Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Tue 7th October 2014
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BRS Media Submits Reconsideration Request for Dot Radio - BRS Media the company behind .FM, .AM and Idotz.net, put out a press release that they have submitted a reconsideration request pertaining to the Dot Radio extension. They are seeking to overturn a ruling from last month which said that the European Broadcasting Union had the winning community priority evaluation score. From the release: On Sept. 10, 2014, ICANN announced that the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) Results “Prevailed” with the minimum overall ... read more ...
Mon 6th October 2014
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National Association of Realtors Wins Rights To The New gTLD .Realestate - The National Association of Realtors has won the rights to the new gTLD .Realestate The three other applicants for .Realestate Donuts, Uniregistry and and Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds + Machines) have withdrawn their applications. The remaining applicant is dotRealEstate LLC is in actuality the The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), which already owns the new gTLD .Realtor and has announced plans to give away to 500,000 .realtor new gTLD domains to realtors. According to the application ... read more ...
 
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.Attorney & .Lawyer Launch Wed & Each Have Only 140 Sunrise/Early Registrations - .Attorney a .Lawyer both launch into general availability (GA) where domains can be registered on a first come, first served basis by Rightside (Name). Both extension have already gone through Sunrise period for trademark holders and in the Early Access Program (EAP) for those who are willing to pay additional fees to register domain names ahead of GA. Enom.com a domain name registrar is charging $46 a year for a non-premium .Attorney and .Lawyer registration when the domain opens for GA. But as ... read more ...
Sun 5th October 2014
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.NYC Adds 1,147 Landrush Domains & Now Sits 4,549: Here Are The More Interesting One’s - Yesterday we wrote about, .NYC have some registered 2,949 domain names in their Landrush period but also mentioned we knew of more .NYC landrush registrations and expected more once the zone file updated today. Today there are 1,147 additional Landrush domain registrations and .NYC now sits at 4,549 registrations. We also stated yesterday and still believe to be true that domains that had more than one trademark application, and that are heading to auction are not included in this total.  I’m ... read more ...
Sat 4th October 2014
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New gTLD’s Domain Registrations Top 2.5 Million As .NYC Sets New gTLD Sunrise/Landrush Record - The number of new gTLD domain name registrations topped the 2.5 million mark for the first time yesterday  as .NYC  awarded over 2,900 domain names in the land rush program which ended yesterday, blowing away all previously new gTLD launches in terms of domain names awarded in Sunrise and Landrush (or equivalent Early Access Programs) where registrants paid an extra fee to get early access to register domain names. However the .NYC landrush number does not include any landrush domain  in which ... read more ...
 
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.NYC Gets Almost 3K Land Rush Domains & Sits during 3,441 Before Next Weeks Launch - .NYC the top level extension for New York now has 3,441 domain name registrations after awarding some 2.900 domain names that were applied during landrush that  received only 1 land rush application. Prior to the Landrush, NYC had just under 500 Sunrise registrations by trademark holders. The number of LandRush domain names, so far in the zone file, are 2,949 domains. Any domain that received more than landrush application are off to auction and none of those are included in the totals. There are ... read more ...
Thu 2nd October 2014
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Minds + Machines Says .Law & .Abogado (Spanish for Lawyer) Will Only Be For Lawyers - Minds + Machines, which won the private auction for .Law a couple of weeks ago announced that .Law and .Abogado (Spanish for Lawyer, M+M was the only applicant for .Adogado) are expected to launch in early 2015. Both .Law and .Abogado will be restricted to licensed lawyers or law firms, and all initial applications and renewals will be examined to verify that the registrant’s license is current. To be eligible for a name as a law firm, the firm must provide legal services and a partner or equivalent ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD For .Deals 2,592: .Bayern 20,396 - One new gTLD went into general availability yesterday, .Deals. Including domain registered during the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and those who paid an extra fee to register their domain during the Early Access Program (EAP), .Deals ended its first day with 2,592 domain names. .Bayern which actually launched on Tuesday and is for the German state of Bavaria which has a population of some 12.44 million people (2011 number) is sitting with 20,396 registrations. The total number of new gTLD’s ... read more ...
Wed 1st October 2014
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Frank T. Schilling Registers 12K+ New gTLD In Addition to The 75K Owned By North Sound Names - We noted last week that North Sound Names a company owned and/or controlled by Frank Schilling, registered some 31,000 domain names in new gTLD’s extensions owned by another Frank Schilling Company, Uniregistry. About 10,000 domain names were registered by North Sound Domains in .blackfriday; another 5,000 domain names under the new gTLD .Hiphop; and 16,000 domain names were registered by North Sound Names under .Audio. At the time we noted that North Sound Names with those registrations had almost ... read more ...
