Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Fri 16th January 2015
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New Gtld Resource Site Registered.Today is For Sale - Gtld.Link is a new forum that focuses strictly on the new gtlds, I just joined a couple nights ago. While I was going through the names for sale listings, I came across a listing for Registered.Today. I have no affiliation with Registered.today, no advertising relationships etc… I just thought it worth a mention for someone active in the new gtld field to check it out, I have found the website useful. ... read more ...
Thu 15th January 2015
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Donuts Beats Google, Amazon, Dish Network, Radix, Famous Four To .Movie New gTLD - Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Movie beating out 7 other applicants including publicly traded Google, Amazon, and  Dish Network. .Movie was the last new gTLD scheduled to go to the ICANN last resort auction in January and was apparently settled by private auction. The other applicants that have now withdrawn their applications for .Movie were Radix, Famous Four, ARI Registry Services, and NU Dot Co LLC,  the company that sold the .Co registry to Neustar for $109 million dollars. As ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Domain Name Registrations Top 4 Million - The number of domain names registered using a gTLD new domain name extension has topped over 4 million domain names according to ntldstats.com. The official total according to ntldstats.com is 4,010,951. Not too much has changed since our post when the number of new gTLD domain name registrations passed 3.5 million million mark. Over 350,000 of the 500,000 additional domain registrations have been added by the registry that is operating the IDN of .网址 which Translates to “website/net address” ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .World 5,081; .Degree 160; .Gives 158 - Three new gTLD’s entered General Availability (GA) yesterday and after the first day,  including all registration in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and including those domain names registered for an extra fee in the Early Access Program (EAP) here are the total number of registrations: .World 5,081 .Degree 160 .Gives 158 We have already written twice about .World as we saw that .World was going to be a pretty hot extension coming out of the gate. Donuts made quite a bit of money on .World ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Statistics and Business Implications -

Dot TBA and TLD Watch put on a display during NamesCon that took a demeanour behind during 2014 and what insights were gained. The 29 page PDF is filled with stats and graphs and is positively value reading and saving if we have any seductiveness in a new extensions. Download a PDF here

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Quiksilver Ready To Surf The New gTLD Wave - Brand Channel published an article today about Quiksilver, the largest surfwear brand in the world, adding a .surf into the mix. The company released a press release that they were going to use the new gtld for social media (they have millions of followers) and to differentiate their business segments. This is how I have envisioned new gtlds being used, the .com or cctld being the hub and then using new gtlds as satellites for campaigns or certain business segments. Roxy is a sister brand of Quiksilver ... read more ...
Tue 13th January 2015
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The New gTLDs and SEO - Roland LaPlante wrote a piece on Circle ID about new gtlds and SEO. Roland works at Afilias and it is safe to say he is an advocate of the new gtlds with Afilias having a vested interest. There are readers who are trying their hand at developing a new gtld or two so this article may be helpful for those who have questions and concerns with regards to SEO. From the article: With the arrival of hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), many marketers are excited that they can now get a web ... read more ...
Mon 12th January 2015
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B2B Digital Marketing Trends for 2015 - In a post on BDB.co.uk the author Rachael took a look at digital marketing trends for the upcoming year, the changing or possible extinction of the homepage was number two on that list. The premise behind the end of the homepage stems from our mulit device universe. How sites act and react with smartphones, tablets, laptops, etc… Personally I think the homepage will stay in tact, I do agree about using certain naming conventions or new gtlds for specific campaigns. I think this is how the new gtlds ... read more ...
 
