Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Mon 5th October 2015
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DollarBank.com Moving Banking Internet Operations To Dollar.Bank -   DollarBank.com announced today it was going to be moving its online banking operations to the domain name Dollar.Bank in October: “.BANK is a new, more secure Internet domain for banks. It is an easily identifiable channel for trusted communications between banks and their customers. Since the .BANK environment is exclusive to the banking industry, it provides a level of security unmatched in traditional Internet environments such as .COM. The strict controls in place help to mitigate cyber ... read more ...
Sat 3rd October 2015
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New gTLD .Miami Gets Almost 5,000 Registrations After It's 1st Day Of Availability - The new domain name extension .Miami , which had it’s first day of General Availability yesterday, where it could be registered on a first come, first served basis got almost 5K registration including around 200 in Sunrise. According to ntldstats.com, .Miami had 4,959 domain names in the zone after its full day of GA. The Godaddy family of registrars, dominated the top 10 of domain registrars of .Miami taking 8 out of the top 10 spots and getting over 55% of all .Miami registrations. .Miami is ... read more ...
Fri 2nd October 2015
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Here are Some .NYC Collision Domains That Won't Be Available To Be Registered Next Week - .NYC updated it’s list of domain names it will be releasing from the collision list next week. The collision domains will be release on 8 October 2015, these domains are being offered on a first come first served basis at normal registration fees with no premium renewal fees. There will be no auctions other than possibly at the registrar level for these domain name. The applicable names will be released in random order beginning at 3:00pm EDT and will be completed by 5:00pm EDT or sooner. Someone ... read more ...
Mon 28th September 2015
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Uniregistry Takes Over New gTLD .HIV - According to imstilljosh.com, who seems to be involved with the .HIV registry,  the new gTLD string .HIV is being transferred to Uniregistry. “”Today, Uniregistry takes over the lead in this unique journey to use a top-level domain to promote a social good. The dotHIV charity will continue its work for .hiv and focus on community support. The creative agency thjnk from Hamburg, Germany, longstanding partner of the initiative, will continue to work on behalf of the .hiv top-level domain, exploring ... read more ...
 
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DNpric.es Compares Aftermarket For .Guru, .Expert & .Ninja -

Having pronounced that here are a reported sales of $150 or some-more for any of these 3 new gTLD’s according to DNPric.es.

Also to be transparent these are Aftermarket sales and does simulate what people spent in Early Access Periods to acquire domains in these extensions

Here are a reported sales for .Expert:

Here are a reported sales for .Guru:

Here a reported aftermarket sales for .Ninja of $150 or more:

Via: thedomains.com

 
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ICANN Releases Results of Its 1st Global Registrant Survey - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings of its first Global Registrant Survey, which was conducted on its behalf by Nielsen. Here are the key findings: Awareness of new gTLDs is higher among registrants of domain names than among general Internet users; 65% of domain registrants reported awareness of at least one new gTLD versus 46% of general Internet users. While 65% of general Internet users said they had visited a domain in a new gTLD, 64% of registrants ... read more ...
Sun 27th September 2015
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Amazon Turns On AmazonRegistry.com To Sell New gTLD Domain Names - Amazon applied for 76 new generic top-level domain names (gTLD’s). When Amazon applied for their new gTLD’s they applied to operate them on a closed basis meaning the public would not be able to register any domain names without Amazon allocating them, but the Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) to ICANN nixed the plan for the most part, while still allowing .Brand Applications. Amazon won the rights to some of new gTLD’s it applied for; In an ICANN Auction of Last Resort, which results are ... read more ...
Fri 25th September 2015
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New gTLD Totals This Week .Rent 540; .Tickets 523; .Courses 447 - Three new TLD extensions went live this week and here are the numbers .Rent which was bought to you by the .XYZ guys has around 540 registrations. .Tickets which is a one off registry, has a retail cost of around $500 per domain and has 523 registrations. .Courses  which was sponsored by OPEN UNIVERSITIES AUSTRALIA PTY LTD which honestly I don’t know much about has 447 registrations All of these numbers include Sunrise registrations by trademark holders and any landrush or any Early Access periods ... read more ...
 
