Dolly Parton Is Pioneer For The New gTLD .Country: Gets Dolly.Country, DollyParton.Country; Dollywood.Country - Dolly Parton, the legendary Queen of Country, has agreed to be part of the .new gTLD country pioneer program and registered Dolly.Country, DollyParton.Country, Queenof.Country, Dollywood.Country and 9to5.Country
The .Country pioneer program which allows domain names to be registered by musicians, businesses, and organizations before the release of .Country domain names on to sale to the general public on September 15, 2014.
The new gTLD .Country is a joint venture between registry operators ... read more ...
Tag Archives: New gTLDs
Mon 8th September 2014
Sat 6th September 2014
Totals For Two new gTLD’s German Geo’s Launched This Week; .Koeln 11,543; .Cologne 2,679 - Two new gTLD’s launched this week for the German city known as Cologne and also Koeln depending on the language you speak.
The two new Geographic domains combined for just over 14,000 registrations.
Cologne is the 4th largest city in Germany and has a population of just over one million people.
Cologne had 4.31 million overnight stays booked and 2.38 million arrivals in 2008 which is the most recent data wikipedia.org has.
The registry for these two extensions is: “NetCologne Gesellschaft ... read more ...
Fri 5th September 2014
Monte Cahn Of RightoftheDot.com Featured In HuffingtonPost Article On New gTLD’s/Domains - The HuffingtonPost.com just published an article on the new gTLD space domain name aftermarket Entitled “Is It Time for Me to Sell Blunders.com?”
“Remember 1997? It was the height of the dot-com bubble. And everyone was registering domain names with unrealistic hopes and dreams of developing profitable, pure-play internet businesses.
I, too, drank the Kool-Aid and registered blunders.com, and many others. No business plan. No strategy. Just $8.95/domain name and unrealistic, stupid thinking.”
“It ... read more ...
Thu 4th September 2014
1st Day New gTLD Registrations: .Gratis 1,010; .Credit 801; .Audio 701; .Juegos 482; .Hiphop 424; .Claims 397; .Creditcard 281 - This week saw 7 new gTLD launch into GA, plus 2 Geographic new gTLD’s for the city of .Cologne which is also spelled .Koeln, whose zone files have not updated.
For the 7 new gTLD’s which launched this week, the results an only be described as pretty much a disaster in terms of domain name registration numbers, as only 1 of the 7 barely broke 4 figures and when I say barely I mean by 11 registrations.
Here are the number of new gTLD registrations after the 1st day of General Availability (GA) ... read more ...
Wed 3rd September 2014
ICANN TO Chat With GAC At ICANN 51 in LA, Whether 2 Character new gTLD Domains Should Be Allowed - In a letter to Heather Dryden Chair of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Stephen D. Crocker, Chair ICANN Board of Directors made it clear that ICANN will be taking up the issue of allowing the registration of 2 character new gTLD domain names:
Dear Heather,
On behalf of the Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC), I thank you for your letter of 8 August 2014 regarding requests from new gTLD applicants and registries for the release of two- character domain names in the new gTLD namespace. ... read more ...
Tue 2nd September 2014
Minds + Machines Landrush Auctions Start Tomorrow - Over the weekend I got notice that the landrush auctions for Minds + Machines for its first new gTLD’s go live tomorrow.
We got notice over the weekend that we are in the landrush auction for the following domain names:
spear.fishing
going.fishing
marlin.fishing
pro.rodeo
The auctions are being handled by Pool.com
Each landrush action is scheduled for 7 days.
The four auctions we are in start tomorrow September 3rd and end on September 10th in accordance with Pool.com closing rules.
We will let ... read more ...
.Credit; .CreditCard In General Availability Wednesday, Here Are The Taken Domain Names - Two new gTLD’s launching this week are pretty closely related, .Credit and .CreditCard and as of publication they have 182 and 130 domains registered respectively, through Sunrise period by trademark holders and through the Early Access Porgram (EAP) which allow registrants to pay a premium for early registrations prior to general availability (GA).
Both of the new gTLD’s go into GA on Wednesday.
.Credit is priced at $129,99 for a registration at Godaddy while .CreditCard is priced even higher ... read more ...
