Tag Archives: new tlds

Tue 3rd March 2015
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This week's new TLDs: .WhosWho and 4 EAPs - There aren’t many who’s registering this new domain name. Only one non-brand new top level domain name goes live this week in general availability, and it’s a rather unique one. .Whoswho went live yesterday. It appears to have only gotten about a dozen registrations on its first day and only has 22 names in the zone file so far. This isn’t too surprising. First of all, .whoswho is somewhat akin to .CEO. You can argue it fails the douche test. Second, whoswho is a somewhat strange term. I ... read more ...
Mon 2nd March 2015
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.App and .Blog – a demeanour during domain name registration numbers - Both terms are popular in existing domain name registrations. Google bought rights to the .App top level domain name last week for a whopping $25 million. Also last month, .Blog sold for an unknown number that was certainly 8 figures. App and Blog are certainly very popular terms, and they’re frequently found in newly-registered .com domain names. In fact, over the past six months, 328,271 .com domain names have been registered that include “app” in them, according to Verisign’s DomainView. ... read more ...
Tue 24th February 2015
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.Science soars to 10,000 registrations in 3 hours - Famous Four’s latest launch is off to a fast start. Famous Four Media launched the .Science top level domain name this morning, and registration activity has been brisk so far. At roughly three hours after launch, 9,680 .science domain names have been registered. The company expects the number to top 10,000 within the next half hour. Why is .science doing so well? It’s not all rocket science: some registrars are giving the domain names away free or cheap, spurring extra demand. Kind of like .casa ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines reports numbers, including $36M from auctions - Big 2014 numbers from losing auctions, but domain registration revenue starting to grow. Minds + Machines released some preliminary numbers for 2014 today. It can be summarized as: it pulled in a lot of cash from losing auctions, and registrations of its domains picked toward the end of the year as it released more of them. Here are some highlights: Auctions – Grossed $36 million from losing 21 private auctions for new top level domain names last year; spent $25.9 million to acquire 6 contested ... read more ...
Thu 19th February 2015
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gTLD Food Truck entrance to Austin during SXSW - Sedo to promote top level domain name choices during SXSW. Sedo is bringing its “gTLD frozen yogurt” marketing idea to Austin next month during the SXSW conference. The company partnered with registries for a similar program during dmexco in Cologne last September. Sedo served frozen yogurt with toppings, and the toppings were all named after different TLDs. For example, someone who wants their froyo topped with chocolate sauce and sprinkles might have to order it “with .club and .sexy on top”. In ... read more ...
Wed 18th February 2015
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.Top domain apparently regulating spam to get to a Top - New TLD registry sends spam to people who have registered other new TLDs. [Update: See statement from the .Top registry below.] How do you get attention for your new top level domain name in a crowded field? One new top level domain name company has apparently resorted to sending lots of unsolicited email — and likely scraping Whois to do it. .Top is currently ranked #9 in terms of registrations, surely helped by a 99 cent price tag at some registrars. The company behind it, Jiangsu Bangning Science ... read more ...
Tue 17th February 2015
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Donuts launches Name.Kitchen to marketplace new domains - Site promotes alternatives to .com domain names. Donuts, the largest new top level domain name company, promised it would rev up its marketing in 2015. Here’s one example of that, in the form of content marketing: Name.Kitchen. The new site has articles and ideas about new domain names and promises: …a kitchen atmosphere around the subject of name creation. It is especially geared toward entrepreneurs (aka “business chefs”) scratching their heads for ideas. We offer inspiration on cooking ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs on daub this week: .Yoga, .Sydney, .Cricket & more - A half dozen more new TLDs make their entrance this week. Six new top level domain names debut this week, with .Sydney already having launched yesterday. Here’s a rundown. .Sydney – this Australian geo domain name launched yesterday. The domain isn’t carried by some of the bigger U.S. registrars, but some of the major Australian registrars have it. They aren’t cheap. Instra is asking $85. For some reason MelbourneIT quoted me $240, which must be for multiple years. The rest of this week’s ... read more ...
