Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Wed 11th November 2015
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Sedo Holding a Three Number .Club Auction At No Reserve - Sedo.com is holding an auction of premium three numbered .club domain names (NNN.club) at no reserve starting tomorrow. All 3 number .club domains have been registered and as of yesterday all 4 number .club domain have been registered as well. The auction starts tomorrow and ends in November 19th at  11:00 EST in accordance with Sedo’s closing rules. Some of the domain name that popped out to me were; 111.club, 288.club, 555.club, 666.club, 818.club 899.club and 711.club (don’t park it) Here ... read more ...
 
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First .Auto Domain: Kain Automotive Switches From KainAutomotive.Com To Kain.Auto - Kain Automotive has changed their domain name from KainAutomotive.com to the new gTLD Kain.Auto becoming one of the first registrants of the new gTLD .auto. The domain name KainAutomotive.com is now being forwarded to the new gTLD Kain.Auto The domain name Kain.auto was created on November 3. According to their site Kain Automotive was Established in 2003 by “David Kain as a way to assist Automotive Dealers and Automotive Manufacturers with developing effective and progressive Internet Sales Operations David ... read more ...
Tue 10th November 2015
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CentralNic Passes 2 Million Registrations of New gTLD - CentralNic Group PLC has over 2.0 million domains registered using its platform representing 21% of all new gTLD domain names. Of the 2+ million new gTLD registered through CentralNic 1,552,903 are .XYZ domain names.  The only other extension using CentralNic that has 100,000+  is .website, although .online is quickly approaching with just about 95,000 domain names. CentralNic passed Rightside (NAME), which not only has its own new gTLD extensions as a registry but also performs the back end provider ... read more ...
Mon 9th November 2015
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If You're In NYC Today You Should Check Out "CoInvent Plus" Conference - CoInvent Pulse is a business technology festival that’s scheduled to take place in today in New York City . This event will be featuring 150 exhibitors and an array of business workshops. It’s estimated to be one of the largest technology gatherings with thousands of attendees. The mission of the conference is to help founders, startups, and entrepreneurs grow and thrive in the New York tech and startup ecosystem. There are expected to be around 8,000 people at the conference and many workshops ... read more ...
Sun 8th November 2015
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Farmers Bank & Trust Switches From .Com To .Bank Domain - Farmers Bank Trust which has branches in Arkansas and Texas and approximately $1.2 billion in assets has changed its domain name from .com to a .bank Farmers Bank which was using myfbtbank.com at it’s website has switched to  myfarmers.bank. At this time, visitors can still access the Farmers Bank Trust website through the old web address, myfbtbank.com. The bank encourages frequent visitors to change their bookmarks to the new, more secure myfarmers.bank to optimize secure banking. Farmers ... read more ...
 
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Domain Registration At a Record Pace 460,000, Yesterday - The huge surge in daily domain name registrations continued yesterday as over 460,000 domain names were registered across all Top Level Domains (excluding ccTLD). Traditionally the number of domain name registrations slow on the weekend, to the point where it’s not unusual to see the number of  .Com deleted,  exceed the number of new registrations for the day, leading to a negative number. Well not yesterday. The total number of new domain registrations Saturday was over 460,000. .Com had over ... read more ...
Fri 6th November 2015
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Bloomberg: "Candidates Continue to Miss Obvious Domain Registrations" - Bloomberg just published another post on presidential candidates and the domain names they failed to register. In a post BNA.com calls out Jeb Bush for failing to register the matching domain of his  “new campaign slogan–“Jeb Can Fix It!” “Jimmy Flanagan, a 2014 candidate for the Austin, Texas, City Council, had registered the domain name out from under the candidate.” “Bush isn’t alone. While no startup company nowadays would launch without making sure it owned its own name online, ... read more ...
 
