Tag Archives: new tlds

Wed 17th September 2014
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.Vegas launches with clever support from internal businesses - .Vegas off to solid start with lots of locals registering domain name. The .Vegas domain name launched on Monday and generated about 3,000 domain name registrations in the first hours of availability, plus another 1,400 registrations on Tuesday. .Vegas is somewhat unique because it represents both a U.S. city and a global brand synonymous with entertainment and gambling. EVP and co-founder of Dot Vegas Bart Mackay describes the domain as “dual purpose”, and his ... read more ...
 
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Radix delays new TLD launches until tomorrow - Pricing configuration issue delays launch of three top level domain names. New top level domain name applicant Radix has delayed the launch of its first three domain names until tomorrow. .Website, .Press and .Host will all launch tomorrow at noon EDT. They were scheduled to release at the same time today. Sandeep Ramchandani, business head for Radix, told Domain Name Wire that there was a pricing configuration issue that some registrars ran into. Although the TLDs ... read more ...
 
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Wow: Amazon.com buys .Buy for $4.6 million, .Tech sells for $6.8 million - Amazon.com paid $4.6 million to win rights to .buy top level domain name, but that wasn’t the most expensive TLD auction on Wednesday. You might think new top level domain names aren’t meeting early expectations, but applicants still apparently value the opportunity very high. ICANN held its second “auction of last resort” for new top level domain names today. Three contention sets were resolved at multi-million dollar prices. Here are the results: .Tech ... read more ...
Tue 16th September 2014
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$25,000 new TLD sale among this week’s finish user domain name sales - Travel company is among at least four end users who bought new TLDs at Sedo this past week. There is an aftermarket for new top level domain names. It’s not huge, and few people are getting rich from it. But there is a market. Take this week’s $25,000 sale of Baltic.cruises by Viking River Cruises. I’ve seen magazine ads for Viking, which promotes small ship cruises in European rivers for those that don’t want to venture far from shore. This domain was among ... read more ...
Mon 15th September 2014
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This is a biggest week nonetheless for new TLDs (16 domains!) - 16 domains hit the market this week. At the end of last month, I wrote about how the next 50 days would be important for new TLDs. Within that 50 days, this week is perhaps the biggest: 16 domain names will enter general availability. Call it Launch Week, and it’s really big for two of the portfolio applicants who launch their first owned-and-operated batches. Let’s get to it. Monday It’s a big day for publicly traded Minds + Machines (LSE: MMX). Last week ... read more ...
Fri 12th September 2014
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Watch .Luxury Founder Monica Kirchner on Bloomberg - .CEO co-founder talks .luxury and new domain names on Bloomberg TV. Monica Kirchner, co-founder and CEO of Dot Luxury, was on Bloomberg TV this week talking about .Luxury and new top level domain names in general. It’s really hard talking about top level domain names to an audience that’s never even heard of ICANN, and I think she does a pretty good job. Kirchner says the company has already sold over 1,200 domain names. Although small compared to other TLDs, ... read more ...
Thu 11th September 2014
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Here are a numbers for this week’s TLD launches - .London steals the show. 6 new top level domain names launched this week. A simple way to describe the results: .London. everything else is just details. .London added 12,421 to the zone on the first partial day and another 695 on the second day to bring its total to 35,663. After that, .digital had the second best launch in terms of registrations. It added 2,159 domains to reach 2,648. .Digital is a bit more generic than Donuts’ other domain name launches this ... read more ...
Mon 8th September 2014
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New TLDs this week: .London, .Global and more - .London headlines this week’s new top level domain name releases. A GoDaddy advertisement in London for .London.One of the most-watched TLDs on the docket is launching this week as .London goes into general availability on Tuesday. It will have to compete with Apple for news coverage, but I suspect that tech journalists will be clamoring for something to write about other than “10 ways the new iPhone will blow your MIND!” Based on registrations during the priority ... read more ...
Thu 4th September 2014
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.Hotel field doubt CPE row decision - Companies question result of panel decision that eliminated them from competition for .hotel domain name. Six companies that saw their bids for the .hotel domain name die as a result of a Community Priority Evaluation decision in favor of HOTEL Top-Level-Domain S.a.r.l have asked ICANN for information regarding the decision. The applicants filed a Document Information Disclosure Policy Request (DIDP) with ICANN on August 4. The DIDP requests resumes for people that ... read more ...
Tue 2nd September 2014
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New TLDs this week: Schilling launches .hiphop, Donuts charges your .creditcard - Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry joins Donuts with new TLD releases this week. Shortened holiday week be damned: new TLD operators are launching a bunch of domain names this week. And by this week, I really mean this Wednesday. Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry and Donuts all get in on the action on September 3. Uniregistry Uniregistry launches .hiphop, .audio and .juegos (games in Spanish) in general availability this week. The company is sticking to its low price ... read more ...
 
