Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Wed 11th February 2015
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Work 3,833; .Casa 1,235; .LGBT 404 - Three new gTLD’s had their first day of general availability yesterday and here are the number of domains registered under each extension after the first day according to ntldstats.com: .Work 3,833 .Casa 1,235 .LGBT 404 Minds + Machines is the registry for .Work and .Casa. .LGBT registry is Afilias. Today Wednesday two more new gTLD’s go into General Availability, .Delivery and .Energy. As of publication .Energy has 308 registrations through Sunrise and the Early Access Program, and .Delivery. My ... read more ...
Tue 10th February 2015
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.LGBT Launched Today: Meet The initial 5 Pioneers .LGBT Sites - Afilias announced today the first and only top-level domain (TLD) dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is now open for registration: “dot LGBT” or .LGBT. All LGBT community members and businesses, organizations and other entities serving the community may register for a .LGBT domain name immediately. Roland LaPlante, Chief Marketing Officer of Afilias is quoted as saying, “The large and vibrant LGBT community now has an Internet address that embraces the ... read more ...
Mon 9th February 2015
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Architelos Reports New gTLD's Have 1/4 of a Level Of Abuse Found In Legacy Extensions, But… - Architelos, says that Approximately 50% of all new gTLDs have had one or more domains listed for abuse, with 99% being spam. The sequence of abuse follows an expected pattern where spam is the first to enter, followed by phishing and malware later once the TLDs are more established. Abusive domains were being registered slowly across approximately 20-25% of TLDs in general availability for the first six months of 2014. However, in August the number of gTLDs having domains listed for abuse significantly ... read more ...
Sat 7th February 2015
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.Com Top 116 Million Active Domain Names For The 1st Time & Is Up 600K Registrations Since Dec 31 - The number of active .Com domain names has passed the 116 million mark for the firs time in history. At the end of 2014 there were 15.3 million .Com domain registered in the active zone file, meaning that .Com registrations have increase 600,000 domain names in the first 5 weeks of 2015. The number of new gTLD’s is stilling at 4,288,778 according to ntldstats.com up from the 3,650,000 new gTLD domain names registered at the end of 2014, which appears to be a gain of almost 600,000 domain registrations However ... read more ...
Wed 4th February 2015
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The DNA.org Global Domain Name Preferences Survey: 85% Type Domains Into Browsers -         The DNA.org, a trade association whose members include new gTLD registries, domain name registrars and consultants to the industry (Disclaimer a company I’m a Director of RightoftheDot.com is a member of the DNA) released the results of a poll conducted by  Research Now a a global firm headquartered in the U.S., the Global Domain Name Preferences Survey. This Domain Name Preference study was conducted during the period of October – November 2014 in 10 countries and had over 5,000 ... read more ...
Tue 3rd February 2015
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Donuts Expects To Wind Up With About 200 New gTLD's - In a press release it issued today Donuts said it expected to win up operating around 200 new gTLD’s. “”Donuts Inc., the world’s largest registry for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), marked the one-year anniversary of general availability of new Internet identities today, reporting that its 150 live gTLDs are home to more than 1.2 million registrations, accounting for nearly 1/3 of the 4 million total names registered across all new gTLDs.” The company, which expects eventually ... read more ...
 
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Are New gTLDs More Memorable than Country Code Domains ? - Stuart Fuller, director, commercial operations at NetNames spoke with FE Brandwagon/FinancialExpress.com and gave his view why the new gtlds are more memorable and why brands can have more security if they take the time to get their own Dot Brand. NetNames also put together a couple of graphics on the topic. From the article: Could you elaborate on how the new domain system will change the internet landscape? I hope we see a safer environment, one where innovation is fostered and where brand holders ... read more ...
Mon 2nd February 2015
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Frank Schilling's North Sound Names Registers Over 9,000 .Hosting Domains - Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names registered over 9,000 domain names in the new gTLD .Hosting on January 31th .Hosting which is owned by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry had about 2,312 domain names registrations as of January 30th, now has over 11,600 registered domain names. Mr. Schilling has long said he would go ahead and register domain names he thought would be premium domain names after the new gTLD extension of Uniregistry has been available to the public. .Hosting has been available for ... read more ...
Sat 31st January 2015
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New Dot Media, LLC launches TheNotComRevolution.Guide - A frequent commenter on TheDomains Tom Gilles is the founder of New Dot Media, LLC, his company published a press release relating to an educational website TheNotComRevolution.Guide. An educational website, http://TheNotcomRevolution.Guide, has been launched by New Dot Media, LLC to help internet users better understand and navigate the new “Not Com” Internet. The website provides insight and tips for consumers, businesses, parents, and professionals regarding the epic expansion of web domains. The ... read more ...
 
