I read Andrew's post yesterday on DomainNameWire.com, about new gTLD extensions launching this week; Tickets, .Rent and .Courses. I realized that a couple of other strings launched in the last couple of weeks that basically went unnoticed by the domain blogger community. .Lotto was launched by Afilias, at 101domain.com a .Lotto registration, not a premium but any .Lotto registration will … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Finds Operating New gTLD Much Less Profitable Than Selling Apps: Swing To a Loss
Minds + Machines Group Ltd (LON:MMX) reported today the company's financial results for the 1st half of 2015. Minds + Machines swung to a pretax loss for the first half of 2015 "due to it seeing a lower gain from participating in generic top-level domain auctions" Minds + Machines reported a pretax loss of $3.7 million for the half year to ending June 30th, from a pretax profit of $4.9 … [Read more...]
The Domain Name 588.com Sells For $1 Million Dollars
The domain name 588.com has sold for $1 Million dollars. The domain sale comes on the heals of Rick Schwartz announced sale of 899.com last week for $801,000 and the sale earlier this year of 345.com at $800,000 by our company MostWantedDomains.com The sale of 588.com was brokered by Goldenname.com (4.CN) The domain was in pending transfer status on August 19th and transferred to the … [Read more...]
Here Comes .Bloomberg: Say Hello To Mike.Bloomberg and Michael.Bloomberg
.Bloomberg is .Brand new gTLD which is looking like its getting to launch as they have created over 50 domain names ending in .Bloomberg Bloomberg covered some of the products and topics its known for and of course it's CEO with the domain names Michael.Bloomberg and Mike.Bloomberg (which both seem to be forwarding to mikebloomberg.com. Most noticeably missing from the list is … [Read more...]
.XYZ Is Back Over 900,000 Registrations & Netsol Regs Once As High as 85% Are Under 15%
The new gTLD is back over the 900,000 domain mark in the zone file. The first time the .XYZ new gTLD crossed the 900,000 domain registration mark was in May of 2015. At that time the percentage .XYZ domain names registered at NetworkSolutons.com was over 41% The extension which had as many as over 1.13 million registrations according to https://ntldstats.com/tld/xyz, fell below 800K … [Read more...]
Alibaba Teams Up With China’s 2nd Largest TV Station To Launch Hitao.top
According to the .TOP registry the biggest IT/E-commerce company in China, Alibaba.com, together with the second biggest Chinese TV Station Hunan TV, (second to only CCTV) combined to launch a website on a .Top domain name for its new B2C website, 嗨淘全球, which targets female customers aged between 18 to 35 with imported cosmetics and mother & baby products. The sublinks of their … [Read more...]
Verisign: There are 296 Million Domains Up 5.9% Year to Year: Only 2% Are New gTLD’s
Verisign released its latest Domain Name Industry Brief, as of June 30th 2015: The total number of registered domain names rose to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains Two million domain names were added to the Internet in Q2 2015, equates to a growth rate of 0.8% over Q1 2015 Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.4 million, or 5.9%, year over year. The .com and .net … [Read more...]