Tag Archives: new tlds

Tue 11th August 2015
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Verisign's lawsuit opposite .XYZ continues, pesters Donuts & ICANN as well - Lawsuit marches on, creating legal headaches for many of Verisign’s competitors. Why did Verisign sue .XYZ for disparaging .com and allegedly falsely inflating the company’s success? It’s pretty clear that Verisign thinks new top level domain names pose a threat to .Com, otherwise it wouldn’t have bothered. This goes beyond .XYZ. The lawsuit is surely costing Verisign and .XYZ a lot of money, something that the former has plenty of thanks to its monopoly on selling .com domain names. This ... read more ...
Mon 10th August 2015
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Domain name business will LOL tomorrow, though Facebook says LOL is dead - Facebook says LOL is dead, but the domain name comes out tomorrow. Get ready to LOL tomorrow. Uniregistry will launch the .lol top level domain name in general availability on Tuesday. Annual registration costs appear to be about $30 retail, but many registrars are offering discounted first year registrations. I’ve made it a point to never type LOL in a message, because, c’mon, do you ever really laugh out loud when IM’ing with someone? I’m not the only one. Facebook has posted some research ... read more ...
Fri 7th August 2015
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GoDaddy business have purebred 850k new TLDs - GoDaddy leads the way for new domain names. On GoDaddy’s investor conference call this week, the company disclosed that its customers have registered 850,000 names in new top level domains. That’s over the course of about 18 months of availability. GoDaddy customers have registered more new top level domain names with it than at any competing registrar, which shouldn’t come as a surprise for two reasons. First, GoDaddy registers the most domains overall. You’d expect it to be number one. Second, ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines co-founder dumps another 30 million shares - Krueger now owns about 5% of the company. Minds + Machines co-founder Frederick Krueger, who was pushed out of the company at the end of May, has sold another 30 million shares in the company. He now owns about 41 million ordinary shares of the new top level domain name company, or about 5%. When he left the company, he said he planned to keep the “vast majority” of his shares in the company. Since then he’s sold 87 million shares, or about 70% of his holdings of ordinary shares. This means ... read more ...
Wed 5th August 2015
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Rightside: 2 $100k .Video Sales, $1M from .News and new TLD renovation rates - Rightside reveals three interesting numbers about its new top level domain names. Rightside held its quarterly analyst call yesterday after releasing second quarter results. Here are three interesting notes about new top level domain names that Rightside mentioned on the call: 1. The company has sold two more domains for at least $100,000. The names were not disclosed, but both were under the .Video top level domain. 2. The company has received $1 million cash from .news so far. It recognizes the ... read more ...
Tue 4th August 2015
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Famous Four launches 5 domain names this week - Five domains on tap this week. Famous Four Media launches another five top level domain names on Wednesday of this week. Registrars will begin selling .racing, .accountant, .download, .win and .loan. 101Domain is offering all of the names for about $30. I’m somewhat surprised that Famous Four has priced all of the names the same, as some very similar domains from Donuts have premiums. For example, .accountants and .loans, plural versions offered by Donuts, cost about $75-$100 per year. .Accountants ... read more ...
Thu 30th July 2015
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Minds + Machines: layoffs, devise for money and more - Big updates from one of the biggest new top level domain name companies. Publicly traded Minds + Machines (London AIM: MMX) released a corporate update today, and it’s big. The company has close to $50 million in cash in the bank, which gives it plenty of time to wait out the hoped-for surge in acceptance of new top level domain names. But it’s not going to sit back and watch its cash position dwindle each quarter. Instead, it’s taking action to become profitable soon and find a way to return ... read more ...
Mon 27th July 2015
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Vox Populi wants heading for .Sucks - Controversial new top level domain name registry wants to trademark “.sucks”. Vox Populi, the domain name registry for .Sucks, has applied for the trademark “.Sucks” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. The goods and services for the mark are “Domain name registration services; registration of domain names for identification of users on a global computer network.” The USPTO does not grant trademarks for top level domain names, so I’m not sure what Vox Populi hopes to accomplish ... read more ...
