The new gTLD .Store went into general availability (GA) yesterday by Radix, where it could be registered on a 1st come, 1st served basis. After the 1st day of GA including the 600+ registrations by trademark holders in Sunrise and those domain name registered for an extra fee in the Early Access Program, .Store wound up with 22,682 domain names. .Store which has premium registration and … [Read more...]
.Store Over 20K Domain Names Registered
The new gTLD .Store which launched into General Availability today has over 20,000 registrations as of publication. .Store which had over 500 Sunrise registrations by trademark holders, putting it in the top 10 in terms of new sunrise applications, got 10,000 domain name registrations in the 1st 10 minutes of GA. According to Facebook and Twitter posts, .Store has over 20,000 domain … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Group 3,445; .Salon 364
Donuts released two new gTLD's into General Availability yesterday (GA) when domains could be registered on a 1st come, 1st served basis. Including all domain registrations during the Sunrise Period for trademark holders and those who paid additional fees to register domain names before GA, in the Early Access Period (EAP), .Group ended the 1st day of GA with 3,445 registrations according to … [Read more...]
Yahoo Buys The Domain TheVertical.com From Mike Mann
Yahoo has bought the domain name TheVertical.com from Mike Mann's DomainMarket.com The domain name had a buy it now (BIN) price of $15,000. The domain name was sold with Sedo handling the escrow services. The brand protection company Mark Monitor is now the registrar for the domain name. It's interesting that Yahoo purchased the domain since its core business has been reportedly for … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling Owns 40K+ .XYZ Domains & They Were Registered A While Ago
There were a several comments on our blog posts on .XYZ over the last few days raising the issue of whether Frank Schilling owns .XYZ domain names in his portfolio, with several commentators citing the fact the he does not even own the domain FrankSchilling.xyz (that domain name was registered yesterday to a company in the Cayman's). So I gave Mr Schilling a call last night to see how many .XYZ … [Read more...]
Over 400,000 .XYZ Domain Names Already Registered Today
I just chatted with the .XYZ registry who told me that over 400,000 .XYZ domain names have been registered today on June 1st as of 1pm EST. Yesterday Uniregistry announced $.01 .XYZ domain registrations, but today many other domain registrars joined in and are offering $.02 .XYZ domain registrations. Of course the day is not over and almost 40,000 registrations were added in just the last … [Read more...]
CentralNic Profit Triples in 2015; Revenue Up 70%
CentralNic PLC (AIM: CNIC) reported its financial results for 2015 recording pretax profit of GBP 1.5 million for 2015, nearly tripled from the GBP 520,000 it posted in 2014. Revenue rose 70% to GBP 10.4 million from GBP 6.1 million. CentralNic is the backend provider for many new gTLD extensions including .xyz which has the most registrations of all new gTLD's, provides registrations on … [Read more...]