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.World Gets 285 Registrations On Day 5 OF Early Access Making Donuts $45K In Just EAP Fees - At least 285 domain names were registered on day 5 of the Early Access Program for the new gTLD .World. At Godaddy.com a day 5 EAP registration for a .World domain has a rack rate of $179.99 That’s around  $45,000 just in Early Access Fees that Donuts collected on Sunday based off of Godaddy’s price. The regular price to register a .World domain name is $23.99 at Godaddy.com once it opens up for general availability on Wednesday. Of course many of the domain name registered on day five were ... read more ...
Sun 11th January 2015
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Our Top 10 Picks From The ROTD Auction At NamesCon For .Vegas; .Wiki, .XYZ & .ink Domains - Here are my top 10 picks from the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction to be held at Namescon on Tuesday for a few new gTLD’s; .Vegas, .Wiki/.Ink, and .XYZ. Of course .XYZ has more domain names registered than any other new gTLD. .Wiki and .ink are owned by the same registry so we combined them and .Vegas speaks for itself Most of the domains are at no reserve although some do already have pre-bids on Snapnames.com .Vegas .Wiki/.ink .XYZ   ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Wow’s Us & Beats Google and Rightside To Win The .Wow New gTLD - Amazon (AMZN) is the proud owner of the new gTLD .WOW as both Google (GOOG) and Rightside (NAME) have withdrawn their applications. .Wow was scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Remember that  Amazon originally applied to operate all the new gTLD’s they applied for, all 74 of them, on a closed basis which the Governmental Advisory Counsel to ICANN,  otherwise known as the GAC put the breaks on. I’m not sure how Amazon plans to .Wow us but I’m sure they have something ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Google (Again) & Wins a New gTLD .Plus - Donuts has won another new gTLD, .Plus that was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort auction later this month. Google in the form of Charleston Road Registry Inc. has withdrawn their application for .plus leaving Donuts as the sole applicant. Honestly I have no idea of why anyone applied for .Plus, much less two companies. Not sure why anyone in a world of 1,000+ domain extensions would choice to use a .Plus Computers.plus Cars.plus Sports.Plus Plus what? Sorry just don’t get this one guys. Having ... read more ...
 
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Radix Asks “Whats Your Bid for Bets.WEBSITE?”? XXX.Website is during No Reserve - Radix the registry for .Website, .Press and .Host announced today that it  is releasing some of its most valuable reserved names up for auction in the upcoming RightOfTheDot Live and Online Domain Auction at NamesCon powered by leading domain name auction platform SnapNames.com. More than $175,000 worth of premium names (with annual renewals) have been sold by Radix already, however the domain names that are being auctioned off by Radix at Namescon will not carry any premium renewal fee. Sandeep ... read more ...
Sat 10th January 2015
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At Least 16 .World Domains Registered On So Far On Day 4 of EAP @ Up To $1,228 Per - We are on the 4th day of the Early Access Program (EAP) for .World which are priced at $1,222.99 at enom.com (rack rate). This $1,222 fee is assuming there the domain names are not premium domain names, which actually some of these,  are meaning that the registrants paid the premium renewal and registration fee in addition to the Early Access Fee. The biggest registrant of .World domain names so far today is Chad Wright of Webquest who bought several of these domain names. Day 4 of EAP continues ... read more ...
Fri 9th January 2015
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Las Vegas Review-Journal Renames Its Job Classified Section As RJJobs.Vegas - The Las Vegas Journal Newspaper, the newspaper with the largest circulation in the the state of Nevada has named its classified job section as RJJobs.Vegas. Although the domain name RJJobs.Vegas forwards to the reviewjournal.com/jobs, it seems that the newspaper is using the branding opportunity that a Geo domain like .Vegas brings. If your wondering the domain name Jobs.Vegas is registered reserved by the .Vegas Registry. There are several .Vegas registry owned domain names in the RightoftheDot.com ... read more ...
Thu 8th January 2015
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MediaPost: $20M A Year AdEase Changes Its Domain To a .Agency But Credits Google Not Donuts - Mediapost.com just published a story tonight about San Diego-based ad shop, AdEase which they say has grown into a company with 35 employees and $20 million-plus in annualized billings. According to the story it is remaking itself as a cause-focused agency. As part of the makeover it is changing its name to Civilian. Also as part of the redo, the agency is adopting a .agency domain name. “Google added .agency as a Generic Top Level Domain name option about six months ago. “ “The agency believes ... read more ...
 
