According to ici.radio-canada.ca, the Government of Quebec has decided to end its participation in the new gTLD .Quebec, just days before .Quebec launches. According to the story the Government has decided not to change Government websites to .Quebec and will instead retain all of its Website to end in .gouv.qc.ca . The Government told the The Canadian Press on Friday … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
.Realtor: Is it The Best Example Of How Slow End User Adoption Of New gTLD May Be?
The National Association of Realtors launched .Realtor about 3 weeks ago on October 23rd To date there have been less than 85,000 .Realtor domain names registered. The good news is that the extension has by far the lowest rate of parked domains with just over 1% of all .Realtor domain names being parked. According to ntldstats.com out of the 84,615 .Realtor domain names registered only … [Read more...]
PIR Operator Of .Org Reveals Its OnGood Campaign For The New gTLD’s .NGO & .ONG
Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org extension, today unveiled “OnGood” – the new brand identity for the upcoming .ngo & .ong domain extensions along with their accompanying suite of services. Set to launch in early 2015, OnGood is an online community designed with and for NGOs and nonprofits worldwide, providing them with a suite of online services to help … [Read more...]
More Details Emerge On New York’s Deal On .NYC: But 50K New Yorkers Did Not Register 50K Domains
According to a post on crainsnewyork.com, the city of New York is making a "cool $40,000 a week on the Internet". According to the story, the City of New York collects 40% of all domain registration fees collected by Neustar the operator of the .NYC registry. At a "cost of $20" (which is … [Read more...]
Nat Cohen’s Telepathy Files Federal Lawsuit Over The Domain SDT.com
Domain investor Nat Cohen's Telepathy, Inc. just filed a federal lawsuit against SDT INTERNATIONAL of Brussels, Belgium, over the domain name SDT.com after it rejected a $400 offer that got worked up all the way to $1,000. Actually the Brussels company filed a UDRP with WIPOUDRP with the case number D2014-1870. Mr. Cohen is represented by David Weslow, Esq, and decided to take the case to … [Read more...]
Archeo Publishes 3Q Sales Stats
Archeo, a subsidiary of Marchex, issued its newsletter for the third quarter of 2014 . "This newsletter will highlight our sales stats from Q3, featuring a few sales trends we found interesting. We will also continue to focus on educating small business owners on how premium domains can help benefit their business.! Q3 SALES SUMMARY Total Sold $1.6M Average … [Read more...]
SnapNames.com End of Year Auction Closes Today: Won.com $90K Bid; Hi.Net $25K
The SnapNames.com End of Year domain name auction closes today at 3:15 EST under snapnames normal closing rules. There are 179 domain names in the auction. As of publication 17 of the 179 domain names have a bid. The domain name Won.com leads all bids with $90,000 however is still below the reserve range of $100,000-$250,000 Hi.net has the next highest bid at $25,000 but also has not … [Read more...]