Tucker Johns wrote an article on gtldstrategy.com, A FairWinds Blog about how new gtlds are affecting Black Friday marketing. Tucker gave mention to the new .blackfriday and .Christmas strings from Uniregistry and took a look at how the top 100 online retailers are using new gtlds. From the article: To check how the top 100 online retailers, as ranked by Internet Retailer, have adopted these … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Symantec Wins .SECURITY Over Donuts and Defender Security
Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ;SYMC) has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Security beating Donuts and Defender Security. You might recall that Defender Security, filed Legal Rights Objections to all other applicants in .Home which was subsequently knocked out by domain collision. .Security was one of 11 new gTLD's that are scheduled to be auctioned off in the ICANN Last Resort Auction … [Read more...]
Firefox will soon offer one-click buttons for all your search engines
Venture Beat posted a story about Firefox unveiling a one click button solution for all your search engines. In the future release, when you type a search term into the Firefox search box, you will get a list of reorganized search suggestions from the default search provider. Better yet, a new array of buttons below these suggestions will let you pick which search engine you want to send the … [Read more...]
The CEO Bookshelf
While you are enjoying your Thanksgiving and perhaps engaging in conversation outside of domaining, the conversation may turn to books. CEO.com and DOMO put together an infographic that highlights what business leaders are reading. … [Read more...]
.Green Release Launch Time Table: Founders Program Closes Dec 1; GA Set For March 24, 2015
The .Green registry released its launch time table for the new gTLD. The Founders Program is now open but only to December 1, 2014 "The Founders Program is Limited to Friends & Supporters of DotGreen, and attendees of San Francisco Green Festival If your interested in acquiring a .Green Founders name you need to submit an application by December 1st, 2014" The .Green Registry also … [Read more...]
Berlin.co.com Sells For $1,109 on NameJet.com Leading 20 City .Co.Com Sales
The domain name Berlin.co.com sold for $1,109 on NameJet.com leading 20 city .Co.com domain names that were auctioned off on Namejet.com yesterday. Dubai.co.com was a close second selling for $1,009 The only other domain name of the 20 selling for four figures was Barcelona.co.com which sold for an even $1K. Four of the domain names sold for the $69 Minimum. The second round of .Co.Com … [Read more...]
Uniregistry: .Click new gTLD Generated Over 10,000 Registrations In First 24 Hours
In a comment left by Frank Schilling on TheDomains.com, on our post about yesterday Uniregistry's new gTLD first day totals, more than 10,000 domain names were registered in the first 24 hours. The stats we published earlier today were based on the last zone file update which usually cuts off at midnight, which showed the first day total of general availability for .Click was some 3,800 domain … [Read more...]