Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Tue 23rd September 2014
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Donuts Beats Amazon To .Video & Wins .Money, .Sale, & .Legal In Private Auctions - In a set of private new gTLD auctions held last week Donuts has won at least 4 of them, beating out Amazon Uniregistry, Minds + Machines for the new gTLD .Video (Google did not apply for .Video, but did apply for .Tube). We should also note their was no new gTLD application submitted for .Videos.  If Amazon, Uniregistry or Minds + Machines had applied for the plural .Videos, which arguably is a better string instead of .Video, they would have won it for just the $185,000 application fee. All three ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Issues Interim Results For 6 Months Ending Jun 30, 2014 - CentralNic (AIM: CNIC), today announces its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2014. Key Points: · CentralNic has seen steady growth in its wholesale (“Registry”) business, against a background of delays in new Top-Level Domains (TLDs) and early demand levels across the industry falling short of industry expectations. · CentralNic has continued investment in the development of new retail and enterprise business lines, as outlined in the 2013 Annual Report. · Group revenue £1.64 ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: Looks Like 2nd Round Of New gTLD Won’t Open For At Least 4 Years - ICANN released tonight a 27 page report entitled the “New gTLD Program Reviews and Assessments Draft Work Plan” (Draft Work Plan) which lays out the work required prior to initiating a subsequent application period for the New gTLD Program, taking into account the assessments anticipated in development of the Program.” “As of this writing, 404 new gTLDs have been delegated. A total of 1,168 applicants have been invited to contracting. Of those applications in string contention sets, 49% ... read more ...
Mon 22nd September 2014
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Accent Media Limited Win Private Auction For .Tickets Beating Donuts, Famous Four, 2 Others - According to a press release we received overnight, a British company, Accent Media Limited, won the private auction for the new gTLD .Tickets beating Donuts, Famous Four Media, Shubert Internet, Inc., and Afilias. According to the PR, “The company will offer domain names to approved organisations to provide safer online ticket sales with the intention to establish the “.tickets” top-level domain as a global gold standard of trust for consumers. According to a separate press release by publicly ... read more ...
Fri 19th September 2014
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1st Day New gTLD Radix Totals: .Website 6,342; .Press 800; .Host 780 & Updated Totals on This Week’s Launches - Three new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA) yesterday all operated by Radix and the totals after the first day of general availability including domain names registered during the Sunrise period for Trademark holders and during Landrush a period where registrant could pay more money for early access to the domain names are as follows: .Website 6,342 .Press 800 .Host 780 Yesterday afternoon Radix put out a press release saying that they had registered over 6,500 .Website domain names in ... read more ...
Thu 18th September 2014
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Over 6,500 .Website Domain Names Registered In The First 4 Hours Of Availability - According to a press release we just received from Radix, the new gTLD .WEBSITE, that went into General Availability today has already surpassed 6,500 domains in the first 4 hours “We have been confident about .website right from the start and these numbers just reinforce the potential the TLD holds.” said Sandeep Ramchandani, Radix business head. Registrars such as OpenSRS, 1Api, 101domain, Key-Systems had expressed their buy-in in the TLD from start by giving it top billing on their homepages ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Church 4,044; .Guide 3,387; .Life 2,106; .Loans 632; .Republican 385 - Five new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA) on Wednesday. Including domains registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and by those willing to pay an extra charge to register domain name in the Early Access Program (EAP) prior to GA here are the number of domain name registrations after the first day of GA: .Church 4,044 .Guide 3,387 .Life 2,106 .Loans 632 .Republican 385 So we have further indication that religion beats politics. In general the political domains have been a ... read more ...
 
