Tag Archives: new tlds

Mon 21st September 2015
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Microsoft registers 6 2-letter domain names - Microsoft registers at least a half dozen short domains. New top level domain name company Donuts released thousands of two character domains under its top level domain names last week. Microsoft was among the buyers. I count at least a half dozen two character domains registered by the company: ad.center ie.domains ie.gallery ie.photos os.expert pc.engineering The top four names are arguably brand domains, while the last two are more generic/descriptive. IE are the initials for Internet Explorer, ... read more ...
 
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This week: .Tickets, .Rent, .Courses - Several top level domain names become available this week. From learning to entertainment, here a the top level domain names launching this week. .Tickets launches today for the ticket sales business. Domain investors will need to be judicious; one year registrations start at over $500. .Courses enters general availability on Wednesday. This domain name is pretty good for online education, although it faces competition from domains such as .education, .university, and .college. Speaking of .College, ... read more ...
Thu 17th September 2015
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New TLDs get primary bearing during Dmexco - Sedo leads effort to spread awareness of new domain name options at large conference in Germany. Sedo teamed up with a number of new TLD registries for this booth at dmexco in Germany.New top level domain names are getting lots of exposure at this week’s dmexco digital marketing conference in Cologne, Germany. Sedo has a large booth themed after Times Square, with top level domain names filling in the signage. As with last year’s dmexco, Sedo is also offering frozen yogurt. The toppings are ... read more ...
Tue 15th September 2015
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See .Online ads in San Francisco - Radix begins ad campaign in Bay Area. New top level domain name registry Radix has begun a large-scale advertising effort in San Francisco. The company now has ads promoting .Online on the side of 35 bus stops. Radix is also promoting .online and .tech on a mobile video board. The truck is visiting a number of hot spots in San Francisco and a couple conferences, such as TechCrunch’s Disrupt ’15 and Dreamforce (the latter of which sucks up every hotel room in the city). Listen to this week’s ... read more ...
Mon 14th September 2015
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This week: a domain for .Men and dual minute Donuts - Smaller Donuts are available this week. There are a couple interesting top level domain name launches this week. On Wednesday, Famous Four Media launches the .men domain name. I’m not really sure why people will register these domains; I suspect they will mostly be used for mens’ fashion and perhaps adult entertainment. More notable, on Wednesday you can start registering two character domain names in Donuts’ top level domain names at regular registration prices. The domains are currently ... read more ...
Tue 8th September 2015
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.Club banks with some-more reward sales in August - .Club sells another $100k in premium domain names. The .Club registry has released premium domain sales totals from August, much like it did for the previous month. This provides great insight into premium sales by registries. .Club’s domains come with a one time premium rather than annual renewal. Last month it sold 15 premium .club domains through nine different sources, led by 6 sales at GoDaddy. The top sales were Super.club (not supper) for $7,095, and Sea.club and Betting.club for $7,000 ... read more ...
 
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Donuts releasing 2 impression domain names this week - TV.show, RX.delivery and other domains are available for registration on Wednesday. Have your eye on a two character domain name in one of Donuts’ domain names? You can start registering them on Wednesday, September 9. Previously withheld two letter domain names, such as TV.show and NY.pizza, will debut with a seven day Dutch auction tomorrow. This is essentially the same as Early Access, which has been run for all Donuts releases and name collision names. The following Wednesday, names will revert ... read more ...
 