Tue 30th September 2014
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.Deals Has 400+ Registrations; Launches Tomorrow; Here are The More Interesting Domains - .Deals which launches into general availability tomorrow has over 400 registrations including Sunrise registrations by trademark holders and those who paid an extra fee to get early access to the domain name (EAP). I think its a good extension. Of course some of the better domains are reserved or on the ICANN collision list. So Daily.Deals is out, as is Great.Deals, Best.Deals, Hot.Deals and Online.Deals to name a few. Other available domain names may have a premium registration and renewal rates. Here ... read more ...
Sat 27th September 2014
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1st Day New gTLD Totals .Beer 2,078; .Surf 635; Here Are The More Interesting Registrations - Two new gTLD’s launched into general availability on Thursday by Minds + Machines and including Sunrise Registrations by trademark holders the number of domain names according to nTLDstats.com are .Beer 2,078 .Surf 635 .Beer marks the best first day of any Minds + Machines extension other than .London. Matter of fact other than .London, .Beer already has more registrations that any previously launched Minds + Machines New gTLD Here are some of the more interesting .Beer registrations: 1001.beer 12inch.beer 40oz.beer 420.beer 4free.beer 666.beer 6pack.beer abbey.beer adam.beer advocate.beer aggie.beer akron.beer alchemist.beer alcoholfree.beer allabout.beer allsortsoff.beer amazing.beer amber.beer americancraft.beer anchorbrewing.beer anchorsteam.beer andrews.beer anheuser-busch.beer anheuserbusch.beer another.beer anotherroad.beer anthem.beer anti.beer anythingfora.beer anytime.beer apothic.beer arizonacraft.beer artisan.beer asheville.beer atl.beer australianbrewery.beer australiancraft.beer austrian.beer avery.beer awardwinning.beer awesome.beer awful.beer backcountry.beer backpacking.beer bacon.beer bad.beer bainbridgeisland.beer bakingwith.beer balanced.beer baldguybrewery.beer bali.beer ballard.beer ballstate.beer bama.beer bangkok.beer bar.beer barbar.beer barefoot.beer barleyblog.beer barleyhaven.beer basic.beer bass.beer batchbrewed.beer batchitcrazy.beer bateleur.beer batshitcrazy.beer bavaria.beer bavarian.beer baveria.beer baverian.beer baxter.beer bayarea.beer baycity.beer bccraft.beer bdbc.beer beachbum.beer beerarmy.beer beerfestival.beer beersales.beer beertours.beer beervacations.beer beerweek.beer beijing.beer bestcraft.beer bestflavor.beer bestgerman.beer bestipa.beer bestlight.beer bestnew.beer bestofbrooklyn.beer bezorg.beer biblebelt.beer bier.beer bigcat.beer bigfive.beer bigfoot.beer bighead.beer bigsky.beer billings.beer billy.beer birch.beer bitches.beer bitcoin.beer blatz.beer blonde.beer bluegirl.beer bluemoonbrewingcompany.beer bluepaddle.beer bluepoint.beer blueribbon.beer bogota.beer boneyard.beer boom.beer bootlegbrewing.beer borg.beer bostonbeer.beer bostonlager.beer bottleof.beer bottlesof.beer boutique.beer bowling.beer boxes.beer bozeman.beer brand.beer brands.beer braukraft.beer brave.beer breckenridge.beer brewcraft.beer brewdog.beer brewed.beer breweries.beer brewers.beer brewfest.beer brewing.beer brewyour.beer brewyourown.beer bridge.beer bridgeport.beer bring.beer bringme.beer bringmea.beer british.beer buckeye.beer budapest.beer budlightlime.beer budlite.beer buffalowildwings.beer builda.beer bulldurham.beer bullrun.beer burial.beer butter.beer buycheap.beer buygerman.beer buying.beer buyme.beer buymea.beer byo.beer calories.beer calories-in.beer caloriesin.beer cambridge.beer campfire.beer canalpark.beer candymountain.beer canof.beer capecodcraftbeer.beer capecodcraftbrewery.beer capetown.beer capital.beer carolina.beer caseof.beer cbc.beer cellar.beer cerveza.beer cervezas.beer charleston.beer cheap.beer chicagocraft.beer chilled.beer chinese.beer choc.beer chocmilkstout.beer chocolatemilkstout.beer christmas.beer chugs.beer cincinnati.beer clockers.beer coaster.beer coldcerveza.beer coloradobeer.beer coloradosprings.beer condensed.beer consume.beer