Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Mon 16th March 2015
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Telegraph.co.uk – "Cyber - Telegraph.co.uk is out with an article that there has been an over 300% increase in the number of TM disputes. The article equates the increase in disputes with the introduction of the new gtlds. From the article: The release of hundreds of new web address endings over the last eight months has contributed to a 313pc increase in the number of “cyber-squatting” disputes, it has emerged. The internet industry regulator ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is currently ... read more ...
 
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.Fyi Donuts Beats Google To The New gTLD .Fyi -

Donuts has won a rights to a new gTLD .fyi violence Google

Fyi for those who don’t know is brief for “For Your Information”

There is also a radio network owned by A E, called fyi.tv

There is of march already a .info prolongation that has around 5.5 million registrations.

.Fyi was scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort auction after this month.

 

 

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Donuts Wins The New Domain Extension .Family Beating Google & Uniregistry The Winner of .Mom - Donuts has won the right to operate another new gTLD extension .Family beating Google and Uniregistry. Uniregistry just won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Mom over the weekend beating Google and Rightside. It would think if you won one of these new gTLD’s you would want the other. I don’t know how many people or companies, in a world of 1,000 choices of domain extension would choose either of these to use to identify their online presence but I would think if you had one you would want the ... read more ...
Sat 14th March 2015
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Amazon Wins The .Free New Domain Extension Beating Google, Donuts, Uniregistry M +M - Amazon has won the rights to operate the .Free new gTLD. Amazon beat Google, Donuts, Minds +Machines, and Uniregistry in a private auction to win the rights to .Free .Free was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Amazon already won the rights to the .buy new gTLD which is pretty much the opposite of .free It will be really interesting to see what Amazon plans to do with .free. Other than sometimes .free shipping I’m not sure what Amazon offers for free, except for a ... read more ...
 
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Uniregisty Wins The New Domain Extension .Mom Beating Google & Rightside - Uniregistry has won a three way battle for the new gTLD .Mom. Both Google and United TLD Holdco Ltd. which is now Rightside, have withdrawn their application with ICANN. .Mom was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Here is how Uniregistry describes the extension in their ICANN application for .Mom ʺGod could not be everywhere, so mothers were created.ʺ — Proverb Mothers are the most celebrated members of our society. They give birth, provide nurture and comfort, ... read more ...
Fri 13th March 2015
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TheRegister.co.uk Publishes Story on New gTLD's: They Think The Period To Apply Is Still Opened - TheRegister.co.uk, just published a story today on the new gTLD program and it contains plenty of very basic factually inaccurate statements about the program. Here we go: “The internet is poised to gain a whole lot of new domain names in the very near future, from the useful (.app, .dev) to the more whimsical (.ninja, .lol).” Many of of the new gTLD’s  domain extension have already launched including .ninja. “Unfortunately, some of the more useful ones may end being locked up behind Google’s ... read more ...
Thu 12th March 2015
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Is The Trademark Clearinghouse Causing New gTLD's To Lose 6X The Number Of Registrations? - Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), just published a very interesting story on how the trademark clearinghouse (TMCH) program maybe negatively effecting the numbers of new gTLD’s registrations to a factor of 6X. Its a great read and I think Phil maybe on to something. As an unintended consequence of trying to protection legitimate trademark holders, there is a lot of game-playing at the TMCH where words like “the” “great”, “cool” “luxury” and hundreds of more ... read more ...
 
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Corrected 1st Day New gTLD Stats: .Coach 1,650; .LEGAL 1,353; .MONEY 1,264; .MEMORIAL 191 - Earlier today we published a post that had the 1st day stats for 4 new gTLD’s that went into their first day of general availability yesterday relying on ntldstats.com as we always do. We have been informed by Donuts the registry for all 4 new gTLD’s that the ntldstats.com number were not current nor correct. The corrected registration numbers including domain name registered by trademark holders in Sunrise and those that paid an extra fee to register a domain in the Early Access Program after ... read more ...
Wed 11th March 2015
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Donuts Wins .Taxi, Beating Famous Four, To Go With .Cab & .Limo - Donuts has won the new gTLD .Taxi beating Famous Four Media and Taxi Pay GmbH who had filed and lost a community application. The new domain extension was scheduled to go to A ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Donuts already owns .Cab and .Limo so .Taxi make the car transportation hat trick. According to ntldstats.com .Cab has lover 3,800 registrations. .Limo has over 3,300 registration ... read more ...
 