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This week: .Ski and .Lotto domain names - Hit the slopes with .Ski this week. Two new top level domain names launch today, the most anticipated of which is .ski. .Ski got 1,000 registrations during a combined Sunrise and Limited Registration Period. A number of entities and people that are key targets for .ski don’t have trademarks, so the Limited Registration Period (LRP) enabled them to get first dibs on domains before they headed to general availability. Among those participating in sunrise or LRP include: The most famous ski resorts ... read more ...
Fri 4th September 2015
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CPE numbers don't supplement adult for CPAs - Accounting groups fail to make the case that they should get community status for .CPA applications. Two applicants for the .CPA top level domain name have lost Community Priority Evaluations. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and CPA Australia Ltd both failed to score the required 14 points out of 16 necessary to get Community status. They were tripped up on the Nexus requirement, where neither scored a point. In both cases, the CPE panels noted that the applications restricted ... read more ...
Wed 2nd September 2015
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Here comes .Sex - Trademark holders can now claim domain names ending in .sex. ICM Registry has started the sunrise for its latest adult-themed domain name, .sex. .Sex joins .xxx, .adult and .porn in the company’s stable of top level domain names. As with .adult and .porn, there will be a unique Sunrise B and Domain Matching period. The traditional sunrise is now underway and will end October 1. During this period, brand holders must have a mark registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse in order to claim a corresponding ... read more ...
Mon 31st August 2015
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.XYZ seeks to boot Verisign's consultant testimony - New TLD company claims some expert testimony should not be allowed. .XYZ is asking the court to dismiss expert testimony from four expert witnesses in Verisign’s false advertising lawsuit against the new top level domain company. Some of the court filings are heavily redacted, leaving out the juicy details many in the domain name want to know. All expert witness reports were filed under seal. For example, just what kind of deal did .XYZ have with Network Solutions when the latter gave away hundreds ... read more ...
 
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Giving .Love to new TLDs with Christa Taylor – DNW Podcast #48 - New domain name consultant Christa Taylor discusses the current state of new top level domains. Christa Taylor runs new top level domain name consulting firm Dot TBA, which has assisted a number of new TLD applicants with their financial projections. She’s also currently involved with the launch of the .Love top level domain. Christa discusses the current state of new TLDs, how this will likely shake out in the next few years, and what’s .love got to do with it. Also: GoDaddy two-factor authentication ... read more ...
 
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This week: .Amsterdam, .Fans, .FYI and .MBA - New domain names become available Tuesday and Wednesday this week. A handful of new domain names are hitting domain registrars’ shelves this week. On Tuesday, .Amsterdam enters general availability. There is a fairly limited list of domain name registrars on nic.amsterdam, but 101Domain is offering them for $41.99. On Wednesday, you can start showing you’re a fan with .Fans. It’s an expensive domain priced at $70-$100 retail. Also, be careful with trademarked terms. Also on Wednesday, two of ... read more ...
Thu 27th August 2015
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.Online domain name registrations by a numbers - A look inside .Online’s strong debut. By all accounts, .Online had a great first day yesterday. It got over 30,000 registrations. Its overnight zone file now sits at about 35,000 names. I dug through the zone file to look for patterns. Here’s what I found… Here are three companies that registered a lot of domains. There might be others, but these companies pointed the names to their corporate nameservers: Microsoft – 40 domains including msn.online, skype.online and windows10.online Bank ... read more ...
 
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Cha-ching: Minds + Machines picks adult another $3.5 million from losing auctions - New TLD company reaps millions from losing .art and .data auctions. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines has padded its bank account with another $3.5 million as a result of losing two more top level domain auctions. The company got the money from losing private auctions for .art and .data. Minds + Machines still has an interest in 7 contested strings, so it might pick up even more cash from losing auctions in the future. With about $50 million in its bank account, the company is considering ... read more ...
Tue 25th August 2015
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.Club's proceed to lapsed domain names - An example of how one new top level domain registry is releasing its expired domain names. Last week, .Club domain names that were registered at the beginning of general availability over a year ago started dropping. The company reported a 75% day one renewal rate. It hasn’t published rates post day one, but that’s certainly a good start. .Club CEO Colin Campbell told Domain Name Wire that he told investors to expect a 60% renewal rate. He doesn’t think it will stick at 75% in the long run ... read more ...
Mon 24th August 2015
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Questionable investment: RetailMeNot spends $4.3 million for new domain names - Company has common investor with new top level domain company Donuts. Struggling Austin internet company RetailMeNot spent $4.3 million to acquire second level domain names under a new top level domain name, an SEC filing revealed. The purchase was first reported by George Kirikos, and OnlineDomain wrote about it earlier today. While the SEC filing doesn’t disclose the top level domain or registry, it almost certainly is Donuts. The common denominator is Austin Ventures, which backed both RetailMeNot ... read more ...
 
