The domain name WG.com has sold to a Chinese buyer. WG.com was owned by Nat Cohen's Telepathy.com and is now over at GoldenName.com (4.cn) Earlier today we reported that the domain name Ak.com appears to have sold as the site where the domain was listed for sale at just short of $5 Million dollars was updated to note that the domain had been sold. A couple of readers to thedomains.com … [Read more...]
Godaddy May Be The World’s Largest Domain Registrar But Not For New gTLD’s
Godaddy.com, which is the world's largest domain name registrar (having the most domain names under management) is no longer the number 1 domain name registrar for new gTLD domains. According to ntldstats.com, Godaddy.com has fallen into the 2nd position worldwide when it comes to domain registered with new domain extensions, known as new gTLD's. A China based domain registrar, Chengdu West … [Read more...]
.XYZ Did Not Block 12K Domains on Request of China; Liberty.xyz is Owned & We Have His email
Its been an interesting couple of weeks for the .XYZ registry. It all started when Domainincite.com published a post on October 12th, talking about that .XYZ might block almost 40,000 domain names at the registry level on the request of China. That number of 40,000 words and phrases seemed to be reduced down to 12K in a Twitter post that now seems to have been deleted. Since the Domainincite … [Read more...]
.Sex is Live
ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, .ADULT and .SEX top-level domains (TLDs), announces the launch of its general availability period for .SEX. Domain names in all of ICM Registry’s extensions are now available for public purchase. Retail prices vary by registrar but Godaddy is charging $72 for a .sex domain name. According to ntldstats.com .Sex got just over 3,800 … [Read more...]
Biggest New gTLD Registrants: 23 of Top 30 Are From China; 38 out of Top 50
According to ntldstats.com registrants from China are dominating the list of the top 100 Biggest New gTLD Registrants 23 of the top 30 domain names registrants are from China; 38 out of Top 50 domain names registrants are from China; and 72 of out 100 are from China. If you consider that of the 7 registrants of domain names using the new domain extensions, 3 of those are affiliated … [Read more...]
Here’s Something Scary, Namescon Early Bird Ticket Offer Ends Tomorrow On Halloween
The 2016 NamesCon Conference $399 Early Bird ticket offer expires at the end of the day tomorrow Saturday October 31. So you should take advantage of this treat because the regular price to attend the conference is $999. Namescon will be held at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas from January 10-13 which is just 10 weeks away! Show organizers are promising that this 3rd annual edition of … [Read more...]
1St Day New gTLD Totals: .Live 3,470; .Studio 2,032; .SRL 223
Two new gTLD's launched into general availability (GA) yesterday .Live and .Studio both owned by Rightside (NAME) and one launched Tuesday offered by InterNetX; .SRL Including domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and those registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid an extra fee to register domain names before (GA); here are the totals for … [Read more...]