Fri 24th July 2015
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Are IDN .com owners about to get screwed? - Verisign finds way to sign ICANN contract, but it might come at the expense of IDN investors. [Update: see comment from Verisign at end.] It’s been a long, long wait for owners of internationalized domain names under .com. The idea was that they’d get rights to IDN.IDN-as-transliteration domain names to match their IDN.com names when they came out. So they registered IDN.com domain names and held on to them for a decade, waiting for their investment to pay off. Given that the IDN-as-transliteration ... read more ...
Tue 21st July 2015
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Scripps files heading applications for new tip turn domains - Trademarking Living and Lifestyle. Scripps Networks Interactive, through its top level domain name company Lifestyle Domain Holdings, has filed for U.S. trademarks matching a number of the top level domain names it will run. The company filed multiple trademark applications for “Living”, “Lifestyle” and “Vana”, which all match new top level domain names. There are four intent-to-use trademarks for each word, the only difference being the goods and services descriptions. One description ... read more ...
 
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Google reiterates how new TLDs are rubbed in hunt results - Google issues details on how new top level domain names affect search engine results. (In short, they don’t.) Google has posted to its Webmaster Central Blog about how it handles new top level domain names in search. Because of the importance of this issue to the industry, I have republished the questions answered in the post along with my commentary. Q: How will new gTLDs affect search? Is Google changing the search algorithm to favor these TLDs? How important are they really in search? A: Overall, ... read more ...
Thu 16th July 2015
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.News and .Site have large initial day - Two new domain names add solid numbers on first day of general availability. Two highly anticipated new top level domain names launched yesterday, and both had a good debut. .News added about 8,000 registrations on its first “zone day”, bringing the total to 9,000. .News had already racked up about 1,000 domain names through sunrise and early access. Rightside provided these stats: – Biggest Rightside Sunrise to date (500 domains) – Biggest Rightside EAP to date (both volume and revenue – ... read more ...
Wed 15th July 2015
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Microsoft registers generics as they come off collision list - Tech giant registers domains such as desktop.computer and computer.systems. Microsoft has started registering generic/descriptive new top level domain names as they are released from the collision list. Specifically, Microsoft has registered at least a half dozen domain names in Donuts’ domains that were recently released as part of the registry’s phased release of names: arcade.zone 7/1 download.center 7/1 developer.center 7/1 desktop.computer 7/8 datacenter.systems 7/8 computer.systems 7/13 The ... read more ...
Mon 13th July 2015
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Feeling some .Love for .Site? Check out these reward prices - .Site is an appealing generic, but pricing on premiums is a big turn-off. The unique .Love domain name launches on Thursday.Five top level domain names become available for registration this week. The most notable is .Site, a good generic domain name that launches Wednesday. Radix, the same company that owns .website, is behind .site. What does this mean for the value of .website domain names now that an arguably better and shorter domain has come along? Radix certainly thinks .Site is better. Some ... read more ...
Sun 12th July 2015
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Some New TLDs fire a whole module in a foot - .Ooo registry Infinibeam takes back 9-month-old domain names. New top level domain names aren’t exactly flying off registrar’s shelves. They face decades of head start from .com and county code domains, universal accessibility challenges, and problems getting slotted in registrar search results. That’s bad enough, but some registries are giving the new domains an even bigger black eye. Consider .ooo, the crazy registry that predicted 1 million registrations in the first year and couldn’t ... read more ...
Mon 6th July 2015
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Fore! This week's new domain names - 4 domains available at regular prices, .news and .site enter Early Access. Let’s celebrate .Golf with ridiculous stock art.A number of new top level domain names enter Early Access or regular general availability this week. Rightside’s .news enters early access on Wednesday. The company trimmed the premium domains list, making a number of good domain names available at standard registration prices (assuming they make it unregistered through Early Access, which starts this Wednesday). A Name.com ... read more ...
Mon 29th June 2015
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This week's new TLDs: .Golf, .Gold and .Date - Famous Four Media releases three domain names this week and Donuts sends four to Early Access. Famous Four Media launches three top level domain names in general availability on Wednesday. All of the domain names can be registered for about $25-$30. .Date: This domain name will compete with two from Donuts: .Dating (3,000 registrations) and .Singles (6,000 registrations). .Faith: KeepThe.Faith? Donuts has had success with .Church with over 11,000 registrations. Faith is broader, but .Church has ... read more ...
