Here Is Our Run Down As New gTLD's Top 4.5 Million Registrations - .Science added another 14K+ domain names registrations yesterday in its second day of general availability, putting the number of new gTLD registrations over the 4.5 million mark. New gTLD registrations still have a large percentage of free, almost free, very low cost and related party registrations. .Science domain names which just launched two days ago, are still being registered for free at Alpnames.com AlpNames.com now has registered 26,656 of the 27,500 .Science domain names or over 96% of ... read more ...

.APP Rolls Into A Second Day In The ICANN Last Resort Auction; Here's Why & What It Means - .APP which went into a ICANN Last Resort contention auction yesterday, appears to be going into a second day. ICANN Last Resort auctions, like private auctions for new gTLD contention sets, are not held in a normal auction format that most people are familiar with. Unlike a online domain auction or live domain auctions where bidders keep raising the bid, outbidding other bidders, within minutes of each other, what you would call a traditional paddles up in the air type of auction, Contention Auctions ... read more ...

.Science Gets Almost 14,000 (Mostly Free) Registrations - Yesterday we told you that .Science could be registered for free on AlpNames.com, wound up its first day of general availability with almost 14,000 registrations. .Science only had 13 domain names registered in Sunrise by trademark holders and wound up their first day with 13,397. Not surprisingly almost 94% of all .Science domain names were registered for free at AlpNames.com, some 12,590 of the 13,397. The .Science registry  is owned by Famous Four. For the record we registered 3.     ... read more ...

.Science is Live and AlpNames.com is Letting You Register Them For Free - .Science just launched into general availability this morning and at least one register is allowing you to register them for free. Alpnames.com isn’t advertising it on the front of their site, but if you try to register a .Science domain name you will see the cost is $0.00. By comparison Godaddy.com is charging $9.99 for a .Science registration. I don’t know what the limits are or how long it will last. ... read more ...

Fast Company: Rips .Green Calling It "An Idea Whose Time Has Passed" - Over the years I have read a ton of stories on new gTLD program and certainly some particular new gTLD’s, but few have gone as far as FastCompany just published on the new gTLD .Green in a story entitled: “Why The New .Green Domain Name Is An Idea Thankfully Past Its Time” “The problem is that (.Green) maybe an idea whose time has passed.” “Ten years ago, setting up a .green domain may have made sense; so few companies were doing green things.” “These days .green seems passé and ... read more ...

Afnic Takes A demeanour during Year Zero For The New gTLDs - Afnic published a report on the new gtlds and looked at “Year Zero” for the new extensions. The report covered, looking back at 2014, the fee or free business model, the valuation proposition and where the new gtlds are heading. Read the full report here From the report: 2014 ended with 470 gTLDs (generic top-level domains) in the root, including 39 using non-Latin characters, and 290 ccTLDs (country code top-level domains) of which 41 used  non-Latin characters. In all, there were no less ... read more ...

L’Oréal Wins New gTLD .BEAUTY Beating Donuts & Minds + Machines/Adding To Its Huge Vertical - L’Oréal has won the new gTLD .Beauty beating Donuts and Minds + Machines. We reported earlier today that L’Oréal also won the rights to operate .Hair L’Oréal was also the sole applicant for .skin and .makeup so L’Oréal has basically cornered the new gTLD market for that vertical. Interestingly the company withdrew its .Brand application for .LOREAL but who needs that when you own all the keywords in the vertical. If your wonder no one applied for .Cosmetics         ... read more ...

Quick Poll: How Much Will .APP Sell For Next Week? - The new gTLD .App,  which was the most applied for new gTLD,  seems to be heading to an ICANN Last Resort Auction next week. All of the other new gTLD’s that were scheduled for private auction on February 25th have been settled privately. However .App which received 13 applications,  (1 application was withdrawn months ago)  still has 12 applicants and all you need is one applicant not to agree to settle privately to go to an ICANN auction. As we are less than a week out before the Auction ... read more ...

2 More New gTLD's Settled; Amazon Loses .Box; L'Oréal Wins .Hair - Two more new gTLD’s that were scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction next week have been settled by privately. Amazon has withdrawn its application for .Box leaving NS1 Limited of Hong Kong who is run by the same principal of .Asia, Edmon Chung as the winner. It seems .Box see’s itself as a competitor to .Cloud. Here is how .Box explains its vision for the extension in its ICANN application “.box is about the making the Internet (the cloud) personal.Personal computers (PC) fundamentally ... read more ...