container.beer cookingwith.beer 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fivestar.beer flat.beer flavoured.beer floridabeer.beer floridabrewery.beer floridabrewing.beer floridacraft.beer flyingdog.beer flyinghorse.beer fox.beer foxriverbrewing.beer franchise.beer fremont.beer french.beer freshest.beer fridge.beer frosty.beer frozen.beer fruit.beer fuck.beer fucking.beer fuel.beer full.beer fullsailbrewing.beer funky.beer gallo.beer geek.beer generic.beer georgekillians.beer georgetown.beer germans.beer getlocal.beer getmea.beer getonthe.beer gigantic.beer gilde.beer girl.beer giveme.beer givemeanother.beer gourmet.beer grapefruit.beer gravity.beer greatamerican.beer greatest.beer grimm.beer grove.beer guerrilla.beer guide.beer gulp.beer guts.beer hack.beer hamburger.beer hamms.beer handcrafted.beer happy.beer happyhour.beer hardtofind.beer havea.beer haveanother.beer healthy.beer heinecken.beer help.beer hemp.beer highland.beer hipster.beer homebrewed.beer homebrews.beer homecraft.beer homemade.beer honey.beer hooray.beer hopping.beer hopsbrewery.beer hopsbrewing.beer hotdog.beer howtomake.beer huntingtonbeach.beer hurricane.beer i-love.beer ibiza.beer ibrew.beer icecold.beer icehouse.beer idrink.beer ifuckinglove.beer ihatecraft.beer iliketodrink.beer illhaveanother.beer ilovebudlight.beer ilovecorona.beer ilovegood.beer ilovelocal.beer ilovemillerlite.beer ilovemy.beer iloveterrapin.beer ilovethat.beer image.beer import.beer imported.beer imports.beer indian.beer industry.beer ineeda.beer ineedafucking.beer innovation.beer ironfist.beer italian.beer iwanta.beer jamaican.beer japanese.beer karlsberg.beer kegof.beer kegs.beer keiths.beer kentuckyale.beer kettlehouse.beer keystonelight.beer keywest.beer killians.beer kilowatt.beer kingof.beer kiwi.beer labatt.beer labattblue.beer lagunabeach.beer laketahoe.beer landshark.beer larry.beer lasvegas.beer leeds.beer legendary.beer lesbian.beer letsdrink.beer liquidcourage.beer lite.beer loveland.beer mainstreet.beer makes.beer makeyourown.beer manhattan.beer maryland.beer memphis.beer mens.beer menu.beer mia.beer michigancraft.beer micro.beer micro-brew.beer microbrew.beer microbrewed.beer microbrewing.beer midwest.beer millercoors.beer millerlight.beer millterlite.beer minneapolis.beer missoula.beer moore.beer moosehead.beer morava.beer moretti.beer moritz.beer mortsubite.beer mostwanted.beer mousel.beer muddycreek.beer mug.beer mugof.beer munchen.beer munichguide.beer near.beer nebraskabrewing.beer needmore.beer newcastlebrown.beer newengland.beer neworleans.beer next.beer ninetyninebottlesof.beer nintyninebottlesof.beer non-alcoholic.beer nonalcoholic.beer northpark.beer northshore.beer nyc.beer olympia.beer omaha.beer omg.beer ommegang.beer ondemand.beer onefortheditch.beer online.beer ontap.beer order.beer orders.beer organic.beer p0rn.beer pabstblueribbon.beer pabstbrewingco.beer pale.beer panda.beer perfect.beer perth.beer phila.beer philadelphiabrewing.beer phoenix.beer phuket.beer pintof.beer pints.beer pirate.beer pittsburgh.beer planet.beer plus.beer presidente.beer pretty.beer prettygood.beer private.beer pro.beer protein.beer queensland.beer queer.beer rainier.beer ratebeer.beer ratings.beer real.beer reallygood.beer redbull.beer redstripe.beer redstripebeer.beer refill.beer refreshing.beer reno.beer restaurant.beer review.beer reviewing.beer reviewmy.beer reviews.beer revolution.beer rivercity.beer rockbottom.beer rockymountain.beer rogue.beer romeo.beer rootbeer.beer russian.beer sacramento.beer saigon.beer sainsburys.beer saintjoseph.beer saintpaul.beer saltlakecity.beer salute.beer samueladamslager.beer sandiegocraft.beer sanfransisco.beer schells.beer scientific.beer scottish.beer selfie.beer selfpour.beer selftap.beer sell.beer shitty.beer shopping.beer silly.beer simon.beer simply.beer simplythebest.beer singaporecraft.beer siouxfalls.beer sip.beer skinnydip.beer skullcreek.beer slapshot.beer smart.beer snack.beer snakedog.beer socal.beer space.beer sparks.beer special.beer speights.beer sportsbook.beer spotmy.beer spredfast.beer square.beer stack.beer stackbrewing.beer