Tag Archives: new tlds

Tue 3rd June 2014
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.XYZ section record nears 15,000, 30k after 24 hours - Nearly 15,000 domains in zone file and over half of them are at NetworkSolutions. 30,000+ domains registered after 24 hours. The latest batch of zone files has been published, and .xyz had what looks to be a good first day. The zone file includes nearly 15,000 domain names after the initial hours of launch. Zone files only include registered domains that have nameservers, so it usually undercounts domains by a bit. .XYZ’s Daniel Negari told Domain Name Wire that ... read more ...
Mon 2nd June 2014
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New TLDs on daub this week: .XYZ, .Futbol, .Dating and more - .XYZ joins the fray this week. A bunch of new top level domain names hit the market this week, especially on Wednesday. Monday It all starts today with the launch of .xyz. Daniel Negari is launching this generic domain and has set aggressive goals: 1 million registrations in the first year and five million in three years. You might think he’s crazy. Maybe he is. Yet I admire the passion and energy he’s putting in to it, and that’s a good thing for the domain’s ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four wins row sets for .Cricket and .Racing - Company now has 15 uncontested new top level domain name applications. Famous Four Media announced today that it won two private auctions to resolve contention sets for new top level domain names. The company beat Donuts and Uniregistry in an auction for .racing. It beat Minds + Machines and Donuts in an auction for .cricket. Apparently is also lost the contention set auction for .diet. This latest round of private auctions marks the first time Famous Four has participated ... read more ...
Fri 30th May 2014
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First ICANN “Auction of Last Resort” to take place subsequent week - First of many planned new top level domain name auctions to take place next week. It’s a last resort, and it kicks of next week. ICANN will hold its first new top level domain name auction next week to settle the contention set for .信息, which roughly translates to “information”. Afilias, the registry behind .info, will bid against Beijing Tele-info Network Technology Co., Ltd. for the name. At least seven auctions were originally scheduled to take place ... read more ...
Thu 29th May 2014
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How many registrations will new TLDs get? - Most people think low five figures. We’re starting to get an idea of how many registrations new top level domain names can expect to get in the short term now that dozens have launched. This year’s Domain Name Wire survey asked “On average, how many second level registrations do you expect each new TLD to have one year after general availability for the domain starts?” The median response to this question was 12,000 and the average was 41,054. The average ... read more ...
 
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.Ninjas win Wednesday’s conflict of a new TLDs - Ninjas attack cruiselines and vacationers. Ninjas win. Seven new top level domain names hit the market yesterday, and the .Ninjas sliced their way to the most new registrations of any of them. .Ninja recorded 4,535 new registrations in the zone file, which is a pretty good measure of how many domains were registered. (Note: today I’m using data collated by Namestat.org. Some of my zone file access has expired. I, like many others, don’t know why they have to ... read more ...
Wed 28th May 2014
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Let’s combine on .wiki: A demeanour during who purebred .wiki domains - .Wiki tops 3,000 registrations by first day. Top Level Design released its first new top level domain name yesterday as .wiki hit registrar’s shelves. I count 3,166 domains in the zone file processed last night, which is a solid first day for a new TLD. I take a particular interest in .wiki because of its unique nature as well as my existing domain portfolio. .Wiki is rather unique among new TLDs for a couple reasons. First, it’s generic in the sense that anything ... read more ...
 
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Walgreens snaps adult general domain names in new TLDs - $67 billion pharmacy chain going after relevant terms in new TLDs. While I was going through .wiki registrations this morning I noticed that pharmacy chain Walgreens registered a number of generic terms under .wiki. It makes sense: why not own Haircare.wiki, Scooters.wiki and Prescriptions.wiki so they can control the conversation, not the other way around. When I started digging in I found that this wasn’t just a play on .wiki. Walgreens has been registering about ... read more ...
Tue 27th May 2014
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This week in new TLDs: Ninjas and non-profits - A TLD.ninja’s overview of this week in new top level domain names. A handful of new top level domain names hit the market this week, and we’re not just talking about sprinkled donuts. Today Public Interest Registry launches three internationalized domain name (IDN) versions of its popular .org domain name: .орг Russian (Cyrillic) .संगठन Hindi (Devanagari) .机构 Simplified Chinese The domains are priced around $15 retail, but registrar coverage ... read more ...
 
