The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings of its first Global Registrant Survey, which was conducted on its behalf by Nielsen. Here are the key findings: Awareness of new gTLDs is higher among registrants of domain names than among general Internet users; 65% of domain registrants reported awareness of at least one new gTLD versus 46% of general … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2015
Amazon Turns On AmazonRegistry.com To Sell New gTLD Domain Names
Amazon applied for 76 new generic top-level domain names (gTLD's). When Amazon applied for their new gTLD's they applied to operate them on a closed basis meaning the public would not be able to register any domain names without Amazon allocating them, but the Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) to ICANN nixed the plan for the most part, while still allowing .Brand Applications. Amazon won … [Read more...]
Domain Holding Brokers The Sale Of Bluestar.com for $90K: A Very Interesting Story
DomainHoldings.com has brokered the sale of the domain name Bluestar.com Hobi Michalec wrote a post giving a lot of details about the sale, how it was negotiated and the different price points that were offered by two different companies along the way. What makes the story particularly interesting is that the Seller wound up selling the domain for $10,000 less, to the 2nd highest bidder, as … [Read more...]
20 year Old Bart.net Lost in UDRP to Owner of Bart.org & Bart.Gov
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (“Complainant”), which is known As BART and owns the domain Bart.org and Bart.gov, just won the rights to the domain name Bart.net The sole panelist Dennis A. Foster awarded that the domain name which was registered initially in 1995 and has been sold and resold by a number of entities until Respondent acquired the name in June 2015 where is now … [Read more...]
Blackjack.com UDRP Thrown Out With Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Ruling
Complainant Cary Pinkowski, Darren Little, and Joe Whitney (together the “Complainant”), which were represented by Eric Misterovich of Revision Legal, Michigan, USA, was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Blackjack.com The three member UDRP panel of Sandra J. Franklin, Dawn Osborne and The Honourable Neil Anthony Brown QC quickly dismissed the complaint … [Read more...]
New gTLD Totals This Week .Rent 540; .Tickets 523; .Courses 447
Three new TLD extensions went live this week and here are the numbers .Rent which was bought to you by the .XYZ guys has around 540 registrations. .Tickets which is a one off registry, has a retail cost of around $500 per domain and has 523 registrations. .Courses which was sponsored by OPEN UNIVERSITIES AUSTRALIA PTY LTD which honestly I don't know much about has 447 … [Read more...]
.Top Adds Over 75k Domains In 2 Days Moving Into 2nd Place For All New gTLD’s
The .TOP registry has been on fire adding over 75,000 domain name registration in the past two days According to RegistrarStats.com .Top now has over 362,000 domains registered moving past .Science and is now only 2nd to .XYZ as the top registered new gTLD domain name extensions. Yesterday according to RegistrarStats.com .Top picked up over 42,000 registrations and as you can … [Read more...]