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Wed 1st April 2015
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.XYZ Daniel Negari Appears To Have Acquired The New gTLD .Rent - It appears Daniel Negari of  .XYZ has acquired another new gTLD .Rent. It appears that .XYZ bought the new gTLD .Rent application that was originally filed by  DERRent, LLC which was owned by Dominion Enterprises The applicant for .Rent is still currently listed as DERRent, LLC, which won the extension in a two-way battle with Donuts who withdrew their application,  however Daniel Negari is now listed as the primary contact as well as Mr. Negari’s email address and physical address, so it would ... read more ...
 
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After Shares Hit An All Time Low, CentralNic Issues an Update On Their gTLD's - After its shares hit an all time low yesterday, CentralNic Group plc (AIM:CNIC) issued an update on “CentralNic gTLDs” CentralNic is a back-end provider for new gTLD’s Shares rose today 1p to 24p. ” CentralNic is pleased to report that following successful completion of auction processes, the gTLDs .online, .site, .tech, .love, .forum, .fan, .rent, and .realty will be made available to customers around the world exclusively via the CentralNic platform. CentralNic also recently won the tender ... read more ...
 
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.Club Tops 200K Domains Is Godaddy's #1 Selling New Domain Extension - In less than a year from its launch,  .CLUB has sold more than 200,000 domain names. .Club is still one of just a handful of new gTLD’s that are adding hundreds of registrations a day. According to a Press Release out today by the .Club registry, .CLUB is recognized globally as a meaningful, memorable word that expresses community and shared passion. .CLUB is the most popular new domain extension introduced thus far as part of the Internet’s recent namespace expansion. Those now using a web ... read more ...
Tue 31st March 2015
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National Association of Realtors® and Move, Inc. Reach Agreement Over Use Of New gTLD's Outside The US - The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) and Move, Inc. (Move) announced today that they reached agreement over the use of top level domains outside of the United States. Accordingly, the complaint filed by NAR with the Chancery Court in Delaware on November 10, 2014 seeking clarification on this matter has been dismissed. Move was acquired by News Corp for $950 Million Dollars and the acquisition was completed on November 14, 2014. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Nothing related ... read more ...
 
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.Club & .Bar Team Up To Exhibit during The Nightclub & Bar Show Being Held in Las Vegas - .CLUB   .BAR domain names are teaming up for the first time to offer the nightclub and bar industry the opportunity to get the perfect web address for their club or bar at the  Nightclub and Bar Show being held in Las Vegas March 31-April 1, 2015 .CLUB Domains, which owns and operates the #1 selling new generic top-level domain “.club” and Punto 2012, the domain company that operates “.BAR” will be in booth # 232 at the in . According to a press release we received today, the .club and ... read more ...
 
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nTLDStats Reports Over 1.25 Million People Have Registered The 4.8 M New gTLD Domains - nTLDStats.com is reporting that the number of Unique Registrants of a new gTLD domain name is just over 1.25 Million registrants. The total number of new gTLD domain names registered are now over 4.8 Million. Some other interesting  numbers from ntldstats.com about the registrants of new gTLD’s: Frank Schilling North Sound Names has the largest number of new gTLD registration with over 183,000 registrations of as far as we can tell all in new gTLD extensions of Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. Uniregistry ... read more ...
Fri 27th March 2015
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March 2015 Dot Brand/New gTLD Trends - Vincent D’Angelo is Director, Global Brand Advisors at CSC Digital Brand Services. He put up some info on LinkedIn that were headlines from a report at newgtld.report Here are a few headlines: There are 800+ dotbrand registrations registered to date Within the dotbrand registrations, some of the most-used terms to the left of the dot are: nic (an obvious requirement), domaintest, www, start, home, donate, plaza, magazine, support, and foundation Approximately 46% of the dotbrand registered domains ... read more ...
 
