Frank Schilling's North Sound Names has been the largest registrant of new gTLD domain names for about as long as ntldstats has been tracking registrants. However North Sound Names has been knocked off from the top spot by West263 company out of China According to ntldstats, North Sound Names owns has just over 230,000 new gTLD domain names. "West263 Company" is the registrant of 253,459 … [Read more...]
DNForum is now parked on Sedo
Theo at Domain Gang reported yesterday that Adam Dicker posted on Facebook about DNForum returning on June 1. Today it looks like the site is now parked on Sedo. That seems like an odd move if the website is coming back in less than two weeks. … [Read more...]
.Top Blows Past .Biz To Become The 6th Most Registered Top Level Domain
The new gTLD .TOP has become the 6th most registered domain extension passing .biz. As of today according to RegistrarStats.com, .Top has 2,241,164 domain names registered, passing .biz which drops down to the 7th most registered top-level domain with 2,230,709 domains registered. The 5th most registered domain name extension is .XYZ which has 2,768,291 domain names The top four domain … [Read more...]
Warning: With Namejet/Snapnames Joint Backorder You Can Windup Bidding Against Yourself
A few weeks ago Namejet.com and SnapNames.com announced that if you placed a backorder on one of the systems for a deleting domain name backorders would be placed for the deleting domain names on both systems. It makes a lot of sense since saves the effort of putting the same deleting domain names into both systems. The idea is if the domain is caught by one or the other service and there … [Read more...]
Verisign: Landrush for the 1st internationalized version of .Com in Japanese script, .コム is Opened
Verisign today announced the opening of the Landrush Program period for the first internationalized version of the .com top-level domain (TLD) in Japanese script, .コム , is open for anyone to register on a first come, first served basis until June 12, 2016. Verisign also announced the launch of the phased rollout of .닷컴 and .닷넷, the localized versions of the .com and .net top-level domains (TLDs) … [Read more...]
How Much of What You Read Do You Believe ?
There is a lot of information disseminated daily in the domain business. Talk of sales, auction reports, past successes, etc... Sorting through the 95,000 plus comments here at TheDomains, there have been a number of comments that question the validity of a certain person, sales venue, or press release. So how much of what you read day in and day out, do you believe to be true ? Vote below. … [Read more...]
.Com Passes 127 Million Registrations For 1st Time
According to Verisign, the number of .Com registration passed 127 million for the first time. It was on March 5th, 2016 that the number of .Com registrations passed 126 million, so .Com added a net of 1 Million domain names in just over 2 months. Out of the 127 million .com domain names, just over 126 million are in the "Active Zone File". 126 million .Com domain names is also an all … [Read more...]