Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Wed 24th December 2014
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Survey Of Brand Strategies in a New gTLD Era Published By Largest Law Firm In France - Fidal, the largest lawfirm in France,  put out the results of a very detailed survey on new gtlds and how brands are using them. They conducted a survey that delved into a lot of topics that brands face when dealing with the new namespace. I read the whole report and I think it is well worth your time to take a look at and bookmark to refer back to. From the report: A large majority of the surveyed companies (64.9%) say they are informed about the launch of several hundred new top-level domain ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Google to The New gTLD .Tours As Google Withdraws .Tour - Another indirect new gTLD contention set was resolved as Donuts won the new gTLD .Tours against Google’s application for .Tour. Google has withdrawn its application for .Tour which is applied for Donuts which applied for .Tours was put into a indirect contention set with Google’s application for .Tour At the end of the day Google withdrew its application for .Tour, leaving Donuts the only applicant for .Tours There will be no .Tour We do not have any information as to how the contention set was ... read more ...
Tue 23rd December 2014
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Verisign Asks What’s Really New in a New gTLD Space? 16% Of New gTLD’s Are Not Registered In .Com - Verisign published a post on its blog yesterday entitled “What’s Really New in the New gTLD Space” which was written by Andy Simpson The piece has some interesting stats and other information that are worth a look in the continuing .Com Vs. New gTLD debate that has been raging on CircleId in the past couple of weeks. Like all stats you can interpret them many ways. I think the most interesting stats contained in the post is that 16% (a little less than 500K domains names) of domain names registered ... read more ...
 
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PIR (.Org Registry) Offers New IDN Domains In Three Strings - According to a press release  Public Interest Registry (PIR) – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain registry, today announced the general availability of three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organisation” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one in Devanagari, one in Cyrillic, and one in simplified Chinese. Previously only available to qualified domain trademark holders, all interested companies, organisations and individuals can now ... read more ...
 
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.Club Passes .Berlin & Moves Into 2nd Place As The Most Registered New Domain Extension - .Club has just passed .Berlin and is now the second most registered new domain extension. According to ntldstats.com, .Club now has 156,821 domain names registered passing .Berlin which has 155,123 domain names registered. .Berlin offered free domain names for approximately 2 days and about 75,000 of the 155,000 domain names were registered for free. The .Club team have literally been traveling the world, several times over, during 2014. (In terms of disclosure our regular readers know that a consulting ... read more ...
 
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Page Howe Opens Office In Los Angeles To Promote Adoption Of .La Domain Extension - According to a Press Release out today, my fellow Sherpa Page Howe, a “veteran domain name investor and educator, has been tapped to lead the effort to educate and encourage adoption of the .LA domain extension in and around Los Angeles and Southern California. ” “Domain names are the real estate of the Internet, and the .LA domain namespace is the exact location for online marketing in Los Angeles. .LA Domain names are available now at most major registrars, www.la and LaDomainNames.com. Page ... read more ...
Thu 18th December 2014
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Owner of Baby.com Wins .Baby For $3.1 Million Dollars. - Johnson Johnson which has owned and advertised  Baby.com for many years, just won the ICANN Last Resort Auction for the new gTLD .Baby for 3,088,888 Google, Minds + Machines, Donuts, Radix and Famous Four lost in the auction and unlike private auctions will not get any share of the winning bid. In the other ICANN  last resort auction the Canadian Real Estate Association beat Afilias for .MLS, paying $3,359,000. Still seems to me that the ICANN auctions are going to less money than the private ... read more ...
Wed 17th December 2014
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.Website Collision Domains Give A Boost In Registrations: Here Are Available LLL/NNN/One Word Domains - .Website which had its ICANN collision lists freed up recently has seen a nice bounce in daily registrations. Like a bunch of other TLDs, the spike in registrations appears to have come on the back of Black Friday and Cyber Monday registrations. The TLD saw volumes of 5 times that of the previous day’s registrations on Black Friday – close to 1,200 names in day. Cyber Monday brought more even more registrations. Some quick facts about .website registrations: Average daily new registrations in ... read more ...
Tue 16th December 2014
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.XYZ Is The 1st New gTLD To Break 750,000 Registered Domains - .XYZ has become the first new gTLD to break through the 750,000 mark for domain name registrations. According to the .XYZ registry the number of registered domain names is 750,073 The 750,000th domain name to be registered was Chez.XYZ that was registered today at the domain name registrar Gandi.net. We at TheDomains.com were the first to figure out that NetworkSolutions,  which is  part of the Web.com group (WWWW), were stuffing free .XYZ domain names into customer’s accounts when the extension ... read more ...
Mon 15th December 2014
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ICANN Denies Allegation That New gTLD Have Widespread Phishing & Malware Sites - According to  csoonline.com citing Amy Mushahwar, counsel and Chief Information Security Officer at Washington, D.C. law firm ZwillGen PLLC, says: “New domains (new gTLD’s) are being registered as phishing sites and for drive-by downloads of malware.” “Nefarious uses have been very widespread. It’s incumbent upon ICANN to clean up the house for the domains that it currently has before it floods the market with new domains.” She goes on to say “ICANN hasn’t done enough and should ... read more ...
 
