Stock investment firm Trefis.com issued a report on Verisign (VRSN) today entitled "The New Domain Name Game" and concluded when it comes to new gTLD's (new domain name extensions): "It appears that VeriSign doesn’t have much to worry about, at the moment, when it comes to the introduction of new domain name extensions. "Even though the company’s market share has been reduced (52.5% in 2007 … [Read more...]
Health.Org Tops $141,000 In Bidding In Expired Domain GoDaddy.com Auction
.Health.org is in an expired domain name auction at GoDaddy.com and bidding has topped $141,000 with over 9 days to go. According to the stats shown on the GoDaddy auction page, the 22 year old domain is estimated to get almost 7,000 visitors a month. Arguably the domain name Health.org is one of the top 5 best possible and most valuable .org domain names. As of publication there are … [Read more...]
New Domain Extension .Cloud Announces 1st Three Pioneers: Sets Out Launch Dates
The new domain name extension .cloud, announced today over the coming weeks, more than 30 Pioneers will begin using .cloud domains starting with ScreenCloud, a London-founded SaaS company, which is "creating powerful, easy-to-use products to help businesses and retailers take control of their digital signage. Screen.Cloud has built the new. cloud into its entire company branding, recognizing the … [Read more...]
Godaddy .Miami Domain Name Auctions Hit The 4 Figures
.Miami went live for General Availability (GA), where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis, on October 2nd. .Miami did not have a landrush or an Early Access Program (EAP) .Miami is being managed on behalf of the city of Miami by Minds + Machines which has premium registration and renewal domains as well as reserved domain names. Godaddy has had a policy for all … [Read more...]
Better Pay Attention As ICANN Opens Up Comment Period For Changes To UDRP & URS
ICANN has opened the comment period Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPM) implemented for both existing and new gTLDs, including but not limited to the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and the Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS). This Preliminary Issue Report is the result of that request. "The question of who legally has rights to, or is the legitimate holder of, a domain … [Read more...]
.NYC Gets Around 650 Domain Registrations Out Of 16k+ On The ICANN Collision List
.NYC celebrated its one year anniversary yesterday by releasing over 16,000 domain names which were previously unavailable due to being placed on the ICANN collision list. We ran the list through a whois program earlier today and according to the results somewhere around 650 of these domain names got registered. If you have ever gone through an ICANN collision list a substantial percentage … [Read more...]
Amazon Registry Appears To Be Off To A Rough Start
We wrote a couple of weeks ago about Amazon launching Amazonregistry.com as a domain name registrar for at least the new gTLD's At the time the site resolved but was not taking any registrations. But since at least yesterday the site is returning an error page something you usually don't see on a website of one the largest corporation's on earth: … [Read more...]