New gTLDs

In the past 4 months I have been refunded $3,000 from Go Daddy from failed New gTLD EAP pre-orders. I was refunded $2,850 back in March and $150 just a couple of days ago. The …

8 New gTLDs launched this past week. Donuts had 4 (.Capital, .Engineering, .Exchange and .Gripe.) that did pretty bad. And the other 3 Punto 2012’s (CentralNic) .bar and .rest,  and Rightside Registry’s .moda didn’t do much …

It seems that the .Scot registry doesn’t know about domain name collision lists and other ICANN rules concerning new domain name extensions. 3 of the 38 pioneer domain names and websites that were announced are …

Sedo is running a rather interesting email campaign promoting the thousands of .club domains it has on it’s platform. They are contacting Sedo users that have or had “club” related domains for sale in their …

A few months back on a post called “Post Your Best New gTLD Domain Name“, that has over 300 comments, a reader claimed that he had an offer for his domain name Trade.Domains for $80,000 …

I got this email from a reader yesterday complaining about 4 reserved domain names in .casa, .horse, or .cooking during the Minds + Machines Priority Reservation Phase. The reader says that the 4 domains he …

Yesterday 16th of July 4 Donuts New gTLDs went out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general availability: .Capital, .Engineering, .Exchange and .Gripe. The first day, or rather first hours, registration …

ICANN issued a warning today regarding some people trying to sell generic top-level domain (gTLD) centificates. These fraudulent certificates claim to protect registrants from something that I don’t quite understand. If you have received such …

Yesterday 15th of July the .Wien new domain name extension entered general availability. Vienna (Wien in German) is the capital and largest city of Austria. The first day, or rather first hours, registration numbers were …

The new .scot top level internet domain launched today giving individuals and organisations the chance to express their pride in Scotland online. People can now, for the first time, choose to use a .scot web …

SLAM Strategy, a digital strategy company from Adelaide Australia, published a social media report today that focused on DotBrand New gTLD applicants. The study focused on 647 brands that applied for ICANN gTLDs to look …

I was doing some quarterly taxes and I found by accident that Go Daddy owes me some money once again. $150 this time. Do you remember how I found out that Go Daddy was owning …

Punto 2012 (using the CentralNic backend) launched 2 of it’s New gTLDs yesterday: .bar and .rest. The first day, or rather first hours, registration numbers were ok for .bar, especially considering the $70 registration fee, …

This week 8 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability. Today, the 14th of July, Punto 2012 (CentralNic) has 2 of it’s New gTLDs entering general availability: …