Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Thu 20th November 2014
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Top 10,298; .Quebec 4,902: .ENGINEER 523 - We have numbers for the three new gTLD’s that launched this week. .Top which launched on the November 18th has according to ntldstats.com 10,298 domains registered. The registry for .Top is “Jiangsu Bangning Science Technology Co.,Ltd.” which is also the backend for the extension and is also a  domain name registrar Out of the 10,298 domain names registered, Jiangsu registered 2,521 of the domains. Another China based registrar, Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd. had the ... read more ...
Tue 18th November 2014
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Aruba.It Formally Announces It Acquired .Cloud Beating Out Google & Amazon -                                     10 days ago we told you at TheDomains.com that Aruba S.p.A. (www.aruba.it) beat out Amazon, Google and Donuts to win the new gTLD .Cloud Today the company finally put out a press release: “Aruba wins prestigious .cloud top level domain” “The Italian company has been awarded this gTLD instead of six of the most well-known internet companies who also applied. Aruba will set up the Official Registry for .cloud, expanding its already strong ... read more ...
Mon 17th November 2014
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Godaddy Becomes 1st Domain Registrar To Top 500,000 New gTLD Registrations - According to ntldstats.com, Godaddy.com has become the first domain name registration to have registered more than 500,000 domain names. Godaddy has 500,091 new gTLD domain names under registration, 100,000 more than the second closest domain registrar, Network Solution which topped the 400,000 domain mark although around 377K of the 400,000 Network Solutions domain names were given to customers for for free. As of the last update there are now 3,161,685new gTLD domain names registered. Godaddy has ... read more ...
Sun 16th November 2014
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The Government of Quebec Ends Its Participation In The .Quebec Days Before The Extension Launches -     According to ici.radio-canada.ca, the Government of Quebec has decided to end  its participation in the new gTLD .Quebec,  just days before .Quebec launches. According to the story the Government has decided not to change Government websites to .Quebec and will instead retain all of its Website to end in  .gouv.qc.ca . The Government told the  The Canadian Press on Friday that the migrating of all the Governmental websites to  .Quebec would have cost $12 million of public funds and  ... read more ...
Fri 14th November 2014
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.Realtor: Is it The Best Example Of How Slow End User Adoption Of New gTLD May Be? - The National Association of Realtors launched .Realtor about 3 weeks ago on October 23rd To date there have been less than 85,000 .Realtor domain names registered. The good news is that the extension has by far the lowest rate of parked domains with just over 1% of all .Realtor domain names being parked.  According to ntldstats.com out of the 84,615 .Realtor domain names registered only 1,066 or 1.26% are “Parked” Now here is the bad news for the gTLD’s. According to the National Association ... read more ...
 
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PIR Operator Of .Org Reveals Its OnGood Campaign For The New gTLD’s .NGO & .ONG - Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org extension, today unveiled “OnGood” – the new brand identity for the upcoming  .ngo .ong domain extensions along with their accompanying suite of services. Set to launch in early 2015, OnGood is an online community designed with and for NGOs and nonprofits worldwide, providing them with a suite of online services to help raise funds, build awareness and support for their missions. After conducting extensive research and in-person ... read more ...
Thu 13th November 2014
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More Details Emerge On New York’s Deal On .NYC: But 50K New Yorkers Did Not Register 50K Domains -                     According to a post on crainsnewyork.com,  the city of New York is making a “cool $40,000 a week on the Internet”. According to the story, the City of New York collects 40% of all domain registration fees collected by Neustar the operator of the .NYC registry. At a “cost of $20″ (which is unclear from the story if its retail or wholesale), “City Hall pulls in $8 every time a New Yorker buys a domain name that ends in .NYC.” “That math works out to $448,000 ... read more ...
 
