Tag Archives: new tlds

Tue 14th April 2015
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New TLDs this week: .Fashion, .Garden and .FRL - Minds + Machines launches two more domain names and another geo domain name goes live. Three top level domain names enter general availability this week, including a geographic domain. .FRL launches on Tuesday. This domain name stands for Friesland, a part of the Netherlands. The domain is targeted to the Frisian people as well as their culture, heritage, and companies located or associated with Friesland. Minds + Machines also launches two domain names this week: .Fashion and .Garden. Both domain ... read more ...
 
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.Promo and other TLDs headed to auction - Auction group hopes to sell .Promo and other TLDs at June auction. Innovative Auctions Ltd. is holding another auction to “resell” already-contracted top level domain names. The next auction will take place June 4 and will feature .Promo. Play.PROMO Oy has entered into a contract with ICANN for the top level domain name but has not yet launched the domain name. .Promo was an uncontested application. Innovative Auctions previously auctioned .reise as a resale domain. That domain name had already ... read more ...
Mon 13th April 2015
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Brands blank a symbol with .Sucks defensive registrations - Knee-jerk reaction doesn’t make sense and leaves companies vulnerable. I’m not a fan of .sucks business model. I’m not a fan of charging big brands a premium to protect their brands with the veiled threat of someone creating a gripe site against the company. At the same time, I’m a bit flummoxed at the knee-jerk reaction some companies are taking with .sucks compared to other domains. They’re paying thousands of dollars to protect their brand.sucks domain name, but leaving many other potential ... read more ...
 
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See that new tip turn domain names are deleting - Check out which domains people are letting go. Want to take a second stab at domains registered under new top level domains a year ago? Curious what types of domain names people are giving up on after a year? Domain Punch has a new section that shows which domain names were deleted from the zone file yesterday. You can sort by top level domain and length, as well as see deletion numbers for each top level domain name. Keep in mind the domains on the list have just been deleted from the zone. This ... read more ...
Thu 9th April 2015
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ICANN asks FTC and OCA to examination .Sucks - ICANN asks government agencies for feedback on .sucks plan. ICANN has sent a letter to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Canada’s Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA), asking them to consider if Vox Populi’s plans for the .sucks top level domain are violating any laws or regulations these agencies enforce. .Sucks registry Vox Populi has an interesting pricing model that charges some brand owners — including those that have tried to protect their brands in new domain names — a higher fee. The ... read more ...
Wed 8th April 2015
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Donuts hurdles .Charity decision - Company invokes Independent Review Process over year-old objection decision. New top level domain name company Donuts has filed for an Independent Review Process over a community objection decision for .Charity. The Independent Objector filed community objections against both Donuts and Famous Four Media for their .charity applications. Surprisingly, the panelist ruled that the objection prevailed against Donuts but failed again Famous Four Media. The panelist’s decision was based on a Public Interest ... read more ...
Tue 7th April 2015
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The 3 Biggest Challenges Facing New gTLDs - In this guest post, Aditya Chauhan of LogicBoxes explains big challenges facing new top level domain name registries. When ICANN announced the nTLD program, thousands of applicants threw their hats in the ring. It seemed pretty straight forward; the existing TLDs were running out of short meaningful options, all that was needed was to create newer options that would be more relevant for specific sets of customers. Years later, the process is well underway; hundreds of nTLDs have hit the market, yet ... read more ...
 