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Donuts: “We’ve labelled a product aloft utterly simply since we consider it’s significantly superior,” - Xconomy.com did an article on the new gtlds and had a focus on Donuts and they got quotes from Richard Tindal a co-founder and COO. Again I think some of the quotes are way off base. Tindal talks about Donuts pricing being higher because it is a superior product. No new gtld currently is superior to .com that is just patently false and this type of stuff is what hurts the new gtlds in discussions and debates imo. Tindal does have the good sense to admit that awareness of the new gtlds is still very ... read more ...
Thu 26th March 2015
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Telegraph.co.uk Interviews .XYZ Daniel Negari "Who Has Already Made $6.4 Million" on .XYZ - The telegraph.co.uk has published a featured story on an interview of .XYZ CEO Daniel Negari in a story entitled “Fierce struggle for internet’s future is like Wild West” with the subtitle: “The floodgates have opened for billions of new domain names to rival the iconic dot-coms, prompting a ‘Wild West’ land grab. One successful speculator, Daniel Negari, talks to the Telegraph about the profit – and lawsuits – it’s brought him” Here are the more interesting quotes from the story: “Entrepreneur ... read more ...
Wed 25th March 2015
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Ping.com Beats Radix To .Ping For $1.5M; InterNetX Wins .SRL For Just $400K Beating Google - ICANN held two Last Resort Auctions today. Ping.com the golf club manufacturer won the rights to operate .Ping by outbidding Radix at $1,501,000. The .Ping auction went into the 4th round until Radix dropped out. mySRL GmbH beat Google to the new gTLD .SLR which is a corporate designation used in Spain like .LLC is used in the USA and .GMBH is used in certain countries principally Germany, who won the auction for just $400,000. This auction only went to the 2nd round of the auction which started ... read more ...
 
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Miami Heat Guard Tyler Real T Johnson Launches His Site on a .Club - Miami Heat Shooting guard Tyler Real T Johnson just launched his official website on a .club domain The site is at Realtjohnson.club Tyler is averaging 6 points a game and 1.3 assists so far this season and wear number 8 for the Heat Here is some information about Tyler from his site: Hometown: Mountain View, CAHigh school: St. Francis HSCollege:  Fresno StateHeight/Weight: 6’3”/190Position: GBirthdate: May 07, 1992   “His mother Jennifer serves in the United States Air Force, Tyler has ... read more ...
 
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.Green Windups with 771 Registrations After 1st Day Of General Availability - .Green went though a long and winding road leading up to the  launch of .Green and yesterday was the first day a .Green could be registered on a first come, first served basis otherwise known general availability. After the first day of GA including those domain names registered by trademark holders in Sunrise and those who paid an extra fee to register in Landrush, there are 771 domain registrations. The cost of a .Green registration is around $60 at Godaddy or about 7X the cost of a .com registration. .Green ... read more ...
Tue 24th March 2015
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Roger Kay Would Like To See ICANN Slow Things Down When it comes to new gtlds - Roger Kay would like to see ICANN slow down, Kay has written about the new gtld program on Forbes a few times. Today he is out with an article that basically says ICANN should hit the brakes. The greatest expansion so far is confusion. He discusses compatability problems and names not working universally on every platform and every device. From the article: One of the biggest problems is compatibility.  That is, a lot of the new domain names don’t work with existing devices and software.  Browsers ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Grants 36,950,000 Shares in New Options; Closing in on a Billion Shares - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), has today agreed to award in aggregate 36,950,000 new options over ordinary shares to directors and officers of the Company. The option grants are issued under the Company’s Amended 2012 Stock Plan. The options have an exercise price of 8.49 pence per Ordinary Share, being the higher of the 30 day volume weighted average on the date immediately prior to  the recommendation of the remuneration committee and the date of formal grant by the Board. The ... read more ...
 
