As The GAC Restricted new gTLD’s Launch Registrants Maybe Unaware They Are already in Violation of TOS - For the first time some of the new gTLD’s that fall within the “GAC Category 1 Advice”, which generally are strings that the GAC determined should not be open to be registered by everyone, have started to launch. From what I’m hearing, the vast majority of the general public along with domain investors, have no idea that such rules exist but they have agreed to follow them in the Terms of Service (TOS) for strings they registered domain names under, As a background the Government Advisory ... read more ...

1st Day Totals For New gTLD’s: .Reisen 2,262; .University 1,340; .Toys 1,320; .Town 590 - Several new gTLD’s went into its first day of general availability GA) yesterday and according to ntldstats.com,here are the number of registrations after the first day of GA which include all Sunrise applications and those domains registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) Once again the total for this weeks new gTLD are less than impressive: .Reisen 2,262; .University 1,340 .Toys 1,320 .Town 590 Reisen is the German word for Travel. There are now over 1.75 million new gTLD’s registered with ... read more ...

Interlink Co., Ltd. Wins Community Priority Evaluation For The New gTLD .Osaka - Interlink Co., Ltd. Application for The New gTLD .Osaka just won its Community Priority Evaluation .Osaka has prevailed with its Community Priority Evaluation application getting 15 of the maximum 16 points. This means that GMO’s application for .Osaka will not move forward. Here is part of the decision: “Thank you for your participation in the New gTLD Program. After careful consideration and extensive review of the information provided in your application, including documents of support, the ... read more ...

HardRock; BMW; Starbucks; BretMichaels & God All .Rocks; Here are a initial .Rocks Registrations - .Rocks which goes live into general availability on August 6th,  has a little over 200 domains which were registered in Sunrise  (Trademark holders) and in the Early Access Program (EAP) for those who were willing to pay a higher fee for early access to domain registrations The cost of a non-premium .Rocks registration is at $14.99 at Godaddy A lot of the registrations are company.rocks or product.Rocks types of domains Some people took .Rocks literally, registering domain names like Moon.Rocks, ... read more ...

ICM Registry Operator of .XXX Wins Rights to The New gTLD .Sex - ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX registry has won the right to operate the .Sex new gTLD. The other applicant for .Sex, Internet Marketing Solutions Limited has withdrawn their application, leaving ICM’s the lone applicant for .Sex. ICM also is the only applicant for the new gTLD’s .adult and .porn The only caveat on the new gTLD’s .Sex, .Adult and .Porn is that just a few weeks ago, seemingly out of nowhere, the New gTLD Committee of ICANN commented that they might be sensitive strings ... read more ...

.Toys Launches Wed: O.Toys; Educational.Toys; Pool.Toys, Christmas.Toys Already Registered - .Toys which goes into general availability tomorrow Wednesday July 30th A .Toys non-premium domain registration is priced at $39.95 at Godaddy. We went through the zone file for .Toys and found the more interesting domain names taken in Sunrise (for trademark holders) and during the Early Access Program (EAP) where people can get early access to domain names for a one time fee which can range from $150-$12,500 depending on the registrar and the day. We missed out on educational.toys which we had ... read more ...

Key-Systems To Donate 30 Euro For 1st 1,000 .Hiv Domain Registrations - Key-Systems GmbH announced today that it will support the dotHIV initiative with a fundraising for the start of .hiv. The domain registrar will donate 30 Euro to the dotHIV association for each of the first 1,000 .hiv domains that is registered in the first six months after the Sunrise starts via the in-house retail portal domaindiscount24. dotHIV is the initiative behind the charitable top level domain .hiv. The Berlin-based social enterprise will establish the domain extension .hiv as the Red ... read more ...

.Broadway Resolved as 2 of 3 Apps are Withdrawn - Another new gTLD string has apparently been resolved, .Broadway The surviving applicant is Celebrate Broadway, Inc which is a Minds + Machines backed applicant. Those withdrawing their applications are broadwayacrossamerica.com and Donuts. We do not have any information regarding how the contention set was settle or what the terms were. We only know there were three applications for .Broadway and now there is one. Congrats ... read more ...