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Google & Donuts Lose All 3 ICANN New gTLD Auctions: What Did We Learn Today? - ICANN published results of the first three ICANN Last Resort Auctions (there was an auction in June for a IDN String) tonight and we certainly learned a few things. Many people had the opinion that Google and Amazon would simply outbid all other applicants for all the strings just because they could. However Google wound up losing all three auctions as did Donuts. At the end of the day Google like all companies, have a budget for each string and won’t pay an unlimited amount of money for each just ... read more ...
Wed 17th September 2014
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Radix Registry Giving You A Chance to Win a Free Go Pro - Radix Registry the company behind the .Website extension wants to give you a chance to win a free Go Pro. The company is running a one day contest. Participate in the .website launch contest to win a GoPro! Guess the number of regs we will be at by the end of 24 hours of launch #newgtlds — Radix (@RadixRegistry) September 17, 2014 Tweet your guess with #truegeneric and tag @radixregistry before 18th Sep 1600 UTC. The closest guess wins a GoPro! #newgtlds #contest #ntld — Radix (@RadixRegistry) ... read more ...
 
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.London, Has More Reserved Domains Than Registrations & You Won’t Believe What’s on The List - .London which launched last week has just over 39,00 domain name registration in the zone file as of today, which many regard to be less than impressive. The population of London’s metropolitan area is the largest in the EU with a total of 13,614,409. So out of over 13 Million residents not counting all the businesses and organization in the area, 39,o00 registrations isn’t that terrific in my opinion. Minds + Machines is operating the registry with active cooperation from the city. We got a ... read more ...
 
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Tuesday Was .Vegas Day & A Big Celebration Was Held At Las Vegas City Hall -     The City of Las Vegas held a very cool launch ceremony for Dot Vegas at Las Vegas city hall today. Namescon.Vegas was the very first domain activated by .Vegas after Nic.Vegas (Nic.is the first domain activated by every new gTLD registry) Richard Lau and and Jothan Franks of Namescon were on hand to celebrate the launch, who appears in the picture on top of the post. Mike McLaughlin from Godaddy spoke about their current campaign and excitement over .Vegas, which is currently prominently displayed ... read more ...
Tue 16th September 2014
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Sedo Transactions Total Just $1M As Baltic.Cruises Tops The List during $25,000 -

Over a past week, 543 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million

49% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

· Top .coms: kiel.com during 19,500 EUR

· Top ccTLD: bs.tv during 15,000 USD

· Top “other” TLD: baltic.cruises during 25,000 USD

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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.Guide Going Live Wed Has More Registrations Than 4 M + M gTLD’s Have After 1st Day Of GA - .Guide which goes into general availability tomorrow, Wednesday September 17th already has more registrations than four strings of Minds + Machines after their first day of GA yesterday. .Guide is sitting at 403 domain name all registered in Sunrise by trademark holders and in the Early Access Program (EAP), while .fishing after its first day of GA is sitting at 387, .Horse is sitting at 327, Country (owned jointly with Uniregistry) is sitting at 220 and .Rodeo is at 107. At 403 registrations .Guide ... read more ...
Mon 15th September 2014
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At Least One Registrar is Offering Free .Webcam Domain Registration - Courtesy  of our new gTLD blogging friend Jean Guillon comes word that at least one domain name registrar is offering free .Webcam registration through the end of the year though one registrar. According to Jean you can register free .Webcam domain names can be registered at the domain name registrar AlpNames.com  for one year with this coupon: NEWSGTLDS100 The offer is valid until December 2014. Jean goes on to say this is a “limited offer” but doesn’t indicate what the limitations ... read more ...
 
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No End User’s Registering New gTLD’s? Check Out The First .Church Domain Names - .Church is landing into General Availability on Wednesday September 17th and has almost 400 domain names registered in its Sunrise Period open to trademark holders and through the Early Access Program (EAP) for which registrants paid an extra fee. Looking thought the zone file for .Church there are what may come as a surprise to many, there are a lot of end users, what appear to be hundreds of Churches that actually registered their own .Church domain name Of course there are some generics like jesuschrist.church ... read more ...
Sun 14th September 2014
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.XYZ 1st New gTLD To Break 500,000 Registrations - .XYZ has become the first new gTLD to break the 500,000 registration mark. According to ntldstats.com has 501,459 domain registrations. A little of 377,000 of these registrations are from Network Solutions which as we at TheDomains.com discovered early on, are free registrations. Onamae.com a Japanese registrar owned by GMO has over 55,000 of the registrations. Xin Net Technology Corporation a Chinese registrar has the third most .XYZ domain registrations at just over 26,500. It should be noted that ... read more ...
 
