Tag Archives: Radix

Wed 11th February 2015
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.Online partnership splits, one association will work new TLD - Companies end .online partnership, but all three will help market the domain name. A three company partnership for the .online top level domain name has broken up, and it appears Radix will now run the domain name by itself. A partnership between Radix, Tucows and NameCheap won the contention set auction for .online last year, reportedly paying more than $10 million for the domain name. All three parties then made capital contributions to the partnership to cover the cost of the auction and running ... read more ...
Wed 17th December 2014
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.Website Collision Domains Give A Boost In Registrations: Here Are Available LLL/NNN/One Word Domains - .Website which had its ICANN collision lists freed up recently has seen a nice bounce in daily registrations. Like a bunch of other TLDs, the spike in registrations appears to have come on the back of Black Friday and Cyber Monday registrations. The TLD saw volumes of 5 times that of the previous day’s registrations on Black Friday – close to 1,200 names in day. Cyber Monday brought more even more registrations. Some quick facts about .website registrations: Average daily new registrations in ... read more ...
Fri 7th November 2014
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.Online could be best general new domain yet - Three reasons .online should be successful. Michael Berkens spotted this morning that the last of the losing applicants for .online had withdrawn its application, meaning a partnership between Radix, NameCheap and Tucows has won the rights for the .online domain name. I think .online will be one of the most successful new generic top level domain names, for a few reasons. 1. A combination of three top-10 registrars will be pushing it. I’m assuming that Radix will ... read more ...
Tue 28th October 2014
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Radix gets .site as Google participates in a private auction - Radix tops Google and three others to win .site domain name. New top level domain name company Radix has secured the .site domain name, the company announced on social media this morning. That means the company has .website, .site and is still in the running to complete the trifecta with .web. Particularly interesting is that Google was in the contention set for .site. To my knowledge, the company has been a holdout for participating in private resolution of new TLD ... read more ...
Thu 9th October 2014
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1st Official New gTLD Registry Purchase As Radix Acquires .Tech - Radix a new gTLD registry announce today that is has acquire the new gTLD .Tech The ICANN auction for .Tech was held last month with the winning bid of $6,760,000 being placed by dot Tech LLC,  which is owned by the same principals of the company  the operate the .UNO registry. The other applicants for .Tech were  Donuts, Uniregistry, Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds + Machines) and Google . Radix either bought the registry post auction or pre-auction Either way its a great win for Radix. The ... read more ...
Wed 17th September 2014
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Radix delays new TLD launches until tomorrow - Pricing configuration issue delays launch of three top level domain names. New top level domain name applicant Radix has delayed the launch of its first three domain names until tomorrow. .Website, .Press and .Host will all launch tomorrow at noon EDT. They were scheduled to release at the same time today. Sandeep Ramchandani, business head for Radix, told Domain Name Wire that there was a pricing configuration issue that some registrars ran into. Although the TLDs ... read more ...
Mon 15th September 2014
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This is a biggest week nonetheless for new TLDs (16 domains!) - 16 domains hit the market this week. At the end of last month, I wrote about how the next 50 days would be important for new TLDs. Within that 50 days, this week is perhaps the biggest: 16 domain names will enter general availability. Call it Launch Week, and it’s really big for two of the portfolio applicants who launch their first owned-and-operated batches. Let’s get to it. Monday It’s a big day for publicly traded Minds + Machines (LSE: MMX). Last week ... read more ...
Sun 14th September 2014
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Landrush For .Website & .Press Ends Monday: Here’s a Special Price & Available Domains - The Landrush for three Radix’s new gTLD’s, .Website, .Press and .Host closes on Monday at Noon EST We have a special coupon code that will save you 10% off the landrush and pre-registration for any non-premium priced .website and .Press domain. The coupon code only works at 101domain.com and we furnished to the readers of TheDomains.com Coupon Code: RADIXLR10 This is applicable on: https://www.101domain.com/website.htm https://www.101domain.com/press.htm The registry Radix sent me over a list ... read more ...
Thu 28th August 2014
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.Host Announces 15 Pioneer Partners - Radix, announced 15 top players of the global hosting community as  Pioneers of the .host namespace, which rolled in to Landrush on August 26th. The Pioneer lineup includes big international names like MediaTemple, Bluehost, OVH, Arvixe, and the UK2 Group, in addition to regional leaders such as Natro (Turkey) and UOL (Brazil), HostPapa (Canada), Blacknight (Ireland). Several top global wholesale registrars, such as OpenSRS, ResellerClub and InternetX have also signed on as Pioneer Partners. “Jumping ... read more ...
Tue 12th August 2014
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Warning: Some Registrars (Godaddy) Are Making The Radix $160 Landrush Fee NonRefundable - Radix a new gTLD registry,  landrush for three new gTLDs .Host, .Website and .Press opens up on August 26th and runs until September 15th. Applying in landrush for a new gTLD domain gives the applicant early access to domain names ahead of general availability. The wholesale cost to apply for a .Host, .Website and .Press domain in landrush is $160. Radix has been advertising on social media calling their landrush a “no risk landrush” meaning that the $160 landrush fee is fully refundable if ... read more ...