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RightofTheDot/Namescon Domain Auction Is Opened for Submissions - RightoftheDot.com is holding a live and online auction with Namejet.com from the Namescon conference. RightoftheDot.com has now formally opened up submission for the auction. We are looking for great domain names, especially one word .com and new gTLD’sm along with short domains in all extensions, along with brand domains, category killers, Geographic domains. Domains should have a low reserve price. The reserve price is not the price you would quote to sell the domain if you got an offer on the ... read more ...
Wed 4th November 2015
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Godaddy May Be The World's Largest Domain Registrar But Not For New gTLD's - Godaddy.com, which is the world’s largest domain name registrar (having the most domain names under management) is no longer the number 1 domain name registrar for new gTLD domains. According to ntldstats.com, Godaddy.com has fallen into the 2nd position worldwide when it comes to domain registered with new domain extensions, known as new gTLD’s. A China based domain registrar, Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd. whose website is West.cn has passed Godaddy when it comes to domain ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Did Not Block 12K Domains on Request of China; Liberty.xyz is Owned & We Have His email - Its been an interesting couple of weeks for the .XYZ registry. It all started when Domainincite.com published a post on October 12th, talking about that .XYZ might block almost 40,000 domain names at the registry level on the request of China. That number of 40,000 words and phrases seemed to be reduced down to 12K in a Twitter post that now seems to have been deleted. Since the Domainincite post, several publications and organizations jumped on .XYZ for seemly to agree to ban domain names at the ... read more ...
 
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.Sex is Live - ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, .ADULT and .SEX top-level domains (TLDs), announces the launch of its general availability period for .SEX. Domain names in all of ICM Registry’s extensions are now available for public purchase. Retail prices vary by registrar but Godaddy is charging $72 for a .sex domain name. According to ntldstats.com .Sex got just over 3,800 domain registrations through Sunrise and the .XXX matching program although the registry told me that .sex had ... read more ...
 
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3 Applicants For New gTLD .Radio File For Independent Review Process - According to a press release out today, BRS Media, has filed, in conjunction with two other applicants, an Independent Review Process in accordance with Article IV, section 3 of the ICANN Bylaws re: The .RADIO gTLD and .RADIO Community Priority Evaluation Results. Although not mentioned in the press release the other two applicants are Afilias and Donuts. “”On Sept. 10, 2014 ICANN announced that the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) Results “Prevailed” ... read more ...
Tue 3rd November 2015
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.Club Sells $125K in Domains in Oct Led By VIP.Club At $40 & The.Club $19K - The .Club registry published it’s October premium name sales report. Total premium name sales for October, including SnapNames sales and auctions, came to a record $125,372.25. As of October 31, 2015, total cumulative sales of registry reserved premium .CLUB names came to $1,268,199.27. The highest single sale remains Wine.club at $140,000.00 which was sold at the RightoftheDot.com auction at Namescon in January of 2014. We at RightoftheDot.com also brokered the domain name The.Club for $19,000 ... read more ...
Mon 2nd November 2015
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.Club 2 Letter Domains Auctions Go 10 for 10 Hitting Reserve on EachNic.com - .Club which is holding an auction on the Chinese Auction platform EachNic.com sold all 10 two letter .Club domains that closed over the weekend. Each domain name had a reserve price of $5,000. The domain names that reach reserved and sold over the weekend were:   HJ.club JC.club YM.club JS.club GZ.club PK.club QC.club YX.club DK.club PC.club I don’t know what any of the final bids for the any of the 1o domains were except for PC.club which sold for $9,750. I know how much PC.club sold for because ... read more ...
Fri 30th October 2015
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Biggest New gTLD Registrants: 23 of Top 30 Are From China; 38 out of Top 50 - According to ntldstats.com registrants from China are dominating the list of the top 100 Biggest New gTLD Registrants 23 of the top 30 domain names registrants are from China; 38 out of Top 50 domain names registrants are from China; and 72 of out 100 are from China. If you consider that of the 7 registrants of domain names using the new domain extensions, 3 of those are affiliated with new gTLD registries, that only leaves 4 out of the top 30 new gTLD registrants from coming from a country other ... read more ...
Thu 29th October 2015
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1St Day New gTLD Totals: .Live 3,470; .Studio 2,032; .SRL 223 - Two new gTLD’s launched into general availability (GA) yesterday .Live and .Studio both owned by Rightside (NAME) and one launched Tuesday offered by InterNetX; .SRL Including domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and those registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid an extra fee to register domain names before (GA); here are the totals for each new domain extension after the first day of GA where domains could be registered on first come, first ... read more ...
Wed 28th October 2015
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CENTR 3Q Report; There Are 298.4 Million Domains adult 1.6% - CENTR’spublished its DomainWire Stat Report for the third quarter of 2015, covering status and trends in global top-level domains. CENTR is the association of European country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries According to the report there are now over 1,000 top level domains available with combined registrations at 298.4 million. Combined growth over the third quarter of 2015 was 1.6% which in terms of absolute values was fairly evenly split between the ccTLDs, new gTLDs and legacy gTLDs. Generally ... read more ...
Tue 27th October 2015
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UDRP Filed on Gorgonzola.xyz By Owner of Gorgonzola.com - The “Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola” just filed a UDRP on the domain name Gorgonzola.xyz Gorgonzola of course is a cheese, and Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola translates to “Consortium for the Protection of the Gorgonzola Cheese” yes seriously and they own the domain name Gorgonzola.com. Its pretty amazing how much you learn writing a blog: “Following the Stresa meeting of all major European experts in the dairy sector, an agreement was entered into on ... read more ...
Mon 26th October 2015
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Paul Vixie, Member Internet Hall of Fame: "New gTLD module is a Money Grab & Mistake" - Dr Paul Vixie, a member of the Internet Hall of Fame has called the new gTLD program a money grab and a mistake and called out ICANN for allowing it to happen saying it “indicates corruption.” ZDNet.com, published a post about Dr. Vixie remarks from the Ruxcon information security conference in Melbourne on Sunday. According to Wikipedia.org,  Dr. Vixie  is “an Internet pioneer, the author of several RFCs and some Unix software.  After he left Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1994, ... read more ...
Sat 24th October 2015
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Here Are The 1st Domains In The New Domain Extension .NRA: ColdDeadHands.NRA -   The National Rifle Association, which applied to operate the new domain extension .NRA,  registered its 1st domain names and we have the list for you. According to their application to ICANN to operate the new gTLD .NRA, “All domains under this TLD will be managed by the NRA, so they will only be made available to organizations and individuals that have been personally approved and are known to intend to use a domain to promote the work of the NRA.” Some of the domains are very logical and ... read more ...
Fri 23rd October 2015
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.XYZ is Back Over 1 Million Domain Registrations & None Of Them Are Free - The new domain extension .XYZ has crossed the 1 Million domain name registration mark again. However now all of the “free” Network Solutions (NetSol) domain names that were stuffed into customers accounts on a non-automatic renewal basis have run their course. So all remaining Netsol registrations for an .XYZ domain exist because the owner paid to register or renew the domain According to Zone file records .XYZ crossed back over 1,000,000 domain registration mark for the first time today, since ... read more ...
 
