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 ...
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Wed 24th June 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 ...