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.Green Is Now Live For Registrations -       The new gTLD .Green just went live into general availability at 9am EST today. .Green is now open to everyone on a first-come, first-served basis. Godaddy.com is selling at .Green registration for only $59.99. Here is a list of registrars selling .Green The landrush period for .Green closed on March 14th According to ntldstats.com including Sunrise and Landrush, .Green only has 202 registrations. Here are some of the domain names that were taken: 1st.green always.green ameritrade.green andalucia.green android.green applepay.green applestore.green arrow.green asda.green aurora-il.green bamerchantservices.green baml.green banditter.green bankofamerica.green bestbuy.green bgehome.green bigpromoter.green blanco.green blogger.green bmw.green bofa.green bofamerrilllynch.green bofaml.green bridgestone.green buying.green cam4.green cbakertest021915-3.green centurylink.green chanel.green chevron.green chrome.green citi.green citigroup.green community.green compra.green constellation.green consultor.green courrierresponsable.green cyclocity.green directv.green dna.green domains.green earthjustice.green edelman.green egreen.green enel.green enelgreenpower.green enterprise.green entrepreneur.green eoliatec.green eugene.green evolve.green exelon.green extracts.green fabory.green fbsc.green fieldsof.green firestone.green foundation.green fundraising.green gasnatural.green gasnaturalfenosa.green genotec.green gerry.green get.green gewinnen.green gewinner.green gi-energy.green gmail.green going.green google.green graham.green grainger.green greendatacenter.green greenit.green h-m.green homebuild.green homebuilding.green hornblower.green howtogo.green iac.green inesis.green innovator.green intuit.green iot.green isleep.green jackpot247.green jackpots.green jamieallan.green jcdecaux.green joakim.green joankerr.green jotun.green kamut.green kasino.green katjes.green khorasan.green kindle.green laura.green lawncare.green lepainquotidien.green lettreverte.green lpq.green luxottica.green marijuana420.green mediakiosk.green merck.green merrill.green merrilledge.green merrilllynch.green microsoft.green mista.green mister.green mondoverde.green mralex.green nationalcar.green nhl.green nic.green a0.nic.green a2.nic.green b0.nic.green c0.nic.green niederlande.green norge.green npoex.green oesterreich.green officebuilding.green onlinekasino.green onlinepoker.green opti-free.green oracle.green organicplus.green polska.green premium.green prime.green putt.green putting.green qualchem.green refurbished.green register.green registra.green registrars.green rental.green rolex.green samsclub.green savethe.green sheena.green showyour.green signature.green skanska.green spela.green spelakasino.green stanleycup.green statefarm.green suomi.green supercasino.green sverige.green switch.green tdameritrade.green testcbaker021915-4.green tfl.green thebig.green thebodyshop.green thinc.green treehuggers.green truffaut.green tuborg.green tudor.green tudorwatch.green tumblr.green usps.green ustrust.green utilityindependence.green vanguard.green viagra.green victorygardens.green vincitore.green vincitori.green vinn.green vinnare.green vinster.green visa.green voittaja.green voittajat.green voiture.green vuelosbaratos.green wal-mart.green wallo.green winnaars.green worldof.green worldwildlife.green www-mr.green xbox.green yoox.green youtube.green zeno.green zorotools.green zwyciezcy.green   ... read more ...
Mon 23rd March 2015
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Radix Gives Us A Sneak Peek At Their New Videos - Radix is giving us a sneak peek at videos they will be releasing at World Hosting Days in Germany. Radix is excited to release videos for .website, .press, .host and .space. The Radix videos will be screened for the first time at WorldHostingDays in Germany on 24th Mar, 2015. For those missing WHD, here is an online exclusive. With so many new extensions being launched, it is important to keep customers hooked. And what better way than to have brand new videos to watch and entertain themselves with!       Videos ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Suffers the 1st Overall Negative Domain Day -   The new gTLD Registry, Donuts suffered its first net negative domain day since becoming a registry; where the number of new domain names registered were exceeded by the number of new gTLD deleted or removed from the zone file for non-renewal. According to ntldstats.com Donuts had a net loss of 63 domain names yesterday on  March 22nd. You can see this by checking out this chart and mousing over yesterday. Donuts is now reporting its renewal stats on its company blog and updating it daily. Donuts ... read more ...
Sun 22nd March 2015
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Butterfly Twists Is Every New gTLD Operator's Dream - Butterfly Twists is a shoe company based in the U.K. Steve Hall wrote a story on Marketing Land that should be of interest to those dabbling in the new gltd space. The company went out and registered 100 different new domains and created a custom website for each one. They even did a video which is basically an introduction to the new gtlds for their customers. Every registry should hope that other companies emulate Butterfly Twists.     The .com extension is celebrating its 30th anniversary this ... read more ...
 