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Lawsuit filed over .email domain names - Yoyo.email files lawsuit after barrage of URS and UDRP complaints. Last month I wrote about Yoyo.email Ltd, a company that has found itself in legal hot water after registering over 4,000 .email domain names. Many of the domain names match well known brands, such as 7eleven.email, Geico.email and Budlight.email. As a result, Yoyo has already been on the receiving end of at least 34 URS (Uniform Rapid Suspension) and UDRP cases. Yoyo.email is fighting back. Last Friday ... read more ...
Thu 28th August 2014
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This week’s new TLDs supplement between 50 and 10,000 domains on initial day - One domain is off to a quick start, the others not so much. Seven new top level domain names launched this week. By far, .Hamburg for the city of Hamburg was the most registered domain name. (Ironically, this is the one new TLD launch this week that I missed in my weekly preview.) There are approximately 13,800 .hamburg domain names in the zone file, up about 10,000 on the first day. On Tuesday, .black added about 100 names to end the day with about 150. I never ... read more ...
 
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The subsequent 50 days will be critical for new TLDs - Big launches make the next 50 days a key period for new top level domain names. A lot of new top level domain names have come to market already. Some have flown out of the gate, others are growing modestly, and some have stalled. In my opinion, the next 50 days will be an important period for new TLDs due to the number of high profile launches and the companies involved. You can argue that a slow launch doesn’t kill a TLD. But new TLDs have a chance to get some ... read more ...
Tue 26th August 2014
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Why your new TLDs won’t work good with domain parking (yet) - Domain parking ads don’t consider the full meaning of a domain name that spans the dot. A couple weeks ago Donuts launched the .cash top level domain name. This got me thinking about domain parking. I’ve owned a few .com domain names with the term “cash” in them. When they got clicks, they were high dollar clicks. There are lots of expensive Adwords terms related to cash. So would traffic to something.cash monetize well? No, not on the basis of the top level ... read more ...
Mon 25th August 2014
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This week in new TLDs: $150k/domain? Plus .black, .hiv, and .creditcard - Pull out your .creditcard. This week will be an interesting one for new top level domain names: Afilias takes a different tact on .color domains, an EAP with a $150k price tag, Donuts raises the bar with .creditcard, and the first “social cause” TLD launches. Tuesday Following on the lackluster launches of .red, .pink and .blue, Afilias launches .black. .Red is its most successful color domain so far, but it has received fewer than 2,500 registrations. Afilias ... read more ...
Fri 22nd August 2014
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Why Frank Schilling’s new train ad uses http:// - Otherwise, lots of people might not get to the website. Yesterday Frank Schilling tweeted this picture of a bus ad for his .sexy top level domain name: Adrian Kinderis, CEO of ARI Registry, responded asking about why the ad includes https://, and Frank Schilling explained: That lots of cell phone users need to type in http:// before a new TLD if they’re typing the address into their address bar, is a key example of the universal acceptance problem with new TLDs. Even ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs: is it an awareness, acceptance or direct issue? - Are domain registrants not aware of new TLD options or do they just not accept them? Or is there just low demand for each .com alternative? My initial reaction to the underwhelming “out of the gate” registration numbers for new top level domain names this year was that it’s an awareness issue. 99.99% of people have never heard of new TLDs. Once they’re aware, they’ll start registering them. After taking a look at registrar search yesterday, I’m starting ... read more ...
Thu 21st August 2014
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.Cash and .Fund any get fewer than 1,000 registrations - Slow start for the two new TLDs that launched yesterday (for which we have data.) Five top level domain names launched yesterday. Unfortunately, ICANN’s centralized zone file system only has updated zone files for two of them. .Cash gained 725 registrations to end the day with 909 in the zone file. .Fund picked up just 414 to get to 625. There are no first day zone files for Donuts’ other two TLDs, .tax and .investments. A zone file for Rightside’s .haus is ... read more ...
 
