Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Thu 17th July 2014
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New gTLD 1st Day Registration #: .Exchange 1,252; .Capital 909; .Moda 724; .Gripe 212; .Engineering 142 - 5 New gTLD went into their first day of general availability yesterday and combined the 5 new extension have a total of less than 2,500 registrations. After the first day of general availability, including any Sunrise registrations and registrations taken in the Early Access Program here are the totals: .Exchange 1,252 .Capital 909 .Moda 724 .Gripe 212 .Engineering 142 All stats are furnished by ntldstats.com, except for .Capital which RegistrarStats.com had totals for but ntldstats.com did not. With ... read more ...
Wed 16th July 2014
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Crypto Currency Supporters Spend Some Serious Coin Registering .Exchange Domains - The new gTLD .Exchange moved into general availability today (you can register it now at most domain name registrars) and it appears some very good domain names were taken in Sunrise and during the Early Access Program (EAP) at premium prices, especially when it came to Crypto Currencies some of which were registered on day 1 of the EAP with prices of up to $12,500 (Plus Premium) and day 2 with prices over $3K plus premium price. Too bad no one applied for .Coin New gTLD, it looks like it would been ... read more ...
Tue 15th July 2014
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The Biggest Registrant of .Bar Domain Names So Far Is .Bar - Earlier today we published the 1st day results for .Bar and .Rest. Using ntldstats.com, we had .Bar with 2,464 while other domain blogs had the number just over 1,000. Well ntldstats.com has now updated again and they are showing a total of 2,836 .Bar domain names registered. However with the updated today its clear that the biggest registrant of .Bar domain names is the .Bar Registry. Out of the 2,836 .Bar domain names registered, 1,602 or over 56% were registered by the registry. The registry can ... read more ...
 
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Largest Russian Search Engine Yandex Preparing To Launch .Yandex - According to a press release out today Russia’s largest search engine,  Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX) announced it will be launching its new Brand gTLD .Yandex shortly on a closed basis except for trademark holders. “The ICANN has really approved the creation of a .Yandex domain zone, we are preparing to launch it. We are not ready to mention the exact date of the zone’s launch for the users,” the spokesperson said. “We do not plan to open a paid registry in the .yandex,” the spokesperson said, ... read more ...
 
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.Bar Ends 1st Day Of General Avalibity With 2,464; .Rest 307 - According to ntldstats.com, .Bar had a respectable showing ended its first day of General Availability,  with 2,464 .Rest not so much ending with 307 domain names. Remember .Bar is priced on the high side at $99,95 on Godaddy. .Bar is now the 100th most registered mew gTLD, while .Rest lands in the 153rd most registered new gTLD’s or the 6th worse new gTLD that is in GA. Both totals  included Sunrise domain registrations. It seemed like .Bar reserved a lot of domain names,I had a list of about ... read more ...
Mon 14th July 2014
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ItsMillerTime.Bar; JackDaniels.Bar; Skyy.Bar: Best of .Bar Sunrise Domain Registrations - Today .Bar went into general availability. Although we have noted before that brand holder by in large are not participating in new gTLD Sunrise periods it is interesting to see who is. Generally there were not a ton of Sunrise applications for .Bar. According to ntldstats.com, there are some 110 Sunrise domain registrations. In general it was mostly few liquor brands that applied during Sunrise but only one beer brand, Miller. As far as brick and mortar “bars” the Wynn hotel protected a few ... read more ...
 
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.Bar & .Rest Are Live: Priced At $99.99 & $49.99 At Godaddy - .REST (dot-rest) and .BAR (dot-bar) “a new global online neighborhood designed specifically for restaurants and bars have gone live into General Availability today. Godaddy.com is charging $49.99 for a .Rest domain and $99.99 for a .Bar domain registration. We received a press release on these two new extensions and here is a part of it: “.BAR, a domain designed for bars and nightclubs, and .REST, the abbreviation for “restaurant” in almost 30 languages and in more than 50 countries, are ... read more ...
 
