Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Mon 16th June 2014
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New gTLD .Website “The First True Alternative To .Com”” Announces Launch Timeline -   Radix the registry operator of .Website just announced the timeline for the release of the new gTLD extension which they are calling “The first true alternative to .com” Here is the some of the Press release: “Website will become the first all-purpose domain extension available for registration when it launches into Sunrise on June 24, 2014. Radix, .website’s registry and the largest new gTLD registry based in Asia, released a complete launch timeline for .website today, outlining a Landrush ... read more ...
 
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.Bid/.Trade Auction Ends On Sedo Tomorrow & 8 Domains Have Bids Led By PPC.bid - Sedo’s auction of Premium .Bid and .Trade domain names ends tomorrow Tuesday at Noon EST. As of publication 8 domains out of the 35 in auction have bids. The auction is led by PPC.bid which has a high bid $1,050 while both LiveAuction.bid and onlineauction.com have bids of $800 All of the domain names have a reserve range of $1,000-$5,000 and none of the domains have reached reserve as of publication. Here is the entire list:   ... read more ...
Sun 15th June 2014
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The .Uno Registry Rolls Out Futbol.Uno In Time For The World Cup -   Dot Latin LLC, operators of the .Uno has a pretty creative way of bring attention to the .Uno extension by launching Futbol.Uno just time for the World Cup. I had a chance to chat with Esther Honig, the social media manager for Dot Latin LLC who chatted with me about the project: “”Today, and for the next 30 days on, the world’s eyes will be focused on Brazil. ” “For the first time in four years the best teams from around the world will battle it out in the greatest tournament in sports.” “As ... read more ...
Fri 13th June 2014
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ICANN Opens Comment Period On Allowing Two Character New gTLD Domains - ICANN has just opened up a comment period on whether new gTLD strings should be allowed to register, sell and allocate two character new gTLD  domain names i.e (LL, NN, NL, LN) This exact comment period concerns those registries including Donuts that asked ICANN to allow these two charterer domains to be registered “In total, the requests concern 148 New gTLDs.” Of course this is the first request ICANN has gotten on  allowing registration (and thereby sale) of Two Character New gTLD Domains ... read more ...
 
