Tag Archives: new tlds

Mon 3rd March 2014
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I only went 0-for-17 induction new domain names - Between name collisions, registry reserved domains, and premium pricing, the best new TLD opportunities are difficult to find. I think there are some opportunities for domainers to make money with new top level domain names, but they are limited. My thinking is that some domain names that can be obtained for under $100 with low renewal fees can be sold within 1-5 years for low $1,000s to the right buyer. It’s very risky, and with typical sell through rates I’ll ... read more ...
 
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Donuts pitches photography associated domain names during tradeshow - Company markets six of its domain names to photography industry. New top level domain registry Donuts is exhibiting at the The Photography Show 2014 in Birmingham, England. The show began Saturday and runs through tomorrow. The company is pitching a number of domain names that have a relationship to photography including .camera, .equipment, .gallery, .photos, .lighting, and of course .photography. This is exactly the type of end-user marketing that new domain name ... read more ...
Thu 27th February 2014
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4 some-more Donuts domain names entered GA yesterday. Here are a numbers. - Donuts’ domain names continue to spill onto the domain name market. Yesterday four new Donuts domain names came off of “Early Access Pricing” and became available for standard registration prices. .Tips I could tell this one was getting traction because Network Solutions was promoting it much like it did .guru. It’s a fairly solid generic. Pricing is in Donuts’ lowest pricing tier, so .tips domains will typically run you about $20-$25. NameCheap, which ... read more ...
Wed 26th February 2014
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.Mail combined to new TLD deathwatch, new offer for doing Name Collisions - .Mail may be shelved and group suggests new way to handle name collisions for new top level domain names. JAS Global Advisors has released a new report about name collisions for new top level domain names and has made a new set of recommendations. The report is available for comments. One of the key changes from the existing name collision plan: permanent reservation of the .mail top level domain name. JAS found that use of .mail in systems is prevalent and that it ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s .Sexy tighten to 2,000 domains, .Tattoo 700 - Due in part to poor distribution, initial launches fail to garner same traction as other launched TLDs. Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry released its first two top level domain names in general availability yesterday. According to the latest zone files, there are around 2,000 registered .sexy domain names and almost 700 .tattoo. Although zone files don’t include all registered domain names, these numbers seem to jive with initial tallies Frank Schilling provided ... read more ...
Mon 24th February 2014
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Which registrars have a lowest prices on new TLDs? Here’s a cost comparison. - NameCheap appears to have the cheapest overall pricing on new TLDs among the largest domain name registrars. If you’re actively investing in new top level domain names, price is certainly a key factor for selecting a domain name registrar. So far, these new TLDs aren’t cheap. You can register 2-4 .com domains for the same price as one new TLD in most cases. That adds up in a hurry. I did a quick price comparison this morning on three of Donuts’ available domain ... read more ...
 
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One.com wins .one row set in RightOfTheDot auction - Two competing applicants settle contention set; first auction facilitated by new TLD consulting firm RightOfTheDot. Webhosting company one.com has settled its contention set with Radix for .one through a “single sealed bid second price” auction orchestrated by RightOfTheDot. In this type of auction, typically each participant will send in a sealed bid. The bids are opened under video surveillance and the highest bidder pays the second highest price. For example, ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s initial dual tip turn domain names accessible tomorrow - .Tattoo and .sexy enter general availability tomorrow, although relatively few registrars are offering the domain names. Frank Schilling’s first two top level domain names, .tattoo and .sexy, enter general availability tomorrow at 11 am EST. Judging from registrar support so far, Uniregistry’s first two domains are going to be a bit hampered. That may be good news for you, as it will give you a better opportunity to get domain names if you’re interested in these ... read more ...
Thu 20th February 2014
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Domain registrars doubt Minds + Machines’ Priority Reservation System - Registrar Stakeholder Group questions if Minds + Machines is complying with registry and registrar agreements. The separation between registry and registrar is being blurred with the introduction of new TLDs. For the first time, gTLD registries can also own domain name registrars. This uncharted territory is sure to lead to first time issues that need to get ironed out. Here’s the first major one to be raised. The ICANN Registrar Stakeholder Group (RrSG) is questioning ... read more ...
Wed 19th February 2014
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The non-.com steam cause and what it means for new TLDs - In today’s world, secondary domains leak traffic to .com and dominant country code domains. Will this change? One of the challenges of registering a domain under a top level domain that’s not dominant in the location of most of your website visitors is confusion. In the U.S., that means choosing a domain other than .com. In the Czech Republic, that means choosing a domain other than .cz. Whatever the dominant TLD is in a country, opting for another extensions ... read more ...
Tue 18th February 2014
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.Music new tip turn domain village objections fail - All community objections against .music and .band have failed. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has denied Constantine Roussos’ community objections against competing applications for .music as well as applications for .band. The same panelist also denied an objection brought by International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies against another applicant. All of the .music objections have been decided in the applicants’ favor. Roussos ... read more ...
Mon 17th February 2014
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Top Level Domain Length vs. Total Domain Length - Some top level domain names are longer than we’re used to, but they can still be shorter overall. A lot of people have questioned if some new top level domain names are simply too long. Will people type in an eleven character top level domain name such as .photography when they’re used to typing in just two or three characters to the right of the dot? While it remains to be seen how internet users react, .photography appears to be an early winner with many photographers. ... read more ...
Fri 14th February 2014
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GoDaddy auction information yield early denote of new TLD direct and values - Auction data show competition for new TLD registrations and shed light on strategic considerations for ordering domains. What are domains registered under new top level domain names worth, and what is the demand for them? We already know how many domains are being registered. .Guru has close to 30,000 registrations and .photography has topped 10,000. Most others are in the 1,000-5,000 range. But digging deeper into the pre-registration process provides another interesting ... read more ...
 
