The January 2015 edition of the Afnic Industry Report on Domain Names reviews the developments and trends in the French domain name market in 2014 after the opening of the new gTLDs. The .fr TLD …
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New gTLD Weekly Launch Review: .Space, .Band, .RIP, .How, .Ryukyu
This week 5 New gTLD enter General Availability, 0 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 0 strings enter the landrush phase. Rightside has 2 New gTLDs out of EAP and into General Availability on …
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Domains: .Brussels 3582, .Vlaanderen 3553, .ForSale ???
Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from last week’s 3 New gTLD launches: Two geo New gTLDs from Belgium entered general availability this week: .brussels and .vlaanderen. According to NameStat.org .Brussels had …
Read More »Trademark Clearinghouse: 1,626 Marks Have Expired While Submissions Are Slowing Down
We are now reaching the first year anniversary of the first New gTLDs and already 1,626 marks have expired at the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). So far 34,400 marks have been submitted to the Trademark Clearinghouse …
Read More »Poll Results: 30% Of People Will Renew All New gTLD Domains While 15% Will Drop Them All
We are now just a week away from the first anniversary of the New gTLD program launch. It all started when 7 New gTLDs from Donuts were released on the 29th of January 2014. That …
Read More »Rightside Released Collision Domains Names For 30 Of Its New gTLDs
Rightside released thousands of domains names that were originally blocked on the ICANN Name Collision List on January 17, 2015. Complete lists of the collision domains are available to download. The domain names were on …
Read More »Release of .SCOT Name Collision List Domains
Registry operator Dot Scot Registry Limited announced the release of some of its reserved .SCOT domains from the Name Collision List on the 6th of January after which all names are in the general pool …
Read More »Owners Of High Premium New gTLD Domains Trying To Sell Them By Hiding Renewal Cost?
I noticed an auction at Flippa for the domain USA.Vacations that ended a few days back. High bid was $800 and the domain didn’t sell but what is quite interesting are the comments. It seems …
Read More »New gTLD Weekly Launch Review: .Brussels, .Vlaanderen, .ForSale, .Band, .RIP, .Space
This week 3 New gTLD enter General Availability, 2 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 1 string enter the landrush phase. 2 geo New gTLDs from Belgium enter general availability this week: .brussels …
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Domains: .World 5081, .Degree 160, .Gives 160
Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from last week’s 3 New gTLD launches: One Donuts New gTLD was out of EAP and into real (reg-fee) General Availability on the 14th of January …
Read More »Top 10 Posts In 2014 At OnlineDomain.com: New gTLDs, .XYZ, Sex.xxx, Uniregistry etc.
2014 was a great year at OnlineDomain.com in terms of views and visitors. It was the first full year of blogging even though the blog was launched in 2012. The year 2014 had about 325k+ …
Read More »NamesCon 2015 Auction Sells Almost 1 Million USD Worth Of Domain Names
The live domain name auction at Namescon.com was held in Las Vegas at the Tropicana hotel and was conducted by RightoftheDot.com with online bidding and viewing on SnapNames.com. The auction sold $990,851 worth of domain …
Read More »NamesCon 2015 Auction: 54 Domain Names Have $450,000 In Pre-Bids
The final list of the domain names that are going to be auctioned today is out. The live domain name auction at Namescon.com is today and will be conducted by RightoftheDot.com with online bidding and …
Read More »VEGAS.CLUB Domain Name Sale For $100,000 Announced At NamesCon 2015 In Las Vegas
.CLUB Domains and One Degree World Systems, Inc. announced today the sale of the domain Vegas.CLUB for $100,000, as well as the formation of a partnership to launch and operate the Vegas.CLUB website as a destination …
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