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Not Counting NSI, .XYZ Is Still The Fastest Growing New gTLD According to Namestat.org - I had a long chat with Andrew Brier of Namestat.org about their service, the other day and one of the interesting things I learned it that .XYZ even throwing out all of the Network Solutions (NSI) free registrations, its still the fastest growing new gTLD. Several days ago we reported that NameStat.org removed all of NSI registrations for .XYZ from its stats based on the free giveaway promotion for purposes of computing the best selling domain list on the site as well as from the Fastest Growing ... read more ...
Thu 12th June 2014
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1st Day New gTLD; .Events 3.9K, .Futbol 1.6K; .Dating 1K; .Partners 880, .Productions 771 - Five new gTLD’s went into their first day of general availability yesterday and including Sunrise registrations, they wound up with just over 8,000 registrations total. (The totals are combined from ntldstats.com and RegistrarStats.com and we used the higher total in all cases). Here are the totals after the 1st day including Sunrise Registrations .Events 3,902 .Futbol 1,628 .Dating 1.043 .Partners 880 .Productions 771 All and all a very weak showing. Actually Famous Four 3 new gTLD that went into ... read more ...
Wed 11th June 2014
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Namestat Drops All Free .XYZ Domains & Schilling’s Registration Of Own Strings From Rankings - One of the two new sites that server up new gTLD stats, NameStat.org has made some changes to its ranking system for new gTLD registration. The service has dropped all free .XYZ domain names given out by Network Solutions (actually all Network Solution .XYZ registrations) and all Domain Names registered by Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names in extensions owned by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry in computing its Best Selling gTLD list. NameStat.org is now showing .XYZ with just under 15,000 registrations ... read more ...
Tue 10th June 2014
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Network Solutions Promotion For .Events; 2 of 3 Featured Domains Are Reserved and NA - NetworkSolutions.com has done it again. A new promotion going out to all of their customers is marketing the new gTLD  .events. The promotion features three domains, two of which are reserved by the registry thereby not available. We have written about this issue before.   If registrars are going to email their customers to get them to register, or pre-register a new gTLD domain by highlighting  three domain names they should at least make sure the domains are actually available to be registered ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four Off To Slow Start; .Webcam 3,675 Registrations; .Trade 3,235; .Bid 629 - Famous Four Media launched their first new gTLDs yesterday at 10am into general availability and got off to a slow start overall. .Webcam as predicted had the most registrations at 3,675 according to ntldstats.com, placing it as the 70th  most registered new gTLD. .Trade followed close behind with  3,235 while .Bid managed to get just 629 registrations. All three new gTLDs  were priced the same,  from what I saw between $25 and $40 (but i did not check every registrar). Keep in mind unlike Donuts ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Swings To A Profit in 2013, From Losing New gTLD Private Auctions - Minds + Machines Group, the company, formerly known as Top Level Domain Holdings, (LON:MMX) released its earnings for the year ending December 31, 2013 and swung to an operating profit of £776,000 against a loss of £3.07 million loss in 2012. All the profit came from losing private auctions on New gTLD strings it applied for. During 2013 M+M participated in six private auctions in which it netted £4.1m, in addition to picking up two more new gTLD Strings .fishing and .casa CEO Antony Van Couvering ... read more ...
Mon 9th June 2014
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Two “Premium Domain” New gTLD Auctions Start; Namejet For .Build; Sedo for .Bid - I see a couple of “premium” domain name auctions are starting this week one at Namejet.com and one at Sedo for the new gTLD extensions .Build and .Bid respectively At Namejet.com they are auctioning off 35 .Build Domains. I have to say I don’t get these. Many of the terms make sense but they are backwards. Many of these domain would be good domains, except that the terms starts with Build, not end with Build so selfconfidence.build doesn’t make that much sense as the proper term using in ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four Sells 15 .WEBCAM Domains For $175K, including Tube.Webcam & Asian.Webcam - In a press release Famous Four Media, Inc, sold a package of 15 domain names to a single buyer netting them $175,000 after commission in a sale brokered by Hunting Moon All of the 15 domain names were ” for adult oriented terms in the .WEBCAM registry” including Tube.Webcam; Asian.Webcam MILF.Webcam With this sale Famous Four has basically made back the money it spent acquiring the extension. Andy Churley, Chief Marketing Officer at Famous Four Media is quoted as saying, “We are delighted ... read more ...
Sun 8th June 2014
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GeekWire “Buying A New gTLD The Process Really .Sucks” - Kevin Lisota is not a domain investor, instead he is CEO Co-Founder of findwell, a Seattle real estate startup. He wrote a very good article for Geekwire that shows the frustation for many when trying to research and purchase new gtlds. From the article: Up until this year, buying a domain name was pretty straightforward. With one or two accounts at registrars like GoDaddy or namecheap, you could buy just about any domain extension. Transferring domain names was also relatively easy. However, ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four’s First New gTLD’s Go Live Monday - Famous Four Media’s first new gTLD extension go live tomorrow Monday June 9th at noon EST. Famous Four which applied for over 60 new gTLD’s first new gTLD’s are .Webcam, .Trade and .Bid. All three new gTLD’s are priced at $39.95 at Godaddy and are of course available at a ton of registrars. I would assume that .Webcam will do the best of the three with a heavy adult influence. According to its site, “”Famous Four Media, (FFM) was set up in 2011 by a small group of recognized domain name ... read more ...
Sat 7th June 2014
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New gTLD Domain Name Registrations Top 1 Million (With some Caveats) - New gTLD Domain Name Registrations has just passed the 1 Million domain name mark according to ntldstats.com. The official ntldstats count is 1,001,461. Of course thedomains as well and other blogs have pointed out there should be some caveats to the numbers. For one North Sound Names owned by Frank Schilling who also owns several live new gTLD’s has over 43,000 registrations of the Million + registrations, in his own extensions. The most registered domain extension is .XYZ which is sitting at ... read more ...
Fri 6th June 2014
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.Club Asks & Answers “How do You Define Succcess” - A very interesting, well written post by Jeff Sass, DOT CLUB’s Chief Marketing Officer, was posted on their company blog today entitled “How do You Define Success” I assume most of you do not subscribe to the .Club blog and would otherwise miss this post which is worth a read. For those that don’t know .Club on is a client of RightoftheDot.com which is a company I’m a director of Still good is good so with that in mind side here is the post: “As humans, there are many different ways we ... read more ...
Thu 5th June 2014
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My Preorder For Cool.Vegas Just Got A $35,525 Bill & CoolVegas.com Is Priced during $12K - I placed a pre-order for the domain name Cool.Vegas on a landrush basis with 101domain.com a while back. I got word the other day that the domain name was placed on the reserved list of the registry and made a premium domain. So I got a bill for the difference between what I previously paid for the pre-order $234.99 and the new premium price for the domain name of $35,760.00 I have no idea of how the .Vegas registry thinks a domain name like Cool.Vegas should be priced at $35K I reached out to DomainNameSales.com ... read more ...
 
