Five new gTLD's went into general availability (GA) on Wednesday. Including domains registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and by those willing to pay an extra charge to register domain name in the Early Access Program (EAP) prior to GA here are the number of domain name registrations after the first day of GA: .Church 4,044 .Guide 3,387 .Life 2,106 .Loans … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Google & Donuts Lose All 3 ICANN New gTLD Auctions: What Did We Learn Today?
ICANN published results of the first three ICANN Last Resort Auctions (there was an auction in June for a IDN String) tonight and we certainly learned a few things. Many people had the opinion that Google and Amazon would simply outbid all other applicants for all the strings just because they could. However Google wound up losing all three auctions as did Donuts. At the end of the day … [Read more...]
Radix Registry Giving You A Chance to Win a Free Go Pro
Radix Registry the company behind the .Website extension wants to give you a chance to win a free Go Pro. The company is running a one day contest. https://twitter.com/RadixRegistry/status/512352400745566208 https://twitter.com/RadixRegistry/status/512352503896100866 … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s Name Adminstration Wins Its 35th UDRP on ParisJewellers.com
Name Administration won its 35th UDRP today as a three member panel of the National Arbitration Forum, rejected Paris Jewellers Ltd. of Canada Complaint on the domain name ParisJewellers.com which was registered by Name Administration back in 2004. As always, Name Administration was represented by John Berryhill, Esq. This decision was short and sweet as the Complainant didn't have a … [Read more...]
.London, Has More Reserved Domains Than Registrations & You Won’t Believe What’s on The List
.London which launched last week has just over 39,00 domain name registration in the zone file as of today, which many regard to be less than impressive. The population of London's metropolitan area is the largest in the EU with a total of 13,614,409. So out of over 13 Million residents not counting all the businesses and organization in the area, 39,o00 registrations isn't that terrific in … [Read more...]
Tuesday Was .Vegas Day & A Big Celebration Was Held At Las Vegas City Hall
The City of Las Vegas held a very cool launch ceremony for Dot Vegas at Las Vegas city hall today. Namescon.Vegas was the very first domain activated by .Vegas after Nic.Vegas (Nic.is the first domain activated by every new gTLD registry) Richard Lau and and Jothan Franks of Namescon were on hand to celebrate the launch, who appears in the picture on top of the … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total Just $1M As Baltic.Cruises Tops The List at $25,000
Over the past week, 543 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: kiel.com at 19,500 EUR · Top ccTLD: bs.tv at 15,000 USD · Top “other” TLD: baltic.cruises at 25,000 USD Domain … [Read more...]