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Rightside to Release 20K+ Two Character New gTLD Domain Names On Mar 18th - Rightside (Nasdaq:NAME), announced that it will release certain two-character domains for each of the Top Level Domains (TLDs) in its portfolio, which includes such popular extensions as .SOCIAL and .ATTORNEY. on March 18 These two-character domain names, such as 2b.social, 21.rocks, and A1.lawyer, offer more than 20,000 new URL options for businesses and consumers to share their identities, interests, and brand personalities with short, memorable web addresses. Rightside included the following ... read more ...
Mon 9th March 2015
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How Colin Campbell (Dot Club) Raised $7million in 30 Days - Colin Campbell wrote a very interesting article on StartUpBeat.com, he went into detail on how he raised $7million in 30 days for Dot Club. Colin gives the timeline that led from start to finish and is a very good read imo. From the article: I had a problem. A problem that almost every startup faces: Raising money. I had to raise $7 million fast for a concept that hadn’t yet generated any revenue, but I had to do it in 30 days, all without a broker, and all on my own. In 2013 I had applied for ... read more ...
 
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The New gTLD .HIV Auction on Sedo May Go Without a Sale - 58 .HIV new gTLD’s are at auction at Sedo.com in a themed auction which ends tomorrow. I believe all of the domain names are owned by the .HIV registry, however the registries whois does not seem to be working, even resolving for that matter. As of publication only 4 domain names have bids and none are close to meeting reserve. Test.Hiv not surprising leads the list with a $500 bid but the reserve range is $10,000-$25,000 The other 3 bids are all at the $99 minimum but the reserve ranges start ... read more ...
 
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.Sucks Releases Pricing With "Premiums" For Trademark Holders Up To $2,499 A Year -         Vox Populi Registry Ltd. the owner of the new gTLD .Sucks, made headlines last year when as one of several applicants for .Sucks announced pricing of up to $25,000 per domain, per year. Now that Vox won the private auction to operate .Sucks their site went live on Friday with suggested pricing with 5 price and qualification classes ranging from $9.95 to $2,499 per domain, per year (prices are suggested retail, but each registrar can set their own price). I had a chance to chat with John ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Makes Lotsof.Money in Early Access: .Money Has 327 Registrations, Launches Wed - Donuts seems to have made lots of money In the Early Access Program (EAP) grabbing 327 registrations including a handful of trademark registrations made in  Sunrise. In the EAP people pay extra.money to gain early access to register domain names ahead of general availability. .Money launches into general availability on Wednesday Here are some of the registrations that stood out to us: accident.money accounting.money add.money ads.money advance.money affiliate.money app.money apps.money atm.money auction.money autos.money bank.money best.money bet.money betting.money big.money bingo.money bond.money bonus.money borrow.money borrowing.money budget.money budgeting.money capital.money cars.money cash.money casino.money change.money chicago.money chinese.money click.money cloud.money coin.money coins.money collect.money converter.money crazy.money crowd.money crowdfunding.money crypto.money currency.money deposit.money dirty.money donate.money earning.money email.money escrow.money estate.money euro.money exchange.money extra.money family.money find.money for.money forex.money fundraising.money gambling.money give.money gold.money good.money great.money hard.money iam.money immediate.money ineed.money intelligent.money internet.money investing.money investment.money investor.money invests.money jet.money kids.money lease.money lend.money lending.money loan.money loaning.money loans.money london.money lost.money lotsof.money love.money mad.money makeextra.money makemore.money makes.money making.money manage.money mega.money micro.money mint.money missing.money more.money need.money news.money newyork.money next.money nyc.money old.money onthe.money pay.money play.money poker.money private.money raise.money raising.money receive.money reit.money russian.money saudi.money save.money saved.money saving.money send.money smart.money startup.money stockmarket.money super.money the.money trade.money transfer.money travel.money unclaimed.money usa.money use.money vegas.money wire.money xxx.money young.money ... read more ...
Sun 8th March 2015
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Will The Namespace Be Shaken Up By Live Registry Buys ? - Kieren Mc Carthy wrote an article on TheRegister.co.uk relating to Donuts winning the rights to .reise. Now .reise is already live, so Donuts picked up a registry with existing registrations and websites. Mc Carthy ponders what these types of deals could mean in the future ? One registry buying another and then raising prices. I think that is the important question moving forward, will this shake up the future of the namespace ? Will Donuts eventually buy out a string in a niche they otherwise control, ... read more ...
Sat 7th March 2015
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Donuts Wins Three Sports New gTLD's; .Soccer Beating Out MLS & Wins .Hockey & .Run Too - Donuts has won the right to three sports related new gTLD’s. Donuts won the right to operate the .Hockey and .Run new domain extensions, beating the only other applicant in both cases Famous Four Media. Separately Donuts won the rights to what many consider the world’s the most popular sport .Soccer, beating out Soccer United Marketing, LLC better known as Major League Soccer, which is the Professional Soccer Language in the United States as well as Famous Four Media and Minds + Machines. The ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Coupons.com to a new gTLD .Coupons - Donuts has won yet another new gTLD beatings Coupons.com to the new gTLD .Coupons The new gTLD was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. If your wondering, yes there is also a .Coupon new gTLD Amazon beat out Minds + Machines in a private auction held around June of 2014, for the .Coupon extension. Based on how Coupons.com described itself in its application with ICANN, you really have to wonder how much the bidding got up to for Coupons.com to drop out. Coupons.com described ... read more ...
Wed 4th March 2015
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Forbes Chats About Google's New gTLD's & Mucks It All Up - Forbes just published a post about Google’s new gTLD initiative and well basically mucked it all up. The story covered Google’s acquisition of .App for $25 Million but a quick read through the 1st paragraph of the story and you can see the author hasn’t really kept up with developments of the new gTLD program or Google’s applications Here is the 1st paragraph of the story: “Buying “.app” for almost four-times the previous record for a gTLD not only raised eyebrows, but questions about ... read more ...
 
