Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Mon 2nd June 2014
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Famous Four Wins New gTLD Private Auctions For .Cricket and .Racing -       Famous Four Media, the registry operator for Domain Venture Partners, announced today that they were the winning bidders at the private new gTLD auctions for the domain nams.RACING and .CRICKET. Both domain extensions will be added to the portfolio of 17 registries in which Domain Venture Partners has ownership. The other applicants for .Cricket were Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (Minds + Machines) and Donuts. The other applicants for .Racing were Donuts and Uniregistry. There were ... read more ...
 
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Daniel Negari Predicts 1 Million .XYZ Registrations In First Year ; “Its My Gift To The World” - In a blog post tonight the founder and CEO of the .XYZ registry made a bold of a prediction I have seen from any registry saying that; There is no doubt in my mind that the growth rate of .xyz will surpass the growth rate of .com. It won’t take us 20 years to reach one million registrations. It will only take 1 year.” .XYZ go on sale with general availability through over 200 domain name registrars today at noon EST. Pricing for .XYZ like all domain registrations vary by registrar but a quick ... read more ...
Sat 31st May 2014
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Shocker: Rick Schwartz Now Owns More New gTLD’s Domains Than we Do - On the Live Domain Sherpa show from TRAFFIC in Las Vegas, Rick Schwartz let the world know that he went on a buying binge with regards to new gTLD domains the past few days and now actually owns more new gTLD domains than I do. As we sit today, my company Worldwide Media, Inc. owns 455 new gTLD domain names. Mr. Schwartz who is a fellow Domain Sherpa, told the attendees at TRAFFIC that he went on a buying binge of new gTLD’s while in Las Vegas this week and now has over 500 new gTLD domain registrations. Rick ... read more ...
 
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TechCrunch.com Covers One Applicant For .Art - We haven’t seen Techcrunch.com cover the new gTLD program very much but today they did and picked out a story surrounding one applicant for .Art, deviantART The TechCrunch article covers the letter sent to ICANN by deviantART’s as to why it deserves a “community designation” in the application process, saying: “We are on the cusp of an extraordinary opportunity with the simple use of a single word: a virtual place within the Internet for the arts and a virtual palace to the arts built ... read more ...
 
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One Site Owner Wants to Trade His .Com for a .Link - Switching from a .com to a .link Jean Guillon runs newsgtlds.com and he wrote about wanting to change to a .link on gtld.club. From the article: Prior to the first new domain name launchings, I had created a website entitled NEWSgTLDs.com to inform about new generic Top-Level Domains. New domain names didn’t exist yet so I had to find a domain name and .COM came to my mind. I considered .INFO too but let’s make it simple : you don’t launch a website with a .INFO domain name if you don’t ... read more ...
Fri 30th May 2014
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Las Vegas Review Journal Covers .Vegas; The City Is Getting $4 a Domain & Expects $250K In Revenue A Year - .Vegas gets a big boost up in A story published by the Las Vegas Review Journal entitled “New .vegas domain could transform online marketing.” Interestedly in the article, Bill Arent the Director of the Las Vegas Office of Economic and Urban Development” is quoted as saying: “”Las Vegas will reap financial rewards from that pioneer status. Dot Vegas will share 10 percent of all .Vegas registration revenue with the city of Las Vegas, or nearly $4 on a $39.95 domain fee and estimates .Vegas ... read more ...
Thu 29th May 2014
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Uniregisty Wins Private Auctions For .Help and .Diet; Famous Four Participates In Its 1st Private Auction -         At the TRAFFIC show today, Sevan Derderian, Director of Sales of Uniregistry announced at the TRAFFIC conference being held in Las Vegas, that Uniregistry won the private auction for the new gTLD’s .Help and .Diet this week. There were two other applicants for .Help;  Dot Tech LLC of Kansas, and Donuts. There were two other applicants for .Diet;  Famous Four Media and Donuts. For Famous Four Media, Inc, this marks the first time they have participated in a private auction to resolve ... read more ...
 