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Domain name hunt is most softened (at some registrars) - A look at how major domain registrars are handling domain search in the wake of new TLDs. I’ve written a couple times about the state of registrar search as registrars grapple with an onslaught of new TLDs, most recently at the end of February. There’s good news for TLD registries: search is getting a lot better. Let’s run through the registrars I checked last time for an update. (For this article, I chose to search for “valleyview construction” for three ... read more ...
Wed 20th August 2014
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Registry launches “Chinese Domain Ambassador Program” - Registry engages with customers with ambassador program. Here’s another example of a registry reaching out directly to its registrants to help promote their new top level domain name. TLD Registry, the company behind Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), has launched a its Chinese Domain Ambassador Program. The company noticed a group of Chinese domainers supporting their domain names shortly after launch. It reached out to these domain ... read more ...
Tue 19th August 2014
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The state of a domain name industry - My views on domain parking, domain sales, registrars and registries. I’ve been collecting my thoughts on the domain name business over the past month, and it’s time to put them down in writing. Here’s what I think about the state of the domain name industry in August, 2014. Domain parking is down. Way down. But don’t confuse down with out. We’re still talking about a relatively big business. Rook Media’s acquisition of DomainSponsor and its domain name ... read more ...
Mon 18th August 2014
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New TLDs this week: .Bio, .Haus and an costly Donuts domain - StartingDot and Rightside join Donuts with new top level domain name releases this week. Last week was a Donuts-only week for new TLDs. This week the mega-registry is joined by Rightside and StartingDot. On Wednesday, Rightside will launch .haus. That’s German for “house”. Expect to pay anywhere from $25-$40 for .haus domains. Also on Wednesday, four financial Donuts domain names exit EAP and revert to regular pricing:.cash, .tax, .fund and .investments. .Investments ... read more ...
Thu 14th August 2014
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Medical domain names all underneath 2,000 registrations after initial day - No surprises in initial launches of four medical-themed domain names. As I previewed earlier this week, the only four domain names entering true general availability this week were medical-themed domains from Donuts. Here are how many domains are registered in each of the four after the first day, based on zone file numbers: .Dental 1,971 .Clinic 1,447 .Care 1,395 .Surgery 536 The numbers are about where I expected them to be. As I mentioned earlier this week, three ... read more ...
Wed 13th August 2014
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Verisign: 3% of new TLD registrations enclose business websites - Parked domains make up the bulk of new TLD registrations. Verisign analyzed registrations of new top level domain names to determine how second level registrations under these new domain names are being used. The analysis determined that just 3% of domains registered so far are being used for a “business website” and the majority of domains are parked: The breakdown is much more nuanced than what the company presents about its own TLDs, .net and .com. When it ... read more ...
Tue 12th August 2014
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ICANN publishes updated new TLD Auction schedule - Delays now require all-party consent, so contention set resolution should accelerate. ICANN has published an updated “auction of last resort” schedule for new top level domain names. It’s harder for individual applicants to postpone these auctions now that the framework for handling name collisions is finalized. Postponements are now only possible if all parties in the contention set agree to the postponement. In that case, auctions can be postponed up to two ... read more ...