New gTLDs

The gTLD strategy blog published an article on how “How New gTLDs Are Playing a Role in Black Friday Marketing and Holiday Marketing in 2014”. It has some interesting stats on what companies have registered and …

NetNames published an article on black friday and New gTLD domain names. The article is mostly targeted to brand owners and protecting their brand online. Here are a few highlights:

Coffee.club, a subscription-based coffee club that delivers among the freshest access to organic, ethically sourced roasted beans on the market today, announces its launch on Black Friday to appeal to the more than 54 percent …

8 New TLDs are releasing over 160,000 collision domains names today. Internet Corporation of Names and Numbers (ICANN) required that millions of domain names were reserved when these New gTLDs first entered general availability. Now …

.HOST has released a wave of over 120,000 new domain names for public registration today. These names were previously blocked in compliance with ICANN’s regulations on name collisions. The latest launch comes after a 90-day …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s 6 New gTLD launches: On the 24th of November .gent launched and it got 1,277 domain name registrations on its first day. Gent (or …

This week 6 New gTLDs enters General Availability, 0 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 0 string enter the landrush phase. On the 24th of November .gent is launching. Gent (or rather Ghent) is …

Paul Stahura, founder and CEO Donuts Inc., wrote an article on CircleID about the upcoming New gTLDs renewals. Shahura said that he conservatively predicts an initial renewal rate of greater than

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …