Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Tue 21st October 2014
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.Vet, .Army, .Navy & .Airforce Launching Tomorrow Have a Total Of Less Than 250 Domains - In addition to .Healthcare, four other new gTLD’s are launching tomorrow into General Availability; three are focused on the military,  .Army, .Navy .Airforce then there is .Vet which could mean Veterans as in those who served in the military or Veterinarians those doctors who treat animals Thought the Sunrise period for trademark holders and the five day Early Access Program for those who paid an additional fee to register a domain ahead of GA here are the total number of registrations as of ... read more ...
Mon 20th October 2014
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Breast Cancer Awareness by Bluehost.com Using Pink.Host & Gets Blue.Host As a Founder -               According to a press release we received today, “Bluehost, an elite player in the industry, was selected as a Pioneer of the .Host namespace. As part of the program, Bluehost is keen on using and promote their primary brand on the blue.host domain after the name, part of the 100,000+ names in ICANN’s collision list, is released in November, 2014. On another note, also included in the PR is that Bluehost is turning Pink this entire month, running a special campaign for it ... read more ...
 
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132 .Healthcare Domains Registered in EAP 5: Cancer.Healthcare; Ebola.Healthcare - According to Registered.Today 132 domain names in the new gTLD .Healthcare were registered on day 5 of the Early Access Program. Under the EAP for an extra fee, domain names can be registered ahead of General Available (GA) and some of those domain names carried a premium registration and renewal. Many of the domain names were diseases or medical conditions with some Brands thrown in. .Healthcare is launching into general availability.  The price for a non-premium registration is around $49 at Godaddy. As ... read more ...
Sat 18th October 2014
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JD.com With A $30 Billion Market Cap Registers 3 .Rich Domain At Up To $3K Per -                 .Rich picked up 3 registrations yesterday which is notable since it represented an addition of 8% to its registration based which increased from 46 to 49. .Rich has the highest cost of any new gTLD with a regular, non-premium registration fee as high as $3,000 per domain name registration. What makes it even more notable is who registered the three new .Rich domain names. These are three new registrations were: Jingdong.Rich PaiPai.Rich Vixun.Rich Jingdong which purchased ... read more ...
Fri 17th October 2014
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When It Comes To Rightside, One Seeking Alpha Author Believes The Market Doesn’t Realize How Useful GLTDs Are And How Adoption Affects Earnings - Summary After quitting low quality ad service the company is bleeding cash with razor thin margins on its current business. GTLDs represent a major shift in the way domains are used on the Internet. The company bought the right to function as a registry for 33 unique gTLDs which is a major difference from its registrar business. Revenue per gLTD domain sold is between $20-$30 instead of $1 for a traditional TLD. Because of the tremendous operating leverage within the business model a major % of ... read more ...
Thu 16th October 2014
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.Club Leads All New gTLD’s In Number of Sites In Alexa Top 1 Million - According to Namestat.org  which is tracking the number of websites in the Alexa Top Million, based on the Namestat.org data on October 8th, 2014, .CLUB has more sites in the Alexa Top Million than any other new domain extension. If you calculate the number of sites in the Alexa Top Million for each of the top 50 new gTLD, after .Club the next top 49 extensions average 16.6  sites per domain, one-tenth of the number of .CLUB sites. All in all, .CLUB leads with more than ten times the usage of the ... read more ...
Wed 15th October 2014
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Rightside Launching 11 More New gTLD’s This Year - Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), announced today it will launch 11 additional Top Level Domains (TLDs) by the end of 2014, bringing its in-market portfolio to 28. Next week, members of the armed forces, as well as military families, supporters, and veterans, can begin registering .ARMY, .NAVY, .AIRFORCE, and .VET web addresses. Launch activities will include a home-page promotion with registrar partner GoDaddy on Veterans Day, as well as a salute to U.S. veterans through a donation in support ... read more ...
 
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GigaOM: “The latest New York City “land rush” is already branch into a celebration for cyber-squatters” - Jeff John Roberts of GigaOM covered the .NYC launch in an article today, the site points out that many New York sports teams have had their domains registered but not by the teams themselves. They summed it up like this: The latest New York City “land rush” is already turning into a party for cyber-squatters, who have snapped up some familiar names. The episode shows, again, how the system is geared in favor of the domain name industry, rather than brands or the public. They go on to talk about ... read more ...
 
