Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Mon 3rd March 2014
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20 .Guru Sites Make Alexa’s Top 1M List - Its been only a few week since .Guru fully launched and already sites built on .Guru domains have cracked the Alexa Top 1 Million domain mark. Alexa.org ranks websites based on estimated traffic each site receives. I went through the Alexa top 1,000,000 list today which ranks websites on the basis of traffic and found 20 .Guru domain names in the Alexa Top 1M list. The highest ranked .Guru site is searchengines.Guru which has an Alexa rank of 14,025 Other .Guru on the list are not surprising domains ... read more ...
Sun 2nd March 2014
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.Guru Tops 40,000 Registrations; Not Bad For A TLD Donuts Did Not Have In Its Top 50% - The new gTLD .Guru just topped 40,000 registrations making it the most successful new gTLD to launch. .Photography is the second most popular new gTLD with almost 25,000 registrations. .Tattoo is the least registered new extension, fully launched to date, still under 1,000 registrations. I had a chance to chat with Dan Schindler of Donuts the registry that owns .Guru as well as almost every new gTLD launched to date who told me a couple of weeks ago based on Donuts internal projections, .Guru was ... read more ...
 
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Google Starting To Show Full Restaurant Menu in Search Results - Another potential risk with very specific niche gtlds is that something can come along and change the game. Something that has nothing to do with domain names can still come along and affect the niche extension. The Apple iPhone and its .com button along with how smartphones easily rendered a website on a phone was a big hit to .mobi. The .menu extension has already been delegated and four companies are vying to run .restaurant. Tech Crunch did a post yesterday which expanded on something I saw ... read more ...
Sat 1st March 2014
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.Uno Reserved Domains & Rackspace, Microsoft, Google, Fox, Univision & Amazon Grab Domains - .Uno is now in Sunrise and the zone file reflects a list of over 100 domain names that have either been reserved by the registry or taken already in Sunrise. The registry so far has only reserved 30 of the 100 domains they are entitled to but you can see that some of the biggest companies in the world are registering their brands with a .Uno extension These are the domain names that have been reserved by the .uno registry: buy.uno conectar.uno connect.uno domain.uno domainia.uno domains.uno domains.uno dominios.uno dot.uno dot.uno elinternetenespanol.uno espanol.uno estamos.uno event.uno events.uno first.uno founder.uno get.uno iam.uno latin.uno latino.uno number.uno numerum.uno primeiro.uno registro.uno registry.uno spanish.uno unite.uno weare.uno yosoy.uno These ... read more ...
Fri 28th February 2014
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URS Filed On Branson.Guru This Could Be A Game Changer For The New gTLD’s - A Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) was filed today on the domain name Branson.Guru This is the first URS that has been filed which in my opinion should not be granted. The complainant is not listed but based on recent activity I’m going to assume its Richard Branson CEO of Virgin. The problem is that there is also a city by the name of Branson, which is in Missouri, and a pretty large tourist attraction. The official site for the city is CityofBranson.org which has grown to be a large tourist destination ... read more ...
 
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If You Pre-Ordered One Of These .Sexy Domains Don’t Blame Uniregistry Blame Your Registrar - So a lot of people seem to be disappointed not getting the .Sexy domain name they pre-ordered. Including myself. While many names seemed to be reserved by the registry over 6,500 domains were blocked by the ICANN collision report. Each new gTLD had the option of either launching now, subject to its turn and not allowing registrations of any domain name contained on the collision list for each new gTLD string or waiting to launch  until the ICANN made a final determination regarding how to handle ... read more ...
 
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.Wiki Will Be CentralNic’s First New gTLD to launch, followed by .XYZ - CentralNic’s first new gTLD to launch will be .wiki, which takes a term that is synonymous with online collaboration and high quality websites, and makes it available for the use of companies, developers, communities and hobbyists alike. The first .wiki domains will be available to trademark holders on 3 March when it starts it Sunrise Period, and to others from 8 May. This will be followed by .XYZ priced below .com domain names and and designed to be appropriate for any website in any language. The ... read more ...
Thu 27th February 2014
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The French Really Are Different: .Paris Announces 100 Pioneer Domain Names - The city of Paris released today the names of 100 Pioneers (Les pionniers ambassadeurs) for the new gTLD .Paris. For 6 months, these Pioneers will be the only ones using .Paris domain names, and will participate in all events around the launch of .Paris. The 100 pioneers were selected by a Jury which used several criteria mentioned in the call for proposals Pioneers : • The candidate must have an original project. A pioneer can not simply propose a redirection of its .Paris domain name to a .fr ... read more ...
 
