Donuts wrote to ICANN Board Chairman Steven Crocker yesterday asking ICANN to put an end to the delay involving its application for .SPA New gTLD. Here is the complete letter: Dear Steve: We strongly urge the Board to advance the .SPA TLD through the processes enshrined in the Applicant Guidebook. While we respect the concerns raised by the City of Spa and the Belgian Government, we are confident that we have thoroughly addressed those issues, and that
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New gTLD domain name renewals: from $26 up to $1,600 for a Premium domain
I posted some of .domains purchases in my post about .domains domain name sales. I was asked to post my best .domains purchases and had a glance and picked 14 of them. A reader asked …
Read More »New gTLDs Reach 300,000 Registrations With .Berlin Getting 31,956 On It’s First Day
Yesterday .Berlin, the first geographic/city New gTLD string went into general availability and it got 31,956 registrations in it’s first day. .Menu started on Monday and it got 1649 registrations in it’s first day. According …
Read More »Hustler.Clothing New gTLD Domain Name Suspended Because Of Pending WHOIS Verification
The New gTLD domain name hustler.clothing has been suspended for 2 weeks now. The domain name is owned by Larry Flint Productions that is the owner of Hustler magazine and hustler.com. The domain was suspended …
Read More »Go Daddy Refunds EAP Pre-Registration Fees to Affected Customers
I posted an article yesterday about Go Daddy not refunding the Early Access Program (EAP) fee of Donuts EAP pre-registrations. A few hours later I received an email from the “Office of the CEO – …
Read More »Go Daddy is inclined to miss EAP pre-registrations: They keep the EAP fee and pay nothing to Donuts
I started writing this post thinking of one thing and realized that something else was more important. Look at the conclusion at the end of this post. This blew my mind. I am sure a …
Read More »4 more New gTLDs were delegated: .世界 (Chinese for “world/shijie”) and 3 from Public Interest Registry (PIR)
ICANN announced that 4 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 173 new gTLD strings. The 4 new gTLDs are: .世界 (xn--rhqv96g) – Chinese for “world/shijie”, .机构 (xn--nqv7f) – Chinese for “agencies/institutions”, .”संगठन …
Read More »For End-Users Only: New gTLD Domains With $1,500 Renewals
I did a post yesterday about .domains EAP sales with 10 domain names selling for $3,000+ each and 45 selling for $1,200+ each. There were also 4 domains that sold for more than $1000 that …
Read More »The solution to the “eco” problem: “Access denied”
I am watching the ICANN RSS feed and I got this article today: 13 March 2014 Sender’s Title: Chair Sender’s Affiliation: ICANN Board of Directors Issue: Proposal for implementing GAC advice concerning IGO acronyms File: …
Read More ».Domains Domain Name Sales: 10 sold for $3,000+ and 45 for $1,200+ (nyc.domains, london.domains, safe.domains)
This past week the following 3 New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .domains, .limo and .cab. Yesterday I posted the 6 EAP sales for .limo and .cab. Today it’s time for the .domains EAP …
Read More »General Availability Starting Today: .ACADEMY .CENTER .COMPANY .COMPUTER .MANAGEMENT .SYSTEMS
Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 6 New gTLDs today: .ACADEMY .CENTER .COMPANY .COMPUTER .MANAGEMENT .SYSTEMS The most promising New gTLD from the 6 is .company. And that is promising for the registry …
Read More »Donuts also deletes 7 “00” domain names from it’s New gTLDs (complete list)
Yesterday I wrote a post with the 26 “eco” domain names and how Donuts, a new gTLD registry, announced to all registrants that have registered second level “eco” new gTLD domain names that the domains …
Read More ».Limo and .Cab Domain Name Sales: 3 sold for $3,000+ and 3 for $1,200+ (rental.limo, tri.cab, miami.limo)
This past week the following 3 New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .domains, .limo and .cab. .Domains deserves a separate post because of the volume of sales that will be posted tomorrow. No .cab …
Read More »Donuts deletes 26 “eco” domain names from it’s New gTLDs (complete list)
I just read on thedomains.com at how Donuts, a new gTLD registry, announced today to all registrants that have registered second level “eco” new gTLD domain names that the domains are in the process of …
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