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Get .online this week… - Radix releases a big new top level domain name this week. One of the most anticipated top level domain names of the entire new top level domain name program is releasing in general availability on Wednesday. Radix’s .online will exit Early Access and revert to regular pricing on Wednesday. On day 5 of early access, the company processed over 500 registrations within the first hour. Its sunrise garnered 775 registrations. Radix had teamed up with Tucows and NameCheap in a partnership for the domain ... read more ...
Thu 20th August 2015
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Here are a Exhibit and Witness lists for a Verisign v. XYZ trial - Lists will hit home in the domain name industry. Verisign’s lawsuit against XYZ.com, LLC and Daniel Negari continues to move forward at full speed, thanks to the “rocket docket” in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia. Both parties have submitted their proposed exhibit lists and witnesses for the trial. Reviewing the exhibit lists, it’s clear that if you emailed Daniel Negari about .xyz, there’s a good chance Verisign has reviewed that email. If you wrote or commented about ... read more ...
Tue 18th August 2015
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This week's new TLDs: A large week for Donuts, Radix - Donuts releases 5 domains in GA and 3 in early access and Radix preps its “big” one. It feels like 2014 again this week, as Donuts releases a slew of new top level domain names to the marketplace. On Wednesday it will release .dog, .theater, .taxi, .hockey and .run at regular pricing as Early Access concludes. It will also begin the early access for .movie, .coupons and .soccer. It’s also a big week for Radix as it begins a seven day early access period for .online. The company is targeting ... read more ...
Mon 17th August 2015
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Donuts: Verisign perplexing to intimidate, brag competitors with .XYZ lawsuit - New top level domain company issues statement after court finds in its favor. A judge in U.S. District Court in Washington state has denied Verisign’s request for reconsideration in a subpoena battle involving competitor Donuts. Donuts says Verisign is trying to intimated and bully competitors through similar subpoenas. Verisign subpoenaed Donuts as a non-party in the .com registry’s lawsuit against .XYZ and Daniel Negari. Donuts fought back, asking the court to quash the subpoena. The judge ... read more ...
Fri 14th August 2015
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Verisign sues CentralNic and .XYZ over .Theatre, .Protection and .Security - Company upset that Verisign was dropped as registry services provider in favor of CentralNic. Earlier this week I noted a lawsuit Verisign filed in Virginia against .XYZ and Daniel Negari. Thanks to a request by the defendants to remove the case to federal district court, I now have a copy of the lawsuit (large PDF). As it turns out, Verisign originally sued Key Brand Entertainment, applicant for .Theatre, and CentralNic back in March in Circuit Court in Fairfax County. The basis of the lawsuit was ... read more ...
Thu 13th August 2015
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Sedo highlights registries during dmexco - Sedo is partnering with registries and registrars to reach European audience at dmexco. A flyer promoting the Sedo booth that will be handed out at dmexco.Sedo is once again highlighting top level domain name options at the biggest digital marketing conference in Europe. dmexco takes place next month in Cologne, Germany. Last year Sedo offered frozen yogurt at the event, with the kicker that attendees had to order toppings based on TLD names. Sedo is offering the frozen yogurt again this year, but ... read more ...
 
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Google Alphabet news causes CentralNic shares to burst 50% - Shares in .xyz services company are up big this week. Shares in domain name registry company CentralNic have jumped about 50% since Monday afternoon. The company thinks this is due to Google’s selection of the domain name abc.xyz for its new company Alphabet. CentralNic is the backend registry provider for .xyz domain names. Shares on the London AIM (CNIC) traded for about 40 pence on Monday afternoon, and have shot up to 61 pence at the time of writing. CentralNic issued a statement this morning: The ... read more ...
Wed 12th August 2015
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See .XYZ CEO Daniel Negari on Bloomberg - Bloomberg features .xyz and how Google’s big announcement has affected it. .XYZ and its CEO Daniel Negari are riding the wave of Alphabet, Google’s new parent company. The company’s official website is abc.xyz, representing the first and last three letters of the alphabet. Negari was on Bloomberg earlier today discussing the spike in registrations his company has seen since the Alphabet announcement. The video also features commentary from GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving about the availability of ... read more ...