Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Fri 7th November 2014
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.Com Domain Name Registrations Top 115 Million For The 1st Time - According to Verisign’s zone file the number of .Com domain name registrations have topped 115 million, an all time high. As we have written the new gTLD program does not seem to be effecting the number of .Com registrations. Back just 7 weeks ago on September 19, we posted that the number of .com registrations had crossed the 114.6 million domain mark. Today in crossing the 115 million mark,  .com added over 600,000 domain name registrations in just 7 weeks. As of March 31, 2014 Verisign reported ... read more ...
 
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Looks Like The Team Of Radix, Tucows & NameCheap Has Won .Online - The new gTLD .online looks like it was won by the previously announced partnership with Tucows and Namecheap.com Last year Radix announced that the three applicants for .online have partnered up to run the .online registry. At that time, both Tucows and Namecheap withdrew their applications for .Online with ICANN. Today the ICANN site has updated and the remaining applicants for .online, except for Radix have withdrawn their applications ICANN shows Donuts, Whatbox, and I-Registry Ltd. have withdrawn ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Wins New gTLD .Hot As Donuts & Secondgen.com Withdraw Their Apps -

Amazon has won a rights to a new gTLD .Hot as a other dual applicants, Donuts and SecondGen.com withdrew their applications from ICANN’s site.

The new gTLD was substantially staid by private auction.

It will be engaging to see what Amazon’s Plan for .Hot is.

Amazon’s focus for .Hot does not unequivocally lay out a prophesy for a extension.

Via: thedomains.com

Thu 6th November 2014
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Rightside (NAME) Is Up 20% In After Hours Trading - After its first earnings report as a public company, Rightside (NAME) is up about 20% in after hours trading. Rightside is currently trading at $11.26 up $1.85 from its closing price of $9.41 Rightside has a 52 week low is $8.96 and its 52 week high of $17 but just started trading on August 1st 2014. Here are the highlights: Rightside reported 16 Million domains under management through its registrars. Over all Rightside’s registrars are experiencing a 75.2% renewal rate overall. The new gTLD gave ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Capetown 1,772; .Joburg 1,458; .Market 1,229; .Durban 985; .Mortgage 635 - 5 new gTLD extensions had their first day of general availability(GA)  yesterday including three Geo’s of cities in Africa (Tuesday Africa time) and two by Rightside (NAME) Including Sunrise registrations by trademark holders, those that paid an extra fee for earlier access through Landrush or the Early Access Program (EAP) here are the totals after the first day of GA: .Capetown 1,772 .Joburg 1,458 .Market 1,229 .Durban 985 .Mortgage 635 As far as Geo new gTLD domain names these are pretty disappointing ... read more ...
 
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.xyz Is The First New gTLD to Surpass 700,000 Registrations - .xyz Is The First New gTLD to Surpass 700,000 Registrations .xyz is the first new gTLD to surpass 700,000 registrations with 701,495 today, according to nTLDstats.com. Last week, new gTLDs topped 3 million registrations, which .xyz accounts for nearly 23%. Even when subtracting the Network Solutions registrations, .xyz is still the largest with 324,000 domains. .xyz is doing especially well in China, pulling in 145k from Xin Net and 23k from Todaynic.com. On average, 2,000 registrations each day ... read more ...
Tue 4th November 2014
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Minds + Machines Says They Are Pleased With New gTLD Results; Investors Not So Much - Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) in a story published by proactiveinvestors.co.uk today saying “it is pleased with the revenues from its emerging portfolio of generic top level domains.” “Around US$4 Million has been generated by the new domains M+M is involved with and, according to analysts, the AIM group’s share is around £300,000 for the first half of 2014, driven mostly from .London domain name registrations M+M operates .London on behalf of London Partners, the city’s promotional body. “Industry ... read more ...
Mon 3rd November 2014
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Registrant Of Playboy.London Wants To Keep The Domain For His unborn Child Hoping Its A Boy - Standard.co.uk just published a blog post entitled “Property boss at war with Playboy over Dot London domain name” Michael Ross, director of CNM estates, registered the domain name Playboy.London after the publishing company failed to register the domain name in the Sunrise period that was opened to trademark holders According to Mr. Ross, he received a strongly worded letter from its Los Angeles lawyers demanding he transfers the domain immediately. However Mr Ross, “who once visited the Playboy ... read more ...
 