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Landrush For .Website & .Press Ends Monday: Here’s a Special Price & Available Domains - The Landrush for three Radix’s new gTLD’s, .Website, .Press and .Host closes on Monday at Noon EST We have a special coupon code that will save you 10% off the landrush and pre-registration for any non-premium priced .website and .Press domain. The coupon code only works at 101domain.com and we furnished to the readers of TheDomains.com Coupon Code: RADIXLR10 This is applicable on: https://www.101domain.com/website.htm https://www.101domain.com/press.htm The registry Radix sent me over a list ... read more ...
Sat 13th September 2014
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SeekingAlpha: Shares of Rightside Have At Least 37% Downside - SeekingAlpha the Stock publication, just published a pretty scathing review of Rightside, (NASDAQ:NAME) the spin off of Demand Media, in a story entitled “Rightside is Its Trending on the Wrongside.” The story cites some publications in the domain industry including TheDomains.com Domainincite.com and Circleid.com The story comcludes comparing the company on the Registrar level to Tucows the registrars enom.com and name.com have no value and concloudes that the stock has at least 37% downside. Share ... read more ...
Fri 12th September 2014
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ICANN New gTLD Auctions Scheduled For Next Week Include 1st Between Amazon & Google - There are three ICANN new gTLD contention resolution auctions scheduled for next week and for the first time Amazon and Google will go head to head for a new gTLD extension in an auction whose results including the amount paid will be made public. Not only will Google and Amazon duke it out for .Buy but they will be joined by Donuts and Famous Four Media. In the new gTLD ICANN auction for .Tech will include; Frank Schilling’s Uniregisty, Donuts, Google, Minds + Machines and Straat.co the group ... read more ...
Thu 11th September 2014
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Digital 2,658; .Finance 1,057; .Insure 788; .Accountants 371 - 4 New gTLD’s went into the 1st day of general availability (GA) yesterday. Here are the number of new gTLD registrations after the 1st day of General Availability (GA) for the 4 extensions which includes the domain name registered by Trademark holders in the Sunrise Period and the domains registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) for which people paid extra money to get early access to the domains: .Digital 2,658 .Finance 1,057 .Insure 788 .Accountants 371 We should note that there is already ... read more ...
Wed 10th September 2014
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.London Winds Up With Just Over 35,500 Domain Names After Its 1st Day; .Global 1,638 - One of the best and most anticipated new gTLD domain name extensions went into general availability (GA) yesterday as .London wound up with over 35,500 registered domain names .London wound up with 35,557 domain names registered after its first day of general availability according to ntldstats.com. However .London had over 24,000 domains before GA, in Sunrise for trademark holders and several phases for residents and businesses located in London. I would say the 11,000 additional domain names in ... read more ...
Tue 9th September 2014
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After One Of The Most Successful Sunrise & Landrush Periods .Global Goes Live Today -       .Global which got almost 650 domain name registrations between its in Sunrise and Landrush period,  goes live today for general availability at 11am EST. .Global which already ranked in the top 5 of all new gTLD’s including .City  gTLD’s in the number of domain name registered in Sunrise, with almost 400 Sunrise registrations, added 225 domain names in Landrush. It should be noted that .Global’s landrush was one of the shortest lasting only 9 days which also ran during the Labor ... read more ...
Mon 8th September 2014
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The Mayor Of New York Declares The 1st .NYC Websites Are Live - Think of it as a virtual ribbon cutting ceremony as  the Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio today announced that the first .NYC websites have gone live. The owners of these domain names, officially called “.NYC Founders,” represent a diverse group of New Yorkers” “It’s exciting to see New York City’s official domain coming to life with the launch of our first .nyc Founder websites,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “Our .nyc Founders include an eclectic mix of small businesses, well-known ... read more ...
 