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.GOP Has About 1,900 Registrations; ClayAiken.GOP; SaraPalin.Gop; Trump.GOP - The zone file for new .GOP domain extension finally had domains added it to today and we some 1.900 domain names. Some of the domain included are part of the 100 that each registry can register to promote or use in operation of the registry but many of the domains in the zone file are registered to Minds and Machines Limited (Ireland) even domains we obtained in landrush and almost all of the registrations have the same servers join.gop making it difficult to see which ones are owned or reserved ... read more ...
Sun 13th July 2014
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.XYZ Debuts on RegstrarStats.com As The 8th Most Registered Top Level Domain Extension -     .XYZ has become the 8th most registered Top Level Domain according to RegistrarStats.com. .XYZ domain registrations are only surpassed by .Com, .Net, .Org, .Info, .Biz, .US and .Mobi (actually .US is a ccTLD not a TLD) This is the first day I have seen .XYZ stats picked up by RegistrarStats.com which shows .XYZ picking up over 4,000 registrations and the only one of the now top 8 to pick up net registrations (of course .XYZ does not have deletions yet) Years before there was ntldstats.com, ... read more ...
Sat 12th July 2014
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New gTLD Domain Registrations Pass 1.5 Million - The total number of new gTLD registrations just passed 1.5 Million according to ntldstats.com The official count is 1,510,985. .XYZ is still leading with almost 300,000 registrations. While Network Solutions is still responsible for the vast majority of domain name registrations of .XYZ,,  Netsol share of .XYZ total registrations have fallen below 80%.  Discounting all Network Solutions registrations, .XYZ still has around 65,000 registrations which would put it a virtual tie with .Guru. .Berlin ... read more ...
Fri 11th July 2014
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Company Holding Webinar On New gTLDs PR Is Full Of Errors: Google Owns .Home? - CMSWire and ICF International are holding a one hour Webinar on Tuesday, July 22nd at 10:30am PDT/1:30pm EDT and put out a Press Release to get people to sign up for it. The problem is the PR is full of statements which are simply wrong The headline of the PR reads: “Google Enters Domain Market with .home, .blog and .hotel” Well as those that follow new gTLD’s know all applications for .home were killed off almost a year ago on the basis of the name collision issue. Strike 1 As far as the ... read more ...
Thu 10th July 2014
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New gTLD 1st Day Totals: .Services 4,584 .Pub 1,285 & .GOP Zone’s File is Still Empty - The new gTLD extension  .Services had the best first 1st day registrations numbers in a month, Including the 565 Sunrise Registrations .Services total after the first day of General Availability is 4,584. Two domain name Registrars, United-Domains and 1and1com sold the biggest amount of .Services about 37% of all .Services registrations Godaddy.com sold the third most .Services domain getting more than 10% of all registrations. .Pub’s has 1,285 domain names registration after its first day of ... read more ...
Wed 9th July 2014
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.Global NameJet.com Auction Closes in 3 Hours; Invest.global Is Leading The Pack @ $1,400 - The .Global premium domain auction starts to close at 3PM EST on NameJet.com The domains in this auction are domain names that were in the live auction that was held in London during ICANN a couple of weeks ago and produced over $63,000 in sales Many of these domains received bids in the live auction but failed to reach reserve, however the registry agreed to lower the reserves on a lot of these domain names for the Namejet.com auction. As of publication invest.global is the highest domain with the ... read more ...
 
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Updated: Christmas In July? Not So Much; 1st Day Totals .Christmas 422; BlackFriday 401 - Two of Uniregistry new gTLD strings had their first day of general availability yesterday and put up pretty horrible numbers according to ntldstats.com. Including Sunrise registrations .Christmas ended its first day with just 422 registrations, 18 of them were registered by Uniregistry itself. Here are some of the domain name Uniregistry registered: Always.christmas behomefor.christmas Boycott.christmas Camera.christmas Cameras.christmas Cayman.christmas egift.christmas Flyaway.christmas Gift4.christmas Girls.christmas Grandcayman.christmas Offers.christmas Santaclaus.christmas Secretsanta.christmas Skivacations.christmas Stockingstuffers.christmas Many ... read more ...
 
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.GOP Is Willing To Let You Call Them Crooks But It Will Cost You $250 -             The .GOP is apparently willing to let opponents and haters to call it all sorts of unflattering names but only if they pay enough. Unlike the .Democrat  and .Republican registry which is being operated by a for profit public company, Demand Media (DMD), the. GOP extension is being run by an arm of the Republican party itself. According to its website “.GOP is the preferred domain name for all Republicans and conservatives online. As the only web ending run by a political party, ... read more ...
 
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More 2-Character Domain Requested for .XYZ, .DEALS, .CITY, .COLLEGE, .GOP, .TRADE, .WEBCAM, .BID, .HEALTHCARE, .WORLD, .BAND -                 ICANN has opened up another comment period for 12 more new gTLD which have applied to have the right to allocated 2 charter domain names. The new gTLD string are: .XYZ, .DEALS, .CITY, .COLLEGE, .GOP, .TRADE, .WEBCAM, .BID, .HEALTHCARE, .WORLD, .BAND and the IDN XN–FJQ720A. “”To obtain community input on the proposed amendments to the Registry Agreements of several registry operators. The proposed Amendments are to implement a new registry service that would permit the ... read more ...
 