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.NYC Now Has More Registrations Than .London - .NYC has passed .London in the number of domain registrations. According to nTLDstats.com, .NYC now has 48,671 domain names registered compare to .London which has 48,479. .NYC has moved into the 8th spot for the most registered new gTLD and .London is number 9. Both .NYC and .London, passed .Photography which now has 47,439 domain names. According to RegistrarStats.com, .NYC passed .London in terms of domain registrations last week. RegistrarStats.com shows .NYC with 47,741 domain names registered ... read more ...
Sat 1st November 2014
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Minds + Machines Has More Outstanding Shares Than Google & Verisign Combined - I noticed this statement that was released by Minds + Machines (AIM:MMX) this week about the amount of shares it has issued and outstanding: “The Board of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announces that as at the date of this announcement, the total number of shares in issue with voting rights is 831,969,485. “ So almost  832 Million shares. That is a of of shares I checked out how many shares Verisign  (VRSN) the company that runs the .com and .net registry had issued and outstanding ... read more ...
Fri 31st October 2014
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Start Spreading The News: Marijuana.NYC Sells For Over $60,000 In Landrush Domain Auction - The second of three rounds of .NYC landrush auctions closed today with the highest (yes pun intended) .NYC sale to date. The domain name Marijuana.NYC sold today for a whopping $60,920 Earlier this week the domain name cannabis.nyc” sold for just $3,600 in the first of three landrush auction rounds. You can read our report on the 1st .NYC landrush auction here Once again we start with some disclaimers: These numbers are unofficial. These figures, did not come from the .NYC registry or Neustar the ... read more ...
 
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Startup.club Launches to Help Entrepreneurs Get Access to Great .CLUB Premium Domains -     The .Club registry announced today the Startup.club which is designed to Help Entrepreneurs Get Access to Great .CLUB Premium Domain Names with the purchase price financed up to over 10 years with no interest. The Startup.Club will be rolled out today  T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East Conference in Miami. The new program for entrepreneurs which includes a payment plan for premium .CLUB domain names valued at more than $20,000 each, allows qualified businesses to spread payments over 10 years, interest ... read more ...
Thu 30th October 2014
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New gTLD’s Top 3 Million Domain Names As .Realtor Moves Into #5 With 78K Free Registrations - New gTLD domain name registrations passed the 3 million mark today. According to ntldstats.com, the total number of new gTLD domain name registrations sits at 3,026,376. The good news is that in less than 8 months new gTLD registrations went from zero to over 3 Millihttps://www.thedomains.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=60681action=editmessage=9on and are growing daily. The bad news is there are a lot of caveats to the numbers. Free domains are at the forefront of what some would call inflated new gTLD ... read more ...
Tue 28th October 2014
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Two Social Media Powerhouses With Over 7 Million Followers Re-brand to An .XYZ Domain - A couple of social media trendsetters have gone with an .XYZ domain name for their internet domain name presence. Tasia Alexis is by any measure a social media powerhouse with a total of 3.85 million followers has registered and proudly promoting her new domain name Tasia.xyz If you haven’t heard of Alexis, well she has some pretty impressive social media numbers: Vine – 3 Million followers 451Million loops Youtube – 24,000 Subscribers Instagram – 650,000 Followers Facebook – 16.5K Followers Twitter ... read more ...
 
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TLD Appoints the First China GM & Open Its HQ In “China’s Silicon Valley” -                     TLD Registry Ltd, who operates two of the most successful new gTLD’s, had two big announcements  today. They announced their first ever China GM and the opening of their office in the “China’s Silicon Valley” TLD announced the appointment of the company’s first ever China General Manager. Mr. Jin Wang has joined the TLD Registry team, contributing a wealth of knowledge and expertise of the internet and domain name industries in China. “Our eight month ... read more ...
Mon 27th October 2014
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Results From 1st .NYC Landrush Auctions: Carservice.NYC $11,500 Bitcoin.NYC $11K - We have a few results from the first .NYC landrush auctions that closed today on Snapnames.com. So first the disclaimers. These numbers are unofficial. These figures, did not come from the .NYC registry or Neustar the operator of the extension or SnapNames.com which held the auction. All these numbers came from bidders that may have won or lost landrush auctions. All numbers are rounded off Here are some of the winning bids according to some of those involved: CarService.NYC was the highest domain ... read more ...
 
