We looked into the zone file for the .Lawyer new gTLD and saw a good number of end users registering domain names including a lot of national law firms. I assume we would see the same thing for .Attorney but honestly its pretty time consuming to go through these zone files. Of course for the domainer community we are looking for Generic's that were registered and a good number of premium … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
CentralNic Joins SedoMLS “to Distribute New and Premium Internet Domain Names”
In a press release out this morning, described as a "First-of-its-Kind Partnership Enables Premium Registry Reserve Domain Names to be Quickly Listed and Sold through Hundreds of Partners, Including Top Registrars, Sedo announced that , a leading backend registry provider, CentralNic, joined the SedoMS to sell premium domain names "For the first time, this partnership will give Registry … [Read more...]
1st New gTLD Totals .NYC 26,858; .Lawyer 3,240; .Attorney 2,156
Yesterday we saw the launch of three new gTLD's Once of the most anticipated new gTLD, .NYC for New York City finished its first day of general availability (GA) with .NYC domain registrations with a total of 28,858 registrations. .NYC had some 6,000 landrush and Sunrise registrations already on the books before GA. Meaning that .NYC gained some 20,000 domain name registrations in its … [Read more...]
China.info Sells in Hexonet Drop Auction For $12K
A few days ago noted that the domain name China.info dropped. The domain name was owned by Chinese nic the registry for the China .cn ccTLD. We wrote that the domain name was not caught by any of the big drop catchers but by the domain name registrar hexonet.net. I was informed today by Hexonet.net that the auction between 16 bidders ended today with the winning bid hitting 12,005.00 … [Read more...]
.Attorney & .Lawyer New gTLD Priced as High as $60K per year, Yes some sold
A Few weeks ago we wrote about the highest priced premium domain names we have seen in the new gTLD launch those for the super premiums of .Attorney and .Lawyer, that carry an registration and annual renewal fee up to $60,000 a year and today it appears some of them sold in the first day of general availability . Accident.Attorney and injury.lawyer are two domain names that had a registration … [Read more...]
NameJet.com Reports Reports Over $460K in Sales In September
Namejet.com just issued its sales report for September 2014 reporting $460,000. Only sales of $2,000 or more are reported, Here is the list: Domain Name Payment … [Read more...]
ICA Changes Membership Structure, Add New Board Position & Voting Procedures For Board
The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) announced today that it passed a resolution (Here is the full Resolution) which changes its membership structure, adds a new Board Positions & changes the voting procedures for members of its Board. Under the resolution the new levels of membership are as follows: Platinum members are for those individuals and/or corporations that contribute $25K … [Read more...]