stag.beer stage.beer stand.beer starvingartist.beer statenisland.beer stbernardus.beer steelcity.beer steffen.beer stellenbrau.beer stjoes.beer stjoseph.beer stockholm.beer stonebrew.beer stpaul.beer stpauligirl.beer suds.beer summer.beer summerfest.beer sunshine.beer suppliers.beer sustainability.beer sustainable.beer swedish.beer sweet.beer sweetwater.beer swiss.beer sydney.beer tahoe.beer tailgate.beer tajmahal.beer talk.beer tampa.beer tap.beer tasting.beer teddy.beer tent.beer texasbrewing.beer thealchemist.beer thecraft.beer theworldsbest.beer third.beer thirstyfor.beer this.beer timefor.beer timefora.beer tinkoff.beer tnts.beer todays.beer toolbox.beer toolshed.beer toomuch.beer top10.beer top100.beer top250.beer total.beer tour.beer trader.beer trading.beer traditional.beer tribe.beer tsingdao.beer tsingtao.beer tsingtau.beer tux.beer tyler.beer typesof.beer ubeer.beer ubrew.beer ufo.beer ukrainian.beer unfiltered.beer union.beer untappd.beer urban.beer vermontcraft.beer vermonthardcider.beer vienna.beer viennese.beer vine.beer wanta.beer weed.beer welike.beer wellington.beer welovecraft.beer wemakegreat.beer whatsontap.beer which.beer wickedbrew.beer wien.beer willworkfor.beer windycity.beer wisconsincraft.beer wolfgang.beer woodchuck.beer workfor.beer worldclass.beer worldwide.beer worst.beer wyders.beer ybor.beer yborcity.beer yodel.beer yoga.beer youbrew.beer youlove.beer youmake.beer zero.beer ... read more ...
Fri 26th September 2014
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Iron Man Star; Actor Robert Downey Jr Files UDRP on The Domain RobertDowneyjr.actor - The star of the Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes movie series,  Robert Downey,  Jr has filed a UDRP on the new gTLD domain name RobertDowneyjr.actor. The domain was registered less than a month ago on August 31st by a Shashank Agarwal of India at Godaddy.com The domain name RobertDowneyjr.actor is going to a Godaddy placeholder. The actor does seem to own the domain name robertdowneyjr.com but the domain does not resolve. The domain name RobertDowney.actor is not registered. The official site of the ... read more ...
Thu 25th September 2014
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Direct 1,710 & .Place 769 - Donuts launched two new gTLD’s into general availability (GA) yesterday for .Direct and .Place where the domain names are available on first come, first served basis and wound up with less than 2,500 registrations After the 1st day of GA including those domain names registered in the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and the Early Access Period (EAP) where people paid additional fees to get early access to registrations here are the totals: .Direct 1,710 .Place 769 Today the new gTLD’s .Beer ... read more ...
Wed 24th September 2014
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LasVegasWeekly.com: “Why The .Vegas Launch is a Ridiculous Racket & A Waste Of Money” - Lasvegasweekly.com just published a post entitled “Why The .Vegas Launch is a Ridiculous Racket” So as you can guess from the title LasVegasWeekly.com is not a fan of .Vegas It is probably as a scathing review of any new gTLD or the program in general that I have read from a non-domain industry publication. Its Brutal. Here we go with the highlights: “Now that the inane hype and local media boosterism for the new “dot-vegas” top level domain name is beginning to subside, maybe someone with ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Registers 10,000 Domains In Uniregistry’s .BlackFriday - Earlier today we wrote that Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names registered over 16,000 domain names yesterday under the new gTLD .Audio which is owned and operated by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry and talso registered 5,000 domain names in another Uniregistry new domain extension .HipHop. North Sound Names also registered 10,000 domain names in a third Uniregistry string yesterday .Blackfriday,  which launched in July of this year. After the first day of general availability .Blackfriday had ... read more ...
