The domain name Diet.Expert was sold for about $7,500 on the 2nd day of Donuts Early Access Program (EAP) pricing. This price includes a $3,000 day 2 EAP fee and the registration fee that for …
Read More »Someone registered 7,572 .club domain names spending more than $110k!
.Club had one of the best first days of all New gTLDs up until now. Just a few hours after general availability it had 25,781 registrations including sunrise and landrush domains. But this success was …
Read More »Pool Starts Offering New gTLD Pre-Orders
I got email from Pool.com today stating that Pool has started offering pre-orders for New gTLD domain names that enter the general availability phase: By popular request, Pool.com is now using its domain acquisition engine …
Read More »Nominet announces the launch of .cymru and .wales New gTLDs
ICANN has formally signed a contract giving domain addresses ending in .cymru and .wales the go-ahead. The agreement means that businesses and consumers can acquire a .cymru or .wales domain name allowing them to demonstrate …
Read More »Rolex buys 27 .watch New gTLD domain names for a total of about $19,000
Rolex bought 27 domain names on the 4th day of the Donuts Early Access Program (EAP) for the New gTLD .watch last week. Of course .watch would be top priority for a watch company such …
Read More ».Africa Put on Hold/Stay by an Independent Review Panel Decision
An ICANN Independent Review Panel has issued a decision [PDF, 7.80 MB] that ICANN should hold off from further processing of ZA Central Registry’s (ZACR) application for the .AFRICA top-level domain (TLD) for the time …
Read More »CentralNic launches Domain.Luxury website to sell .Luxury domains
CentralNic Group PLC said Monday that it had launched a new website, DOMAIN.LUXURY, for the sale of new domain names ending in .luxury through its subsidiary TLD Registrar Solutions. CentralNic chief executive Ben Crawford said: …
Read More »Sedo sells 466 domains worth $1,2 million: autos.de 120k Euro, kalamata.com 45k Euro (Apr 28 to May 4)
In the past week (Apr 28 to May 4), 466 (444 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,2 million ($1,1m last week). Only 189 (195 last week) domains from …
Read More »Afternic – Go Daddy Auctions Domain Sales: maimaiche.com $80k, FreeHookups.com $40k (4-28-14/5-04-14)
Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 4-28-14 to 5-04-14 were $1.878.819. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …
Read More ».wiki Landrush has started – GA: May 26th – Registry has 2552 premium domains reserved
The .wiki registry published a guide regarding the .wiki New gTLD landrush. The .wiki Sunrise phase ended this week. On May 8th, .wiki will enter Landrush, the phase in which motivated buyers can apply for …
Read More »New gTLD First Auctions Confirmed (A lot of the contested New gTLDs will be live in 2015)
ICANN has updated the Auction Schedule for New gTLD applicants with strings in contention sets. Here are the auction dates for some of the more important New gTLDs: .Buy, .Online, .Live: 9 July 2014 .Ltd, …
Read More »34 more New gTLDs were delegated: .FINANCE, .MOSCOW, .TAX, .BLACKFRIDAY, .PARIS
ICANN announced that 34 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 259 new gTLD strings. Here are some of the more important of the 34 new gTLDs: .FITNESS, .FINANCE, .MOSCOW, .TAX, .BLACKFRIDAY, .PARIS …
Read More ».nyc Enters First Phase of Launch With 1st Priority Given To NYC businesses With Trademarks
This week, the City of New York and Neustar launched the first phase of availability for the new .nyc web address. The “Sunrise” phase gives NYC businesses with trademarks first priority in claiming their .nyc …
Read More »CentralNic Group PLC Report: Net revenue increased by 4% to £3.05 million in 2013
CentralNic (AIM: CNIC), the owner and manager of an internet distribution platform which derives a revenue share from sales of internet domain names into markets across the world, today announces its audited results for the …
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