Wed 24th June 2015
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How an Austin health organisation uses .Clinic - A local medical group uses a .clinic domain. Austin Regional Clinic displays a new .clinic domain name on this promotional banner.I was driving home from the office yesterday when I saw a huge banner on the side of an Austin Regional Clinic building. I did a double take when I noticed this domain name: ARC.clinic. For the most part, I think this is a good use of a new top level domain name: 1. The group’s official website is AustinRegionalClinic.com, which is pretty long to put on one line in a ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four Speaks: inexpensive domains, code insurance and more - New top level domain name operator explains its cheap pricing strategy and new “brand protection” tier. Famous Four Media’s recent top level domain name launches have quickly catapulted to the leaderboards, with domains such as .science and .party growing to hundreds of thousands of registrations. The secret: the registry offered marketing incentives enabling registrars to price these really low, so people were able to pick the domains up anywhere from $0-$1. I asked Andy Churley, Chief Marketing ... read more ...
Tue 23rd June 2015
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Whoa: Autism.Rocks sells for $100,000 [Updated] - A shocking sale in a new top level domain name. The domain name Autism.Rocks has sold for a staggering $100,000. And there may be a good reason this domain name sold for so much. The new owner is listed as Sanjay Shah in Dubai. Shah started the charity Autism Rocks, which can be found online at AutismRocks.com. Shah’s young son has autism. Based on news reports, Shah has been a very successful trader. The seller is associated with another autism charity, We Rock for Autism. I talked to him today, ... read more ...
Mon 22nd June 2015
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This permit image email reminds me of new domain names - Reserved plates being released, just like reserved domains… I received an email a few days ago from MyPlates, the company that administers the personalized (vanity) license plate program for Texas. Notice a similarity to what a lot of new top level domain name companies are doing? Here’s what the email said: Reserved Texas license plate messages up for grabs! Today we are releasing a number of previously reserved license plate messages for immediate sale! Some of these messages have previously ... read more ...
Mon 15th June 2015
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Neustar's Sean Kaine on .US, .Co, new TLDs and ICANN – DNW Podcast #37 - What’s the future of .US? What effect are new TLDs having on legacy domains? Find out in this podcast. Neustar has lots of experience with non-.com domains. It operates the registry for .co, .us and .biz, and is also the back end registry provider for a lot of new TLDs. On this episode, Neustar VP of Registry Sean Kaine talks about these top level domains and how he sees the internet naming landscape changing in the coming years. What’s the future of .US? Why is .Co still growing in the face ... read more ...
Thu 11th June 2015
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Donuts starts releasing name collision domains - First batch of domains is now available for registration. Donuts has begun releasing domain names that were originally held back due to name collision concerns. The first set of domain names, all related to photography, became available yesterday. They are currently running through Early Access, which means they are going through a sort of Dutch auction for seven days. Next Wednesday the domains will become available at regular prices. (About 2% of domains have premium prices attached to them.) Domains ... read more ...
Mon 8th June 2015
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Company regulating .Today domain name raises $8 million - Jeff Dachis’ latest company, currently using a .today domain name, raises $8 million. One Drop, a diabetes management platform that uses the domain name OneDrop.today, has raised $8 million in a round led by RRE Ventures. One Drop is the latest startup from Jeff Dachis, who was the founder and CEO of .com darling (and ultimately bust) Razorfish. He later was an entrepreneur-in-residence at Austin Ventures, where he then created social media company Dachis Group. He ran that company until early ... read more ...
Tue 2nd June 2015
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One year in: .XYZ and new tip turn domain names - Controversial…but successful? Daniel NegariThe .xyz domain name hit its one year anniversary today with about 950,000 domain names. That’s just 50,000 names shy of .xyz CEO Daniel Negari’s first year goal for the domain name, an estimate many snickered at when he made it. Now, many people are probably still snickering about these numbers. After all, weren’t they all given away for free? No. One registrar gave away about 350,000 domains. Many of the others were registered at bargain basement ... read more ...