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Worst gTLD Like Ever, Ever: .Whoswho Has 21 Registrations 2 Days After Launch -       .Whoswho a new gTLD went into general availability on March 2nd. Today on March 4th. According to ntldstats.com there are a whopping 21 registrations two days into GA, including any domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise period. A .whoswho domain name registration is priced at $90 at 101domain.com and $99 at encirca.com The new gTLD is not being carried by any of the top 10 domain name registrars. Like any other new gTLD the applicant paid $185,000 for to ICANN for ... read more ...
Mon 2nd March 2015
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Donuts Beats Richemont To a New gTLD .Jewelry To Go With .Diamonds - Donuts has won the new gTLD .Jewelry to go with its .Diamonds new gTLD beating Richemont Richemont DNS Inc. is the wholly owned subsidiary of Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A, the prominent Swiss luxury goods holding company, submitted 14 applications for new gTLD’s of which they now have now withdrawn 4 including .Love For those not familiar with Richemont, they are a public company that own some of the largest luxury brands in the world including Cartier, Van Cleef Arpels, Piaget, Vacheron ... read more ...
Sun 1st March 2015
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ConnectingNYC.org releases some statistics on Dot Nyc - ConnectingNyc.org posted an article on the status of how things are doing so far with the Dot Nyc extension. The article went on to say there were two ways to measure the success of an extension. The standard way of success using metric and statistical data, and the other was to look at how it affected the community. Some of the metrics from the article: Traditional Metrics Let’s start with some stats on the number of .nyc domain names sold. As of February 22, the city’s contractor reported ... read more ...
 
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How Many New gTLD Registrations Will There be by a End of 2015 ? - The number of new gtld registrations stood at approximately 3.7 million to close out 2014. Our poll question for March is where do you see that number for 2015 ? The poll just went up and we did provide for choices that would show a contraction, so far half of the very small sample size has voted that way. Today according to nTLDStats the number is sitting around 4.4 million. It certainly makes sense that a lot of robo – registrations will not be renewed, some of the premium renewals will not ... read more ...
Sat 28th February 2015
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Jeffrey Sass Talks Dot Club and a formula of the Dot App Poll - In an article by Laurie Sullivan on Media Post which discussed Google paying $25 million for .app, there was also some commentary from Jeffrey Sass about .club. Sass explained how the pricing works at the wholesale and retail level. He gave a little shout out to Credit.club, the $10.99 hand registration that Bruce Marler was able to jump on. Sass mentioned Credit.club as an example that new gtlds have proven their ability to rank in the serps. Sass said early indications suggest many of the new domain ... read more ...
Thu 26th February 2015
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Jennifer Wolfe Joins a DomainDiction.com Board - According to a press release we just received DomainDiction, a PR and marketing agency dedicated to the domain industry, announced that Jennifer Wolfe, “the world’s leading expert on TLDs for brands”, will be joining the DomainDiction board of directors. ” As a valuable new addition Jennifer will provide vital strategic guidance and experience with the C-suite among top global brands who are currently launching and creating strategy around their Top Level Domains. “DomainDiction works closely ... read more ...
 
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Google Wins The new gTLD .APP For $25 Million - The new gTLD .APP sold for $25 Million to Google today in a ICANN Last Resort Auction which I think is very good news for the new gTLD program in general. This is the highest price paid in an ICANN Last Resort Auction. It looks like Google was willing to pay over $30 Million based on the info published by ICANN today The previously high price paid for a new gTLD in an ICANN Last Resort Auction was $6,760,000 which was paid by Radix for .Tech. Radix was also a bidder for .APP .APP had the largest ... read more ...