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.Ninja Wins The Week With 5,200 Registrations; .Rentals 5K+; .immobilien 4.5K; .Vacations 1,600 - Yesterday marked the first day of General Availability for several new domain extensions (new gTLD’s)  and .Ninja led the way ending with 5,200 registrations. Closely behind .Ninja was .Rentals which is sitting at 5,044 domains. .immobilien which translates into “real estate” closed it first day with 4,500 registrations. After those three  new extensions it was a large drop off to .Vacations which had  1,581 domains registered after it first day of GA .Flights came in with just 822 registrations ... read more ...
Wed 28th May 2014
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Donuts Pulled Back & Reserved Luxury.Villas During EAP After Orders Were Placed - Yesterday we wrote about how Godaddy.com didn’t award us the domain name Luxury.Villas which we ordered last week for registration on the 5th day of the   Early Access Program (EAP) OnlineDomain.com wrote about this domain as being priced at $13,500 for year of registration and renewal just three days ago while the EAP program was already going. Now it seems the domain was reserved by the registry during the EAP period while there were pending orders Here is the Whois on the domain name: “This ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Is Out of Sunrise and into Landrush “With The Most Domainer-Friendly Policies of any TLD” - .XYZ just exited it Sunrise period and is today in Land Rush “with the most domainer-friendly policies of any TLD” “”.xyz’s domainer-friendly policies include: – virtually every domain is available – less than 3,000 names have been reserved (as compared to tens and hundreds of thousands for other gTLDs) – all .xyz domains are available for the standard registration fee – no premium pricing – all .xyz landrush domains renew at the standard renewal rate, making it affordable to ... read more ...
 
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.Wiki Tops 3,000 Domain Registrations After Its 1st Day Of GA; .Club Tops 60K - .Wiki which went into general availability yesterday Tuesday May 27th, is has a total of  3,169 domain registered. .Wiki after its first day is number 67 on the list of new gTLD’s with the most domain registrations. .Club become the first new gTLD to top 60,000 registrations, now with 60,412 registrations. There are now 7 new gTLD’s that have more than 30,000 registrations, 15 with 15,000 or more registrations and Today marks the first day that seven other new gTLD’s go into general availability ... read more ...
Tue 27th May 2014
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Godaddy Didn’t Wind Up Selling The $13.5K Luxury.Villas To Me For $169.99 After Taking My Money - Last week  ago I put a pre-order for the domain name Luxury.Villas for the 5th day of the Early Access program for a total of $220, $150 for EAP 5 and a registration fee of $70.17. I know that other registrars at the time where showing this domain name Luxury.Villas as a very expensive premium domain. Hexonet for example had the domain for around $9,500  however when I check Godaddy the price was only $169.99, so I went ahead with the registration and Godaddy took my money. Onlinedomain.com chatted ... read more ...
 
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PIR Registry (.Org) Launches 3 New gTLD IDN’s Of Organization Into General Availability Today - “The Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, launches General Availability for its three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organization” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one in Devanagari (.संगठन), one in Cyrillic (.орг), and one in simplified Chinese (.机构). “The launch of these international domain names allows us to continue expanding upon our ongoing mission of making the Internet a global, ... read more ...
Mon 26th May 2014
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USA Today Covers New gTLDs: “Start-ups See Gold Mine in Burst of Net Domains” - USA Today just covered new gTLD’s in a story entitled “Start-ups see gold mine in burst of Net Domains” “Visit GoDaddy for a new Internet domain name and you’ll be greeted with an advertisement for one of at least 16 new domain alternatives to .com, .gov or .edu, descriptive of whatever it is you’re trying to do”. “Are you an expert? There’s .guru. Starting an organization? Try .club. Opening a restaurant in New York City? Consider .nyc. Running a daily news site? How about .today?” “After ... read more ...
Sun 25th May 2014
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If You Want a Great .Vacations Domain Bring Your Wallet & These Are Gone - .Vacations which went into the 5th day of the Early Access Program today, goes into General Availability on Wednesday with a host of other domain extensions. In my opinion its the best of the Donuts domains this week. I was taking a look at some great .Vacation domains and found that if you want one,  your going to pay up as many of them carry high premium registration and renewal rates. From what I can see there are 4 price points on premium .Vacations domain names, $5,500, $1,500, $400 and $200 ... read more ...
Sat 24th May 2014
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1st .Ninja Domains Including Car.Ninja; Brand.Ninja, SEO.Ninja; Wine.Ninja & Fart.Ninja - I just review the .Ninja zone file which includes domain names registered in Sunrise and Landrush (with only 1 application). Note that some of these  domain names carry a premium annual renewal and registration fee. Long time domain industry veteran  Jothan Frakes scored with Brand.ninja and Conference.ninja. The University of Michigan registered Personal.Ninja The strangest registration in our opinion goes to a Matthew Mahler of California who is now officially the Fart.Ninja Here are the .Ninja ... read more ...
Thu 22nd May 2014
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50 Cent Is Officially In The .Club As His Site, 50inDa.Club Goes Live - 50 Cent’s .Club Fan site just went live minutes ago. The Site, 50inDa.Club, now combines all of his fan sites, a store where you can buy merchandise, watch videos, listen to music engage in all of his social networks. Basically any and things 50 are a part of the site. The site went live just a few hours before the big .Club Launch party that is being held in New York tonight and 50 will be in attendance. The venue is already decked out and its all about .Club As we sit today .Club has the 2nd ... read more ...
 