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AsiaOne: “Major firms to use names as website domain suffixes” - AsiaOne.com wrote an article today that talked about brands in Asia that will be adopting their own brand extension and using it over .com or say .co.jp. One company mentioned in the article was Dai Nippon Printing Co, the company is publicly traded in Japan. The company said that the new domain has been attractive for regular consumers, but, still uses its previous domain at dnp.co.jp. Of course that makes sense for any company that switches to a new gtld, but for me the confusion was what to use ... read more ...
Tue 6th January 2015
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Donuts Beats The Owner Of Gold.Org To The New gTLD .Gold - Donuts, which we can only assume won a private auction for the new gTLD string .Gold against the World Gold Counsel (WGC) which operates Gold.Org The new gTLD .Gold was scheduled to got to an ICANN Last Resort auction later this month. Here is some information from WGC application” “The Applicant is a wholly owned subsidiary of the World Gold Council, a non-profit organisation tasked with the market development for the gold industry (collectively referred to as the World Gold Council Group). ... read more ...
Mon 5th January 2015
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2014: Here is Our Thoughts On The New gTLD Program & Some Predictions for 2015 - The new gTLD’s were certain the talk of the domain industry in 2014. I thought it would be a good time to take a look at where the program is in our opinion and make a few predictions for 2015. The new gTLD ‘s ended with lets call it 3,650,000 domain name registrations just to round the numbers off. We did an analysis when the new gTLD’s hit 3.5 million and backing out the free domains and domains registered by the registry or parties related closely to the registry we figured there were about ... read more ...
 
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Inc.com Asks “Will New Top Level Domains (New gTLD’s) Even Matter in 2015″ Hint: No - Inc.com just published a post, entitled “Will New Top Level Domains Matter in 2015? Will new URL endings change web design and marketing in 2015?” The Inc.com story is about as negative on new gTLD’s as I read recently and pretty much the opposite of Paul Stahura recent post on Circleid.com “”In 2014, the new Top Level Domains (TLDs) were introduced to much fanfare from the press and tech bloggers. New web address endings were touted as a land rush on the internet and a game changer for ... read more ...
Sat 3rd January 2015
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Christopher Hofman Asks Industry Participants “What’s in a DNA of a Successful New gTLD ? - Christopher Hofman of EuropeanDomainCentre.com did a big piece back in August where he got insight from several industry players on the new gtld program. He revisited these individuals with some new questions for the New Year. The primary theme was what is inherent or the DNA of a successful new gtld ? From the article: To help them on their way I asked these additional questions: – Do successful new gTLDs share common traits ? – Is there a way to spot the success of future launches in the registration ... read more ...
Fri 2nd January 2015
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.Net’s Fall Below 15 Million Registrations - The number of domain names in the .Net zone file fell below 15 Million as of the last update by Verisign There are now officially 14,998,816 .Net domain registered. .Net first passed the 15 million mark in August 2013. At the end of the first quarter of 2014 (March 31st 2014) there were around 15.2 million registrations according to Verisign. However the reduction in .Net domains which were generally regarded with .Org as the new best choice to a .Com was expected with the launched of hundred of ... read more ...
Wed 31st December 2014
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What Is Going On With The Huge Increase In Registrars In The Color New gTLD’s .Red; .Pink; .Blue? - There has been a sudden and huge boost in domain registrations for all the color new gTLD’s extensions in the past few days, .Red, .Blue, .Pink each increasing around 25% from its previous totals Each new domain extension that are operated by Afilias, have added thousands of registrations in the 2-3 days. .Blue has added over 2,000 registrations in the last 2 days going from less than 7,000 registrations to just under 9,000. .Red has added over 2,000 registrations going from under 18,000 to over ... read more ...
Tue 30th December 2014
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Yikes: Rightside Falls Below $7 A Shares Hitting Another All Time Low: Down 30%+ In 6 Weeks - Shares of Rightside (NAME) which we actually own some of have been falling like a rock. Today shares fell below $7 which I guess stock market guys might call a support level, hitting an intraday all time low of $6.73. Shares have recovered slightly and are trading as of publication at $6.83. Volume is like yesterday, when the shares hit that $7 a share number, before closing at $7.10 trading just over 80,000 shares with less than 1 1/2 hours left in the trading session which is below the 3 month ... read more ...
Thu 25th December 2014
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Dentist 907: .Rehab 293 - Two new gTLD went into General Availability yesterday on Christmas eve day. Including all registrations by trademark holders in Sunrise and those who paid an additional fee to register domain names before GA in the Early Access Program (EAP) here are the total number of registrations after the first day of GA: .Dentist 907 .Rehab 293 We noted yesterday on Twitter that only 25 domain names in .Rehab were registered in Sunrise and the EAP period combined, going into GA There is already a .Dental new ... read more ...