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Say Hello To The Next Hit New gTLD .Tips, Breaks Out With Over 8K Registrations - .Tips went into General Availability today and from the zone file it appear the new gTLD has surpassed 8,000 registrations. Based on its numbers .Tips is already the 4th most popular new gTLD. .Tips to me is in the same category as .Guru which has more than 38,000 registration and the soon to be released .Ninja and the later to come .Expert The domains are priced at $25 at Godaddy making Donuts there registration fee of $185K back on day 1 not counting Sunrise and EAP registrations which are included ... read more ...
Wed 26th February 2014
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ICANN Publishes Study On Mitigating Risks of DNS Collisions & Opens Comment Period - An independent report commissioned by ICANN, Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions, has offered a set of concrete recommendations on how to mitigate potential risks of domain name collisions A name collision occurs when an attempt to resolve a name used in a private name space results in a query to the public Domain Name System (DNS). “This report takes an in-depth look at the collision issue and the potential risks and impacts, and gives us some very clear advice aimed at how to help ... read more ...
 
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Here Are The .Sexy Brands: Google, Chrysler; BWM; Godaddy; Rolex; Microsoft; Durex; Viagra - I just looked over the zone file for .Sexy to discover the brand holders that registered .Sexy domains. For one  observation there are plenty of URS to come in .Sexy domains registered today. Godaddy which doesn’t carry .sexy domain names, got Godaddy.sexy. The best brand registration in the extension in our opinion was viagra.sexy The brand that seemed to get the most .sexy domains was Chrysler followed by Google There is no registration for Google.sexy the domain is on the collision block list. Here ... read more ...
Tue 25th February 2014
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Minds+Machines Wins Private Auction For .Wedding Loses .Green Costing a Net of Over $2.3M - Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (LON:TLDH) said on Tuesday it has won won the private auction for the new gTLD .Wedding and lost the auction for .Green The net cost of securing .Wedding after losing .Green was $2,321,300.00 The figure quoted includes funds it will receive from its unsuccessful participation in the auction of the .GREEN domain name as well as a rebate from  ICANN for its withdrawal of its application for .Green The other applicants for .Green were Rightside and Afilias one of which ... read more ...
Mon 24th February 2014
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Godaddy Is Not Bringing .Sexy Back; Nor Are 9 Of The Top 10 Registrars - Tomorrow Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry is launching their first 2 new gTLD extensions .Sexy and .Tattoo however if you want to register one you won’t be able to do it at Godaddy.com Godaddy.com is not carrying Uniregistry strings at the moment, nor is NetworkSolutions.com or Register.com which are part of Web.com (WWWW) or 1and1.com or UnitedDomains.com which are part of the same parent company which owns Sedo.com Matter of fact  9 out of the top 10 domain name registrars in the world as listed ... read more ...
 
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RightoftheDot.com Resolves Contention On New gTLD .One In Single Sealed Bid Auction - RightOfTheDot™, LLC, one of the most well-known domain industry auction Internet consulting and advisement firms, announced today that they and their partner Escrow.com, have facilitated the contention set auction of the new gTLD Web address “.One,” which is expected to be one of the most sought-after new TLD (Top Level Domain) properties on the Internet. The winning bidder for the new TLD extension is One.com, which will act as the worldwide registry for .One domains.  They will be offering ... read more ...
Sun 23rd February 2014
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Your.Tattoo: The 100 Domains Uniregistry Reserved For .Tattoo - The 100 domain names Frank Schilling Uniregistry reserved for its own use are now in the zone file. Most of the domains clearly relate to the operation and promotion of the .Tattoo registry However some of the domains are some of the best brandable domains the registry has like Geta.tattoo,  iwanta.tattoo and Your.Tattoo. A few like rent.tattoo; finance.tattoo and lease.tattoo are pretty strange as a tattoo is not an item I have ever heard sold on a financing leasing or renting program and since ... read more ...
 
