Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Sat 17th May 2014
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Major League Baseball & The NHL Are Very .Social As They Go In Heavy On Sunrise .Social Domains - Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League and its member teams have gone in pretty heavy into the new gTLD .Social registering domain names during Sunrise for almost every team and several variations of teams and for the League it itself. .Social has the deepest registrations in Sunrise of professional sports teams that I have seen in the new gTLD space to date. MLB.social and NHL.Social are just two of the many Sunrise registrations, the leagues also registered domains including the NationalHockeyLeague.social, ... read more ...
Fri 16th May 2014
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DomainNameLogic.com: “New gTLD’s Are Pathetic Comapred To Even .Net.Au” -   *UPDATE Michael Gilmour was not the author of the post, and it was DomainNameLogic not ParkLogic. Our apologies to Michael and the actual author. DomainNameLogic.com just put out a post on their blog, saying that New gTLD’s are Pathetic even compared to a ccTLD, in this case Net.Au. I understand the point the author is making which is that new gTLD’s are a bad investment from a domain investor point of view and that they would be better off registering .Net.Au domains “”This post is purely ... read more ...
Thu 15th May 2014
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.Expert Winds Up With Just Over 9K Registrations After 1st Day Of General Availability - .Expert has just over 9,000 registrations after the first day of general availability (GA) The new domain extension had over 2,000 registrations going into the 1st day of GA which is far less than the start that .Guru got off to. We have chatted about .Expert and how it would compare to .Guru, for a while and think the lower number of registrations con .Expert could be a result of what we think were high premium registration and renewal fees than for .Guru. We saw domain names as high as $5,500 registration/renewal ... read more ...
Wed 14th May 2014
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New gTLD Advertising Hits The London Tube (Subway) - Thanks to a reader of TheDomains.com who spotted an ad in the London Tube (otherwise known as the subway ) for new gTLD’s The Ad looks like a pretty big billboard (unfortunately it looks like the picture got chopped off slightly on the right) sponsored by the domain name registrar, 123-reg.co.uk Looks like the ad is featuring the new gTLD’s of .Club, .Ninja and .XYZ as well as .London, .Guru, .Plumbing, and .Webcam ... read more ...
Tue 13th May 2014
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LogicBoxes Delivers Vertical Integration Solution For .WIEN Retail Operation, Netzadresse.at - According to a press release we just received “LogicBoxes, the Vertical Integration solutions provider for New gTLD Registries today announced that it has successfully executed a comprehensive Vertical Integration project in the .WIEN namespace. .WIEN is a new gTLD extension that caters to businesses, organizations, individuals and any other entities associated with Vienna, the Austrian capital. The vertically integrated retail operation for .WIEN, netzadresse.at GmbH, focuses specifically on the ... read more ...
Mon 12th May 2014
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.Club Landrush Auctions Have Started On Sedo - I just got notice that the Landrush auctions have started on Sedo for .Club domain names. An auction occurs when 2 or more landrush applications are submitted regardless of registrar. I can tell you that the starting bid is $100. Unlike other landrush auctions I have participated Sedo is not showing me how many other bidders there are. The auction are slated to run for 4 days. It appears that Sedo normal closing rules will apply since I don’t see any special rules on their site for Landrush auctions. In ... read more ...
 
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.Expert Gets Over 1,300 Registrations Just In Early Access Program - .Expert which goes into general availability on Wednesday, already has over 1,300 registrations through the Early Access Program (EAP) with most of them coming on days 4 and 5. I personally haven’t kept any records on how many domain names have been registered in any of Donuts previous new gTLD strings, but I’m pretty sure this is a record for domains registered in EAP When I went through the zone file two days ago there were about 150 domain names including Sunrise registrations and day 1 and ... read more ...
Sun 11th May 2014
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.Club Jumps Into 3rd Place Of The Most Registered New Domain Extensions (New gTLD’s) - Just days after launching, .Club passed .Photography into third place of the new domain extensions, (gTLD’s) with the most registrations. .Club now has according to ntldstats.com over 36,700 registrations with only .Berlin and .Guru having more. .Photography has broken through 35,000 registrations. There are now 9 new gTLD’s with over 20,000 registrations. 21 with more than 10,000 registrations. 40 with more than 5,000 registrations. The only new gTLD’s that have launched into general availability ... read more ...
Sat 10th May 2014
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Trademark Hysteria On New gTLD’s Unfounded? 725K Domains/ 53 URS/17 UDRP - Since the new gTLD’s launched there are approximately 725,000 new gTLD registrations. By my count, URS have been filed against 53 domain names and UDRP’s have been filed against 17 domain names (counts by domain names not cases) So basically 70 domain names out of 725,000 or a 1,000th of 1% of all new gTLD domain names registered have been hit with a URS or UDRP. It should be pointed out that not all of the filed cases went in the favor of the complainant and decisions are still pending. Of course ... read more ...
Fri 9th May 2014
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Sunrise .Expert Registrations Include Mac.Expert & .Bowling.Expert - I just went through the .Expert Zone file which contains Sunrise registrations which are available to those having valid trademark which filed with the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). I picked out some of the more interesting Sunrise registration and some day 1 and day 2 registrations which cost as much as $12,500 depending on the registrar the  domains were registered with. On the Sunrise side Apple went in and grabbed Mac.Expert.  I haven’t seen Apple registering a lot of MAC new gTLD’s this ... read more ...
Thu 8th May 2014
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Did Two Domain Sherpa’s Change The New gTLD Registrar Market? -   As most domain investors know myself, Adam Dicker, Rick Schwartz and Page Howe have had a weekly show on DomainSherpa.com for many months were we discuss news and other things going on in the domain industry.   On last Thursday’s DomainSherpa.com show, Adam Dicker said that he had just a few days before found the domain name registrar Hexonet.net and told the audience that he loved the customer service, support and that Hexonet was going to be his go to registrar and highly recommended them ... read more ...
 