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With 565 Domains Taken In Sunrise & EAP .Services Appears To Be A Winner - The new gTLD .Services launches tomorrow. Taking into account all Sunrise applications and Early Access Program Registrations, there are 565 domain names registered. We have chatted about the last few weeks that no new gTLD produced any big 1st day registration numbers,  but based on the activity I’m seeing in the Zone file it looks like .Services will be pretty successful. Consider that last weeks total after the 1st day of general availability which also included Sunrise and Early Access/Landrush ... read more ...
Tue 8th July 2014
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.Christmas & .Blackfriday Just Launched & The Extensions Seem To Be Very Lightly Reserved - Unregistry just launched .Christmas .Blackfriday  and the registry seems to have reserved a very small amount of domains. As usually we hunt and peck around for mostly every new extension either to register or to write about. I was actually surprised to see how few domain names seeemed to be reserved by the registry and I would assume most of those are probably on the ICANN collision list. Of course Merry.Christmas and Santa.Christmas and thenightbefore.christmas are reserved but going through ... read more ...
Mon 7th July 2014
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.GOP Registry/Registrar is Live At Join.GOP & Domains Are $20.16 - I just checked on the .GOP registry and both the registry and registrar are operational. We reported a few hours ago that the .GOP registry and registrar were not operational To register a .GOP domain name visit Join.GOP Domain names are priced at $20.16 Of course there are reserved and restricted domains but there is a form on the site if you are interested on buying one of those. It appears that Join.Gop is the only place that you can register a .GOP domain name, MindsandMachines.com does not ... read more ...
 
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.GOP Was Suppose To Go Live Today But You Can’t Register One -   The new gTLD extension .GOP was suppose to go live today July 7th for general availability but as far as I can tell you can’t register one. The Dot GOP registry proudly announced in the Wall Street Journal back on April 23, 2014, that there go live date would be July 7, 2014. Landrush applications were being taken as late as Friday night on Join.GOP. I actually submitted  A Total of 14 Landrush applications at $100 per domain name. The Landrush domain name applications seemed to go through ... read more ...
 
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The Namejet .Global Domain Auction Closes In 48 Hours & Reserves Have Been Lowered - Following on the heels of the highly successful Live .Global auction held in London during ICANN where over $63,000 in .Global domain names sold,  the remaining domains that didn’t sell are at auction at Namejet.com As of publication, out of the 47 domain names in the auction all but 11 have opening bids. The auction closes on Wednesday starting at 3PM EST/ 12PM PST. The best part of the auction is that the registry agreed to lower the reserve on a lot of the domains in the NameJet.com auction ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Updates New gTLD Collision Auction Schedule; Here Is The New 2014 Schedule -                 ICANN has published an updated schedule of the ICANN Last Resort Auction for those new gTLD  in Collision. ICANN will hold a Last Resort Auction for new gTLD strings that had more than one application and which have not settled the contention through private auctions or otherwise. You might remember that ICANN proposed most recently to hold 20 Last resort auctions per month starting with June 2014. However June only saw one new gTLD Last Resort auction, none are scheduled ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Launches BuyDomains.London, Domain & Website Included For £39.00 A Year -       CentralNic announced today that they have launched the BuyDomains.London A “website for Small SMEs to obtain their .London domain names” taking aim “at the “75% of London’s 841,000 SMEs that will fail to register for a .London domain name before the 31 July deadline”. For only £39.00 per year, Londoners and London-based businesses will get from BuyDomains.London: – A .London domain, which tells local customers and visitors alike that you’re located in London – A professional ... read more ...
Sun 6th July 2014
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Have Trademark Holders Given Up On The URS? Last 17 Disputes Filed, 15 Were UDRP’s - Have trademark holders given up on the Uniform Resolution Service? The URS is something that trademark holders and their representative pushed for at ICANN for years. A cheap, quick take down on obviously trademark infringing new gTLD domain registrations. Although the URS is exactly that a much cheaper and quicker process than a UDRP, if a trademark holder wins a URS the domain registration is simply suspended for the term of the registration and becomes available for re-registration once it drops. Since ... read more ...
Sat 5th July 2014
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California Democrats and Wineries Around The Country Oppose .Wine and .Vin - “Seven noted American wine regions have banded together in opposition to the rights-to-the-highest-bidder release of generic top level domain names (gTLDs) such as .wine and .vin by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The regional wine organizations that are driving the opposition include the Oregon Winegrowers Association (545 wineries), the Napa Valley Vintners (500 wineries), Sonoma County Vintners (230 wineries), Willamette Valley Wineries Association (200 wineries), ... read more ...