 
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.Direct Launches Today Here Are The More Interesting Of The 250 + Registrations - .The new gTLD .Direct launches today into General Availability (GA) when domains can be registered on a first come, first serve basis. .Direct according to nTLDstats.com has over 250 registrations including Sunrise Period registrations that were opened to trademark holders and those who paid an additional fee to register domain names  in the Early Access Program (EAP). By comparison, the other Donuts new gTLD launching today, .Place has less than 100 registrations (85) through Sunrise and EAP. The ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Registers 5,000 Domains In Uniregistry’s .Hiphop New gTLD - Earlier today we wrote that Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names registered over 16,000 domain names under the new gTLD .Audio which is owned and operated by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry yesterday. North Sound Domains also registered 5,000 domain names in another Uniregistry new domain extension .HipHop yesterday. .Hiphop which launched earlier this month,  had after its first day of general availability,  just 424 domain registrations and had around 500 registrations before yesterday registrations ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Registers 16,000 Domains In Uniregistry’s .Audio New gTLD - It appears that Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names registered over 16,000 domain names under the new gTLD .Audio which is owned and operated by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry yesterday according to Registered.Today .Audio which launched earlier this month,  had after its first day of general availability,  just 701 registrations and had around 1,100 registrations before yesterday registrations by North Sound Names. .Audio is now the 24th most registered new gTLD according to ntldstats,com with ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Wins .Auto; Donuts Wins .Memorial; Afilias Loses IDN .信息 Which May Mean Info - Uniregistry won the new gTLD private auction for .Auto beating out Donuts, long time domain name investor Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry, and Dot Auto LLC, which is associated with the company that operates .Uno Donuts also won the new gTLD .Memorial beating  Afilias and dotCOOL, which operates the new gTLD .Qpon. Publicly traded Rightside (NAME) won the auction for .RIP which jointly owns certain new gTLD together with Donuts and operates Donuts registries backend. Afilias also lost the auction to ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Reports: Sales Increase 4,114%; Revenue 255%; Shares Are Up 9.5% -       Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) issued its financial report for the six months ending  June 30, 2014 today. Total sales increased 4,114% to £295,000 against £7,000 for the same period in 2013;  Operating profit was up 255% at £2.92 million against a 2013 loss of £1.88million,  and wound up with £20 Million  in the bank as of June 30th up from £9 Million  as of the end of December 31st, 2013 You can read the full report here. Operational Highlights: ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Wins .Law & .Vip; Loses 5 Auctions & Pockets $6.2 Million -     Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announce today that it won the new gTLD auctions for the new domain name extensions .Law and .Vip and lost private auctions for .Design, .Flowers, .Group, .Realestate and .Video and pocketed approximately $6.2 million (£3.8 million). The net cash to the Minds + Machines includes the amounts paid for .Vip and .Law, and is also net of auction fees and refunds that the Company received from ICANN for withdrawing applications. The Company also participated ... read more ...
Tue 23rd September 2014
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Report: 1,500 .Scot Domain Registered In 1st 60 Seconds; Over 4K Registered in First Hour - More than 1,500 .Scot domain names were registered by members of the public within 60 seconds of the new gTLD launch and over 4,000 were registered in the first hour of the domain becoming available according to a report in thecourier.co.uk. Jesus.scot and Oor Wullie.scot,  Braveheart.scot, the45percent.scot, Cocacola.scot and Facebook.scot. One customer registered 20 different .scot domains. Not-for-profit company Dot Scot Registry was created to apply for and operate the .scot domain. The price ... read more ...
 
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.RICH & .ONL To Have Its Own Retail Registrar Site To Be Powered By LogicBoxes -           LogicBoxes is pleased to announce the partnership with I-Content Ltd., based out of Germany, to initiate the implementation of end-to-end Vertical Integration Solution for New gTLDs .RICH and .ONL. .RICH is a New gTLD extension that caters to a global community of high net worth individuals and the companies that support them. .ONL (the official abbreviation for “online”) is a New gTLD that intends to provide limitless access to everything online by being a natural domain for ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy 15%+ .LONDON domains purebred outward of a UK; US & Germany Are 8% - According to a press release from Godaddy over 15% of .LONDON domains that were registered through GoDaddy came from outside of the UK. 5.9% of all .London domains registered by Godaddy were registered by people in the United States and 1.9 percent were registered by people or businesses in Germany. Stefano Maruzzi, VP of GoDaddy EMEA, says: “These figures show that London is one of the most attractive cities to businesses worldwide. Since the general availability launch on Tuesday Ninth September, ... read more ...
 
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Registry Of New gTLD .OOO Predicts 35,000 Sunrise Domains & 1-2 Million Registrations In 6-12 Months - The Registry for the new gTLD ‘.ooo’ (Dot-Triple Letter O) by Ahmedabad-based IT firm Infibeam.com which “is aimed at providing alternate domain registration solutions to those who have failed to locate their brand name or business names on .com domain, has some pretty lofty goals for the extension. The registry is predicting 35,000-40,000 trademark registrations and over the next 6-12 months expects to get about 1-2 million domain registrations “The new GTLD is the first of a kind initiative ... read more ...