Ever since the roll out of the new gTLD program was announced one of the big questions everyone asked is how domain names using new gTLD's would rank in the search engines against more established extensions like .com, .net and .org? Coffee.club, which just launched a week ago has landed on the 1st page of Google organically. Yes they are also advertising under the key term, … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Uniregistry Wins gTLD .Cars Beating Donuts, DERcars
Uniregistry which has lost a bunch of recent new gTLD auctions, won a private auction for .Cars beating Donuts and DERcars which is Dominion Enterprises which applied for several new gTLD's. If your wondering why .car and .cars is in the contention set, well its a long and in typical ICANN fashion pretty confusing. The short story is that Google had filed a string confusion objection with … [Read more...]
Domain Name Hosting Piece of Digital Multimedia Art Sold For $5K At Art Basel in Miami
According to Fastcompany.com, a piece of art work hosted on a domain name has been sold for $5,000 at the Art Basel show in Miami. The digital piece of multimedia is hosted on a URL, smokeinmirrors.net and was create by an artist named Alexandra Gorczynski According to Fast Company the sale of a piece of art hosted on a domain name is purportedly the first of its kind at a major … [Read more...]
ICANN Returns To Buenos Aires For June 2015 Meeting
ICANN has just announced they have selected Buenos Aires, Argentina for ICANN 53 which will be held in June 2015. ICANN 53 will be the second Public Meeting ICANN meeting of 2015 and is to be held in Latin America/Caribbean region. Whereas, staff has completed a thorough review of all proposed and available venues in Latin America/Caribbean and finds the one in Buenos Aires, Argentina to be … [Read more...]
Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu talks to TheStreet.com
Taryn Naidu sat down with TheStreet.com and discussed what was going on with Rightside and the new gtlds. One of the first things the interviewer asks if there is any prestige around .com ? Naidu replies that .com has no meaning and it takes 6 to 8 searches to find an available .com right now. Watch the video below … [Read more...]
NameJet.com Updates Its Term Of Use
Namejet.com updated its Terms of Use today. If you haven't seen it already you will be required to accept the terms of use before you will be allowed to access your NameJet.com account. We have highlighted some language which you should particular note "Before you may become a user of any NameJet service, you must read, agree with, and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in … [Read more...]
QNB.com Sells For $1 Million Dollars To Qatar National Bank
Another $1 million domain name transaction discovered by George Kirikos https://twitter.com/GeorgeKirikos/status/540903005563154432 QNB Corp., parent company of QNB Bank, filed a Current Report on Form 8-K regarding a change to its website domain to qnbbank.com and the planned sale of its prior domain name to a third party for a purchase price of $1,000,000. The transfer of the … [Read more...]