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.Top Adds Over 75k Domains In 2 Days Moving Into 2nd Place For All New gTLD's -   The .TOP registry has been on fire adding over 75,000 domain name registration in the past two days According to RegistrarStats.com .Top now has over 362,000 domains registered moving past .Science and is now only 2nd to .XYZ as the top registered new gTLD domain name extensions. Yesterday according to RegistrarStats.com .Top picked up over 42,000 registrations and as you can see from the chart (also courtesy of RegistrarStats.com) had just around 220,000 registrations at the end of August. I ... read more ...
Wed 23rd September 2015
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My Most Ridiculous Domain Pricing Award In The New gTLD Space Goes To Mind & Machines - I just got a renewal  bill from my registrar, Hexonet on some Minds + Machines domain names I registered last year at normal registration prices. I have spent well into the six figures on new gTLD’s, so I put my money at risk all the time in the very speculative new gTLD space. In this case there was an issue with the pricing sent over by the registry Minds + Machines to  my registrar, Hexonet. Along the way in the registration process the retail price got screwed. Unlike mostly every domain ... read more ...
Tue 22nd September 2015
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Did You Know That New gTLD's .Men: & .Lotto Launched & .Game Got Delayed? - I read Andrew’s post yesterday on DomainNameWire.com, about new gTLD extensions launching this week;  Tickets, .Rent and .Courses. I realized  that a couple of  other strings launched in the last couple of weeks that basically went unnoticed by the domain blogger community. .Lotto was launched by Afilias, at 101domain.com a .Lotto registration, not a premium but any .Lotto registration will set you back $1,899 a year per domain. The .Lotto domain extension was offered, not over a 5 day Early ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Finds Operating New gTLD Much Less Profitable Than Selling Apps: Swing To a Loss - Minds + Machines Group Ltd  (LON:MMX) reported today the company’s financial results for the 1st half of 2015. Minds + Machines swung to a pretax loss for the first half of 2015 “due to it seeing a lower gain from participating in generic top-level domain auctions” Minds + Machines reported a  pretax loss of $3.7 million for the half year to ending June 30th, from a pretax profit of $4.9 million, “mostly as a result of lower profit from participating in generic top-level domain auctions”. In ... read more ...
Sun 20th September 2015
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Here Comes .Bloomberg: Say Hello To Mike.Bloomberg and Michael.Bloomberg - .Bloomberg is .Brand new gTLD which is looking like its getting to launch as they have created over 50 domain names ending in .Bloomberg Bloomberg covered some of the products and topics its known for and of course it’s CEO with the domain names Michael.Bloomberg and Mike.Bloomberg (which both seem to be forwarding to mikebloomberg.com. Most noticeably missing from the list is stocks.Bloomberg and Commodities.Bloomberg but I’m sure they are coming. Here are the first .Bloomberg domain names: about.bloomberg admin.bloomberg affiliate.bloomberg anywhere.bloomberg asia.bloomberg bba.bloomberg bcause.bloomberg benefits.bloomberg beta.bloomberg bgov.bloomberg blaw.bloomberg blpprofessional.bloomberg bmia.bloomberg bna.bloomberg bnef.bloomberg bpipe.bloomberg briefs.bloomberg bunit.bloomberg business.bloomberg businessweek.bloomberg careers.bloomberg charityday.bloomberg contentservice.bloomberg current.bloomberg email-settings.bloomberg emea.bloomberg foundation.bloomberg indexes.bloomberg institute.bloomberg intelligence.bloomberg invite.bloomberg jobs.bloomberg labs.bloomberg latam.bloomberg law.bloomberg link.bloomberg manhattanwest.bloomberg markets.bloomberg michael.bloomberg mike.bloomberg mobile.bloomberg nep.bloomberg news.bloomberg philanthropy.bloomberg polarlake.bloomberg politics.bloomberg procurement.bloomberg professional.bloomberg pursuits.bloomberg radio.bloomberg sef.bloomberg service.bloomberg software.bloomberg space.bloomberg startup.bloomberg stayconnected.bloomberg surveillance.bloomberg sustainability.bloomberg tech.bloomberg terminal.bloomberg tradebook.bloomberg tradingsolutions.bloomberg vault.bloomberg ventures.bloomberg view.bloomberg wbbr.bloomberg willettadvisors.bloomberg ... read more ...
Sat 19th September 2015
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.XYZ Is Back Over 900,000 Registrations & Netsol Regs Once As High as 85% Are Under 15% - The new gTLD is back over the 900,000 domain mark in the zone file. The first time the .XYZ new gTLD crossed the 900,000 domain registration mark was in May of 2015.  At that time the percentage  .XYZ domain names registered at NetworkSolutons.com was over 41% The extension which had as many as over 1.13 million registrations according to https://ntldstats.com/tld/xyz, fell below 800K registrations as the “free” .XYZ domain names given to Network Solutions customers expired and started going ... read more ...
Fri 18th September 2015
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Apple Inc. Getting Ready To Use New .apple gTLD Domain Extension? - Apple Inc. has applied for the new gTLD .apple and the status is currently delegated. Apple Inc. also is going to own the new gTLD .beats since it acquired Beats Electronics, LLC. On September 17, 2015 Apple Inc. has purchased 29 new .com domain names according to whois records and IMO, these domain name registrations appear to relate to what “will be” URL’s using the .apple gTLD as a typographical cover! IMO, these following 29 new domain name registrations maybe domain names used by Apple ... read more ...
 
