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 …
Read More »50inda.com was registered today and 50centindaclub.com is parked
.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 …
Read More »50 Cent In Da .CLUB At NYC Launch Event (video)
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 …
Read More »Who are the biggest .club domain name buyers?
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 …
Read More »Recording and Presentation of the .NYC launch event
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 …
Read More »65% .club domains from day 1 are not registered in .com
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 …
Read More »New gTLD Domain Name Spam Emails
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 …
Read More ».luxury gets 235 new registrations for $800 each on day 1 but some are from sunrise
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 …
Read More »10 .COM Hand Registrations Versus 10 New gTLD Hand Registrations
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 …
Read More »ICANN publishes final Initial Evaluation New gTLD results
ICANN published the final Initial Evaluation (IE) New gTLD results. Out of the initial 1930 New gTLD applications 1783 applications passed the Initial Evaluation. Of course some of the applications were withdrawn before reaching the Initial …
Read More ».Amazon New gTLD No More!
New gTLD applications for .amazon and related IDNs in Japanese and Chinese filed by Amazon EU S.à r.l. should not proceed. ICANN announced this last night after the GAC advised the ICANN Board in its …
Read More »How To Register .ngo and .ong Domain Names for Your Nonprofit or NGO
Public Interest Registry (PIR) is the registry that will operate the New gTLD strings .ngo and .ong. The .ngo and .ong domains and the NGO Portal will launch in October 2014. Here’s a quick “How …
Read More »Domain Name Q&A: New gTLD Edition (EAP and GA pricing and renewals)
It has been a long time since I did a Domain Name Q&A post for the simple reason that I don’t have time for it. There is constantly something to write about and many times …
Read More »New gTLD Domain Sales: 4 sold for $12,500+, Room.Guru for $6450, 7 for $3,000+ and 13 for $1,200+
There were 24 domains sold in the first 3 Donuts EAP days for .expert and .works for a total of about $86,600 or more depending on the premium domains. Go Daddy/Afternic sold Room.Guru for $6450 …
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