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Is .London Killing The Value Of .Uk Domains? - If you have been following NameJet.com over the past couple of weeks you couldn’t help but notice the number of two letter .co.uk and .Uk that have been at auction. Two letter domain names are some of the most valuable Internet real estate space. In the past few weeks over 50 two letter .co.uk and .Uk domain names have been at auction at NameJet.com As you can see from the list below, no two letter .UK domain name sold. We don’t know what the reserve price of any of the two letter .UK domain ... read more ...
 
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AllThings.Digital Tops Our List Of The More Interesting .Digital Registrations Ahead Of GA - The new gTLD .Digital goes into General Availability on Wednesday September 10th, and there are over 250 domain names registered in Sunrise by trademark holders, and in the Early Access Program (EAP) by those willing to pay additional fees for early access. The normal registration fee for a .Digital domain registration of $39.95 at Godaddy. Here are the more interesting registrations. abribus.digital accenture.digital accor.digital accorhotels.digital adventuretime.digital aerialvideo.digital agencies.digital agency.digital allthings.digital also.digital amplify.digital analog.digital anz.digital autotrader.digital axis.digital b2w.digital barrons.digital bayern.digital bestbuy.digital beyond.digital bitcoin.digital bitcoins.digital bklyn.digital blank.digital blonde.digital bond.digital bseller.digital buildingabetterworkingworld.digital campari.digital cartoonnetwork.digital cgi.digital cityprovider.digital cloudopen.digital coin.digital consumerreports.digital consumersunion.digital craft.digital davinci.digital decim.digital decimo.digital deeptwo.digital deloitte.digital diari.digital disrupt.digital dowjones.digital e-village.digital edge.digital educare.digital elle.digital elmundo.digital engineeredformen.digital entrepreneuroftheyear.digital eoy.digital ernst-and-young.digital ernstandyoung.digital expansion.digital eyewear.digital film.digital freedom.digital fullstack.digital furniture.digital gettherefaster.digital grandprix.digital heidelberg.digital hint.digital hostpoint.digital hunt.digital icap.digital innovate.digital juna.digital kentucky.digital kindle.digital knd.digital lci.digital leadingedge.digital linear.digital london.digital lossless.digital loteria.digital lottery.digital lotteryticket.digital lotterytickets.digital lotto.digital luminor.digital lux.digital marca.digital marketing.digital markxvii.digital marshall.digital marshallamps.digital michelin.digital montecarlo.digital mosaic.digital movies.digital naughty.digital ndr.digital netapp.digital newscorp.digital nhl.digital officinepanerai.digital omni.digital openbank.digital optics.digital organize.digital palmsprings.digital paramount.digital pearl.digital perfectly.digital petplan.digital phone.digital porn.digital portofino.digital postalservice.digital premierline.digital prime.digital proteus.digital purely.digital pwp.digital rhino.digital salt.digital savannah.digital saversguide.digital securing.digital selectsavings.digital shaw.digital shoptime.digital signal.digital simply.digital smarteyewear.digital smartglasses.digital smarthome.digital smartride.digital solid.digital spark.digital spiritofsport.digital spork.digital stanleycup.digital steve.digital sxsw.digital telecom.digital televisa.digital televisio.digital tempomedia.digital theedge.digital thewallstreetjournal.digital uav.digital usps.digital veterinarypetinsurance.digital vpi.digital wallstreetjournal.digital watchesandwonders.digital watchever.digital waveone.digital wearables.digital weoy.digital williams.digital worldsportsawards.digital wrap.digital wsj.digital wtc.digital yale.digital ... read more ...