.Church is landing into General Availability on Wednesday September 17th and has almost 400 domain names registered in its Sunrise Period open to trademark holders and through the Early Access Program (EAP) for which registrants paid an extra fee. Looking thought the zone file for .Church there are what may come as a surprise to many, there are a lot of end users, what appear to be hundreds of … [Read more...]
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.XYZ 1st New gTLD To Break 500,000 Registrations
.XYZ has become the first new gTLD to break the 500,000 registration mark. According to ntldstats.com has 501,459 domain registrations. A little of 377,000 of these registrations are from Network Solutions which as we at TheDomains.com discovered early on, are free registrations. Onamae.com a Japanese registrar owned by GMO has over 55,000 of the registrations. Xin Net Technology … [Read more...]
Landrush For .Website & .Press Ends Monday: Here’s a Special Price & Available Domains
The Landrush for three Radix's new gTLD's, .Website, .Press and .Host closes on Monday at Noon EST We have a special coupon code that will save you 10% off the landrush and pre-registration for any non-premium priced .website and .Press domain. The coupon code only works at 101domain.com and we furnished to the readers of TheDomains.com Coupon Code: RADIXLR10 This is applicable … [Read more...]
18 Year Old MySchool.com Hit With UDRP For The Second Time in 4 Years
The domain name MySchool.com looks to be getting hit with a UDRP for a second time in four years. Back in 2010 Joseph L. Carpenter brought a UDRP against Andy Booth and his Foresight.com. At that time Carpenter alleged the following: The Complainant alleges that he has used MYSCHOOL® as a trademark and brand name in connection with online information and advertisements in the field of … [Read more...]
SeekingAlpha: Shares of Rightside Have At Least 37% Downside
SeekingAlpha the Stock publication, just published a pretty scathing review of Rightside, (NASDAQ:NAME) the spin off of Demand Media, in a story entitled "Rightside is Its Trending on the Wrongside." The story cites some publications in the domain industry including TheDomains.com Domainincite.com and Circleid.com The story comcludes comparing the company on the Registrar level to Tucows the … [Read more...]
In Auction At Snap: Gynecologist.com & Obstetrician.com: Is Moniker Pulling A Tucows?
There are two great bang on medical domain names in closed auctions at Snapnames.com, Gynecologist.com & Obstetrician.com More about the auctions in a few, but the history of the domain names may indicate that Moniker has gone the way of Tucows and is picking up expired domains for its own account and then selling them instead of … [Read more...]
ICANN New gTLD Auctions Scheduled For Next Week Include 1st Between Amazon & Google
There are three ICANN new gTLD contention resolution auctions scheduled for next week and for the first time Amazon and Google will go head to head for a new gTLD extension in an auction whose results including the amount paid will be made public. Not only will Google and Amazon duke it out for .Buy but they will be joined by Donuts and Famous Four Media. In the new gTLD ICANN auction for … [Read more...]