Domain Extensions

As you probably know by now, shortly after the .club LAUNCH on May 7th, a partnership was announced with award-winning rapper, actor and entrepreneur, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. On May 22nd 50 Cent launched his …

The .club New gTLD had about 25,781 registrations after day 1 of general availability. I checked to see who were the buyers that bought more than 100 .club domains each on day 1. There were …

In one of the largest expansions of the Internet to date, hundreds of newly approved gTLDs will become available in 2014. The .nyc domain launch is one of the most anticipated arrivals – and is …

The .club New gTLD had about 25,781 registrations after day 1 of general availability. I did a search and found that 65% or 16,702 of the corresponding .com domains are not registered. 5,415 from these …

In just a few hours I got 2 different emails from people or companies trying to sell me .uno and .xyz New gTLD domains. That is excluding all the registrars that are sending me 10s …

Yesterday was the day 1 the .luxury New gTLD as it entered General Availability. .Luxury had about 570 domains registered in sunrise (most of them) and landrush before General Availability started. The retail price for …

I thought about posting my 10 latest .com hand registrations but then I thought why not include 10 of my New gTLD hand registrations as well for comparison? I am always looking to buy domains …

ICANN published the final Initial Evaluation (IE) New gTLD results. Out of the initial 1930 New gTLD applications 1783 applications passed the Initial Evaluation. Of course some of the applications were withdrawn before reaching the Initial …

New gTLD applications for .amazon and related IDNs in Japanese and Chinese filed by Amazon EU S.à r.l. should not proceed. ICANN announced this last night after the GAC advised the ICANN Board in its …

Public Interest Registry (PIR) is the registry that will operate the New gTLD strings .ngo and .ong. The .ngo and .ong domains and the NGO Portal will launch in October 2014. Here’s a quick “How …

It has been a long time since I did a Domain Name Q&A post for the simple reason that I don’t have time for it. There is constantly something to write about and many times …

There were 24 domains sold in the first 3 Donuts EAP days for .expert and .works for a total of about $86,600 or more depending on the premium domains. Go Daddy/Afternic sold Room.Guru for $6450 …

The domain name Diet.Expert was sold for about $7,500 on the 2nd day of Donuts Early Access Program (EAP) pricing. This price includes a $3,000 day 2 EAP fee and the registration fee that for …

.Club had one of the best first days of all New gTLDs up until now. Just a few hours after general availability it had 25,781 registrations including sunrise and landrush domains. But this success was …