Sun 31st August 2014
It’s David Vs Goliaths For Control of .Music - Harley Brown wrote an article for Billboard.com about the upcoming battle for .music. The indies vs Google and Amazon. The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) has announced its support for the music industry to control .music.
A2IM believes that if Google or Amazon win the .music extension that they will obviously put profits ahead of industry and artist concerns. In a conversation with Billboard, A2IM President, Rich Bengloff expressed hope that ICANN would select a music community ... read more ...
Sat 30th August 2014
.Bio Generates $250K in Revenue In Its First Week - Starting Dot Ltd. the registry operator for new generic top-level domains (new gTLD) .BIO, .ARCHI .SKI, , put out a press release today announcing that over 4,100 .BIO domain names have been registered at the end of the first week generating over a $250,000 USD in revenue.
“The .BIO launch ranks in the top 15 in terms of new gTLD first week retail revenue* and validates the popularity of the extension in the market place.”
Starting Dot Ltd. management attributes the recent sales success to the ... read more ...
Fri 29th August 2014
.Club Sells Its 100,000th Domain - CLUB Domains just announced that it has sold its 100,000th new domain name today, “setting a record as the first new generic top-level domain (gTLD) to sell 100,000 domains and continuing its streak as the best-selling new domain extension.”
Although two other new gTLD’s have more domain registrations, no new gTLD has SOLD more domain names than .Club
RightoftheDot.com a company of which I’m a Director and co-owner is brokering the Super Premium .Club domain names, including golf.club, country.club ... read more ...
Thu 28th August 2014
.Host Announces 15 Pioneer Partners - Radix, announced 15 top players of the global hosting community as Pioneers of the .host namespace, which rolled in to Landrush on August 26th.
The Pioneer lineup includes big international names like MediaTemple, Bluehost, OVH, Arvixe, and the UK2 Group, in addition to regional leaders such as Natro (Turkey) and UOL (Brazil), HostPapa (Canada), Blacknight (Ireland).
Several top global wholesale registrars, such as OpenSRS, ResellerClub and InternetX have also signed on as Pioneer Partners.
“Jumping ... read more ...
Minds + Machines Launching 1st Of Its String in September; Expects 25% Of All Landrush Domain To Go To Auction - Minds + Machines (LON:MMX), is going to launch its first new gTLD’s strings into General Availability in September, actually 9 in all.
The following new generic top level domains (gTLDs) in which Minds + Machines has an interest will go on general availability (GA) to the public on the following launch dates in September:
September 9th .London
On September 15th .Cooking, .Country, .Fishing, .Horse, .Rodeo, .Vodka
September 25th .Beer, .Surf
September 30th .Bayern.
On entering GA, all domain names ... read more ...
.London Tops 15,000 Domain Registrations; General Availability Starts Sep 9th -
One of the most anticipated new gTLD domain extensions .London, now has 15,038 domain names registered, counting Sunrise registrations and now registrations granted to companies with a .London presence who had priorty to register .London domains.
.London is now in 23rd place in terms of number of registered new gTLD’s domain names according to nTLDstats.com
DomainMonster.com, part of the Host Europe Group is the largest registrar of .London domains todate, with over 62% of all registrations.
Tucows.com ... read more ...
1st Day New gTLD Totals; .Hamburg 13.7K; Discount 1,819; .Fitness 1,271; .Furniture 605; .Schule 373 - Several new gTLD went into general availability yesterday and here are the total number of domain registrations including those domains registered in Sunrise by trademark holders and in any landrush or Early Access Program (EAP) which allows registrants to pay an additional fee for early access to new domains.
.Hamburg had by far the biggest new gTLD 1st day total in a many months winding up with 13,737 registrations landing it in 26th place for all new gTLD’s.
.Discount finished its first day ... read more ...
Kevin Fink of Flippa Confirms Fire.Glass sale during $5,000 is legitimate - I want to thank Kevin Fink of Flippa for confirming that the auction for Fire.Glass that concluded on 8/26 is a legitimate sale. With all the hoopla and hype around the new gtlds, domain investors want to see sales being verified especially when its an auction format with just one bid.
