Konstantinos Zournas, Author at OnlineDomain.com

ICANN Terminates Accreditation Of Panama Registrar With Zero (0) Domains!

ICANN sent a notice of termination of registrar accreditation agreement for the registrar Vigson, Inc. from Panama on the 18th of November 2014. As of 18 November 2014, Vigson, Inc.’s Registrar Accreditation Agreement (“RAA”) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned …

Trademark Clearinghouse: 1,181 Marks Have Already Expired & 848 Marks Are Not Verified

We have not even reached the first year anniversary of the first New gTLD and marks are already expiring at the TMCH. So far 33,902 marks have been submitted to the Trademark Clearinghouse as of …

New gTLD 1st Day Domains: .top 9261, .quebec 3911, .engineer 529

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s 3 New gTLD launches: On the 18th of November the Canadian geo New gTLD .quebec launched and got 3,911 domain name registrations. Quebec …

Namejet Sells 67 Domains For $503k: LOV.com $91,800, OAI.com $39,999

Namejet released it’s October 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 67 (80 last month) domains for $503,394 ($459,621 last month). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am sure …

Dish DBS Wins .Dot New gTLD Auction For $700,000 Beating Google

Dish DBS Corporation won today the auction for the .Dot New gTLD for just $700,000. Dish beat .dot other applicant Google’s company Charleston Road Registry Inc. This was the cheapest

Daily Domain Sales (11-18-2014): Huagao.com $20,250, ShopMate.com 12,000 EUR, Wite.com $6,500

I don’t know if you heard but world.estate was sold by Nokta for $35,000. The domain is not even a premium. It has a regular renewal price. DomainHoldings.com sold luxury.estate back in June for $50,000. …

The .Org Registry Will Launch “OnGood”, A New Brand Identity For .NGO & .ONG Domains

Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, unveiled “OnGood” – the new brand identity for the upcoming .ngo & .ong domains and their accompanying suite of services. Set to launch in early …

Ultimate Domain Name “www.google” Ranks 20th New gTLD In Alexa But Does Not Resolve

As many of you know Google applied for the .Google New gTLD and the application was accepted by ICANN as a .brand string. Google has since signed the registry contract with ICANN and the New …

.NYC Landrush: $1.2M+ Revenue, 10,506 Domains Sold, 145 For $1,000-$9,999, 10 For $10,000+

The .NYC Advisory Board published a report on the .NYC Landrush that involved 10,506 domain names. My estimate is that the .nyc landrush revenue was at about $1.2 to $1.3 million. This includes the landrush …

Italian Web Hosting Company Aruba.it Has Won The .Cloud New gTLD

Aruba S.p.A. (http://www.aruba.it), a company offering web hosting, certified email and domain names services as well as a cloud provider in Europe (http://www.arubacloud.com) since 2011, has been awarded the .cloud extension, thus supporting Aruba’s ambitious …