Last week we told you that .Com is Rocking. It continues to rock and now has passes the 114,500,0000 mark for the first time. The actual number today is 114,540,697 according to Verisign the Registry for .Com domain names On September 19th which is just 6 days ago the number of .Com domains was at … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2014
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Direct 1,710 & .Place 769
Donuts launched two new gTLD's into general availability (GA) yesterday for .Direct and .Place where the domain names are available on first come, first served basis and wound up with less than 2,500 registrations After the 1st day of GA including those domain names registered in the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and the Early Access Period (EAP) where people paid additional fees to get … [Read more...]
LasVegasWeekly.com: “Why The .Vegas Launch is a Ridiculous Racket & A Waste Of Money”
Lasvegasweekly.com just published a post entitled "Why The .Vegas Launch is a Ridiculous Racket" So as you can guess from the title LasVegasWeekly.com is not a fan of .Vegas It is probably as a scathing review of any new gTLD or the program in general that I have read from a non-domain industry publication. Its Brutal. Here we go with the highlights: "Now that the inane hype and … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Registers 10,000 Domains In Uniregistry’s .BlackFriday
Earlier today we wrote that Frank Schilling's North Sound Names registered over 16,000 domain names yesterday under the new gTLD .Audio which is owned and operated by Frank Schilling's Uniregistry and talso registered 5,000 domain names in another Uniregistry new domain extension .HipHop. North Sound Names also registered 10,000 domain names in a third Uniregistry string yesterday … [Read more...]
.Direct Launches Today Here Are The More Interesting Of The 250 + Registrations
.The new gTLD .Direct launches today into General Availability (GA) when domains can be registered on a first come, first serve basis. .Direct according to nTLDstats.com has over 250 registrations including Sunrise Period registrations that were opened to trademark holders and those who paid an additional fee to register domain names in the Early Access Program (EAP). By comparison, the … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Registers 5,000 Domains In Uniregistry’s .Hiphop New gTLD
Earlier today we wrote that Frank Schilling's North Sound Names registered over 16,000 domain names under the new gTLD .Audio which is owned and operated by Frank Schilling's Uniregistry yesterday. North Sound Domains also registered 5,000 domain names in another Uniregistry new domain extension .HipHop yesterday. .Hiphop which launched earlier this month, had after its first day of general … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Registers 16,000 Domains In Uniregistry’s .Audio New gTLD
It appears that Frank Schilling's North Sound Names registered over 16,000 domain names under the new gTLD .Audio which is owned and operated by Frank Schilling's Uniregistry yesterday according to Registered.Today .Audio which launched earlier this month, had after its first day of general availability, just 701 registrations and had around 1,100 registrations before yesterday registrations … [Read more...]