Of The 9,025 .Voting Domains Registered Over 97% Registered To Co. With Ties To The Registry? - One company is responsible for registering over 97% of the 9,025 .Voting new gTLD domain names. We reported earlier today that .Voting had 9,025 domain names registered after the first day of general availability However we see that 8,811 of the 9,025 domain names were registered by the domain name registrar, Registry Gate GmbH” which seems to be a member of the Key Drive family of registrars. All of the domain names registered at Registry Gate were registered to the same registrant: Registrant ... read more ...

This Weeks New gTLD 1st Day Totals: .Voting 9,025; .Kaufen 4,325; Consulting 3,852; Media 3,438 - Yesterday a bunch of new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA)  meaning domain names can be registered live on a first come first serve basis. All total include any Sunrise registrations and any Landrush/Early Access Program (EAP) registration which took place before GA: .Voting 9.025 .Kaufen which is German for the word “Buy” had 4,325 .Consulting  3,852 .Media 3,438 .Pictures 1,548 .Lease .538 We noted yesterday that .Pictures was the 4th of very similar domains to launch including ... read more ...

Sunrise/Early Access Program Domains Taken in .Pictures: Fox, HBO & Some Good Generics - We published a post earlier today that included .Pictures that went into general availability today. We thought we would take a look at some of the more interesting Sunrise and Early Access Program (EAP) registrations for .Pictures keeping in mind some of these had a premium registration and renewal rate in addition to the EAP cost: 20thcenturyfox.pictures 21cf.pictures 21stcenturyfox.pictures action.pictures airconditioning.pictures alaska.pictures amazon.pictures aquatimer.pictures avatar.pictures avp.pictures aws.pictures band.pictures big.pictures bklyn.pictures bluesky.pictures book.pictures bretmichaels.pictures cam4.pictures camera.pictures cheapmonday.pictures chevron.pictures chicago.pictures chicco.pictures chiccousa.pictures class.pictures concert.pictures cos.pictures crop.pictures davinci.pictures direct.pictures domaintest.pictures donuts.pictures engagement.pictures engineeredformen.pictures eyelight.pictures film.pcitures find.pictures flickr.pictures framed.pictures fxx.pictures galapagosislands.pictures hbo.pictures holidaycheck.pictures hooters.pictures hostpoint.pictures iac.pictures icap.pictures imax.pictures imax.pictures immo.pictures immobilien.pictures ingenieur.pictures intuit.pictures istock.pictures iwcportugieser.pictures iwcportugieser.pictures jewish.pictures jewish.pictures katjes.pictures kid.pictures kids.pictures kindle.pictures laureusworldsportsacademy.pictures lavazza.pictures lifetouch.pictures lol.pictures london.pictures m4m.pictures marathon.pictures markhopkins.pictures markxvii.pictures maternity.pictures meme.pictures merck.pictures michael.pictures mint.pictures models.pictures monki.pictures newborn.pictures nic.pictures nikon.pictures otherstories.pictures pair.pictures personal.pictures photographer.pictures photographer.pictures photography.pictures portofino.pictures portrait.pictures prime.pictures prints.pictures race.pictures resize.pictures royaltyfree.pictures sainsburys.pictures sanibel.pictures seashell.pictures selfies.pictures send.pictures senior.pictures share.pictures shop.pictures sky.pictures slideshow.pictures smugmug.pictures social.pictures socialmedia.pictures southby.pictures southbysouthwest.pictures spiritofsport.pictures spiritofsportaward.pictures spitfire.pictures spitfire.pictures sportforgood.pictures sportforgoodfoundation.pictures sports.pictures star.pictures stockimages.pictures surface.pictures swimsuit.pictures sxsw.pictures tags.pictures taking.pictures team.pictures topgun.pictures toronto.pictures tour-eiffel.pictures toureiffel.pictures triathlon.pictures triathlon.pictures trip.pictures true.pictures tuxedo.pictures tweet.pictures twentiethcenturyfox.pictures ultrasound.pictures upload.pictures vine.pictures viral.pictures watchever.pictures weather.pictures windowsphone.pictures worldsportsawards.pictures yachtclub.pictures zabars.pictures Michael ... read more ...

gTLD’s: Now It Gets Interesting: .Pics, .Pictures, Photo, .Photos - Tomorrow the new gTLD .Pictures launches into general availability  status meaning it can be registered on a first come first served basis. We have been chatting about plural and singular new gTLD’s for a while as well as vertical competition but with the launch of this new domain name extension we can actually start to see what the effect of these different but similar strings have on the new gTLD program. .Photos .Photos was the first of the five to launch on February 26th an is a Donuts extension. .Photos ... read more ...

