New gTLDs

Since the first New gTLDs started launching in early 2014 and since two Rightside-owned gTLDs, .dance and .democrat, went live in May of 2014, the question many domain-industry watchers were asking is how popular new …

Connecting.nyc, is extremely disappointed with the New York City’s and Neustar’s decision to auction several premium .NYC domains starting with 20 domains later this month. Connecting.nyc Inc. is a NYS nonprofit education organization advancing the operation …

.NYC domains are 2 years old and celebrate by releasing about 3,800 .nyc “premium domain names” today. Starting on Monday, October 10 at 3:00pm EDT, these .nyc premium domain names will be offered to the …

I went to GoDaddy to check the price of Sex.Shop. (.Shop launched getting more than 50,000 registrations.) I immediately saw that the price for Sex.shop was $139,999.99 per year but then I saw that many …

The domain name sex.guru expired, was deleted and is now available to register. But why isn’t it taken yet? .Guru domains were a few of the first New gTLDs that launched in early 2014 by …

Starting October 1, .CLUB will no longer recapture and reserve deleting domain names as the registry As you may know, in the past, as a registry .club has often recovered certain valuable deleting names and reserved …

.GLOBAL domains turned 2 this month. .Global was launched 9 September 2014. The number of premium domains sold is 253. The average sales price per premium domain sold is $ 2,751 USD. 8189 domain are …

Rightside had a .Games and .Live auction on Namejet but people had doubts about what the domain name renewal prices are. Maybe that affected bidding. The auction included 15 reserved domain names and 11 of …

nTLDStats posted an Infographic with many interesting facts about the .shop launch. You can see the infographic below. Here are a few of the findings: 19,291 people registered one or more .shop domains within the …

Donuts Inc., announced today that for three months beginning October 1, it will offer DPML Plus, a three-month promotion that builds on its legacy Domains Protected Marks List (DPML) program. For the first time brand …

You probably read about the glitch that allowed Home.nyc, a domain that was supposed to be auctioned on Namejet, to be registered for $30. But do you know that Michael Berkens of TheDomains.com is the …

.Shop domains opened for General Availability today. Here is a look at results in the first hours of GA and the .shop launch phases. In the first 30 minutes 39,801 .shop domain names were registered …

Last week the 1st premium .NYC domain name auction was announced. Starting October 24, 20 .nyc domain names associated with Living in NYC will be available to New Yorkers via online auction on Namejet. .NYC …

The domain name home.nyc is now not part of the .nyc auction as it was registered for $30 because of a glitch. Yesterday it was announced that there is going to be a .NYC premium …