Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 4-6-14 to 4-12-14 were $2.065.279. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …
Read More »Would you like some weed (.farm)?
I was only after 3 domain names from Donuts 3 new gTLD strings this week that were .farm, .codes and .viajes. I got one and I am happy with that. Judging from the zone files …
Read More »New gTLD Domain Sales: 3 sold for $3,000+ and 6 for $1,200+ each (wood.marketing, viral.marketing)
This past week the following 2 Donuts New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .marketing and .holiday. The total Donuts EAP purchases from the first 3 EAP days is at about $16,200 or more depending …
Read More »Looking to buy .red, .blue and .pink domain names? Here are the registrars…
The New gTLDs .red, .blue and .pink launched today by Afilias. The .BLUE, .RED, .PINK general availability period opened at 16:00:00 UTC on April 17, 2014. A lot of people complained that they couldn’t find …
Read More »General Availability Started Yesterday: .Codes, .Farm and .Viajes
Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 3 New gTLDs yesterday: .Codes, .Farm and .Viajes (travel in Spanish). This seem like a slow week for Donuts with weak strings. I don’t know the Spanish …
Read More »Future Media Architects (FMA) is dropping 2737 3-letter .info domain names
Future Media Architects, Inc. (FMA) owned by domainer Thunayan K AL-Ghanim (aka “Elequa”) is dropping thousands of 3 letter .info. FMA owns domain names such as media.com, multimedia.com, fm.com mp3.tv, dj.net and i.net. I read a …
Read More »New gTLDs reach 500,000 domain name registrations (.link is at 20,000 but…)
New gTLDs surpassed 500,000 domain name registrations today reaching 531,665 registrations with the help of 5 Uniregistry new gtlds that launched yesterday and .buzz. Here are their first day registration numbers: buzz 796 gift 4894 …
Read More »Fake Trademarks Stealing Generic Domains In New gTLD Sunrises
Have you heard of “What Box Holdings“, “Plan Bee LLC” and “Thomas A. Brackey II“? If you are looking to buy a New gTLD domain name you probably have. They managed to register more than …
Read More »Meet the suckers that paid $2500 for each of their .Rich domain names (microsoft.rich)
The .Rich New gTLD entered general availability last week (April 10). No one noticed because no one is buying .rich domains. And the reason is that the registration and renewal cost is set at about …
Read More »Applicant Auction announces suggested schedule for 8 future private gTLD Auctions
Applicant Auction, that offers private auctions for resolving gTLD contention, claims they are getting an increasing number of requests from applicants who want to avoid the ICANN Last Resort auction. A common question is: What …
Read More »New gTLD Registries Allowed To Register 100 Domains To 3rd Parties Before Sunrise For Promotion
The Qualified Launch Program (QLP) Addendum is available for new gTLD registry operators as of 10 April 2014. The QLP Addendum allows a registry operator to register up to 100 domain names to third parties …
Read More ».Guru reaches 50,000 domain name registrations
The .guru New gTLD was the first string to reach 50,000 registrations last night. The total number of domain names of all new gTLDs is at 481,773. The number is higher if you count the …
Read More »Afternic/Go Daddy Weekly Domain Sales: Taillights.com $39,200, betm.com $32k (3-31-14 to 4-6-14)
Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 3-31-14 to 4-6-14 were $2.042.237. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …
Read More »New gTLD Domain Sales: 1 sold for $12,500+, 2 for $3,000+ and 20 for $1,200+ (poker.international, great.coffee)
This past week the following 5 Donuts New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .international, .coffee, .house, .solar and .florist. The total Donuts EAP purchases from the first 3 EAP days is at about $42,500 …
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