.College To Offer Trademark Holders & Universities Free Registrations - XYZ.COM LLC, the company behind the .xyz domain extension, announced the global launch of the .College domain extension today offering for the first time free Sunrise registrations for trademark holders and a special early access program for universities in which they can also get their .college domain registered for free. .College also announced a four stage roll out of the extension that will be live for general availability on September 29th, 2015 Here is the press release: “”XYZ has announced ... read more ...

1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Yoga 1,546; .Sydney 1,508; .Party 1,105; .Vote 264: .Cricket 167; .Voto 124 - Six new gTLD’s had its first day of general availability (GA)  yesterday where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis and from the 6 new gTLD’s we have around just 4,500 registrations. Including any Sunrise registrations by trademark holders or any pre-registration period here are the totals after the first day: .Yoga 1,546 .Sydney 1,508 .Party 1,105 .Vote 264 .Cricket 167 .Voto 124 .Sydney maybe effected by time zone changes, so we may see a big second day tally. .Cricket ... read more ...

Scottish Government Jumps on a new gtld train - Scottish Government switches to a .Scot domain Herald Scotland published an article that the Scottish government is switching to a .Scot domain with the older scotland.gov.uk continuing to function. It makes sense not to do away with the old address which I would imagine will eventually become a redirect. From the article: THE Scottish Government has switched its website to a new “dot Scot” internet domain address. The site will be accessed via www.gov.scot, though the old www.scotland.gov.uk ... read more ...

Donuts Beats Google, Uniregistry and Afilias to Operate The New Domain Extension .Team - Donuts has won another private auction beating Uniregistry and Afilias to operate the new gTLD extension .Team. Unlike many other new gTLD’s I’m not sure there is much vertical competition to .team, arguably .club or one of the sports verticals like .Baseball or .Football; .Soccer etc As of now there are still 5 new gTLD’s set for ICANN Last Resort auction in 10 days; .App which was the most applied for new gTLD that still has 12 applicants; .beauty which has three applicants and then 3 gTLD ... read more ...

Radix Wins Rights To New Domain Extension .Store Beating Amazon & Google + 4 More - Radix has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Store, beating 6 other applicants including Amazon and Google. The other 4 applications for .Store have now withdrawn their application as well, Donuts, Uniregistry, Minds + Machines, and a company out of Delaware thedotstore.com. The new gTLD .Store was set to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. There is vertical competition in the new gTLD space for the shopping vertical including several still in contention including .shop, and/or ... read more ...

The .Show Goes On As Donuts Wins Rights to New gTLD Beating Google & Amazon - The old saying is the .show must go on and Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Show beating out Google and Amazon. The fourth applicant, Zodiac Aries Limited of Hong Kong also withdrew their applications for .Show. There will some other new gTLD’s in the vertical .Broadway, .Tickets and .Seat, not owned by Donuts, along with .Movie and .Events which are owned by Donuts. Donuts has an application in contention with the broadwayacrossamerica.com for .Theater. .Show was scheduled to ... read more ...

1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Energy 1,084; .Delivery 790 - Two new gTLD launched yesterday into General Availability (GA), including those domain names registered in Sunrise and the Early Access Program (EAP) where people pay additional fees to register their domain names early here are the totals after the first day of GA: .Energy 1,084 .Delivery 790 The three new gTLD’s that went into GA on Tuesday had nice 2nd days results as well. .Work added another 819 domains yesterday and is now over 4,650 registrations. .Casa added 10% more registrations, 138 ... read more ...

Jay Westerdal's Fegistry Beats Donuts & Famous Four To The new gTLD .Forum - Domain investor and the one of the creators of DomainTools.com, Jay Westerdal’s company Fegistry, LLC just won the rights to the new gTLD .Forum beating Donuts Famous Four. Fegistry won an ICANN Last Resort auction for the new gTLD .Realty ICANN auction results  are public information, so we know that Fegistry paid $5.6 million for .Realty However .Forum, which was scheduled for an ICANN auction later this month, was settled privately so the amount it sold for in the auction is unknown. According ... read more ...