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.Biz Domain Name Registrations Fall Under 2.5 Million -                       The number of domain names registered under the Top Level Domain of .Biz has fallen under 2.5 Million. The extension owned and operated by Neustar (NSR) seems to have been effected by the new gTLD’s. As you can see from the chart .Biz was slowing growing until early this year when the new gTLD’s started to launch and now is moving the downward direction:       .XYZ has topped 650,000 registrations. .Berlin in the last week past the TLD’s .Tel and .Name ... read more ...
Sun 26th October 2014
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NY Post Covers .Luxury: “Domains Ending in a Word “Luxury” Shows No Signs of Slowing” - The New York Post, has just covered the .Luxury new gTLD in a story entitled Rush for ‘luxury’ domain names continues. “Luxury may no longer be a dirty word. “The rush for domain names that end in the word “luxury” shows no signs of slowing, according to Monica Kirchner, CEO and co-founder of .Luxury Tiffany, Armani, Four Seasons, Bitcoin, Berkshire Hathaway and Hermès are among 1,250 companies that have signed on to dot-luxury (www.join.luxury) and will use the luxury domain extension ... read more ...
Fri 24th October 2014
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FoxNews Reports On Media Org’s Calling Google’s .Soy new gTLD “Segregation” For Latinos - According to a story out in FoxNews.com, Google’s recent announcement of its new .SOY domain, meant to appeal to Latinos, has drawn criticism and jest from a number of places. .Soy (Spanish for “I am”) according to Google “offers Hispanic consumers, brands and publishers “a place to build, create and share culturally relevant Web content.” “A number of Latino organizations, including the Hispanic Heritage Fund and Ella Institute, have switch over to the .soy domain name, but some media ... read more ...
 
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Partners Trust “LA Real Estate Broker Specializing in Luxury Properties” Partners with .LUXURY - According to a press release out today Partners Trust, Los Angeles’ most selective real estate brokerage specializing in luxury properties, has partnered with .LUXURY, to create custom-tailored marketing experiences for luxury properties. PartnersTrust.Luxury is the first destination website built to highlight luxury properties exclusively represented by Partners Trust to clients around the world. “Luxury and technology trends change rapidly, and Partners Trust prides itself on not just keeping ... read more ...
Thu 23rd October 2014
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.NYC Landrush Auctions Are Underway - The landrush auctions for .NYC domain names are underway at SnapNames.com according to someone who is involved in the auctions. We previously announced that the auctions would start today on a staggered 3 stage basis going through November 6th. We understand that not everyone who submitted a landrush application went ahead and established a valid account at Snapnames.com. In the cases where more than one landrush application was submitted but the other applicants for the same domain did not establish ... read more ...
 
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$5.6 Million A Good Buy For .Realty To Compete with .Realestate, Realtor, .Property., .MLS & .IMMO? - Last night the highest priced paid for a new gTLD of the three that were at the ICANN last resort auction yesterday was .Realty at $5.6 million purchased by domain industry veteran Jay Westerdal’s company. (The exact price paid was $5,588,888) .Realty joins .Realestate; .Realtor; .Property, .MLS,  .Immo, (which is short for immobilier  which means real estate and is used in France, Germany and Italy) and to a smaller extent .House, .Condos, .Rentals and .Apartments. Its a pretty crowed vertical. So ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals Are .Brutal: .Healthcare 1,406; .Vet 649; .Army 202; .Navy 122 .Airforce 116 - 5 new gTLD went into their first day of General Availability (GA) yesterday where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis and the 5 combined for just over 2,500 registrations. Including registrations by trademark holders in Sunrise and those who paid extra during the Early Access Program (EAP) to register domains ahead of GA here are the totals for the 5 new gTLD’s after their first day: .Healthcare 1,406 .Vet 649 .Army .202 .Navy 122 .Airforce 116 As we spoke about earlier ... read more ...
Wed 22nd October 2014
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UK Charity “Homeless International” With an annual bill £20 million Rebrands To An .XYZ -           Homeless International a .UK based charity with an annual budget £20 million announced they havere-branded from Homeless-International.org to Reall.xyz The NGO has been around since 1989 “focusing on urban poverty issues (including slums and social housing) in the developing world” The charity has its own Wikipedia.org page Here is some info from the press release: “Since 2010, our annual budget to accelerate sustainable housing development in Africa and Asia has increased ... read more ...
 
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86% Of Lawyers Not “Eager” to Get a .Lawyer/.Attorney Name? That Only Leave 200K That Want One - My fellow domain Blogger Konstantinos Zournas of OnlineDomain.com cited a poll on his site today in a post entitled: “83% Of Lawyers Not Eager To Get .Lawyer Or .Attorney Domains” Konstantinos which is doing a great job this year on his blog, seemed to have fallen for a poll whose results are statically fatally faulted. Konstantinos did not conduct the poll, the poll was conducted by Law Times News but was the basis for Konstantinos post. If you read some stuff on poll theory  (as a Political ... read more ...