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Guess we Was Wrong There Is A Lot Of Cybersquatting Going On In The New gTLD’s: 15X As Much? - Well it seems as the trademark lobby predicted there isa lot of cybersquatting going on in the new gTLD space, a lot more than I thought we would ever see. I was one who thought there would be a negligible amount of trademark infringing domain names registered in the new gTLD space due to the high cost of registration and the small probability of any type in traffic. However just looking at the most recent 400 UDRP/URS cases filed or decided, 69 concerned new gTLD’s domain names (multiple domains ... read more ...
Sat 13th December 2014
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Monster.com (Jobs) Beats out Monster, Inc. (High End Audio Co.) For The gTLD .Monster - Monster.com,  (NYSE:MWW), the job site has beaten out Monster, Inc. the company that makes high end audio cables and other equipment for the new gTLD .Monster. The contension set was scheuled to do to the ICANN last resort auction next week but Monster, Inc who is best know for high end audio cables just withdrew its application to operate the new gTLD .Monster leaving Monster.com which is the job board company as the remaining applicant. According to its application Monster.com plans to operate ... read more ...
Thu 11th December 2014
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New Poll Says 25% Think Organic Co. Should Have .Organic Domain: But Only 396 Have Been Registered - .ORGANIC domain operator Afilias today announced the results of a poll in which “nearly 70% of respondents believe that some companies are misrepresenting themselves as “organic” to command a premium price, and 60% would like a reliable way to distinguish real organic providers online from the pretenders. That’s why almost 60% of respondents claimed they would be more inclined to visit a site on .ORGANIC, which is restricted to verified organic entities, than legacy .COM sites when searching ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals .immo 5,274; .Business 3,292; .Software 3,068; .Network 3,055; .Pizza 1,272; .Auction 1,056 - 6 New gTLD’s went into their first day of General Availability (GA) yesterday where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Including all domain names registered during the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and in the Early Access Period (EAP) for those who were willing to pay a one time fee for early access more than 17,000 domain names were registered across the six new domain extensions which is the best first day performance by non-city new gTLD’s for a long time. Here ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Pass 3.5 Million But How Many Are Third Party Paid Registrations? Here’s The Answer - The number of new gTLD registrations just crossed the 3.5 million mark according to ntldstats.com The question is how many of these 3.5 Million new gTLD domain names are paid for registrations made by third parties unrelated to the registry So we are basically backing out any  known free registrations, any domain name registered to the registry itself or to parties related to the registry in which case we are talking about the principal owners of the registry, any domain registered and reserved ... read more ...
Wed 10th December 2014
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Extensions Launching Today .Business, .Network, .Immo, .Auction, .Pizza - Several new gTLD’s go into general availability today where they can be registered on a first come first serve basis and many have quite a few registrations after its Sunrise  period which was for trademark holders and those who paid an extra fee to register the domain during the Early Access Period (EAP) .Business has 506 registrations which is more registrations that 17 fully launched, new gTLD’s have. .Network is close behind with 487 Sunrise and EAP registrations. .Network is very interesting,  ... read more ...
Tue 9th December 2014
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NetworkWorld: Companies Switching Back To .Com After Seeing Their New Domains Fall Flat - A really interesting story just got published by NetworkWorld.com, entitled “Companies are movin’ on up to .com domain names” with the subtitle “More businesses are investing in the tried-and-true .com after seeing their efforts with new domain names fall flat.” “I’ve noticed a number of companies movin’ on up to prime online real estate by switching from one of the many alternative domain names to .com. Recently, I wrote about a few companies, including overstock.com, Visa International, ... read more ...
Mon 8th December 2014
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If You Want One Of The Best .Auction Domains You Better Bring A Big Check; Up To $60k A Year - .Auction which goes into general availability on Wednesday is coming with some pretty stiff premium registration and renewal pricing. The new extension is being sold by Rightside. A regular registration will cost around $42. Here are some of the more interesting domain names I found that are available as of publication (pricing based at rack rate at Enom.com): $60,012 Registration fee and Annual renewal fee: Ceramics.Auction Charity.Auction Coin.Auction Coins.Auction Condo.Auction Condos.Auction Estate.Auction FineArt.Auction FineWine.Auction Foreclosure.Auction Furniture.Auction i.Auction ... read more ...
Sat 6th December 2014
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How Will new gTLD’s Rank? Coffee.Club is on 1st Page of Google 1 A Week After Launch -   Ever since the roll out of the new gTLD program was announced one of the big questions everyone asked is how domain names using new gTLD’s would rank in the search engines against more established extensions like .com, .net and .org? Coffee.club, which just launched a week ago has landed on the 1st page of  Google organically. Yes they are also advertising under the key term, but they also are ranking on the 1st page of Google organically beating out domain names like coffeeclub.com and thecoffeeclub.com ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Wins gTLD .Cars Beating Donuts, DERcars - Uniregistry which has lost a bunch of recent new gTLD auctions, won a private auction for .Cars beating Donuts and DERcars which is Dominion Enterprises which applied for several new gTLD’s. If your wondering why .car and .cars is in the contention set, well its a long and in typical ICANN fashion pretty confusing. The short story  is that Google had filed a string confusion objection with ICANN against the three applicants for .Cars losing two and winning one and then there was an reconsideration ... read more ...
Fri 5th December 2014
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Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu talks to TheStreet.com -