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Would we have practical for a new GTLD if we knew what we know now ? - On the one year anniversary of the rollout of new gtlds to the public, our January poll question was, “Would you have applied for a new GTLD if you knew what you know now ?” We had 110 votes and 62 people voted no while 48 voted yes. This may have been a tricky question because a lot of participants may not have had the ability to embark on such an adventure due to the price. I think if you could have been one string registry, that secured its string uncontested it would be intriguing , something ... read more ...
Thu 29th January 2015
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Disposable Email Services Product to be rolled out on Discard.Email - Appfield.net is a German technology services provider that is rolling out a new product, Discard.email. The product is a disposable email service that will let users use their own domain name if they wish. Of course it is hard business out there competing with the likes of Gmail and Yahoo. The service claims to be better at fighting spam and providing other features. “Users can use their own unused domains privately and anonymously on our email service. If someone wishes to provide a domain publicly ... read more ...
 
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Whoops: Mayor Of New York Fails To Register His Own .NYC Domain: Billdeblasio.NYC - This goes right to the you can’t make this stuff up file. Crainsnewyork.com,  published a post today chatting about how the the Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, who has been touting “the new .nyc domain names as “a unique opportunity” for New Yorkers “to own who they are online,” did not buy what he was selling.” “Records show that billdeblasio.nyc was purchased by Thomas Anderson, a digital developer at Publishers Clearing House with no ties to the mayor. ” Mr. Anderson ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals .Space 1,784; .Band 776: .Rip 348; .How 250; .Ryukyu 143 - Five new gTLD’s had their first day of general availability (GA) yesterday. Here the total number of domain registrations after the first day. These total include all domains registered in Sunrise by trademark holders as well as any domains registered during an Early Access Program or Landrush where people paid extra money to get early access to domain registrations: .Space 1,784 .Band 776 .Rip 348 .How 250 .Ryukyu 143 The purpose of .ryukyu is to promote Okinawa and spread to the world Okinawa ... read more ...
Wed 28th January 2015
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.Global Puts Up Site With Over 3,500 Domains/ Many Previous Premiums Available For Registration - The .Global registry has put up a site to highlight over 3,500 domain names that are available for immediate registration many of which were formally on the reserved/restricted list. Domain names registered through January 31st are also eligible for the $25 per domain rebate for those that register 10 or more domains. Each listed domain name is click-able from the site, which will tell you if they are still available (some have been taken) and gives you some suggested registrars where the domain ... read more ...
Tue 27th January 2015
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Donuts Win Another New gTLD .Express Beating Out Express.com: No ICANN Last Resort Auctions For January - Donuts has won yet another new gTLD string ahead winning .Express. The only other applicant was submitted by Express.com who has now withdrawn their application. This domain was scheduled for an ICANN Last Resort Auction. There are now 11 new gTLD scheduled to go to an ICANN in February and 19 more for March. As things have been going the vast majority of these will be settle ahead of time by private auction while some contention groups will ask and receive an extension. Several contention sets that ... read more ...
Sun 25th January 2015
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ICANN CEO Fadi Bites The Hand That Feeds It Calling out Those "Hogging" Domains" - Fadi Chehade, CEO of ICANN, in a story published by the HuffingtonPost.com, which also contains a video interview with Fadi at World Economic Forum in Davos, explaining how we “went from twenty-something” top domain names to hundreds” throws large domain investors under the bus and then backs up the bus and rolls over them again calling them Cybersquatters. In respond to a questions regarding “land grabs” in the new domain extension Fadi said: “The reality is, the more there are names ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins The Rights To Operate The New gTLD .Cafe Beating Out Co. That Runs .Bar/.Rest - Donuts has picked up another new gTLD extension winning the rights to .Cafe, beating out Punto 2012 the registry that runs .Bar and .Rest. The new gTLD string .Cafe was scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort auction later this Month. Other new gTLD’s that touch .cafe include .Restaurant, which is operated by Donuts .Eat was applied for by Google .Food is in contention by three parties .Rest one of the two strings owned by Punto 2012 and is meant to be a shortener for .Restaurant   ... read more ...
Sat 24th January 2015
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Afilias Wins The .Bet new gTLD Beating Donuts, Famous Four & UK Gambling Co. Ladbrokes - The new gTLD .Bet has been settled in what we can only guess was a private auction won by Afilias. Afilias won the rights to operate the new Top Level Domain beating out two big portfolio applicants Donuts and Famous Four Media as well as Ladbrokes a publicly traded  British based gaming company. According to Afilias  application with ICANN they expect to have 21K .Bet domain registrations by the end of year three. .Bet was set to be resolved later this month in the ICANN Last Resort Auction. Here ... read more ...
Fri 23rd January 2015
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.Global Registry Offering A $25 Cash Back Rebate, But only for 8 Days - The .Global new gTLD registry just launched a cash back program to give people who register 10 or more .Global Domain names a cash back bonus of $25 per domain. “This is a limited time offer only available between Friday 23th of January and Saturday 31st of January.” For details on how to apply for the cashback, please click here. It doesn’t matter which registrar that sells .global registrations you use to get the cash back bonus. The $25 per domain will be sent by the registry to your paypal ... read more ...
Thu 22nd January 2015
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Trademark Clearinghouse Releases New Numbers: 34,400 Trademarks Registered - The Trademark Clearinghouse release some new numbers today. There are now 34,400 trademark submitted to the trademark clearinghouse. Just over 50% were submitted for more than one year for a total of almost 86,000 trademark years. Over 128,000 claim notice have been sent out to trademark holders notifying them of a registered new gTLD covered by their marks. Its seems just less than 5% of all submitted marks did not meet the requirements and were not verified. Here is the infographic published today:   ... read more ...
 
