This week 5 New gTLDs enter General Availability, another one New gTLD enters the EAP General Availability and 4 enter the landrush phase. .Scot, under the shadow of the 55% ‘NO’ poll vote, is launching …
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Sedo and .Club at DMEXCO 2014 (video)
The .CLUB team joined the SEDO team at the huge DMEXCO conference in Cologne, Germany to introduce new domain names to leading digital marketers and brands from all over Europe. .CLUB CMO Jeff Sass had …
Read More »CentralNic Invests $1.62 Million In .Tickets New Top-Level Domain
CentralNic plc, “the internet platform business which derives revenues from the global sale of domain names”, today announced that further to the announcement on 18 September 2014, the Group is investing US$ 1.62 million in Accent …
Read More »Sedo’s Report From The Dmexco Conference: 90% Visitors Never Heard Of New gTLDs
Sedo published a report on the dmexco 2014 Digital Marketing Exposition & Conference that was held in Cologne Germany. The conference had 32,000 visitors and Sedo along with representatives from Famous Four Media, Donuts, DotClub, …
Read More »Registry and Registrar Pricing Problems With .Website, .Host and .Press
I had made a landrush pre-order for the domain video.press. After landrush had ended I checked to see if I got the domain only to see that my pre-order had disappeared from my account and …
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Registrations: .Website 6,342, .Press 800, .Host 780
Here are the domain name registration results from yesterday’s 3 New gTLD launches: Radix launched yesterday its first 3 New gTLD strings: .Website, .Host and .Press. .Website got the most registrations as expected and has …
Read More ».Website Surpasses 6,500 Domains In First 4 Hours Of Launch
General availability launched today for three top-level domains: .WEBSITE, .PRESS and .HOST. These TLDs entered General Availability with 80+ registrars onboard, including industry leaders like GoDaddy, eNom, OpenSRS, 1Api, 1&1, DomainMonster and Name.com. .WEBSITE surpassed …
Read More »Report On ‘Registrar New gTLD Market Share’ Attacks .XYZ and Network Solutions
“Perhaps it is better to be the leader on a few high-potential TLDs than to be in “pole position” on a TLD artificially inflated by short-term promotional tactics.” OUCH! This is a conclusion of the …
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Registrations: Church 4044, .Guide 3387, .Life 2016., .Loans 632, .Republican 385
Here are the domain name registration results from yesterday’s 5 New gTLD launches: 4 Donuts New gTLDs were out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general availability on Wednesday: .Loans, .Life, …
Read More »Amazon Wins .Buy For $4.6m, M+M .VIP For $3m and Dot Tech .Tech For $6.8m
On 17 September 2014, an Auction conducted by ICANN’s authorized Auction service provider, Power Auctions LLC, was held to resolve string contention sets for three new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) strings; BUY, TECH, and VIP. …
Read More »New Domains, Growing Pains And The .Sexy Bus
Uniregistry has 2 buses going around Los Angeles, California with a .Sexy ad on them: http://areyou.sexy. The ad was a great idea as it will increase New gTLD recognition to all kinds of people on the …
Read More ».Organic Announces 6 Pioneer Brands And Participates At Natural Products Expo in Baltimore
Afilias today announced that six leading organic brands are participating in the .ORGANIC domain pioneer program and plan to launch .ORGANIC sites soon. These brands include: Rodale Institute — Organic pioneers since 1947, the Rodale Institute …
Read More »EURid’s World Report on IDNs: Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Website (.中文网) Lead New gTLDs
The European Registries for Internet Domains (EURid), published their comprehensive World Report on Internationalized Domain Names 2014. The New gTLD chapter features TLD Registry‘s 2 IDN New gTLDs, Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese …
Read More »Minds + Machines Gets 1,700 New Domains Across 6 New gTLDs While .Vegas Gets 3,000
Here are the domain name registration results from yesterday’s 8 New gTLD launches: Afilias’s .Organic entered general availability and has 27 domains after day 1. It only added 1 domain since the day before. But …
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