Google’s new .App domain extension is off to a huge start. After posting over 3,000 registrations in the Sunrise Period which was open to just to trademark holders; .APP generated over $1.7 Million in Early Access (EAP) Fees in its first 2 days and added over 700 registrations in day 3 of EAP. The prices vary by registrar but using $1,100 as a day 3 EAP cost, Google’s EAP haul after 3 days … [Read more...]
Google’s New Domain .APP Gets Over 700 More Registrations In Day 3; Now Over $2.5 Million In Just Early Access Fees
Google's new .App domain extension looks like a big winner. After posting over 3,000 registrations in the Sunrise Period which was open to just to trademark holders; .APP generated over $1.7 Million in Early Access (EAP) Fees in its first 2 days and added over 700 registrations in day 3 of EAP. The prices varies by registrar but using $1,100 as a day 3 EAP amount puts Google's EAP haul … [Read more...]
Google Makes Over $1.7 Million In On The New Domain Extension .App in Just Early Access Fees Through Day 2
.App is a new gTLD domain extension which Google (GOOG) paid $25 Million for in a ICANN auction. .APP closed the Sunrise period that was open to trademark holders with over 3,000 registration. .App went into day 1 of the Early Access Program (EAP) on Tuesday allowing early registration of domains for a one time extra fee. Fees as always very by registrar but day 1 pricing was around $12,000 … [Read more...]
60 Minutes Covered Vine Millionaires on Sunday; Today It’s All Over
On Sunday the television show 60 minutes covered "The Influencers" "Social media stars are earning big money for pitching products in short, often silly, postings seen by millions of followers." Parts of the 60 Minutes segment chatted with people who said they were making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on Vine. Today Twitter announced they were killing off Vine after they paid $30 … [Read more...]
Chat Center ditches the .me and moves to a .Center
John Biggs wrote an article on Tech Crunch yesterday with regards to Chat Center, according to its description Chat Center is the best way to help customers or friends connect with you for Chat. Once you install the app you can claim a Chat Name. This name can be expressed as a URL. From the article: When we last left ChatCenter it was running on the URL chatcenter.me and was aimed at … [Read more...]
Donuts: “We’ve priced the product higher quite simply because we think it’s significantly superior,”
Xconomy.com did an article on the new gtlds and had a focus on Donuts and they got quotes from Richard Tindal a co-founder and COO. Again I think some of the quotes are way off base. Tindal talks about Donuts pricing being higher because it is a superior product. No new gtld currently is superior to .com that is just patently false and this type of stuff is what hurts the new gtlds in discussions … [Read more...]
Jeffrey Sass Talks Dot Club and the results of our Dot App Poll
In an article by Laurie Sullivan on Media Post which discussed Google paying $25 million for .app, there was also some commentary from Jeffrey Sass about .club. Sass explained how the pricing works at the wholesale and retail level. He gave a little shout out to Credit.club, the $10.99 hand registration that Bruce Marler was able to jump on. Sass mentioned Credit.club as an example that new gtlds … [Read more...]