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Symantec Withdraws their Uncontested Application for New gTLD .AntiVirus - Symantec Corporation has withdrawn their uncontested application for the new gTLD .Antivirus after saying it would become one of their “core assets” in their application. From its application it appears Symantic wanted to operate the extension on a closed basis. The Government Advisory Counsel (GAC) to ICANN objected to generic strings from being operated on a closed basis forcing most who had applied to operate on a closed basis to open them up to outside registrations. Here is part of the application: “Symantec ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Clears a Way for Two-character New gTLD Domain Names - ICANN reported last night that it has Cleared the way for Two Character New gTLD domain names, domain names like NN.whatever, NL.whatever or LN.whatever. The jury is still out of two letter new gTLD’s “After reviewing the summary and analysis of the first batch of Public Comments, the ICANN Board passed Resolution 2014.10.16.14 on 7 November 2014 directing ICANN staff to “develop and implement an efficient procedure for the release of two-character domains currently required to be reserved ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Melbourne 2,518: .Restaurant 2,389; .Gifts 1,010; .Sarl 176 - 4 new gTLD entered General Availability (GA) yesterday (.Melbourne was on Tuesday local time) and including all Sunrise domain name registrations by trademark holdersm and all registrations under the landrush in the case of .Melbourne and the Early Access Program for those willing to pay an additional amount to get early access to a domain name here are the totals after the 1st day of GA: .Melbourne 2,518 .Restaurant 2,389 .Gifts 1,010 .Sarl 176 We should note that Uniregistry launched ;Gift a while ... read more ...
Wed 12th November 2014
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Afnic Study Looks At Who Are The New G’s Affecting Most ? - Afnic.fr the registry for domain names in .fr put out a study that took a look at how is the proliferation of new gtlds affecting the existing gtld and cctlds that have been around for many years. The study broke extensions into 3 separate categories: The three main categories are: nTLDs: TLDs created since the end of 2013 and introduced to the market as of the onset of 2014; as of September 2014, there were 408 nTLDs; gTLDs or “legacy TLDs”: all 18 of them are generic TLDs created between 1985 ... read more ...
 
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1-800Flowers Gets Birthday.gifts, Anniversary.gifts, Flowers.gifts, Mothersday.gifts, Valentines.gifts - Today two new gTLD’s from Donuts go into General Availability today .Gifts and .Restaurant. Both of the strings have around 330 domain name registered in the Sunrise period for “trademark holders” and the Early Access program where people paid an extra fee for early access. When it comes to gifts, except for the domain names that were reserved or on the ICANN collision list, the very best domain names are gone and most of them to 1-800FLOWERS.com under those “trademarks” Check out this ... read more ...
Tue 11th November 2014
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Dish Networks Beats Out Minds + Machines For The New gTLD .Latino - Another new gTLD that was schuduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction next week had been settled privately. Minds + Machines has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .Latino leaving Dish Network as the sole applicant. Minds + Machines put out a press release last week about how they made over 8.4 Million dollars losing 5 new gTLD auctions; book, .cloud, .dog, .site, and .style. However it looks like M + M just made a little more. .Latino will join .Uno and Googles’ .Soy which specially ... read more ...
 
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.NYC Domain Helps UCONN Basketball Troll Syracuse - The Sporting News reported that Syracuse.nyc was registered by Tyler Wilkinson and Peter Bard at A Dime Back, a UConn-centric blog. UConn is one of the best Basketball teams in the Country and a rival to New York State based Syracuse. The domain name Syracuse.nyc is now being used to promote UConn while simultaneously trolling Syracuse fans. Now Syracuse.nyc directs people to a wesbite that hails the Huskies as “New York’s College Team” while flashing photos of UConn’s championship team ... read more ...
 
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Former CEO Of Vegas.com Releasing “Revolutionary Global Booking Platform” On New gTLD’s - Howard Lefkowitz, the former CEO of Vegas.com, announced today that his new company, One Degree World™ Systems, Inc., which describes itself as “architects and owners of a revolutionary global content and booking platform, will be the first company of its kind to launch a series of holistic hospitality and travel websites on the emerging top-level domains (TLDs) other than .com. ” One Degree also announced it will manage over 1,000 .Vegas domain names, over 300 .Buzz domain names and an undisclosed ... read more ...
 
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Google Withdraws Another New gTLD Application: .Earth Won By Interlink Co., Ltd - Google has given up on another new gTLD extension. Just hitting ICANN’s site today, Google has withdrawn its application for .Earth The remaining applicant is Interlink Co., Ltd. of Japan also known as Urban Brain. The new gTLD was set to go to auction later this month. According to its application Interlink Co., Ltd. (Interlink) envisions that the “.earth” top-level domain (TLD) will become a symbol of worldwide unity on the Internet. By registering a second-level domain in the “.earth” ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Not Only Owns The New gTLD .Buy; They Just Acquired .Pay Too - Amazon which won an ICANN last resort new gTLD auction for .Buy for $4.6 Million has now acquired the .Pay. .Pay which was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort auction next week, has been settled. The other  applicant for .Pay, DOTPAY SA has just withdrawn its application, leaving Amazon as the winner of the .Pay domain name extension. Now that Amazon owns both .Buy and .Pay it would seem companies like Paypal should be concerned. Amazon already offers a branded credit card but with .Buy and ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Beats Google & Wins Rights To The New gTLD .Book - Amazon now owns the  new gTLD .Book winning a private auction beating Google among others. The final remaining other applicant for .Book, R.R. Bowker LLC, withdrew their application last night leaving Amazon the Winner of the Private Auction. Other applicants include Minds + Machines (which announced yesterday the walked away with over $8 million for losing .Book as well as .cloud, .dog , .site and .style), Google, Global Domain Registry Pty Ltd, Donuts, Straat (former owners of .Co) and Famous ... read more ...
 