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.Wiki Landrush Starts Today; Here Are Domains Suggested By The Registry That Are Available - The new top-level domain (TLD) .wiki has Landrush today. The Landrush phase is a brief 2 week period when the you can register a .wiki domain on an early access basis. Of course any domain taking in landrush will not be available during general availability. The only .Wiki domain names not available during landrush will be those that are banned or reserved by the registry, have been temporarily blocked (collision list) , or were already claimed during the Sunrise period. “The possibilities for ... read more ...
 
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.Club Registers Over 25,000 Domains On 1st Day To #6; New gTLD’s Totals Over 711K -   .Club which just went into general availability today had over 25,000 registrations in less than its 1st full day,  according to the zone files that were just updated Ntldstats.com, is reporting 25,776 .Club domain names in the Zone file placing it as the 6th top new gTLD’s in terms of domain names in the root zone  files. Colin Campbell told TheDomains.com earlier today that the registry did not register any domains itself and all but 46 domains which the registry activated for its own use ... read more ...
Tue 6th May 2014
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Twitter Registers Tweet.Cool: WalGreens Beauty.Cool; The First .Cool Registrations - .Cool which is goes into general availability tomorrow May 7th. For me its one of those new gTLD’s where the word is really on the wrong side of the dot, as Cool as used in language generally is the start of the phrase rather than the end of the phrase Having said that I thought I would take a look at the zone file to see what trademarks and Early Access Program domains had bee registered to see how people see .Cool domains. Walgreen’s registered Beauty.cool and pharmacy.cool Twitter stepped ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four Signs Its 100th Registrar & Now Covers 90% Of All Currently Regsitered Domains - Famous Four Media, one of the largest applicants for new gTLD’s announced today they have signed its 100th ICANN accredited registrar. Famous Four Media believes that these 100 registrars provide the largest distribution channel currently held by any new gTLD Registry operator, covering some 90% of all currently registered domains. Registrars are the only way through which end-users of domain names can purchase the domains. Andy Churley, CMO of Famous Four Media explains, “We have a laser-sharp ... read more ...
Mon 5th May 2014
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.Vegas Hits The Big Apple With Times Square Billboard - The .Vegas registry has a very nice sized ad that is in New York’s Time Square Thanks to a reader of the domains that spotted it and sent it over. We should expect to see more of the new gTLD’s marketed in a big way especially the Geo’s.   ... read more ...
Sat 3rd May 2014
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Guest Post: An Insider’s Guide to .Wiki Landrush - This is a Guest Post written by Andrew Merriam who is the Business Development Coordinator for Top Level Design LLC, the new TLD registry for .wiki, .ink, and an applicant for an additional 7 TLDs. Andrew has been involved in Top Level Design’s applications from their start and has a background working with CEO Raymond King on a separate project, ICANNWiki, where he first entered the world of domain names, TLD expansion, and wikis. Here is the post which appears unedited: There are a LOT of names ... read more ...
Fri 2nd May 2014
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Namejet.com To Auction Of Premium .Buzz Domains - NameJet just opened bidding on “35 premium .Buzz domain names. “One of the first pure generic strings to be launched, .BUZZ is short, edgy, fun, and globally recognized. “ “The term “buzz” typically refers to what people are talking about. This premium domain list represents some of the hottest topics being discussed on the web.  Reserve yours today! “” All the domains appear to in auction at no reserve with the normal $69 Namejet.com starting bid. Here is the list: aircraft.buzz artist.buzz aviation.buzz biking.buzz boating.buzz celebrity.buzz domain.buzz election.buzz employment.buzz famous.buzz festival.buzz gadget.buzz gamer.buzz gaming.buzz girl.buzz investing.buzz laptop.buzz miamibeach.buzz mobilephone.buzz neighborhood.buzz nightclub.buzz onlineshopping.buzz parenting.buzz psychology.buzz research.buzz resort.buzz scifi.buzz single.buzz smartphone.buzz snowboarding.buzz stockmarket.buzz surfer.buzz tourism.buzz washingtondc.buzz wrestling.buzz     Google+Michael ... read more ...