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In Da Club, 50 Cent, and New TLD marketing - .Club is spending a lot to promote .Club. That’s good news for .Club domain registrants. Last Thursday night .Club hosted a launch party at Tao Downtown in Manhattan featuring celebrity endorser 50 Cent. I just barely made it to the party thanks to bad weather, a presidential visit to New York, and the plane running out of fuel (necessitating an unexpected stop in Baltimore). But I made it for the last half of the party and saw Fiddy, albeit from behind velvet ropes. The ... read more ...
Mon 26th May 2014
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Frank Schilling defends URS opposite indifferent .sexy domain name - Uniform Rapid Sexy. When Frank Schilling released his first handful of new top level domain names he also held back tens of thousands of second level domain names for himself. These were registered in the name of North Sound Names. Since the domains aren’t just held back as premiums for registration but are actually registered, they are subject to URS proceedings. Schilling has successfully defended the first such proceeding against one of his domains, a URS for ... read more ...
Fri 23rd May 2014
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Here’s what your favorite TLDs are (and a ones that will sell a most) - Your forecast for the best selling TLDs. This year’s Domain Name Wire survey asked you what your favorite new top level domain names are, as well as the ones you expect to get the most registrations. There was no clear runaway winner on which TLD you like the most. .Guru received the most votes. Although .guru is a fine domain name, I suspect that has a lot to do with it being on top of the registration leaderboard for the duration of the survey period. It’s top ... read more ...
Tue 20th May 2014
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New TLDs and a miss of cost caps - Registries can jack up prices, but they must give notice. One issue many people think may be a ticking time bomb with consumers and new top level domain names is a lack of price controls. I was reminded of this today by some comments on another post. Most existing gTLDs have restrictions on how much the registry operator can increase prices each year. New TLDs don’t. Here’s the contract language: (b) With respect to renewal of domain name registrations, Registry ... read more ...
Mon 19th May 2014
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Will DNA’s new TLD auction offer kickstart row set resolution? - New top level domain name applicants in contention sets have two remaining options for resolving who gets to “own” each string: Settle it amongst themselves or participate in an ICANN “auction of last resort”. So far a trickle of contention sets have been settled via private auctions (the first option), and the ICANN auctions are set to begin next month. On the face of it, the private auction is the way to go. The “losers” in such negotiations walk away ... read more ...
 
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Big new TLDs week: .Luxury, Rightside and Travel Bonanza - An $800-per-year domain launches, Rightside hits GA, Donuts has a travel-focused week, and .best tries not to be .worst. Another big week is on tap for new top level domain including some new faces. Things get rolling today with general availability for .luxury. It’s a luxurious domain indeed, with a wholesale price of $400. Many registrars are charging a 100% mark-up, making the domain an $800 annual purchase. Luxury brands took advantage of reduced prices in the ... read more ...
Wed 14th May 2014
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DNPric.es has a good lead list for profitable new TLDs. Unfortunately a registries also have it. - You’ll find good ideas for new TLDs on this list, but many will be priced at a premium. I’m going to let you in on a secret strategy I’ve been undertaking with new TLDs. Every time one heads to general availability I go to DNPric.es to look for domains including the top level domain that have sold in recent years. For example, when .center came out recently I went to the site and searched for “center”. For each high value domain that popped up I went to ... read more ...
Tue 13th May 2014
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50 Cent goes .Club with new site, will be during launch party - 50InDa.Club to launch during invite-only party later this month. Rapper 50 Cent is starting a new website on a .club domain and will help kick off the site and .club at a launch event later this month. Mr. Cent will launch 50inDa.Club later this month. He will launch the site at an invitation-only launch party for the .club domain in Manhattan on May 22, 2014. This is a huge anchor tenant for .club, one of the top three new top level domain names in terms of registrations. ... read more ...
 