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Anheuser-Busch Buys BestDamn.com Domain, Registers BestDamn.Beer For Apple Ale - Anheuser-Busch, LLC has purchased the domain name BestDamn.com with the help of domain buy service The Treadstone Group, Inc. / Ross Bulla about July 27, 2015 according to whois records. The domain has been registered since June 23, 2000 and prior whois records showed the domain owned by “Best Damn Dot Com” and a registrant email address of “jsullivan@gpac.net” To go along with the BestDamn.com domain name, Anheuser-Busch also registered the new gTLD domain name BestDamn.Beer in an apparent ... read more ...
Thu 17th September 2015
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Alibaba Teams Up With China's 2nd Largest TV Station To Launch Hitao.top -   According to the .TOP registry the biggest IT/E-commerce company in China, Alibaba.com, together with the second biggest Chinese TV Station Hunan TV, (second to only CCTV) combined to launch a website on a .Top domain name for its new B2C website, 嗨淘全球, which targets female customers aged between 18 to 35 with imported cosmetics and mother baby products. The sublinks of their .com website are all redirected to .top links. According to the .Top registry this is the biggest company using ... read more ...
Wed 16th September 2015
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Donuts Sells Around 800 Two Character New gTLD's Domains In The Early Access Program - According to Donuts they sold around 800 Two Character New gTLD’s domain names in its Early Access Program (EAP) which ended yesterday. Donuts released around 200,000 Two Character New gTLD’s domain names last week,  meaning domain names that are two letters (LL), a letter and a number (LN), a number and a letter (NL) and two numbers (NN). The Early Access Program allowed customers to register domain name head of General Availability for an extra fee. General Availability of two Character New ... read more ...
Sat 12th September 2015
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Will .Film Prevent Squatting from Unofficial Third Parties ? - Will .film help in the battle against cybersquatting ? ScreenDaily.com published an article on the  Melbourne-based Motion Picture Domain Registry (MPDR) and their launch of .film, an extension dedicated exclusively to film content. From the article: The producers of Toronto selections February and Septembers Of Shiraz have already registered their official site with the suffix as the product is marketed to the industry as a potential anti-piracy device. Both hail from Nu Image / Millennium Films ... read more ...
Thu 10th September 2015
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Donuts Gets At Least 20 Two Letter Domain Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP For adult To $12,500 Each - Donuts released over 200,000 two character domain names across all of its extensions in its Early Access Program (EAP) and we counted at least 20 registrations, on Day 1 although we are sure there are more. The domains that were registered on day 1 ranged IMHO to great domains well with the money to domains I wouldn’t have registered in General Availability. The wholesale cost for a EAP day 1 domain name registration is $10,000.  The retail price varies by domain name registrar but seems to be ... read more ...
Tue 8th September 2015
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CSC Sep New gTLD Report: .News & .Sexy Are Hot - The brand protection and domain name registrar CSC published its New gTLD Utilization Report for September late last week and had some interesting findings. We picked through the report and found what we believe are the highlights. You can review the entire report here. CSC publishes a New gTLD report every two months, and it’s “designed to update digital marketers and their peers in legal and IT about how new gTLDs are being adopted,we examine how .brand domains are being used and how effectively ... read more ...
Sat 5th September 2015
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Google Registers Alphabet.Sex in Sunrise: How Did They Do That? + More Generic's Reg As TM - Google has added another domain name to its growing Alphabet brand, this time Alphabet.sex which got registered yesterday. But Google registering another Alphabet domain name is not the story. The issue is how did Google get that domain name registered in Sunrise when to register a domain name in any new gTLD Sunrise period the registrant has to have a registered trademark for the term and then apply to the Trademark Clearinghouse before being able to register a new gTLD domain in the Sunrise period. I ... read more ...
Fri 4th September 2015
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.Club Publishes Aug Domain Results, Over $1 Million Cumulative Sales - The .club registry has published its registry reserved premium name SnapNames sales report for the month of August 2015 and it has now passed the $1 Million dollar mark in cumulative registry reserved premium domain name sales! The release states: As of August 31, 2015, total cumulative sales of registry reserved premium .CLUB names came to $1,099,780.20.  The highest single sale remains Wine.club at $140,000.00.  We introduced our tiered premium names to the registrar channel on July 1, 2015 ... read more ...
 
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This Weeks New gTLD Totals: Amsterdam 12,681; .FYI 1,159; .MBA 701; .Fans 653 - 4 new gTLD extensions launched this week into General Availability (GA) where the could be registered into a 1st come, 1st served basis. Including domain names registered in Sunrise by trademark holders and before GA (.Fans did not have a landrush or an Early Access Program) here are the total number of domain registrations according to ntldstats.com as of the last zone update: .Amsterdam 12,681 .FYI 1,159 .MBA 701 .Fans 653 .Fans as I said above did not have a landrush or an Early Access Period ... read more ...
Thu 3rd September 2015
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Paris Hilton; Harry Potter; Playboy; AARP Among 1st To Own a .Sex Domain Name - The new gTLD .Sex went into the first day of the Sunrise on September 1st where trademark holders registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse can register .Sex domain names. Over 700 .Sex domain names have been registered. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Time Warner and Marriott seemed to register the most .Sex domains to date. With some of the trademarks there are some interesting .sex domains, including Office.sex, JustEat.Sex, Swift.sex; Priceless.Sex; Safari.sex Then there is MTV.sex, which the Network ... read more ...