FireGlass.com/net/org/co/info/biz/us are all registered. The .com is registered since 1996 and is a developed site.
What is “Fire Glass”?
Fire Glass is tempered glass manufactured in pebble-sized fragments, used ... read more ...
Wed 27th August 2014
1St Day New gTLD Totals .Black 156 Registrations .Hiv 153 - Two new gTLD lanched into general avaliabity already this week
.Hiv and .Black launched and including any sunrise application wound up with, well not much
.Black is has 156 registrations while .HIV has only 153 registration.
A .Hiv domain registration is pricy around $200 on the low side.
A .Black domain registration is priced at $41.99 at Godaddy
You can read more about .Black here and .HIV here.
Here are the .Black registrations including Sunrise:
addictedto.black
adsense.black
advisor.black
adwords.black
aerogel.black
ahron.black
air-king.black
all4.black
alldata.black
alwaysbeton.black
andi.black
aquatimer.black
autoanything.black
autozone.black
aws.black
back-in.black
basic.black
beatriz.black
beautiful.black
beluga.black
blackbay.black
blackshield.black
blaque.black
blisssalon.black
bmw.black
bpm.black
cafe.black
callgirls.black
cam4.black
cellini.black
chanel.black
chocolate.black
chrome.black
clairderose.black
container.black
cosmograph.black
crack.black
creative.black
date.black
datejust.black
davinci.black
day-date.black
daytona.black
deals.black
deepsea.black
deeptwo.black
digital.black
engineeredformen.black
entice.black
escorts.black
estate.black
explorer.black
fastrider.black
fire.black
flickr.black
fuck.black
galapagosislands.black
gdmes08-20-2014qatest-preregga.black
gdmes08-26-2014qatest-ga.black
gdmes08-26-2014qatest-ga2.black
gdtestmesblackga.black
get.black
glamour.black
gmt-master.black
gothic.black
grantour.black
grid.black
group.black
heels.black
hennessy.black
heritage.black
horse.black
hotel.black
ingenieur.black
intuit.black
iwcportugieser.black
jackpot247.black
johnnywalker.black
jonny.black
kamenrider.black
kevingablack001.black
kindle.black
linkedin.black
lord.black
markmonitor.black
markxvii.black
maskedrider.black
matte.black
merck.black
microsoft.black
milgauss.black
mingle.black
more.black
naughty.black
nic.black
a0.nic.black
a2.nic.black
b0.nic.black
c0.nic.black
onceyougo.black
opal.black
opals.black
oyster.black
oysterperpetual.black
paint-it.black
pearlmaster.black
pelagos.black
pepper.black
portofino.black
prime.black
pulp.black
pure.black
purse.black
racist.black
ranger.black
realty.black
redand.black
rlnd.black
rolex.black
sale.black
sea-dweller.black
singles.black
siyah.black
size.black
sky-dweller.black
skylr.black
spitfire.black
ssi.black
submariner.black
supercasino.black
target.black
team.black
thenew.black
think.black
tights.black
top.black
topgun.black
true.black
tudor.black
tudorwatch.black
tumblr.black
turk.black
uber.black
usa.black
verf.black
wearing.black
weddings.black
weusi.black
whisky.black
whoswho.black
williamhill.black
wisdom.black
yacht-master.black
yachtclub.black
yellow.black
younggifted.black
Here ... read more ...
.Global Ends Sunrise With Almost 400 Registrations, Apple Registers 22 - .Global just ended it Sunrise period and did very well, getting almost 400 registrations by trademark holders.
Apple was the largest registrant with 22 domain name registrations although Microsoft, Sun, Amazon, Google, HSBC, Ford, Dell, are just some of the big brand holders that participated.
In all 2.2 domains were registered per registrant on average.
A Sunrise application cost $250, $150 application fee, and $100 registration fee, so .Global made back $100K of it $185K application fee just ... read more ...
Fire.Glass Closes during $5,000 on Flippa - The domain name Fire.Glass just wrapped up its auction on Flippa. The auction had one bid at $5,000. The seller does have 18 transactions and 100% positive feedback on Flippa.