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How many new TLDs will domainers register? - Most domain investors expect to register some new domains this year. The current rollout of new top level domain names is a slow and steady process that will take years to complete. A lot can and will happen during this time frame. This year’s Domain Name Wire survey asked for opinions on new TLDs now, as in early 2014. The result is a pretty good snapshot of how people involved in several aspects of new TLDs — domainers that buy them, registrars that sell them, ... read more ...
Mon 12th May 2014
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A glance of what will occur when new TLDs strike their initial renovation date? - Joseph Peterson considers what will happen when new TLDs come around for renewal. 2014 will be remembered — by those conscious of the domain industry at least — as the year of the TLD experiment. To what extent extensions such as .GURU, .PHOTOGRAPHY, .RICH, .LONDON, or .中文网 catch on with the general public remains to be seen. For a year, the question has been hotly debated. But it’s not a question; it’s hundreds of distinct questions, since hundreds ... read more ...
Fri 9th May 2014
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Only one new TLD “auction of final resort” to take place in June - Other auctions deferred until later months. ICANN’s first official auction to resolve a new top level domain name contention set will take place on June 4…but with only one TLD. Participants in at least six TLD contention sets eligible for the first auction have postponed them. These auctions can be postponed for two reasons: First, by mutual agreement of both parties. Second, if any applicant in the contention set wants to wait for the finalized framework for ... read more ...
Thu 8th May 2014
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.Club domain name debuts during #6, here are a Top 10 - .Club goes clubbing with over 25,000 registrations. As a follow up to yesterday’s story about .club, the first day zone file has been released showing a solid 25,776 domain names. That’s good enough to land the domain at #6 on the new top level domain name charts. Here’s a look at the top ten new TLDs by registration volume (based on the zone*) as of today: 1. .guru 54,868 2. .berlin 46,734 3. .photography 34,499 4. .在线 (.xn--3ds443g, Dot Chinese Online) ... read more ...
Wed 7th May 2014
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.Club lands among Top 10 new TLDs on initial day - .Club is now one of the top ten new TLDs. The .Club domain name is now among the top 10 most registered new TLDs after launching this morning. The exact number of registrations (based on the zone file) won’t be available until tomorrow. It takes about 15,000 registrations to make the top ten as of today. The company received 2,000 registrations combined from sunrise and a premium-priced landrush. 100 of the landrush domains are going to auction. .Club CEO Colin ... read more ...
Tue 6th May 2014
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Is .expert a subsequent “big” tip turn domain name? - .Expert is in the same category as .guru. How will the two compare? .Guru continues to lead the new top level domain name charts in terms of number of domain names registered. It currently has about 55,000 registrations and gets hundreds of additional registrations on some days. Tomorrow Donuts releases a similar new TLD in the Early Access Phase: .expert. Will .expert rival .guru in terms of registrations? It’s a tough question. Although .guru and .expert can ... read more ...
Mon 5th May 2014
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.Rich still not removing rich - More domains registered…by the registry’s executive director. Last month I wrote about the .rich top level domain name, which had a mere 22 domain names in its zone file. (It was actually just 21 because I counted a registry domain.) After ICANN’s long hiatus of publishing zone files last week I was surprised to see the .rich zone file up to 36 domain names. At about $2,000 a pop retail, that would be a nice pick up. Domains such as born.rich, howtobe.rich, ... read more ...
Fri 2nd May 2014
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.CEO: How not to marketplace your new tip turn domain name - .CEO marketing is not well executed. I’ve written before that .ceo as a standalone domain name doesn’t make sense to me. I see some potential for a network for CEOs, and the company behind .ceo has plenty of experience with social networking. But that wouldn’t be about a domain, it would be about a network. dotCEO sent out an update on its first 30 days yesterday. It doesn’t look good and has me scratching my head even more. It seems .ceo is dropping the ball ... read more ...