“Over the next 6-12 months we expect to get about 1-2 million domain registrations under .ooo”. All I can say is: lol. Maybe they should rename their New gTLD from .ooo to .lol. They will …
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Next New gTLD Program Probably Coming in Late 2016 or 2017
ICANN published a draft Work Plan to describe the set of community reviews and activities underway and planned to support consideration of an additional application process for the next round of generic top-level domain (gTLD) …
Read More ».Scot Launched Today – Facebook, Linkedin and Instagram Bought Domains
Scotland’s own domain .scot went live from 2pm (GMT+1) today (September 23) giving Scots, businesses and relevant parties the chance to own their own Scottish part of the internet. It puts Scotland on parity with …
Read More »What Areas Of London Registered The Most .London Domain Names?
1&1 and Fasthosts registrars have produced an interesting heatmap of successful .London registrations and found that the City of Westminster, is the no.1 London borough for successful .London domain registrations (14 per cent). Home to …
Read More »New gTLD Weekly Review: .Scot, .Deals, .Beer, .Surf, .Direct, .Place
This week 5 New gTLDs enter General Availability, another one New gTLD enters the EAP General Availability and 4 enter the landrush phase. .Scot, under the shadow of the 55% ‘NO’ poll vote, is launching …
Read More »Sedo and .Club at DMEXCO 2014 (video)
The .CLUB team joined the SEDO team at the huge DMEXCO conference in Cologne, Germany to introduce new domain names to leading digital marketers and brands from all over Europe. .CLUB CMO Jeff Sass had …
Read More »CentralNic Invests $1.62 Million In .Tickets New Top-Level Domain
CentralNic plc, “the internet platform business which derives revenues from the global sale of domain names”, today announced that further to the announcement on 18 September 2014, the Group is investing US$ 1.62 million in Accent …
Read More »Sedo’s Report From The Dmexco Conference: 90% Visitors Never Heard Of New gTLDs
Sedo published a report on the dmexco 2014 Digital Marketing Exposition & Conference that was held in Cologne Germany. The conference had 32,000 visitors and Sedo along with representatives from Famous Four Media, Donuts, DotClub, …
Read More »Registry and Registrar Pricing Problems With .Website, .Host and .Press
I had made a landrush pre-order for the domain video.press. After landrush had ended I checked to see if I got the domain only to see that my pre-order had disappeared from my account and …
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Registrations: .Website 6,342, .Press 800, .Host 780
Here are the domain name registration results from yesterday’s 3 New gTLD launches: Radix launched yesterday its first 3 New gTLD strings: .Website, .Host and .Press. .Website got the most registrations as expected and has …
Read More ».Website Surpasses 6,500 Domains In First 4 Hours Of Launch
General availability launched today for three top-level domains: .WEBSITE, .PRESS and .HOST. These TLDs entered General Availability with 80+ registrars onboard, including industry leaders like GoDaddy, eNom, OpenSRS, 1Api, 1&1, DomainMonster and Name.com. .WEBSITE surpassed …
Read More »Report On ‘Registrar New gTLD Market Share’ Attacks .XYZ and Network Solutions
“Perhaps it is better to be the leader on a few high-potential TLDs than to be in “pole position” on a TLD artificially inflated by short-term promotional tactics.” OUCH! This is a conclusion of the …
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Registrations: Church 4044, .Guide 3387, .Life 2016., .Loans 632, .Republican 385
Here are the domain name registration results from yesterday’s 5 New gTLD launches: 4 Donuts New gTLDs were out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general availability on Wednesday: .Loans, .Life, …
Read More »Amazon Wins .Buy For $4.6m, M+M .VIP For $3m and Dot Tech .Tech For $6.8m
On 17 September 2014, an Auction conducted by ICANN’s authorized Auction service provider, Power Auctions LLC, was held to resolve string contention sets for three new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) strings; BUY, TECH, and VIP. …
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