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Forbes Asks "Why, Even After A Year, There's Still No Land Grab For New Internet Domains" - Forbes just published an article on the new gTLD”s and its less than glowing. Here are some of the highlights of the piece written by Roger Kay: “It’s been nearly a year since a whole set of spanking new Internet domain names first came to market. These names —which in technical circles are called “generic top-level domains” or gTLDs — were just becoming available in January 2014…fresh extensions — snazzy end-tags like .apple, .guru, .pizza, .bike, and .singles — which were added ... read more ...
 
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My Opinion: Donuts Is Not Helping Itself By Attacking .Com - Raymond Hackney just published a story on the Thedomains.com based on a blog post published on Donuts.co corporate site, which you can read here. I have written about Donuts attacking .Com to sell their own new gTLD’s before and even discussed it in our 2014 year recap. I think its a bad move. First of all its false. In 2014 .Com grew by some 3.3 million domains  which is slightly less than the total number of new gTLD registration but is more than the number of paid third party new gTLD registrations. .Com ... read more ...
 
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Donuts " after such a prolonged run, it’s about time to palm .COM a bullion watch" - Donuts posted a blog post yesterday about looking to the future and that .com is that old stodgy utility that is staid but it is unremarkable. Yet Microsoft had plenty of options for example to register Hololens.newgtld but they still paid to buy the .com and handregister the .us. The article is worth a read, especially for those all in with the new gtlds. The leave a comment link does nothing  and there is no possibility to leave a comment on the post. I believe that .com will lead the future ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Vlaanderen 3,880; .Brussels 3,742; .Forsale 2,197 - Three new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA) yesterday where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Here are the totals after the first day of GA. The totals include all domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise Period and those who paid an extra fee to get early access in a landrush period or in an Early Access Program (EAP). Any domain that received more than one landrush application for the two Geographic extensions (.Vlaanderen; .Brussels) ... read more ...
Sat 17th January 2015
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.ForSale (IN EAP) Has Almost 200 Registrations: Apple & Microsoft Leads The Way - The new gTLD .Forsale is launching next week and has just under 200 registrations through Sunrise and the first two days of the Early Access Program (EAP) Both Apple and Microsoft went in heavy into the Sunrise program registering most of their tech product names in .forsale. If your wondering iphone and ipad are not on the list because  Apple bought a trademark block on all Rightside extensionsfor those terms. However, Apple didn’t register iphones.forsale, ipads.forsale or Apples.forsale Someone ... read more ...