Wed 18th June 2014
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Radix Announces Timeline for .Press “The Changing Face of Journalism” - Radix, announced today the timeline for rolling out their new gTLD .Press .Press will be available starting June 24th for Sunrise, the Landrush phase will follow starting on August 26th, 2014 “where anyone can register short and generic domain names by paying a small premium and .Press hits general availability on September 17th after which domains become available to everyone on a first-come and first-serve basis.” .Press according to Radix is “for the global journalism, PR, media and publishing ... read more ...
Mon 16th June 2014
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New gTLD .Website “The First True Alternative To .Com”” Announces Launch Timeline -   Radix the registry operator of .Website just announced the timeline for the release of the new gTLD extension which they are calling “The first true alternative to .com” Here is the some of the Press release: “Website will become the first all-purpose domain extension available for registration when it launches into Sunrise on June 24, 2014. Radix, .website’s registry and the largest new gTLD registry based in Asia, released a complete launch timeline for .website today, outlining a Landrush ... read more ...
Mon 24th March 2014
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Radix boots ARI in preference of CentralNic - CentralNic picks up contracts for new TLDs from rival. New top level domain name applicant Radix has selected CentralNic to be the backend registry provider for its .website, .host, .space and .press top level domain names. Radix had originally said that ARI Registry Services would be the technical services provider for all of its top level domain names. With that in mind, it was somewhat surprising when Radix chose CentralNic to power its .pw launch in 2012. That ... read more ...
Thu 24th October 2013
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Four some-more new TLD row sets staid in private auctions - Donuts and Radix win auctions to settle four more new TLD contention sets. Innovative Auctions has helped settle four more top level domain name contention sets through its auction service. Donuts, by the far the largest applicant for new top level domains, won three auctions. It is now the sole applicant for .lawyer, .fish, and .discount. It beat Top Level Domain Holdings for .lawyer and beat Whatbox for .discount and .fish. (Interestingly, Whatbox’s application ... read more ...
Tue 24th September 2013
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Radix, TLDH & Westerdal Asks ICANN To Suspend All Pending Expert Panels In New gTLD Process - Three large applicants to the new gTLD program sent a letter to ICANN yesterday to complaint about the Experts appointed by The Dispute Resolution Service Providers relating to the Community Objection process especially those at the ICC and asked ICANN to “ask all contracted arbitrators to temporarily suspend their decision making until ICANN can conduct a basic level of training for the actual Expert Panels on the AGB guidelines and their interpretations.” “Only Experts who are successfully ... read more ...
Tue 10th September 2013
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Endurance Files For $400M IPO: Buys Directi For $110M: Commits Up To $62 Million In New gTLD Auctions - As reported by Domainincite.com, Endurance International Group Holdings Inc,  filed for an IPO  to $400 million in an initial public offering of its common stock and plans on buying Directi for between $100 and $110 million Dollars. In  buying Directi Endurance would also get Radix Registry which has 29 active new gTLD applications of which 26 are in contention. Endurance is also committing an additional $62 Million dollars or over 2 million per contested string for auctions. As for existing business ... read more ...
Wed 4th September 2013
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WTR: Chats About How Radix Is Planning on Marketing Its New gTLD’s - The WorldTrademarkReview.com, published a story on Radix this morning and applicant for 29 new gTLD’s and spoke to Sandeep Ramchandani, business head of Radix , on how the company would market its offerings. Radix’s marketing strategy is two-fold.” “It plans to leverage its relationships with registrar channels as well as offering extensions directly to specific industries through direct marketing to brand owners.” “On the company’s string selection process, Ramchandani explains: “We ... read more ...
Wed 5th June 2013
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Radix Withdraws Its 2nd Application .Play & Starting Dot Withdraws .Design - Two more new gTLD application were withdrawn on ICANN’s site tonight making the total of new gTLD applications that have been withdrawn to 71. Radix which is part of the Directi Group which originally applied for 31 new gTLD’s, withdrew its application for .Play. Radix is now down to 29 applications as it withdrew its application for the new gTLD .Movie a few weeks ago. Like with .Movie, Radix was up against very stiff competition for the .Play new gTLD with applications still pending by Google, ... read more ...
Fri 1st June 2012
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DNW’s new TLD roundup: a good, a bad and a funny - From brands to portfolio players, here’s a look at what we know so far. The “big reveal” of who applied for what top level domains isn’t until June 13. But that didn’t stop a lot of companies from making their own announcements over the 36 hours since the application window closed. Here’s my roundup and analysis: Google Google announced four domains it is applying for, but AdAge reports the company is applying for upwards of 50 domain names. The announcement ... read more ...