There were 15 domains sold in the first 3 Donuts EAP days for .condos, .properties, .tienda, and .maison for a total of about $27,000 or more including the premium domains. Sedo sold the domain name …
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Radix Announces .Host Timeline and Pioneer Program With Premium Domains (web.host, cloud.host)
Radix, a new gTLD registry from Asia, announced the launch timeline for .host, starting with the opening of their Pioneer Program which starts today. The Sunrise phase will start June 24 and last for 60 days. …
Read More »Over 50,000 .UK registrations in 24 hours, including Sainsburys.uk, Bentley.uk and Burberry.uk
Within 24 hours of opening for registration, new, short .uk web domains topped the sales charts. More than 50,000 domains were registered, making this one of the fastest selling new domain releases on record, and …
Read More »Antony Van Couvering Interview of Alexa Raad, CEO of Architelos (video)
Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Minds + Machines, continues his series of in-depth talks with leading figures from the domain name industry with this video interview of Alexa Raad, CEO of Architelos, filmed recently at …
Read More »Stephen Fry 1st To Switch To StephenFry.uk From StephenFry.com
From yesterday, new, short .uk web domains are available alongside .co.uk for the first time ever, with British icon and tech enthusiast Stephen Fry the first person to make the switch. As one of the …
Read More »2014 – The Year Of Dishonesty
On Friday, Rick Schwartz featured an Interview with Daniel Negari that was supposed to address the free .xyz registrations that Network Solutions has been giving to some .com owners since the .xyz General Availability without …
Read More ».Bid, .Trade, & .Webcam Get 506, 3,235 and 3,675 Registrations On Their 1st Day
Famous Four Media launched their first 3 New gTLDs yesterday: .BID, .TRADE, and .WEBCAM. Despite making an announcement of a $175,000 sale for 15 .webcam domain names before launch, the results from the first day …
Read More ».UK Domain Names Available From 10 June 2014
From 10 June 2014, shorter, simpler .uk domain names will be available for the first time. There’s no need to worry though, all existing domains including .co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk will continue to run as …
Read More »Go Daddy Auctions Premium .Ninja, .Reviews and .Futbol Domains
Go Daddy starts an auction featuring 25 premium .Ninja, .Reviews and .Futbol New gTLD domain names today, 9th of June. The domains are being sold by their registry which is Rightside. The auction includes domains …
Read More »Interview With Ryan O’Neil, A Brand Strategist Buying New gTLD Domain Names
Last month I wrote how a brand strategy company named LOGOS Identity Branding (LOGOS comes from the Greek word λόγος that means speech) bought the New gTLD domain name Christian.Education for about $2,000. The domain …
Read More »15 .webcam domain names sell for $175,000 (tube.webcam, asian.webcam, milf.webcam)
In a private deal, Famous Four Media has sold a package of 15 domain names to a single buyer. The deal, worth $175,000, was for adult oriented terms in the .WEBCAM registry. “We are delighted …
Read More ».BIO Delegated and Sunrise Coming Soon
Starting Dot announced that the .BIO New gTLD was delegated on June 2, 2014 and the proposed Sunrise date to ICANN is as early as June 11, 2014, at 10:00 UTC. Here is the announcement:
Read More »Famous Four Media wins .RACING and .CRICKET
Famous Four Media, the registry operator for Domain Venture Partners, one of the largest portfolio applicants for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), is pleased to announce Domain Venture Partners’ acquisition of the .RACING and …
Read More »Beijing Tele-info Wins $600,000 Auction for Chinese IDN “.info”
On 4 June 2014 ICANN through its authorized auction services provider, Power Auctions LLC, completed the first auction to resolve a contention set for a new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) string. Contention sets are groups …
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