This week 9 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability. On the 22nd of July .Tokyo enters general availability. This is one of the big geo New …
Read More »“Domain Registry of America” Registrar Suspended By ICANN For 90 Days
The registrar BRANDON GRAY INTERNET SERVICES INC. (dba NameJuice.com) that has been behind the “Domain Registry of America” (DRoA) or “Domain Renewal Group” scam was suspended by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) on the 19th of July 2014. Brandon Gray’s ability to create new Registered Names or initiate …
Read More »Sedo sells 570 domains for $1.5 million: PluralSight.in $16k, tt.cc 15k Euro, Casinos.co 13k Euro
In the past week (July 7 to July 13), 570 (564 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5 million ($2.4m last week). Only 188 (167 last week) domains from …
Read More »I Have Been Refunded $3,000 From Go Daddy And I Have Yet To Find Someone Else With The Same Problem
In the past 4 months I have been refunded $3,000 from Go Daddy from failed New gTLD EAP pre-orders. I was refunded $2,850 back in March and $150 just a couple of days ago. The …
Read More »Latest Flippa Sales: Oar.com $28,500, AZU.com $18,000, Shares.info $6,350
Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name OAR.com that sold for $28,500. AZU.com sold for $18,000 and on yet another great .info sale the domain Shares.info was sold for $6,350. There were …
Read More »8 New gTLDs Launched This Week – What Domains Did You Buy?
8 New gTLDs launched this past week. Donuts had 4 (.Capital, .Engineering, .Exchange and .Gripe.) that did pretty bad. And the other 3 Punto 2012’s (CentralNic) .bar and .rest, and Rightside Registry’s .moda didn’t do much …
Read More ».Scot New gTLD Registry Doesn’t Know About Collisions And ICANN Rules
It seems that the .Scot registry doesn’t know about domain name collision lists and other ICANN rules concerning new domain name extensions. 3 of the 38 pioneer domain names and websites that were announced are …
Read More »Electronic Cigarettes International Group Changes Domain Name To ECIG.co
Victory Electronic Cigarettes Corporation, today announced that it has officially changed its corporate name and entity to the Electronic Cigarettes International Group, Ltd. (ECIG). The company name change, which is effective immediately, coincides with the …
Read More »Sedo Runs A .Club Domain Name Campaign
Sedo is running a rather interesting email campaign promoting the thousands of .club domains it has on it’s platform. They are contacting Sedo users that have or had “club” related domains for sale in their …
Read More »$80,000 Domain Name “Trade.Domains” Only Has A $125 Bid At Flippa
A few months back on a post called “Post Your Best New gTLD Domain Name“, that has over 300 comments, a reader claimed that he had an offer for his domain name Trade.Domains for $80,000 …
Read More »Reader Complains About Minds + Machines New gTLD Pre-Paid Reservations
I got this email from a reader yesterday complaining about 4 reserved domain names in .casa, .horse, or .cooking during the Minds + Machines Priority Reservation Phase. The reader says that the 4 domains he …
Read More »4 Donuts New gTLDs Only Have 3,342 Domains In TOTAL After Their 1st Day (.Gripe is a disaster)
Yesterday 16th of July 4 Donuts New gTLDs went out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general availability: .Capital, .Engineering, .Exchange and .Gripe. The first day, or rather first hours, registration …
Read More »dotFM Releases July 2014 Ranking of Top 40 .FM Sites and Brands
BRS Media Inc. announced that dotFM, the .FM top-level domain registry, has released the latest 2014 ranking of the .FM Top 40 Hits, the top sites and brands under the FM Top-Level Domain. The .FM …
Read More »Sedo’s Report: 80% Of People Say That New gTLDs Are Important
Just found a press release from Sedo that I missed last month. I didn’t find it in any of the other domain blogs so I thought it was worth mentioning. Sedo did a survey that …
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