Mon 16th February 2015
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Just how most did .Blog and .Store sell for? - Here’s a rough idea. On Friday I wrote about Minds + Machines and its payoff for losing the .blog and .store domain name auctions. Primer Nivel won the auction for .blog and Radix walked home with .Store. How much did they pay for these domain names? We don’t know for sure based on the data Minds + Machines disclosed, but we can get a general idea of the combined total. Minds + Machines pocketed $3.4 million. This includes its proceeds from these two auctions plus its refund from ICANN for withdrawing ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ and new TLDs with Daniel Negari – DNW Podcast #20 - How .XYZ became the most registered new top level domain name. Daniel Negari’s .XYZ domain name is the most registered new top level domain name by far, with about 800,000 registrations. But this hasn’t come without controversy. In this episode, Daniel talks about that controversy, how he got started with domain names, why he’s selling his .com’s and his plans for other new top level domain names. Also: Taylor Swift’s questionable domain registration, Sonic.net rebrands as just Sonic, ... read more ...
Fri 13th February 2015
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34 new tip turn domains accommodate their predestine in a subsequent 45 days - It’s auction mania for new TLDs. Winners and losers will be made in the new top level domain name program over the next 45 days as 34 domain names reach their deadline for contention set resolution. ICANN has scheduled 14 domain names for auction on February 25 and another 20 on March 25. Few of these contention sets won’t be resolved by the auction dates. Already, two hotly contested domain names on the docket for this month have been settled: .blog and .store. .Blog had 9 contenders and .store ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines gets .DDS, pockets millions from .store and .blog - Company adds to its cash pile as .dds, .store and .blog are settled. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines announced today that it has won the contention set for the .dds domain name, beating Google. DDS is short for “Doctor of Dental Surgery” and is the designation that most U.S. dental schools give graduates. Dentists often display their titles as “Jan Smith, DDS”. The domain name faces a bit of competition, including .dentist and .dental. Minds + Machines also lost a seven ... read more ...
Wed 11th February 2015
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.Email domain name owners YoYo sues 3 Banks over UDRP - YoYo.email asks UK court to reverse UDRP decision. YoYo.email has sued RBS Bank (Royal Bank of Scotland), Natwest Bank and Coutts Co in the United Kingdom in an effort to overturn an adverse UDRP decision. YoYo registered about 4,000 .email domain names when they came out, almost all of them reflecting brand names. The company plans to use the domain names for a certified email service. But the registration of these brand names has drawn the ire of trademark holders, and YoYo has the distinction ... read more ...
Tue 10th February 2015
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Why we purebred .Casa and .Work domains - Inexpensive domain names are worth the risk. I can count on both hands the number of new domain name extensions I’ve registered domains under, and this week I added two more: .casa and .work. Minds + Machines launched both domain names today. So why .casa and .work? They were price inexpensively, which limited the risk you take registering new top level domain names. I paid about $4 per landrush .casa domain name, and less than $2 per .work launch day registration. At these prices, my attitude ... read more ...
Mon 9th February 2015
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New TLDs this week: .LGBT and dual inexpensive domains - LGBT will be the most talked about, but don’t overlook these others. Domain Names are sure to get a lot of press this week as .LGBT “comes out” on Tuesday. Although many of the target buyers are still miffed over the current status of .gay, .LGBT offers them the opportunity to get a domain name with a related meaning and purpose. Also this Tuesday, Minds + Machines is taking a different approach than before with the launches of .casa and .work. The big difference? They’re cheap. Very cheap. Many ... read more ...
Fri 6th February 2015
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How is .Com? Verisign discusses, and signs 11 IDN contracts - Verisign signs transliteration TLD contracts, discusses the state of .com. There was a lot of interesting information in yesterday’s Verisign quarterly investor conference call. First, the company said it signed 11 contracts for its IDN transliterations of .com and .net, meaning that investors of IDN.com domain names might be close to getting their hands on IDN.com-as-IDN domains. I say might because Verisign isn’t willing to put a date on it and hinted that the end is not near. The company ... read more ...
Wed 4th February 2015
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What a DNA news about new TLDs tells us - Few people know about them, but they like the idea of more choice. The Domain Name Association (DNA) released results of a survey this morning designed to understand consumer sentiment toward domain names, and especially new top level domain names. DNA is very much an advocacy group for the adoption of new top level domain names, yet I found its survey to be fair about the challenges to collecting data about new TLDs and its question methodology. A lot of the questions were hypothetical about which ... read more ...
