Top 10 Posts In 2014 At OnlineDomain.com: New gTLDs, .XYZ, Sex.xxx, Uniregistry etc.

logo01-photo2014 was a great year at OnlineDomain.com in terms of views and visitors. It was the first full year of blogging even though the blog was launched in 2012.

The year 2014 had about 325k+ views from 125k+ visitors and almost 7000 comments. All these across the 1,351 articles that were posted.

The most popular post from the total 1,351 articles posted in 2014 was of course Post Your Best New gTLD Domain Name, that now has more than 750 comments, followed closely by the post .XYZ is DEAD – DISASTER! Daniel Negari Exposed! .XYZ down to 34th place! Where is Deals.xyz?.

Other topics included the sale of the domain name Sex.XXX, a 3,500-employee company with a $500 domain name budget, New gTLD sales, the .XYZ free registrations, a couple of early Uniregistry problems and a guy selling domains before paying for them at Snapnames.

Here are the top 10 posts for 2014 in terms of views:

  1. Post Your Best New gTLD Domain Name
  2. .XYZ is DEAD – DISASTER! Daniel Negari Exposed! .XYZ down to 34th place! Where is Deals.xyz?
  3. SEX.XXX Sells For $3 Million Part Of A $5 Million Deal (cam.xxx, phone.xxx, black.xxx etc.)
  4. Are you f*cking kidding me? 3,500-employee company with a $500 domain name budget?
  5. 7 new gTLD domains sold for $12,540 a piece at GoDaddy: nature.photography, color.photography
  6. All good .tattoo and .sexy domains are not available. The reason is unknown…
  7. Chick-fil-A Spends About $100,000 On 8 .Restaurant Domain Names
  8. Frank you need to fix this Uniregistry mess here and now!
  9. iWire.com Winning Bidder For $7,777 Tries To Sell The Domain Before He Pays For It At Snapnames
  10. .XYZ =  not exactly the NEXT .COM, more like a disaster

And a few of my favorite posts:

  1. Fake Trademarks Stealing Generic Domains In New gTLD Sunrises
  2. $80,000 Domain Name “Trade.Domains” Only Has A $125 Bid At Flippa
  3. I Have Been Refunded $3,000 From Go Daddy And I Have Yet To Find Someone Else With The Same Problem
  4. Donuts: “.COM has become diluted and meaningless. It adds nothing to an identity.”
  5. Future Media Architects (FMA) Transfers 100,000 Domains To Uniregistry
  6. In Search Of A New Domain Name Registrar
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About Konstantinos Zournas

I studied Computer Engineering and Computer Science in London, UK and I am now living in Athens, Greece. I went online in 1995, started coding in 1996 and began buying domain names and creating websites in 2000. I started the OnlineDomain.com blog in 2012.

4 comments

  1. Great meeting you after a decade! Let’s not wait another one for our next gathering 😀

  2. Kosta, I’ve heard you’re about to purchase Domaining.com from François to expand OnlineDomain reach … 😉
    lol jk

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