Wed 30th April 2014
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Minds + Machines Wins Auctions For .Garden & .Yoga Loses .Deals & .Property & Pays $5.97M - The Directors of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) are delighted to announce that following the private auctions held last week for .deals, .garden, .property and .yoga, the Company has secured the uncontested application rights for .garden and .yoga. The net cost to the Company for securing the sole application status for .garden and .yoga was approximately $5.97 million (circa £3.6 million), once the proceeds of the .deals and .property private auctions are taken into account. The above ... read more ...
Mon 28th April 2014
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The Prediction Made On TheDomains Comes True As The 2 Chinese IDN Both Make The Top 5 - Back on March 19th we published an interview with Simon Cousins about the two extensions TLD Registry is rolling out the Chinese IDN for Online (.在线) as well as  Dot Chinese Website (中文网) Back then Simon told TheDomains.com that: “I would say we have a greater than 50% chance of both of our strings being in the top 5 new gTLD’s in terms of domain name registrations  at the end of landrush.” Well it took a couple of days longer until the 1st day of general availability (GA) but  ... read more ...
Sat 26th April 2014
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Venture Beat “Domain bullion rush: Why your association needs to pronounce Chinese online” - Kathy Nielsen from Sedo did a guest post on Venture Beat discussing domain names and the upcoming Chinese new gtlds. From the article: By now, many savvy businesses and investors have heard about the expansion of the domain name system. New extensions (known as “top-level domains” or “TLDs”) are joining .com, .org, .net and the others we’ve grown accustomed to – extensions including generic names such as .bike, .camera and .club, as well as brand name extensions such as .Canon, .Deloitte ... read more ...
Fri 25th April 2014
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Our Picks of 400+ Domains From The 12K Domain .Club Landrush List - The Landrush period for the new gTLD .Club closes next week on May 1st. Land Rush is the period during which  .Club domain name is available for registration which has for an extra fee  you get priority ahead of general availability which begins on May 7th Simply put if you  place a Landrush application on an available  .Club domain (reserve domains, domains registered to trademark holders in Sunrise and those domains on the ICANN collision list are not available) you will get the domain. In ... read more ...
Wed 23rd April 2014
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.GOP To Launch On Jul 7th - The new gTLD .GOP will go live for registrations on July 7th 2014 according to a email we received from the registry The .GOP new gTLD was applied for by The Republican State Leadership Committee, (RSLC)  a group that seeks to elect Republicans to state-level offices not the National Party. According to the email; “.GOP will be major factor in the future of Republican efforts to organize, fund raise and connect voters online. ” “Soon elected officials, candidates, grassroots activists and ... read more ...
 
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Dot Chinese Online & Dot Chinese Website’s Landrush Period Closes during 3:55AM UTC - The land rush period for Dot Chinese Online (.在线) Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) TLDs  Closes at 3:55AM UTC According to an email we just received  Dot Chinese Online (.在线) Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) TLDs have “been amonsgt the most successful in the history of ICANN’s New gTLD Program.” Landrush for Dot Chinese Online (.在线) Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) ends at the following times: UTC – Thursday April 24 at 03:55 China – Thursday April 24 at 11:55 New York ... read more ...
 
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Meet The 1st New gTLD Serial Cybersquatter, As Farris Nawas of Austin Loses His 3rd URS - The National Arbitration  Forum has suspended the domain name registration for SPANX.clothing after an examiner in a Uniform Rapid Suspension proceeding  (URS) found the registrant,  Farris Nawas of Austin Texas infringed on the trademark of Spandex. Since the only business line Spandex is involved in is clothing, it is the no-brainer type of registration that the URS was designed for. This marks the 3rd time that Farris Nawas has lost a URS on a new gTLD domain name in just 5 weeks. Mr. Nawas ... read more ...