Taryn Naidu sat down with TheStreet.com and discussed what was going on with Rightside and a new gtlds. One of a initial things a interviewer asks if there is any status around .com ? Naidu replies that .com has no definition and it takes 6 to 8 searches to find an accessible .com right now.

Watch a video below

Via: thedomains.com

Thu 4th December 2014
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The New gTLD, .LGBT Goes Into Sunrise on Jan 5th - Afilias announced the first phase of the introduction the new gTLD .LGBT  which is  dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and those who serve it: will be launching early next year The first phase is the “sunrise” period, which is limited to eligible trademark holders and is open from January 5, 2015 through February 4, 2015. During sunrise, domains will be awarded in a first come, first-served manner; however, eligibility during this period is limited strictly to ... read more ...
 
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Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) to Ring Closing Bell At Nasdaq Tomorrow - In honor of the occasion, Taryn Naidu, Chief Executive Officer, will ring the Closing Bell. Nasdaq MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd Broadway – Broadcast Studio When: Friday, December 5, 2014 – 3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET For multimedia features such as exclusive content, photo postings, status updates and video of bell ceremonies please visit our Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ. For photos from ceremonies and events visit our Instagram Page: http://instagram.com/nasdaq For ... read more ...
Wed 3rd December 2014
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Donuts Hits The Jackpot & Wins .Casino Beating Famous Four, Afilias & dotBeauty LLC - Donuts has won another contested new gTLD string beating Famous Four, Afilias, and dotBeauty LLC for the new domain extension .Casino For Donuts this marks 5 out of 6 strings won this week for those keeping score. As we previously reported Donuts has won .News, .School, .Golf, .Football. and now .Casino Donuts application for .Casino is here but doesn’t have much information as to what they plan to do in particular with the extension. dotBeauty LLC is affiliated with the applicant who won .Realtor ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .News Beating Out Amazon, Uniregisty, Radix & Famous Four - Donuts has won one of the top 10 new gTLD strings in our opinion, .News beating out among others,  Amazon, Uniregistry, Radix, Famous Four. PRIMER NIVEL S.A of Panama and Merchant Law Group LLP also had applications in on .News. In my opinion .News is a top 10 new gTLD extension as it goes with almost every word sort of like a .Club As always we don’t know what the string sold for. In my opinion I would  say i.News had to sell for more than $10 million and actually would be surprised if it sold ... read more ...