New gTLDs

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Uniregistry Affiliate Plus (UAP) Program that allows DomainNameSales.com parking customers another avenue by which they can monetize their names has published a “how to” guide. Last week Uniregistry announced the new domain name affiliate …

Famous Four Media, the registry operator for Domain Venture Partners (one of the largest portfolio applicant groups leading this revolution with 57 applications) is delighted to announce the successful resolution of the contention set for …

Buy 12 Donuts Domains and Get A 13th Free.  Also, 5% Discount for anything less. The special will run for just three days, from April 9-11, 2014.  A Baker’s Dozen is where the purchaser orders …

Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 2 New gTLDs today: .Holiday and .Marketing These 2 strings are interesting but I am not sure how many domains will not be reserved by the registry …

Public Interest Registry (PIR), the .org registry, published a list of 4 reasons why your nonprofit or NGO should register a .ngo and .ong domain name. PIR is the registry that will operate the New …

GMO Internet Group company, GMO Registry, Inc. today announced the opening of new geographic top-level domain (GeoTLD), .tokyo, one of the first new domains to represent a truly global city. During the first phase of …

I visited Go Daddy today and on it’s homepage it is promoting the New gTLD .Club domain names. On the main image it lists .com, .net, .org and .co but .net is replaced by .club …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 3-24-14 to 3-30-14 were $1.940.630. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked …

I checked exactly 115 domain names from the 5 Donuts New gTLDs that entered Early Access Program Program (EAP) pricing this week: .house, .coffee, .international, .florist and .solar. From these 115 domains I am only …