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DNPric.es: There have been Over $1 Million In New gTLD Domain Name Sales - According to domain price research site DNPric.es there have been over $1 million in new gtld sales since the new gTLD launched in February. According to DNPric.es there have been 247 domain name sales in 58 New TLDs Totalling $1,016,987.12. I did not see a breakdown of EAP, Premium registry auction sales and/or whether these are just straight secondary domain name purchases. .Club led the way with over $191,000 in sales. This is of course based only on reported sales and we do not believe the list ... read more ...
Tue 14th October 2014
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.XYZ Crosses 600,000 Domain Registrations and .Club is gaining belligerent for a series dual spot - .XYZ crosses 600,000 Registrations According to Ntldstats.com .XYZ has crossed the 600,000 mark as far as domain registrations. .XYZ started October with 550,596 registrations. .Berlin remains in second place with .Club hot on its heels, .Club registrations are accelerating at a faster daily pace than .Berlin, .Club has increased its numbers by about 7,000 names since the beginning of October, while .Berlin is just a little over 500 names in that same time period. Club could overtake .Berlin for ... read more ...
Mon 13th October 2014
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ICANN Updates Agreement With PowerAuctions for Indirect New gTLD Contention Sets & Pays $120K More - ICANN announced tonight that it was updating its agreement with Power Auctions LLC, the company ICANN contracted with to operate auctions of Last Resort for new gTLD’s that received more than one application and were not able to settle the contention amongst themselves. ICANN announced today that it has Updated its agreement today with Power Auctions to provide for Indirect Contention Sets for which PowerAuctions will get paid another $120,000 We wrote about ICANN agreement with Power Auctions, ... read more ...
Sun 12th October 2014
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fTLD Registry Announces It Has Resolved Contension & Is Going To Operate .Insurance + .Bank - The fTLD Registry announced on Twitter today that it has settle contention with Donuts and Radix the only other applicants for the new gTLD .Insurance and will be operating the very valuable string. The fTLD Registry also announced that On September 25, 2014,  “fTLD registry was granted the right to operate the new gTLD .Bank”,  although the application from the other applicant Radix has not yet been withdrawn fTLD is planning on operating .insurance with a lot of restrictions Here is some ... read more ...
 
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Cruise.Discount and Cruises.Discount Sells For $10,000 - The new gTLD’s Cruise.Discount and Cruises.Discount just sold in an auction on the site FreeMarket.com The pair of new gTLD domain names were sold together in one lot for $10,005. Here is how the description on the auction listing read: “Cruise.Discount Cruises.Discount I don’t have to tell you on how profitable the Cruise Industry is and how much Companies love Cruise Domains. Every time I was looking into booking a cruise, probably like anyone else, they searched around for a discount. Provide ... read more ...
 
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Name.Space is looking for your assistance to take on ICANN - NAME.SPACE is suing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The future of the Internet is at stake – you can make a difference. http://www.thevillager.com/?p=8176 If you don’t like an Internet controlled by a few large corporations that own our data, and place profit and power before liberty and community, support NAME.SPACE v. ICANN. NAME.SPACE began in 1996, originating and operating over 500 generic top-level domains (gTLDs) sourced from the crowd. Our startup introduced ... read more ...
Fri 10th October 2014
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CENTR – Myth & Fact: New gTLDs, Registries & Registrars - The Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR) commissioned a study to look at the impact of new gtlds in the sales and the registar- registry relationships. Introduction: In August of 2014, CENTR commissioned Architelos to conduct a study documenting the new gTLD sales channel and registry-registrar dynamic. The goal of the study was to review the most prevalent beliefs and predictions prior to the launch of new gTLDs and determine what if any had thus far proven to be accurate, ... read more ...
Thu 9th October 2014
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1st Official New gTLD Registry Purchase As Radix Acquires .Tech - Radix a new gTLD registry announce today that is has acquire the new gTLD .Tech The ICANN auction for .Tech was held last month with the winning bid of $6,760,000 being placed by dot Tech LLC,  which is owned by the same principals of the company  the operate the .UNO registry. The other applicants for .Tech were  Donuts, Uniregistry, Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds + Machines) and Google . Radix either bought the registry post auction or pre-auction Either way its a great win for Radix. The ... read more ...
 
