According to a press release from Godaddy over 15% of .LONDON domains that were registered through GoDaddy came from outside of the UK. 5.9% of all .London domains registered by Godaddy were registered by people in the United States and 1.9 percent were registered by people or businesses in Germany. Stefano Maruzzi, VP of GoDaddy EMEA, says: “These figures show that London is one of the … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Registry Of New gTLD .OOO Predicts 35,000 Sunrise Domains & 1-2 Million Registrations In 6-12 Months
The Registry for the new gTLD ‘.ooo’ (Dot-Triple Letter O) by Ahmedabad-based IT firm Infibeam.com which "is aimed at providing alternate domain registration solutions to those who have failed to locate their brand name or business names on .com domain, has some pretty lofty goals for the extension. The registry is predicting 35,000-40,000 trademark registrations and over the next 6-12 months … [Read more...]
Donuts Beats Amazon To .Video & Wins .Money, .Sale, & .Legal In Private Auctions
In a set of private new gTLD auctions held last week Donuts has won at least 4 of them, beating out Amazon Uniregistry, Minds + Machines for the new gTLD .Video (Google did not apply for .Video, but did apply for .Tube). We should also note their was no new gTLD application submitted for .Videos. If Amazon, Uniregistry or Minds + Machines had applied for the plural .Videos, which arguably is a … [Read more...]
CentralNic Issues Interim Results For 6 Months Ending June 30, 2014
CentralNic (AIM: CNIC), today announces its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2014. Key Points: · CentralNic has seen steady growth in its wholesale ("Registry") business, against a background of delays in new Top-Level Domains (TLDs) and early demand levels across the industry falling short of industry expectations. · CentralNic has continued investment in the development … [Read more...]
ICANN: Looks Like 2nd Round Of New gTLD Won’t Open For At Least 4 Years
ICANN released tonight a 27 page report entitled the "New gTLD Program Reviews and Assessments Draft Work Plan" (Draft Work Plan) which lays out the work required prior to initiating a subsequent application period for the New gTLD Program, taking into account the assessments anticipated in development of the Program." "As of this writing, 404 new gTLDs have been delegated. A total of 1,168 … [Read more...]
Technical.ly: “Meet Mike Mann DC’s Pioneering Domain Squatter”: “I Practically Started the Industry
Technical.ly, just covered ledgency domain investor Mike Mann In a story entitled "Meet Mike Mann DC’s Pioneering Domain Squatter" Its the second non-domainer publication today to cover a domain investor (click here to read the other one) "Before him, there was cybersquatting. Now, there is domain speculation." "When the business went mainstream, driving up the competition, he developed a … [Read more...]
Domain Investor Prakhar Bindal Featured: How To Make Millions Trading Domains”
Thehindubusinessline.com, just published a story entitled "How To Make Millions Trading Domains. The story features Domain Investor Prakhar Bindal which must have come out of the recent domain conferences held in India. ""It is not just bullion and shares that can be traded to make millions. Now, trading Internet domain names is becoming big business. "Take the example of Prakhar Bindal, … [Read more...]