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No Privacy or Proxy Registrations For .NYC New gTLD Domain Names - This week during the Fairwinds Beyond The Dot conference held in Washington, Jeff Neuman of Neustar,  laid out some more interesting information about the new .NYC extension which Neustar will be running in cooperation with the city of New York. Domaininvesting.com covered some basic eligibility a few days ago, including that a registrant be an entity, business or resident who has a physical location in New York. For one no privacy registrations will be allowed. Each registration will have to contain ... read more ...
Thu 20th February 2014
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Google; Linkedin; Amazon; BMW; Dupont; Godaddy; Micosoft; Yahoo All Grab .Menu Domains In Sunrise - An interesting mix of companies applied during Sunrise for .menu domains. While some of the Sunrise domains like nestle.menu; fridays.menu; tgifridays.menu; panerabread.menu; pfchangs.menu; icantbelieveitsnotbutter.menu, joyofcooking.menu; sweettomatoes.menu and kentuckyfriedchicken.menu are bang on for those in the food or restaurant industry, most of the trademarks were by tech companies and other global brands. Even Mark Monitor and Godaddy registered their respective .menu domains Google; Linkedin; ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Registrations Top 125K As .Today; .Technology; .Land; .Directory Open Up Strong - The total number of new gTLD domain name registrations have now passed the 125,000 mark as several new extensions have finished Sunrise and starting to take registrations. .Guru continues to led the pack now topping over 35,000 registration with .Photography topping 18,000 registrations. Quite a few new gTLD’s are hitting RegistrarStats.com for the 1st time with .Today leading the way with over 5,000 registrations followed closely by .Technology at around 4,700. .Land which many people seem to ... read more ...
Wed 19th February 2014
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.Wiki Picks Namejet.com For Sunrise and Landrush Auctions - Top Level Design, LLC, the applicant for the new top level domain .wiki, has selected NameJet, to operate the sunrise and landrush auctions and help with future premium auctions. Sunrise is expected to begin in March, 2014. The .wiki TLD will make wikis more valuable through greater visibility and ease of use. Most Internet users are familiar with the concept of wikis, thanks to Wikipedia.org’s status as one of the most highly trafficked websites in the world. “There is something unique and ... read more ...
 
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.BUZZ Release Premium Domain List With Prices As High As $46,880 - The new gTLD .Buzz has released its premium list of domain names on its website, names.buzz . The most expensive domain name on the list is Games.Buzz  at $46,880 but its on the ICANN collision list so its not quiet available yet. The most expensive domain not on the collision list is Jobs.Buzz at  $42,000 Business.Buzz  is priced at  $33,500 Clothes.buzz is priced at $30,000 NewYork.buzz is priced at $28,300 Software.Buzz is priced $16,800 Also priced at $16,800 each are Consulting.buzz, NYC.buzz, ... read more ...
 
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The New gTLD .HIV Project Has Pretty Creative Way Of Distributing Money To Non-Profits - At the Fairwinds Beyond The Dot conference this morning a presentation by the supporters of the new gTLD .HIV explained that part of the project will “generate funds to support the dedicated all over the world, raise awareness of the topic HIV/AIDS and work against the stigmatization of people living with the virus.” The .HIV new gTLD is being described as more than just a domain name, its  “A Digital Red Ribbon”, the Red Ribbon of the digital age if you will. Out of the he planned retail ... read more ...
 
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.UNO Wants To Be The Spanish Equivalent of .Com - At the Fairwinds Beyond The Dot conference this morning Shaul Jolles President and CEO of the the .Uno registry laid out his goal for the .UNO registry .UNO wants to be the .COM to the spanish speaking market. .UNO will globally connect over 490 million Spanish speaking businesses, consumers and individuals. Mr. Jolles in laying out his vision cited some live .UNO “sites” However each and everyone is being forwarded to site built on either a .com or a .org Here are the sites cited by Mr. Jolles: AARP.Uno ... read more ...
 
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Capturing a Gold by Stepping Up Your Game With a Right Registrations - FairWinds Partners  is hosting the Beyond the dot conference in Washington D.C. today, Michael is at the conference for TheDomains.com and RightoftheDot.com The 2014 Beyond the Dot Conference will be held at the Newseum tomorrow, February 19. The event will bring together policymakers, corporations, non-profits, government officials, and average Internet users to explore and discuss what they will mean to all Internet users and how they will change the way that we approach Internet navigation, ... read more ...
Tue 18th February 2014
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Dot Desi Reseller, LLC selects LogicBoxes’ Vertical Integration solutions for a .desi gTLD - Dot Desi Reseller, LLC selects LogicBoxes’ Vertical Integration solutions for the .desi gTLD LogicBoxes, the Vertical Integration solutions provider for New gTLD Registries today announced that it has been selected by Dot Desi Reseller, LLC (an affiliate of Desi Networks, LLC Registry for .desi gTLD) to manage their wholesale and retail infrastructure and provide marketing assistance. As part of the deal, LogicBoxes will provide a custom Vertical Integration solutions package. LogicBoxes will ... read more ...
 
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Several one minute new gtlds listed for sale in newsletter - There are several one letter new gtlds that were listed in the Toby Clements newsletter today. I.directory$6,250   idirectory.com is developed X.estate   $5,000    xestate.com Buy Domains parked page I.equipment$3,950 iequipment.com redirects to Tequipment.net U.estate   $3,500     uestate.com does not resolve U.clothing $3,500  uclothing.com is developed N.clothing $1,300 nclothing redirects to nclothing.tumblr.com F.clothing $1,300 fclothing.com is showing the index for its site V.clothing ... read more ...