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Slicing a data: Top 50 "Premium" gTLDs - One more way to look at the top level domain leaderboards. Registries have sliced and diced the new top level domain name leaderboards in many ways: paid registrations, registration years, number of domains used, Alexa rankings, etc. Here’s another one courtesy of StartingDot, the company behind .Bio, .Archi and the forthcoming .Ski. StartingDot has ranked the top 50 “Premium” gTLDs, with premium defined as an average retail price of at least $40. Since StartingDot’s domains are priced high, ... read more ...
Mon 6th April 2015
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New TLDs this week: .Flowers and .Wedding - Pick out your .flowers arrangement for the .wedding. Two top level domain names launch this week, and it’s fitting that they launch near the same time. Uniregistry launches .Flowers on Tuesday, April 7. You can pick these domains up at a number of registrars for about $20-$30. Of course, flowers are a key component of any wedding, and Minds + Machines launches .wedding on Wednesday. .Wedding domains are priced about the same as .flowers at retail, with prices in the $20-$30 range. There’s already ... read more ...
Wed 1st April 2015
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.Club tops 200,000 domain name registrations - .Club domain marks big milestone. The .Club team is celebrating after crossing the 200,000 registration barrier less than a year after launch. The numbers can be attributed to a good domain, low pricing, broad distribution and aggressive marketing. Although officially #3 in the zone file rankings, I believe .Club is #2 in arms-length registrations, behind only .xyz. GoDaddy, which featured .Club on its home page for several weeks after it launched, is the number one registrar for .Club. Customers ... read more ...
Thu 26th March 2015
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.Ping fetches $1.5M during auction, .Srl goes for $400,000 - Two two-way races for new top level domain names have been settled. Two top level domain name contention sets were settled in auctions yesterday. Golf company Ping (Karsten) won .Ping for $1,501,000. It was in contention with Radix. Thus, .Ping will become a .brand instead of a generic domain name. InternetX won the auction for .Srl at only $400,000, beating Google. Srl is a corporate identifier similar to LLC for Limited Liability Company. InternetX already runs .LTDA, a similar corporate identifier ... read more ...
Wed 25th March 2015
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Are we astounded by Donuts' renovation rates? - Latest day was 61%, but it might be too early to draw conclusions. New top level domain name mega-registry Donuts has been blogging daily renewal rate data for its first domain names released nearly 14 months ago. The most recent data show a 71% renewal rate for the 37,857 Donuts domain names that have exited the renewal grace period. This includes 14 top level domains, and the majority of these names were registered in general availability. Comparing day 4 to day 3, the renewal rate dropped to about ... read more ...
Tue 24th March 2015
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This week's new TLD launches: .Green and .Tires - .Green finally comes to fruition this week. Two Three new top level domain names are available to the public this week. .Green went live this morning and is available at a number of registrars. .Green domain names are available to everyone. Pricing at the three registrars I checked is between $60-$80 for the first year. Earlier this month I spoke with DotGreen Community CEO Annalisa Roger on the Domain Name Wire Podcast. You can listen to the story of the long road to .green and the purpose behind ... read more ...
 
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.Ping and .Srl domain names to be staid Wednesday - Two top level domain names head to the auction block on Wednesday. Auctions to settle contention sets for the .Ping and .SRL top level domain names will take place on Wednesday. The so-called “Auctions of Last Resort” will take place because one of the applicants didn’t want to settle the set in a private auction. Google and mySRL GmbH will square off for .SRL. SRL is similar to Limited Liability Company and is appended to the end of many company names. PING (the golf company) and Radix will ... read more ...
Mon 23rd March 2015
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How Major League Baseball can Boost New Domain Names - If it actually uses its new TLDs, Major League Baseball can have a profound affect on awareness of new domain names. On today’s Domain Name Wire Podcast, Michael Berkens discussed some of the recent new top level domain name auction results. One that I think is interesting is .Baseball, which was won by Major League Baseball (MLB). MLB has been aggressive about buying .com domain names that match team names. It currently owns all but three team names in .com after acquiring Rangers.com for $375,000 ... read more ...
 
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2 engaging new TLD-related videos - .Rocks, not .com, and .XYZ. I don’t have any cute cat videos to share with you this Monday, but I have a couple new top level domain name-related YouTube videos might interest readers. In the first one, one of the ten-year-old members of music band V² explains that their website is vsquared.rocks. Not .com, his brother explains: The second video is some footage of .XYZ’s #XYZsquad, commonly known as the purple people, at SXSW in Austin. .XYZ definitely upped the game with its purple people ... read more ...
 