Seller’s Notes
Fire.Glass
Premium .Glass domain.
40,500 Google Exact Monthly Searches for “Fire Glass” (12 month average).
$2.39 CPC (Google).
What is “Fire Glass”?
Fire Glass is tempered glass manufactured in pebble-sized fragments, used in fireplaces and fire pits. It usually comes in small shards with rounded edges.
Flippa ... read more ...
Tue 26th August 2014
.Black is Live Today But like The other New gTLD Colors, a on a Wrong Side Of The Dot - Today is the first day general availability for Afilias’ latest gTLD: .BLACK
Its the fourth in a string of colored new gTLD domain names all operated by Afilias (.Red, .Blue, Pink)
For us the issue for .Black, like the other colors, is Black is a term that used in normal language and commerce on the left of the term, not on the right.
So its Black Cars, Black Card, Black Dress, Black Limo, Black Diamonds, Jet Black, Blackboard.
Even the press release makes our point:
“You know, when someone says ... read more ...
Frequent Commentator On TheDomains, Joseph Peterson, Stars In Entrepreneur.com New gTLD Story - In a article just published by Entrepreneur.com asking the question “Should I switch my company’s URL to one of the new domain extensions?“
I was pretty surprised to read that the article was basically based on the thoughts of Joseph Peterson who is a frequent commentator on TheDomains.com
Here are the first two questions and answers by Mr. Peterson
Should any business with a .com or .net domain switch to an extension that may describe its product or service better?
Not necessarily–.com ... read more ...
As .Furniture Launches On Wednesday, Here Are Some Of Interesting Registered Domains - .Furniture goes into general availability on Wednesday August 27th where domain names can be registered on a first come, first served basis.
Some very good domains were already taken in Sunrise by trademark holders and during the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid a one time fee for early access to the domain names.
Furniture is a huge vertical. Its certainly something everyone around the world buys, owns, uses or rents.
Many of the best .Furniture domain names are not available ... read more ...
.Website Gets Over 630 Sunrise Domain Registration; 2nd Highest Of Any New gTLD - .Website may well be the next big new gTLD success story.
According to Radix the registry the operates the .Website extension there were 634 domain names registered during the Sunrise period which is opened to trademark holders.
With the 634 Sunrise domain registrations.Website has the second highest number of Sunrise applications of all new gTLD’s to date
A lot of the big brands grabbed domain names in .Website including Amazon, Apple, BWM, Chanel, Chopard, Dropbox, Escada, Facebook, Fox, Google, ... read more ...
Mon 25th August 2014
As New gTLD Registrations Hit 2 Million Domains, Here Is Our Take On The New G’s - We have been talking about the new gTLD program for well over 6 years and over the weekend we noted that the number of new gTLD registrations passed the 2 Million mark.
So we thought this would be a good time to give some thoughts about where the program is at and where it is going.
Since we have been writing about the new G’s we have pretty much said the same thing, we don’t know how they will do or what effect they will have on the .com aftermarket.
After the launch of 194 new gTLD’s into ... read more ...
UPDATED: DotHIV Launching With A Social Purpose & a $200 Price Tag Today - The .Hiv registry sent us this information on the launch of the new gTLD .Hiv
The domain is not being offered by some of the bigger registrars and is priced around between $196 and $230 a year at some of the registrars I checked, although a portion of the price is being given to HIV and AIDS charities.
Here are some of the registrars that you can register a .HIV domain name at:
NetNames.com
Marcaria
Safe names
Markmonitor
Blacknight
101domain
Moniker.com
Tucows
United Domains
Epag
Key Systems
1 and ... read more ...
Apple Goes In Heavy On .Discount Which Gets Over 300 Sunrise/ Early Access Domain Registrations - .Discount which launches into General Availability this week on Wednesday, is doing pretty well compared to the most recent launches with over 340 Sunrise and Early Access Program Registrations and we thought we take a look at the more interesting one’s.
For me Discount is one of those terms that is usually used more on the left side of a term than on the rightside, so discount travel, discount hotels, discount fashion, discount electronics for example seems more natural than say fashion.discount ... read more ...