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.Lawyer: Lots Of End Users Including National Law Firms: Here’s Our Picks For The Best - We looked into the zone file for the .Lawyer new gTLD and saw a good number of end users registering domain names including a lot of national law firms. I assume we would see the same thing for .Attorney but honestly its pretty time consuming to go through these zone files. Of course for the domainer community we are looking for Generic’s that were registered and a good number of premium domain name including super premium domains sold. By the way guys, I’m not the greatest speller in the world, ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Joins SedoMLS “to Distribute New and Premium Internet Domain Names” - In a press release out this morning, described as a “First-of-its-Kind Partnership Enables Premium Registry Reserve Domain Names to be Quickly Listed and Sold through Hundreds of Partners, Including Top Registrars, Sedo announced that , a leading backend registry provider, CentralNic, joined the SedoMS to sell premium domain names “For the first time, this partnership will give Registry Operators the ability to sell premium registry reserve names through a network of hundreds of sales partners, ... read more ...
 
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1st New gTLD Totals .NYC 26,858; .Lawyer 3,240; .Attorney 2,156 - Yesterday we saw the launch of three new gTLD’s Once of the most anticipated new gTLD, .NYC for New York City finished its first day of general availability (GA) with .NYC domain registrations with a total of 28,858 registrations. .NYC had some 6,000 landrush and Sunrise registrations already on the books before GA. Meaning that .NYC gained some 20,000 domain name registrations in its first day of GA. AdAge.com published a story in which it wrote that over 100,000 people participated in Landrush, ... read more ...
 
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.Attorney & .Lawyer New gTLD Priced as High as $60K per year, Yes some sold - A Few weeks ago we wrote about the highest priced premium domain names we have seen in the new gTLD launch those for the super premiums of .Attorney and .Lawyer, that carry an registration and annual renewal fee up to $60,000 a year and today it appears some of them sold in the first day of general availability . Accident.Attorney and injury.lawyer are two domain names that had a registration and annual renewal fee of up to $60,000 per year that are now registered. Of course prices can vary widely ... read more ...
Wed 8th October 2014
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.NYC Says Over 10K Landrush Applications Were Received For Domain Names - AdAge.com just published a post covering today’s .NYC launch into general availability.  Its just one of many publications that have covered New York City big day but a quote from the story caught my eye. AdAge updated their story for a correction: CORRECTION: A previous version of this story said more than 100,000 people signed up for a .nyc domain. More than 10,000 people signed up. In total there are about 50 founders representing a diverse group of people and organizations across the city. ... read more ...
Tue 7th October 2014
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1 Day After Launch, Namejet’s “Premium” .Desi New gTLD Auction Is Live - Yesterday .Desi launched into general availability with 324 registrations. Today Namejet.com announced it’s holding a Premium .Desi domain auction with 30 “premium” .Desi domain names. According to Namejet.com .Desi is  “a global term to refer to the culture, people and products originating from the Indian sub-continent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka). It evokes a sense of identity among 1.7 billion people around the world. Get found by billions of desis with a domain name ... read more ...
 
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.NYC Landrush Auctions To Start On Oct 23rd & SnapNames.com Will Handle Them - According to an email we received from a domain investor, The .NYC  landrush collision auctions will be managed by SnapNames, the .nyc Auction Provider. A landrush collision occurs when more than 1 landrush application was submitted for the same .NYC domain name “Auctions will be held on three different dates to best suit bidders with multiple applications for .nyc domains. Auction dates have been determined by the first letter of the applied for .nyc domain application. If your .nyc application ... read more ...
 
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Vern Jurovich Is Back As Chief Operating Officer of Uniregistry -

Michael Berkens, Esq. is a owner and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also a co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. that owns over 75,000 domain names and whose sell site is during MostWantedDomains.com. Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com that is a consultant in a new gTLD space and a attorney of super reward domains.

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.Desi Ends 1st Day Of GA With Just 324 Registrations; .NYC Gets 1,400 More: .OVH Gets 43K Free Registrations - .Desi which went into general availability yesterday wound up with just 324 registrations according to ntldstats.com. .NYC which is still having uncontested landrush applications to the zone file, (we had mentioned we knew they had not all been added), added another 1,440 landrush domains and now sits at just over 6K registrations. .NYC goes into general availability tomorrow October 8th and those landrush applications that we estimate to be in the many thousands are not counted in the totals. In ... read more ...