 
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Neustar grossed about $2 million income from new TLDs in Q4 - Company is “cautiously bullish” about new TLDs over next few quarters, but I’m not the only one who doesn’t know what that means. Domain name registry and telephone services company Neustar (NYSE: NSR) reported 4th quarter 2014 earnings yesterday after the market closed. On the company’s conference call, CFO Paul Lalljie reported that the company pulled in about $2 million in revenue in the fourth quarter from new top level domain names, and much of that came from the .NYC launch. The ... read more ...
Thu 29th January 2015
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.Space wins this week's new TLD releases - .Space tops in registrations with about 1,700 on first day. When it comes to most registrations, .space appears to have topped the list of this week’s new top level domain name launches. That doesn’t come as a big surprise since it’s the most generic (and lowest priced) domain of the lot. Here’s a run down of this week’s new TLD launches, starting with the most registrations… 1. According to namestat, .Space added 1,700 domain names in the zone yesterday, bringing its total to 1,784. ... read more ...
Wed 28th January 2015
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Was Michele.watch purebred for Pole Dances or for Watches? - Domain name registrant came up with a creative defense in UDRP. A National Arbitration Forum panel has ordered the domain name Michele.watch transferred to watchmaker Fossil Group, Inc. I’ve got to hand it to the respondent in this case. He put up a spirited defense of his registration of Michele.watch. Kucevic said he didn’t register the domain name to take advantage of Fossil’s Michele brand of watches. Instead, he registered it for use as a pole dancing site. The idea was that visitors ... read more ...
Tue 27th January 2015
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This week's new TLDs: .Space, Google's .How and .RIP - 6 new top level domain names will be released on Wednesday. A number of new top level domain names are being launched in general availability this week, all on Wednesday. Radix’s .Space hits registrars’ shelves at a price of about $10. It’s a generic domain, but also conjures up the idea of your “space” online. Their site markets it as “A .space domain is for passionate and driven individuals and groups who want to carve out a personalized space online. It specially caters to freelancers, ... read more ...
Mon 26th January 2015
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New TLDs with Donuts' Richard Tindal – DNW Podcast #017 - A discussion about new top level domain names with the biggest new TLD company. Donuts Inc doesn’t sell baked goods by the dozen — it sells new domain names. But like Krispy Kreme, it sells a lot of varieties of its product. In this episode, I chat with Donuts co-founder and COO Richard Tindal. Donuts is the largest new TLD company with over 300 applications and nearly 200 domain names released. We discuss why Donuts thinks new TLDs are better than .com and what the company will do this year ... read more ...
Thu 22nd January 2015
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Trademark Clearinghouse bundles Porn domains with use during discount - Deal with ICM Registry cuts pricing if you sign up for TMCH and protect a brand in adult domain names. The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) will cut you a deal on its services, if you take a little TA with it. On a webinar about the new ICM Registry domains .Adult and .Porn today, ICM General Counsel Sheri Falco announced it has partnered with TMCH to create special bundled pricing. She said it’s the first deal of its kind for the Trademark Clearinghouse. The TMCH doesn’t set pricing for domain ... read more ...
 
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.XXX registry releases Domain Check for code owners - Tool checks brand across more than just ICM Registry’s top level domain names. ICM Registry, the company behind .xxx and the forthcoming .porn and .adult domain names, has released an online tool for companies to check their brands across hundreds of new top level domain names. Domain Check, of course, provides status information related to ICM’s own top level domain names. But it also checks the domain name across many TLDs, providing launch phase and registration status. For example, here’s ... read more ...
 
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Do we need new domain names for genuine estate? - Many domain names used in real estate are still available in .com. There are lots of new top level domain names coming out (or already released) for real estate purposes: .Realtor, .realty, .realestate, .casa, .immobilien, .immo and probably a few others I’ve missed. This week Rightside released .forsale, a domain it is pitching for real estate purposes, i.e. 123Anystreet.forsale. Domain names purchased for real estate marketing are big business. GoDaddy has frequently touted domain names as a ... read more ...