New gTLDs

NameJet partnered with Rightside Registry to offer 20 .DANCE premium domain names like music.dance and 1.dance. 13 of the 20 domains were sold in the auction. The domain name pole.dance got the highest bid with …

.Ninja had a good 1st day yesterday as it entered general availability.The Rightside New gTLD reached 5,199 registrations after a just a few hours. That includes sunrise and landrush registrations. .Guru had 12,435 registrations after …

Architelos signed a NameSentry (automated domain name abuse detection and mitigation services) referral agreement with Verisign. Architelos will provide NameSentry at a discounted rate to new generic top-level domain (gTLD) registry operators that use Verisign as …

Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain – opened yesterday the general availability of three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organisation” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one …

On Monday June 2nd, 2014, as part of the all-new Moniker experience, Moniker will begin to offer access to over 1,000 domain extensions including new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). Moniker has not yet signed …

I got a press release today saying that .xyz enters “Domainer-Friendly Landrush: thousands of names like gamble.xyz, whiskey.xyz and bids.xyz up for grabs”. Here is the Press Release: May 28, 2014 Following a Sunrise that saw …

.Club launched the new 50 Cent website at 50inda.club but here is what the .club registry did and what they missed in domain names: They need to redirect all these domains to 50inda.club: inda.club (reserved …

As you probably know by now, shortly after the .club LAUNCH on May 7th, a partnership was announced with award-winning rapper, actor and entrepreneur, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. On May 22nd 50 Cent launched his …

The .club New gTLD had about 25,781 registrations after day 1 of general availability. I checked to see who were the buyers that bought more than 100 .club domains each on day 1. There were …

In one of the largest expansions of the Internet to date, hundreds of newly approved gTLDs will become available in 2014. The .nyc domain launch is one of the most anticipated arrivals – and is …

The .club New gTLD had about 25,781 registrations after day 1 of general availability. I did a search and found that 65% or 16,702 of the corresponding .com domains are not registered. 5,415 from these …

In just a few hours I got 2 different emails from people or companies trying to sell me .uno and .xyz New gTLD domains. That is excluding all the registrars that are sending me 10s …

Yesterday was the day 1 the .luxury New gTLD as it entered General Availability. .Luxury had about 570 domains registered in sunrise (most of them) and landrush before General Availability started. The retail price for …

I thought about posting my 10 latest .com hand registrations but then I thought why not include 10 of my New gTLD hand registrations as well for comparison? I am always looking to buy domains …