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Ntldstats.com Updated Registrant Distribution Feature - Ntldstats.com updated their  “Registrant Breakdown” I thought it would be interesting to see who is the top 25 as we now have been live for just over four months. These guys continue to do a great job and the same goes for Andy at Namestat.org I posted the top 25, click the link above to see the whole list.   ... read more ...
Wed 4th June 2014
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.XYZ Moves Into 4th Most Registered New gTLD Topping 38K But 72% Are From NetSol - Ntldstats.com, has updated this morning and .XYZ is now the 4th most popular gTLD with over 38,000 registrations. However over 72% of these, or over 27,500 domains are at Network Solutions (NSI), which as we discussed yesterday and today, offered free .XYZ domains to certain customers on an opt out basis, meaning that many of these customers may not even know they have an .XYZ domain. If we back out the NSI registrations .XYZ still had over 11,000 registrations in its first 24 hours or so more than ... read more ...
 
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Network Solutions Has No Idea What we am articulate about – UPDATED WITH PROOF OF EMAIL - So there was a lot of talk about Network Solutions and .XYZ yesterday. We had a comment in one thread which led to Michael doing a follow up post and mentioning that specific comment. The comment was : “I recently got the email from Netsol offering me a complementary .xyz for my so-so .com free for 1 year. and in order to decline such an offer I had to visit a link and click decline, otherwise the domain would be mine automatically.” So I called Web.com who owns Network Solutions and Register.com. ... read more ...
Tue 3rd June 2014
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Did NetworkSolutions.com Give Away Free .XYZ Domain Names? -         I published a post earlier today about .XYZ registering over 18,000 domain names in its first day of General Availability based on  ntldstats.com, which is what we rely on consistently for our registration numbers. At the time we did point out that over 50% of all registrations were made at NetworkSolutions.com which was quite unusual, since that registrar has only 8% of the new gTLD market overall, including the 9K+ .XYZ registrations. Obviously this seemed strange to me since NetSol’s ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins Private Auction For New gTLD .Pizza; Minds + Machines Wins .Fashion - Minds + Machines, (AIM:MMX) has won the private auction for the new gTLD .Fashion The three losing applicants in the private auction held last week for .Fashion were Uniregistry, Donuts and Famous Four Media. The losing bidders for the new gTLD .Pizza were, Asiamix Digital Limited,Minds + Machines, and Uniregistry. Uniregistry previously announced they won the private auctions for the new gTLD extensions of .Help and .Diet from last weeks private auction. Famous Four previously announced the won ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Gets Almost 18,000 Registrations On Day 1 of General Availability -         .XYZ the new gTLD which bills itself as the new .Com, had a very good 1st day of general availability (GA) winding up with almost 18,000 registrations. According to ntldstats.com, .XYZ has 17,800 domains registered putting it in 11 place after the first day of GA. Interestingly NetworkSolutions.com has over 50% of the registrar market for .XYZ with over 9,000 of the registrations while Godaddy got just over 20% of the .XYZ market. The third biggest registrar for .XYZ is the registry ... read more ...
 
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Best Deal for .XYZ Registrations looks to be during Uniregistry - So far no official numbers on the first day GA registrations for .XYZ.  I have been chatting with Andy from Namestat.org and he said the same. Andy told me,  “Nope, no zone file today, no-one has the figures. Total guess but I suspect they had a very good first 8 hours;) It does look like comedian Kevin Hart regged KevinHart.xyz and KevinHartNation.xyz Ntldstats.com is showing 3,264 registrations but they also tweeted me that the numbers are not final. “As we collect data from more sources ... read more ...
Mon 2nd June 2014
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158 .Condos Domain Names Taken in EAP; Here They Are & Here’s The Best Of What’s Left - If your planning on registering any .Condos new gTLD domain names this week, most of the bigger markets in the United States are spoken for. In what looks to be a very successful Early Access Program for Donuts’ .Condos new gTLD,  we counted 158 domain names registered in the 5 day EAP period. In addition to paying the one time fee which ranges for around $12,500 to $250 depending on the registrar many of these domain names also carry a annual premium price registration and renewal fee. However ... read more ...