Tag Archives: .vegas

Wed 23rd December 2015
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Viral grill spoliation video facilities .Vegas domain name - Video has nearly 800,000 views already. A Las Vegas Mexican restaurant turned a robbery into a viral video hit, giving the .Vegas top level domain name a bit of publicity at the same time. Frijoles Frescas was recently robbed. That sucks for the restaurant, but it managed to turn surveillance video of the robbery into a viral video hit that is giving it publicity and likely leading to the identification of the perpetrators. The restaurant uses the domain name FrijolesAndFrescas.com, but also owns ... read more ...
Wed 19th August 2015
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Washington Post Covers Several New gTLD's & Asks: Who Needs .com? - The movement is on! Google has greatly helped all new gTLD’s and there are many mainstream media sites covering gTLD’s daily. This is really great news in general for the domain industry as a whole and clearly the gTLD’s! Although many of these stories relate to .com when talking about the new gTLD’s, like a new one today from the WashingtonPost.com with a title of: “Who Needs .com? Domains When .Vegas, .PR, .NYC are Trending” The story highlights several companies using gTLD’s like ... read more ...
Mon 20th July 2015
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Las Vegas Sun Covers .Vegas In A Largely Negative Story On "Lagging Numbers" - The LasVegasSun.com just covered the new gTLD .Vegas in what is largely a negative story on the new gTLD which is “lagging” behind other City new gTLD’s The Sun quotes Platinum Web Marketing founder Anthony Carlitto who blasted .Vegas: “”Platinum Web Marketing founder Anthony Carlitto, believes the .Vegas domain is a bad bet and doesn’t advise his clients to buy a .Vegas domain. Not only are alternative domains unfamiliar to the public, he said, they do nothing to improve a website’s ... read more ...
Fri 9th January 2015
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Las Vegas Review-Journal Renames Its Job Classified Section As RJJobs.Vegas - The Las Vegas Journal Newspaper, the newspaper with the largest circulation in the the state of Nevada has named its classified job section as RJJobs.Vegas. Although the domain name RJJobs.Vegas forwards to the reviewjournal.com/jobs, it seems that the newspaper is using the branding opportunity that a Geo domain like .Vegas brings. If your wondering the domain name Jobs.Vegas is registered reserved by the .Vegas Registry. There are several .Vegas registry owned domain names in the RightoftheDot.com ... read more ...
Tue 11th November 2014
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Former CEO Of Vegas.com Releasing “Revolutionary Global Booking Platform” On New gTLD’s - Howard Lefkowitz, the former CEO of Vegas.com, announced today that his new company, One Degree World™ Systems, Inc., which describes itself as “architects and owners of a revolutionary global content and booking platform, will be the first company of its kind to launch a series of holistic hospitality and travel websites on the emerging top-level domains (TLDs) other than .com. ” One Degree also announced it will manage over 1,000 .Vegas domain names, over 300 .Buzz domain names and an undisclosed ... read more ...
Wed 24th September 2014
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LasVegasWeekly.com: “Why The .Vegas Launch is a Ridiculous Racket & A Waste Of Money” - Lasvegasweekly.com just published a post entitled “Why The .Vegas Launch is a Ridiculous Racket” So as you can guess from the title LasVegasWeekly.com is not a fan of .Vegas It is probably as a scathing review of any new gTLD or the program in general that I have read from a non-domain industry publication. Its Brutal. Here we go with the highlights: “Now that the inane hype and local media boosterism for the new “dot-vegas” top level domain name is beginning to subside, maybe someone with ... read more ...
Wed 17th September 2014
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Tuesday Was .Vegas Day & A Big Celebration Was Held At Las Vegas City Hall -     The City of Las Vegas held a very cool launch ceremony for Dot Vegas at Las Vegas city hall today. Namescon.Vegas was the very first domain activated by .Vegas after Nic.Vegas (Nic.is the first domain activated by every new gTLD registry) Richard Lau and and Jothan Franks of Namescon were on hand to celebrate the launch, who appears in the picture on top of the post. Mike McLaughlin from Godaddy spoke about their current campaign and excitement over .Vegas, which is currently prominently displayed ... read more ...
 
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.Vegas launches with clever support from internal businesses - .Vegas off to solid start with lots of locals registering domain name. The .Vegas domain name launched on Monday and generated about 3,000 domain name registrations in the first hours of availability, plus another 1,400 registrations on Tuesday. .Vegas is somewhat unique because it represents both a U.S. city and a global brand synonymous with entertainment and gambling. EVP and co-founder of Dot Vegas Bart Mackay describes the domain as “dual purpose”, and his ... 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 ...
Sat 9th August 2014
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1st .Vegas Domains: Wynn, HardRock, Caesars, Sands, Harrahs, Palms, World Series Of Poker - The new gTLD .Vegas just closed it Sunrise period there are over 300 domain names registered including a few retained by the registry. There are actually more .Vegas domain names registered at this point that .NYC according to the zone file. Landrush for .Vegas domains start on August 14, 2014  and runs until September 10, 2014. General Availability starts on September 15th. As usually some very good generics were grabbed in the Sunrise period, which is only opened to trademark holders, so domain ... read more ...
Thu 5th June 2014
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My Preorder For Cool.Vegas Just Got A $35,525 Bill & CoolVegas.com Is Priced during $12K - I placed a pre-order for the domain name Cool.Vegas on a landrush basis with 101domain.com a while back. I got word the other day that the domain name was placed on the reserved list of the registry and made a premium domain. So I got a bill for the difference between what I previously paid for the pre-order $234.99 and the new premium price for the domain name of $35,760.00 I have no idea of how the .Vegas registry thinks a domain name like Cool.Vegas should be priced at $35K I reached out to DomainNameSales.com ... read more ...
Fri 30th May 2014
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Las Vegas Review Journal Covers .Vegas; The City Is Getting $4 a Domain & Expects $250K In Revenue A Year - .Vegas gets a big boost up in A story published by the Las Vegas Review Journal entitled “New .vegas domain could transform online marketing.” Interestedly in the article, Bill Arent the Director of the Las Vegas Office of Economic and Urban Development” is quoted as saying: “”Las Vegas will reap financial rewards from that pioneer status. Dot Vegas will share 10 percent of all .Vegas registration revenue with the city of Las Vegas, or nearly $4 on a $39.95 domain fee and estimates .Vegas ... read more ...
Wed 12th February 2014
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.Vegas To Launch Summer of 2014 & Registrar Expects Registrations To Easily Exceed 900,000 - According to a press release out this morning the  .Vegas Registry is expecting to launch in the Summer of 2014 and expects 900,000 registrations. According to the PR .Vegas will have a 60 day Sunrise period then right to Go Live with no Landrush or other priority period in between. Jim Trevino, CEO, of Dot Vegas, Inc is quoted as saying: “We are doing everything we can to ensure that those with trademarked brands, along with local Las Vegas companies and individuals, have the first opportunity ... read more ...
Wed 20th January 2010
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How Many Registrations Can .Vegas Expect? - Dot Vegas’ registration goals seem lofty. The Las Vegas city council is considering signing off on a private company going after the .vegas top level domain name when ICANN eventually opens up the namespace. The council just delayed a vote until February so the major can weigh in. Dot Vegas Inc., which wants to get the city council’s blessing for the domain name, has promised a share of the profits. It will pay 50 cents per domain or 10% of the gross profits. ... read more ...