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.Foundation Gets 1,393 Registrations On Day-1; .Dance 881; .Exposed 746 .Democrat 535 Best-79 - The new gTLD stats just updated for the 5 new gTLD that went into general availability yesterday and the numbers were pretty low. 5 new gTLD went into general availability yesterday and numbers are less than impressive. Including Sunrise domain registrations here are the numbers according to ntldstats.com: . Foundation 1,393; .Dance 881; .Exposed 746 .Democrat 535 and Best just 79 domain names. .Exposed and .Foundation were Donuts extensions, while Rightside has their first two new gTLD’s rollout, ... read more ...
Wed 21st May 2014
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.Club Passes .Berlin & Is Now 2nd Most Registered new Domain Extension -       .Club just passed .Berlin on ntldstats.com, to become the 2nd most registered new domain extension (New gTLD). .Club is just short of 50,000 registrations while .Berlin is sitting just past 48,000 .Guru continues to led all new gTLD’s with over 57,000 registrations. .Photography has topped 35,000 registrations. .Email has topped 30,000 registrations There are now over 794,000 new gTLD domain names registered and with the launch of several new gTLD’s today when the root zone file next ... read more ...
Tue 20th May 2014
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If Your Looking For A Generic .Democrat, They Are In Short Supply & Carry Premium Prices - I was going though some generic .Democrat new gTLD domain names yesterday to see what premium generic domains are available for Preregistrations as the extension goes live tomorrow. Its expected that many candidates will grab their .Democrat domain name when running for office. However when it comes to generic domain names .Democrat domains are either not available as being on the collision list or being reserved by the registry or pretty damn expensive for domain investors as they carry premium ... read more ...
Mon 19th May 2014
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What Do Zuckerberg, Autism, Breast Cancer & Ronald Regan Have in Common ? .Foundation Domain - The new gTLD .Foundation seems to be a big hit with some big charitable organizations. From Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg’s foundation to Autism to Breast Cancer to Ronald Regan, to Glaucoma and even Rockefeller, a lot of charities hopped on board and registered a .Foundation domain name in Sunrise. Some charities I wasn’t even aware of until I read through the Zone file like Chickfila which registered 6 domain names related to its Foundation including chickfilacows.foundation and eatmorechicken.foundation. I ... read more ...
 
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ICANN To Open Up Comment Period On Donuts Request To Allow 2 Letter New gTLD’s - ICANN just posted a letter it send to Jon Nevett of Donuts regarding its request to release all 2 letter new gTLD domain in all the strings that Donuts has signed contracts with. It appears ICANN is not against the concept saying; “ICANN has conducted a preliminary review of your request introduce two-character domains to the marketplace and “Based on the information provided, ICANN’s preliminary review did not identify any significant competition or security and stability issues.” “Implementation ... read more ...
 
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More Stats For Domain Lovers: Namestat.org, Includes Fastest Growing New gTLD (.Club) -     We just came across another site offering new gTLD stats at Namestat.org The site offers a section entitled “Fastest Growing gTLD’s and not surprisingly .Club is leading the way. Here are the top 10 Fastest Growing new gTLD’s according to the site: .club .guru .email .today .solutions .agency .company .cool .zone .photography Interestingly the second or third gTLD with the most registrations, .Berlin is not on the list nor is .Expert that just launched last week and has over 10,000 registrations ... read more ...
 
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Applicant For New gTLD .TVS Files UDRP On TVS.com; With Revenues Of $5.7 Billion Why Didn’t They Just Buy The Domain? - For the first time an applicant for a new gTLD has filed a UDRP against the matching .com T V SUNDRAM IYENGAR SONS LIMITED out of India applied to operate the new gTLD .TVS The company owns the domain name TVS.in but operates it main site out of  tvsiyengar.com As we told you yesterday, the domain name TVS.com is 17 years old with the current owner PA Gordon which owns the domain name getaway.com has owned the domain for at least 12 years according to domaintools.com The domain name has an original ... read more ...
 
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2nd Most Expensive New gTLD .Luxury Goes Live Today After Racking Up Over 600 Sunrise Registrations - The new gTLD .Luxury goes live today into general availability. It is the 2nd most expensive new gTLD with a retail  price of around $800 depending on the registrar which is second only to .Rich which has a registration price of $2,500 or more and has only 38 registrations to date. A list of all registrars carrying .Luxury is here. The registry already secured over 600 Sunrise trademarks which I believe is the highest number of Sunrise registrations of any new gTLD to date. Beyond the high price, ... read more ...