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Bandzoogle Partnering With Rightside to Offer .ROCKS and .BAND Domains and Websites for Musicians and Bands - Rightside and Bandzoogle announced a partnership where Bandzoogle will offer .Rocks and .Band new gtlds to musicians and bands that use their services. From the release: Bandzoogle is offering Rightside’s Top Level Domains (TLDs) to its customers, beginning with .ROCKS, a new web extension that launched earlier this year, and .BAND, which will open for pre-registration later this month. The company will incorporate the new domains into its offering that helps musicians, bands, ensembles, DJs, ... read more ...
Mon 10th November 2014
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ICANN Last Resort New gTLD Auctions Scheduled for November - A bunch of private auctions held in October headed off many of the the ICANN Last Resort Auctions scheduled for November. However as far as we know the following New gTLD auctions that will be held by ICANN in November are: .APARTMENTS DERApartments, LLC June Maple, LLC (Donuts) .DOT Dish DBS Corporation Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google) .EARTH Interlink Co., Ltd. Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google) .LATINO Dish DBS Corporation Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (Minds + Machines) PAY DOTPAY ... read more ...
 
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PR Is out & Its Official: Radix, Tucows and Namecheap Win .Online Auction - A Press Release out today confirms what we told you last week that the team of Radix, Tucows and Namecheap won the new gTLD auction for .Online: “Domain industry veterans form a “global supply chain supergroup,” secure the first viable alternative to .com A newly formed entity owned by Radix, Tucows and Namecheap won the auction to operate the .online registry for an undisclosed amount. In the past year, dozens of new generic top level domains (gTLDs) from .actor to .wtf have brought meaning ... read more ...
 
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Stuart Lawley Clarifies .XXX Registrant Rights in a Upcoming Adult New gTLDs - Stuart Lawley from ICM Registry (.XXX) left a comment about .XXX registrant rights in the new adult gtlds, this is worthy of being its own post. I know many have been confused with what they get as a .XXX registrant when the new .porn, .adult and .sex new gtlds are available. Stuart explains . Our original grandfathering plan was to release the new extensions with priority registration for the underlying matching .XXX owner who could at that point register the new names (and of course pay the registration ... read more ...
Sat 8th November 2014
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Donuts Beat Microsoft & Google For .Live - According to ICANN’s site both Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) have withdrawn their application for the new gTLD .Live, leaving .Donuts as the winner of the .Live new gTLD. Earlier today we reported that three other public company’s Google, Amazon and Symantec Corporation, (NASDAQ: SYMC) all lost the new gTLD auction for .Cloud. The Donuts application was placed under the company Half Woods, LLC So far Google has won 4 new gTLD in contention:  .Dev over Amazon;  .Docs over Microsoft,  .Drive ... read more ...
 
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Shocker: Both Amazon & Google Lose New gTLD .Cloud Private Auction - A private auction was held a couple of weeks ago for the new gTLD .Cloud and shockingly neither Amazon (AMZN) or Google (GOOG), which both applied for the extension, won the auction. Amazon, Google, Donuts, Dot GLOBAL AS (cloudnames.com) and a third public company Symantec Corporation, (NASDAQ: SYMC) have all withdrawn their applications for .Cloud The only two applicants who have not yet withdrawn their application are;  Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (Minds + Machines) and ARUBA S.p.A. which ... read more ...
Fri 7th November 2014
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Wall Street Journal: The Gold Rush Is On for .NYC Domains; Some May Resell for $100K+ - The Wall Street Journal just covered .NYC domains name in a story “The Gold Rush Is On for .NYC Domains; Some May Resell for $100,000 +” In the story The Wall Street Journal featured long term domain name investor Steve Kaziyev. “Since the new .NYC domain extension hit the market last month as an alternative to better-known extensions like .com and .org, Mr. Kaziyev has snapped up more than 400 Web addresses at $25 a pop. He’s now the proud owner of SingingLessons.nyc, Cognac.nyc and the ... read more ...