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Donuts' initial new domain names are starting to drop… - Donuts’ first domain name registrations are starting to drop. Here are initial numbers. Donuts is releasing renewal numbers for its new TLDs daily as the first batch of names exit the auto-renew grace period. Yesterday, Donuts COO and Co-Founder Richard Tindal blogged results for the 6,352 Donuts domains that exited the grace period as of Saturday. Of these, 85.3% were renewed. About one third of these domain names were sunrise registrations, which should have a higher-than-normal renewal rate. ... read more ...
Wed 18th March 2015
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2 impression domain names turn accessible today - Short domain names to be released today. Top level domain name company Rightside is releasing 20,000 two character domain names across its TLDs today at noon EDT. The two character domains to be released include at least one number in them, taking the form of NL.tld, LN.tld or NN.tld. That obviously limits the appeal compared to two letter domains, but two letter domains are still in limbo at ICANN. I would think the better domains are ones typically used as brands (e.g. A1) and ones with specific ... read more ...
Tue 17th March 2015
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Donuts launches ad debate to boost recognition of new TLDs - Company starts campaign to build awareness of the availability of alternatives to .com domain names. Donuts launched its first major, web-based advertising campaign to raise awareness of new top level domain choices yesterday evening. The “Freedom of Choice” campaign involves display and video advertising targeted to small and medium business owners, entrepreneurs and tech-savvy early adopters. Ads will show on Forbes, Mashable and Fast Company, as well as more general sites such as YouTube and ... read more ...
Mon 16th March 2015
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GMO loses village bid for .Shop domain name - Company scores just six points in evaluation. GMO Registry has lost is Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) for the .Shop top level domain name. The company scored 6 points out of a possible 16 on its CPE, falling well short of the 14 required. It scored no points for Community Establishment and Nexus. It picked up a handful for registration policies because of some basic registration restrictions. It also scored some on Community Endorsement, mostly because there was no opposition. The decision is ... read more ...
 
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Froyo and sandwiches starting conversations about new TLDs during SXSW - Free food with a sales pitch. Sedo’s Solomon Amoako (left) and Jeremiah Johnston enjoy some domain-filled frozen yogurt.Spreading awareness of choice in top level domain names isn’t easy. One-on-one conversations might be the best way to explain what they are and why you might want one. That’s the idea behind promotions by Sedo and Radix at this year’s SXSW conference in Austin. Sedo set up a food truck in a downtown area with high foot traffic and is offering free frozen yogurt. People have ... read more ...
Thu 12th March 2015
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Survey: .Club and .Web domain names are favorites - .Club is In Da Club. .Club is a favorite new top level domain name, according to this year’s Domain Name Wire Survey. The survey asked which top new level domain name was the respondent’s favorite, as well as which TLD they thought would get the most domain name registrations. .Club was the runaway answer to both questions. Its heavy marketing and early results (about 200,000 registrations to date) certainly put the domain top of mind. Responses weren’t limited to already-released domain names, ... read more ...
Tue 10th March 2015
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This week's new TLDs: Mo Money, Mo Domains - Four domain names launch this week, including .money. Donuts releases four new top level domain names this Wednesday: .Money, .Legal, .Memorial and .Coach. Ironically, .Money costs the least money of the four. A couple registrars I checked are offering the domain name for $28 per year. .Legal, .Memorial and .Coach are all priced about $50 retail. Many of these domain names are similar to other existing domains. .Money will compete with .Cash (4,200 domains) and .Finance (2,600 domains). .Legal is ... read more ...
Fri 6th March 2015
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Minds + Machines pockets $1.68 from 3 some-more auction losses - Company gets cash for losing auctions. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines has added $1.68 million to its bank account after losing three more contention set auctions. The money primarily comes from losing .beauty and .soccer, both of which were resolved through a private auction. L’Oreal won the three-way race for .beauty and Donuts won the four company auction for .soccer. The company also received a $37,000 refund from ICANN for withdrawing its .app application. .App was resolved ... read more ...
Wed 4th March 2015
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Radix portion adult Grilled Cheese during SXSW - New top level domain name company hopes to reach tech audience at SXSW this month. Radix is giving out t-shirts, such as this one for .tech, along with grilled cheese sandwiches at SXSW.People love free food, especially during a busy conference. I recently wrote about Sedo’s Froyo truck at SXSW; new TLD company Radix is also giving away free food at the event in Austin later this month. The company will have a large booth at the SXSW Tradeshow and will be handing out free .space-branded grilled ... read more ...