Frank Schilling's North Sound Names just registered 23K domain names in Uniregistry's .LOL new gTLD domain name extension. We noted that .LOL which launched last week, had under 800 registrations after its first day of availability. On the following day, .LOL wound up with 23,779 registrations and now has 24,341 registered domains. North Sound Names which had just over 207K+ … [Read more...]
THE Domain Conference Opens Up Nominations For 2015 Domain Industry Awards Today
The Organizers of THE Domain Conference announced this morning that Nominations are now open for the 2015 Domain Industry Awards "which will be presented to the winners in each category at THE Domain Conference Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 in the .CLUB Ballroom of the beautiful Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Hotel. Once the nominations are received, all balloting will be handled by … [Read more...]
Centralnic passes Donuts as Backend Provider For New gTLD Domain Names
According to ntldsstats.com, CentralNic has passed Donuts in the number of domain names it is providing backend registry services for new gTLD domains. ntldstats.com is showing CentralNic having 1,426,647 new gTLD's under its backend management while Donuts is sitting at 1,425,466 domain names, each representing about 20% of all new gTLD's. However CentralNic is the backend provider for just … [Read more...]
Soccer Star Lionel Messi Files UDRP Seeking Control of 2 Domains Including Messi.com
The Soccer Star Lionel Messi, who may regard to be the best Soccer player in the world, has Filed UDRP Seeking Control of two Domain names Messi.com and Lionelmessi.com The UDRP was filed by the soccer star whose full name is Lionel Andres Messi Cuccittini. Messi.com has been owned under privacy since January but privacy was lifted to once the UDRP was filed and the domain name is owned by … [Read more...]
Breaking: 8.xyz Hits the DOMAINfest .asia Auction at No Reserve
The domain name 8.XYZ will be in the auction as part of the DOMAINfest.asia conference that will be held in Macau China from September 4th- 7th. RightoftheDot.com in conjunction with 4.CN will be holding an online domain name auction of around 150+ domains from September 2nd-September 9th. The auction will be in English and Chinese and bids will be show in US dollars … [Read more...]
A Band You Never Heard Of Bitches About Having To Pay For Pavement.com or The FB Page
A interesting story in contactmusic.com, about a band from the 90's name Payment is bitching about not being able to simply get the domain name Pavement.com and/or a Facebook page by that name that is held by one of those nasty "Cybersquatters". Here is the title of the story: "Rockers Pavement Spent Years With No Official Presence On Social Media Because They Refused To Pay A Fortune To A … [Read more...]
Another New gTLD For Google: Buys/Registered Premium Domain ABC.Global
Google has bought another new gTLD for its Alphabet brand which is using the domain name abc.xyz Google registered/bought the premium domain name ABC.Global yesterday though its registrar Mark Monitor. .Global has around 4,000 domain names that are priced with premium registration fees through the domain name registrar channel (however many registrars will not be selling those premium domain … [Read more...]