.Moe Ends 1st Day Of General Avalibility With 1K Domains & Only Has 199,998,930 To Go - The .Moe registry predicted that .Moe would get 200 Million domain name registrations in short order, blowing past .Com registration which are at over 113,500,000 registrations. Well after the first day .Moe is well on its way after racking up 1,070 registrations after Sunrise, Landrush and on the 1st day of General Availability (GA). .Moe is only short of its 200,0000,000 goal by 199,998,930. At Name.com the price of a .Moe domain registration is $19.95 If your curious as to what people are registering ... read more ...

Netsol .XYZ Registrations Top 300,000, Back Over 85% of all .XYZ Registrations - ntldstats.com updated once again today and the number of .XYZ domain names registered at Network Solutions topped 305,000 registrations. The total number of .XYZ registrations is at over 355,000 The share of .XYZ registrations attributable to NetworkSolutions (NetSol) is now back over 85%. Network Solutions has been giving free .XYZ domain names to its existing customers on an opt out basis. The issue was the  “Total count of unprocessed Domains:” which  just a few days ago as  listed on ntldstats.com ... read more ...

I’ll Say It, 10K .Tokyo Domain Registrations Is Not Good - .Tokyo launched and taking into account the 80+ Sunrise and Landrush application I would say a first day total of less than 10,000 registrations isn’t great. The price of a .Tokyo domain name registration was very reasonable priced at around $15, There were no premium registration and renewal priced domains although there were certainly reserved domains. There were no residence restrictions on registrants. Tokyo has a population of over 13 million people in the city and over 35 Million people in ... read more ...

Amazon Settles a New gTLD Contention Set By Private Auction As Donuts Wins .Group -         Amazon has apparently participated in its 1st new gTLD private auction losing .Group to Donuts. There were 5 applicants for the new gTLD .Group Amazon (AMZN) Donuts Top Level Design, LLC (Raymond King .Wiki .ink) Straat.co (related to former owner of the .Co Registry) Tucows.com (TCX) All applications other than the Donuts application for .Group have been withdrawn from ICANN’s site. I haven’t seen any announcements from the two public companies in this auction or from anyone else. I ... read more ...

.Tokyo Is Live & Got Over 800 Sunrise/Landrush Domains Led By Apple - .Tokyo launched today and is live for domain registrations which seem to be running around $15 a year. It is by far the largest city to have launched its own new gTLD extension with a population of over 13 million people. I went through the zone file and found Apple who rarely participates in new gTLD Sunrise periods seemed to get a lot of .Tokyo domain names. Anyway here is a list of some of the more interesting .Tokyo domain names taken in Sunrise and Landrush and may include some domains registered ... read more ...

.Moe Launches Today & Predicts It Will Have 200 Million Registrations - “.Moe” Could Potentially Hit over 200 Million Registrations! ” Is the first line of a press release out this morning by Interlink Co., Ltd., a new Domain Registry Operator, announcing that the new gTLD .Moe is in general availability meaning it is open for live domain name registrations on a first-come, first-served basis. Interlink calls .Moe the “Internet’s most unique Top Level Domain (TLD)” Of course there are over 113 Million .com registrations so if the registry hit there predicted ... read more ...

Very Quietly .Luxury Which Had a Domain Registration Fee of $799 Passes 1,000 Registrations -             We haven’t heard much about .Luxury since the new gTLD launch with the eye popping price of up to $799 per domain, per year  registration for a non-premium domain. Since the launch which saw over over 600 hundred Sunrise applications of brands grabbing their new .Luxury gTLD’s. However since the launch .Luxury has added another 400 registrations and sits at 1,027 registrations which of course means the registry long ago made back its registration fee. One of the the types ... read more ...