Minds + Machines today announced a strategic partnership with ALM Media, LLC, one of the world’s largest legal media companies, to collaborate on advertising and marketing content for the new top-level domain “.law” across ALM’s …
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50 Premium .London Domains To Be Auctioned For Charity (cars.london, spa.london, gallery.london)
50 of London’s most-wanted premium internet domain names are to be auctioned off to give Londoners a unique chance to own sought after premium domains and raise up to £50,000 for charities across the capital. …
Read More »Richard Tindal Of Donuts: .Photography Has A 72% Renewal Rate, 55% Of Registrants Are From Outside The US
ARI Registry Services is doing a series of TLD applicant interviews. The latest interview features Richard Tindal, Co-Founder and COO, Donuts Inc., that talks about the .photography TLD and how to build a strategy for …
Read More »Donuts Will Be Having A Sunrise For 2-Character Domain Names
Elaine Pruis, Vice President, Operations at Donuts Inc, clarified why Donuts is delaying the release of 2-character domains until September and how the 2 character domains will be treated in regards to sunrise claims. Elaine …
Read More »The European Domain Centre Presents 50+ Businesses That Dumped Their .Com For A New Top Level Domain
Christopher Hofman Laursen and the European Domain Centre published a list of 50+ businesses that dumped their .com (or some other gTLD or a ccTLD) for a new top level domain. They hand picked 50+ cool …
Read More »Carlsberg Gets Over 150 .Beer Domains (football.beer, quality.beer)
Minds + Machines announced today that Carlsberg, the brewery group, will participate in its .beer Pioneer program. After extensive consultation with Minds + Machines, Carlsberg has secured over 150 .beer domains, in a portfolio that …
Read More »Domain Names I Bought In The First Half Of 2015
After I published my published my New gTLD purchases and announced that I had invested $50,000 in New gTLD domain names some people questioned my dedication to the New gTLDs. That was because my buying …
Read More »Net.Work Sold For $100k Was Only 1 Of 430 Premium .Work Domains Sold
Minds + Machines Group Limited announced that registrations within .work have now passed 55,000 positioning it in the top 20 of new top-level domains launched under ICANN’s new gTLD programme. The company also reported the …
Read More »Q2 2015 Premium TLD 50: .Global Has 38% Growth, Average TLD Price Is $71
Starting Dot published the Q2 2015 Premium TLD 50, and they are beginning to see some interesting trends in this space. There’s stability at the top, with the 5 biggest TLDs by volume all showing …
Read More »Fox Buys Fox.Today For $12,500 & 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Buys Flowers.Today For $12,500
The New gTLD domain name sales report is back. Courtesy of Sold.Domains that now has more than 500 secondary market sales in its database. Donuts is releasing during the summer thousands of previously reserves domain …
Read More ».CLUB Will Be Selling 8,000 Premium Domains Through Registrars From July 1, 2015 (list)
The .CLUB Registry has decided to release almost 8,000 of their Premium reserved domain names through registrars. Up until now premium .Club domain names were only being offered by Sedo. On July 1st, 2015, the …
Read More »Each New .LGBT Name Donates $20 to the It Gets Better Project
.LGBT (dotLGBT) domain registry operator Afilias announced the launch of the .LGBT Pride Program in celebration of two recent victories for LGBT equality: the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling regarding the right to marriage equality in the US, …
Read More »Domain Name Association Issues June 2015 “State of the Domains Report”
The Domain Name Association issued the latest “State of the Domains Report” that has many interesting articles and information. I personally think that the most interesting articles are the ones from Andrew Brier, owner of …
Read More ».Bank: 4,700 Applications So Far (several weeks required for verification)
As of today, there have been more than 4,700 applications for .Bank domain names and this has far exceeded fTLD’s early expectations. As there are many banks that applied for multiple domain names, the registry …
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