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36% Of All US Banks Have Purchased a .Bank Domain Name - fTLD Registry the operator for .Bank announced today that 36% of U.S. banks have purchased a .BANK domain name and many are planning as using them for their online banking operations making .Bank the first break out success of the new gTLD program from an end user perceptive. “Since May 2015, 2,465 banks have purchased one or more .BANK domain names— signaling their commitment to providing a trusted, verified and more secure location online for their banking services.” “In the United States ... read more ...
Thu 22nd October 2015
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Delta Airlines Loses UDRP To Grab Domain Delta.Tours - Delta Air Lines, Inc. just lost its bid to grab the new gTLD Delta.tours in a one member panel UDRP of Douglas M. Isenberg. The domain holder’s case was greatly helped because he registered four other .Tours domains on the same day. “”Complaint states that the Disputed Domain Name was registered on July 8, 2015, that “[w]ithout [Complainant’s] authorization, Respondent is likely intending to use the domain to divert Internet users seeking [Complainant’s] official website online to Respondent’s ... read more ...
 
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Looks like 86 Sunrise Domains For .Law; 30 For .Abogado But Not All Registrants Are Lawyers - The new gTLD’s .Law and .abogado are in general availability but due to the new domain extensions being restricted, registrations are taking a while to show up in the zone file. Today it appears the domain names registered in the Sunrise Period were loaded into the zone and at the moment the count is 86 domain name registrations in .law and 30 for .abogado. However interestingly there seems to be some registrants in Sunrise by Companies that are not lawyers. There are registrants of domain names ... read more ...
Tue 20th October 2015
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.Wang Adds 90K+ Domains in 1 Day: 160K in 3 Days: Becomes 3rd Largest New gTLD -   The new gTLD .Wang gained some 90,000 new domain registrations in the last day or so and over 160,000 new domain registrations since October 17th which is an increase of 50% According to Registered.Today  .Wang gained more than 90,000 new domain registrations yesterday. According to ntldstats.com, the number of .Wang domain registration has grown from 285,000 on October 17th to over 445,000 on October 19th an increase of more than 50%. .Wang has now become the third most registered new gTLD ... read more ...