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Taylor Swift Registers TaylorSwift.porn But May Have Missed TaylorSwiftPorn.com - There are at least 50 stories in non-domain publications about Taylor Swift registering two new gTLD domain names TaylorSwift.Porn and TaylorSwift.adult yesterday in the Sunrise period. However another domain name was registered yesterday which didn’t make any headlines, TaylorSwiftPorn.com. The domain name was registered yesterday under privacy at Godaddy.com The domain name TaylorSwiftAdult.com remains unregistered today which leads me to believe it was not the Ms. Swift who registered the domain. It ... read more ...
Wed 18th March 2015
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Major League Baseball (MLB) Wins a New Domain Extension .Baseball Beating Donuts - In what only can be described as win for the new gTLD program, Major League Baseball (MLB) has won the rights to operate the new domain name extension .Baseball. Donuts was the only other applicant. Donuts had won many sports extensions including .football, .Hockey, .Run and .Soccer. .Baseball was scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort Auction next week. Here is what MLB plans for the new gTLD  .Baseball according to its application with ICANN: Major League Baseball (“MLB”) is the oldest professional ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins new gTLD .GMBH Beating Google & 3 Other Applicants - Donuts has won the rights to the new domain extension .GMBH beating Google, Straat (.Co) as well as InterNetWire Web-Development GmbH, and TLDDOT GmbH which had applied and lost its bid to win the extension on a community basis. GMBH is a a type of legal entity very common in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and other German-speaking Central European countries and would be equivalent to .INC and even LLC in the United States. Here is a link to a story where you can learn more about GMBH’s I have ... read more ...
 
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Scripps Networks Wins .DIY Beating Google: Now Owns 11 gTLD's - Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc. part of the Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc., and Scripps Networks, LLC (“Scripps”) won the rights to operate the new domain extension .DIY beating Google who withdrew its application. The company operates the The DIY Network.com, as well as many other Television networks including the Food Network, and the Cooking Channel, HGTV and the Travel Channel. Of course DIY stands for Do It Yourself. Scripps originally applied to operate 13 new gTLD and with the exception ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Google To .MBA; Google Wins .PHD - Two more new gTLD strings that were scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort Auction next week, have been settled privately. Donuts won rights to operate the .MBA new domain extension, beating out Google and a company known as Your Dot Phd, Inc. Yourdotphd.com Google won the rights to operate the new gTLD, .PHD beating out Your Dot Phd, Inc. There are plenty of new gTLD’s in the education vertical including .education,  .school, and .university all owned by Donuts  and .College which is owned by ... read more ...
Tue 17th March 2015
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Military Intelligence Officer Turned Domainer Launches Domain.Buzz - An interesting story was published in the form a press release today about the Domain.Buzz which was recently launched by  acquired  by Tim Culpepper, a Military Intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, turned domainer. Domain.Buzz seems to be an aggregator of mostly domain blogs and publications along the lines of Domaining.com and NameBee.com but had sections for domain Sales Reports and Trends, Entrepreneurship and Emerging Tech. According to the story, Mr. Culpepper, who had been paying off his ... read more ...
Mon 16th March 2015
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Shocker? Latin American Telecom LLC Beats Google To The .Tube New gTLD - • Provide all those interested, world-wide, in disseminating or seeking information, whether non-commercial or commercial, about current issues, news, culture, lifestyle, entertainment, sports or any other topic with a convenient and recognizable domain name that associates them and⁄or their information with particular topics presented primarily through a video format.• Provide all those interested, world-wide, in selling or purchasing goods or services of any kind, or providing information, ... read more ...