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People are shopping new TLDs when a “matching” .com is available - Would you pay over $1,000 for Metadata.guru when you could get MetadataGuru.com for just $10? This morning I posted about GoDaddy’s auction results for new top level domain names thus far. The post included nine domain names that sold for over $1,000 at auction. I totally missed something very, very interesting about some of these domain purchases. As Joseph Peterson pointed out in a comment, two of these domains had matching .com domains that were freely available ... read more ...
Thu 13th February 2014
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IBM wins initial new tip turn domain URS case - Panel hands down decision within one week. IBM has won the first ever Uniform Rapid Suspension case for new top level domain names. A National Arbitration Forum panelist ruled in the company’s favor in a dispute over IBM.guru and IBM.ventures. Both domain names will be suspended but not transferred to IBM. IBM can opt to register them when they expire or file a UDRP to get the domain names. IBM has belatedly signed up for Donuts’ Domains Protected Marks List, ... read more ...
 
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Registrars adjust registration prices on some of Donuts’ domain names - Let the testing begin… They haven’t been available for long, but already we’re seeing varying registration fees for Donuts’ domain names. Domain name registrar GoDaddy is charging lower annual registration fees for some of the latest new top level domain name offered by Donuts — while charging a premium for others. Pricing for many of the “second round” Donuts domains (e.g. .photography) as well as pre-orders for some of the to-be-released domains (e.g. ... read more ...
Wed 12th February 2014
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ICANN plays “make believe” with fibre difficulty examination process - ICANN pretends other inconsistencies don’t exist so it can resolve two of the most embarrassing ones. Yesterday ICANN posted a proposal for dealing with “perceived inconsistencies” in String Confusion Objections filed over new top level domain names. The plan would deal with two cases in which different panels came to different conclusions on objections filed against the same exact strings: .cam/.com and .cars/.car. The inconsistencies in string confusion objections ... read more ...
 
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.Web and .Webs: “There can be usually one” - VistaPrint will have to duke it out with Web.com if it wants the .webs brand TLd. The International Centre for Dispute Resolution has handed in its final determination for the controversial String Confusion Objection process. In this case, Web.com won against Vistaprint’s two applications for .webs. As a result, .webs will now be in a contention set with Web.com’s application for .web. If Vistaprint wins the contention set, then .web–often pointed out as the ... read more ...
Tue 11th February 2014
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New tip turn domain name lawsuit discharged though leaves doorway open for ACPA for TLDs - Judge grants motion to dismiss top level domain dispute. A federal district judge has dismissed (pdf) a lawsuit brought by Del Monte International against Del Monte Corporation over the top level domain name .delmonte. In doing so, the court also left the door open on the possibility of the Anti-cybersquatting Protection Act (ACPA) being applied to new top level domain names. Here’s the background: Del Monte International (DMI), a licensee of the Del Monte brand ... read more ...
 
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.Club binds winter domain name auction on Sedo - New TLD to hold auction during its sunrise period. New top level domain name .club is holding its first domain name auction on Sedo. The auction features “winter sports” domain names (really it’s Olympic themed, but there are trademark issues with that) including sochi.club, snowboard.club, skate.club, icehockey.club and bobsled.club. The trademark sunrise for .club just began and runs through March 29. If you win a domain name in the auction that is later claimed ... read more ...
 
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Video Game attention fails to kick Amazon.com’s .Game - No cheat codes available for community objection. The Entertainment Software Association, a U.S. industry group for the video game industry, has failed to quash Amazon.com’s application to run the .game top level domain name. ESA filed a community objection against Amazon’s application. There are six applicants for .game, but ESA only went after Amazon.com’s application because it proposes operating the domain as a “closed” registry. This means other companies ... read more ...
Mon 10th February 2014
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Rightside Registry offers the possess Domain Protected Marks List - Service for blocking trademark domain names is very similar to Donuts’. Rightside Registry announced its own version of the Domain Protected Marks List (DPML) service last week. With the service, trademark owners can block their marks from being registered as a second level domain name in any of the top level domain names Rightside runs. If the name and the concept sound very familiar to Donuts’ DPML, that’s because Rightside Registry also runs the backend technical ... read more ...
 
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Yes, one minute domain names competence be value reduction than $1,000 - Supply and demand and new TLDs…what once was scarce is no longer. Over the weekend there was quite a hubbub over at DomainInvesting.com about the availability of single letter domain names in new top level domain names. In short: they are available, albeit at a premium annual registration fee. Although prices seemed to fluctuate over the weekend, it seems that the standard price is $400. Since you have to pay this fee each year, the domains aren’t actually $400 ... read more ...
 
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How common difference like Pizza, Money, and Shopping finished adult in a Trademark Clearinghouse for new TLDs - The Trademark Clearinghouse for new TLDs is giving some people first dibs on domains like realestate.guru and pizza.restaurant. The .info domain name got seriously gamed when it had its trademark sunrise period in 2001. There was no pre-verification mechanism to determine if trademarks used to claim a .info domain met requirements. As a result, 20,000 sunrise registrations were later deemed invalid. Many more were accepted under rather lax standards. The same thing ... read more ...
Thu 6th February 2014
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U.S. Government weighs in on .wine debate - U.S. government advises against giving additional protections to second level .wine and .vin domain names. Lawrence Strickling, Administrator of the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), has sent a letter to ICANN regarding additional protections for .wine and .vin domain names. Many governments have asked for additional safeguards around these domain names with protection for geographic names at the second level. Strickling writes ... read more ...