Donuts released its latest newsletter and announced that it has brought 147 new gTLDs to the public, “offering more choice, specificity and meaningfulness to businesses and individuals worldwide”. They also announced that they exceeded 1,000,000 …
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CENTR Report: 282.5 Million Domains In The World With 1.6% Growth
As of August 2014 the total number of domains across all Top Level Domains (TLDs) stood at 282.5 million (including new gTLDs). This represents a growth of roughly 1.6% since May 2014 (4.5 million registrations). …
Read More »First .Cymru And .Wales Domains Go Live Today
Today, the first .cymru and .wales websites will go live when Wales’ First Minister and the National Assembly’s Presiding Officer officially switch over the first tranche of websites to their new internet domains, marking a …
Read More »New gTLD Weekly Launch Review: .Bayern, .Deals, , OVH, .City
This week 3 New gTLDs enter General Availability, another one New gTLD enters the EAP General Availability and 1 enters the landrush phase. .BAYERN is launching tomorrow the 30th of September. Donuts enters EAP General Availability …
Read More »Forbes: “How Will The New Dot.Tickets Domain Impact The Way People Buy Tickets Online?”
Forbes did an article called “How Will The New Dot.Tickets Domain Impact The Way People Buy Tickets Online?” Here are some main points from the article and my opinion at the bottom:
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Registrations: .Scot 4509, .Beer 1930, .Direct 1716, .Place 775, .Surf 570
Here are the domain name registration results from this week’s 5 New gTLD launches: .Scot, the New gTLD for Scotland, launched on the 23rd of September. .Scot had 4,509 domains registered on its first day. …
Read More »ResellerClub Launches a Pre-Registration Grabber For New gTLDs
With several new gTLDs entering General Availability every week, domain registrar, ResellerClub has introduced a bunch of new features to help its clients focus specifically on reselling new gTLDs. The company recently launched a Pre-Registration …
Read More »Dumbass Selling Lenovo.Solutions On eBay For $6 Million
I just found out that a dumbass from Canada is selling the New gTLD domain name Lenovo.Solutions on eBay for $6 million dollars. If you are not familiar with the Lenovo brand you can visit …
Read More »Trademark Submissions At TMCH Are NOT Slowing Down: 32,993 Marks So Far
So far 32,993 marks have been submitted to the Trademark Clearinghouse as of the 16th of September 2014. The number of marks was 31,866 on the 28th of July. So the Trademark Clearinghouse added 1,127 trademarks …
Read More ».London Priority Domain Auctions Start But Can Last Forever!
.London priority program auctions will be starting in about 2 weeks from now. Only problem is that according to the rules, the domain name auctions can last forever! Yes, you read that right! Here is …
Read More ».Scot Gets 4,509 Domain Names Registrations On Day 1
.Scot, the New gTLD for Scotland, launched yesterday 23rd of September. As I don’t have access to the .scot zone files I asked the .scot registry on Twitter how many .scot domains have been registered …
Read More »NEUSTAR Requests The Release Of Country And Territory Names For .NEUSTAR
NEUSTAR requested from ICANN the release of all reserved country and territory names for .NEUSTAR. I really don’t get how ICANN works sometimes. They first decided to reserve all country names for all New gTLDs …
Read More »Minds + Machines Report: £2,924,000 Profit From gTLD Auctions, Has £20 Million Cash
Minds + Machines Group Limited announced its unaudited interim results for the 6 month period ended 30 June 2014. During the period, total sales in H1 2014 increased 4114% to £295,000 primarily as a result …
Read More »Minds + Machines Wins .VIP And .Law (It lost .design, .flowers, .group, .realestate, .video)
Minds + Machines Group Limited announced today that it has won the auctions for .law and for .vip. The Group has also gained in aggregate cash of approximately $6.2 million (£3.8 million) from withdrawing its …
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