Rick Schwartz made a pretty interesting tweet yesterday that I think will bring about a great deal of conversation. Rick stated that 90% of all domain investors should look to reboot. Drop everything and start over again. 90% of every domainer should drop ALL their #Domains and start again! They are so far off the path that it is sad to see. #gtld #Startups — Rick Schwartz (@DomainKing) May … [Read more...]
.Art Gets 3K Domain Registrations on 1st Day of General Availability
According to the .Art registry during the first 24 hours of general availability which started yesterday, over 3,000 .Art domain names were purchased/registered. Of those about 95% were "standard" domains e.g., personal names of people and organizations, while the rest belonged to the .ART inventory of word and word combinations. While the personal names are mostly sold at standard prices, … [Read more...]
Is Startup sentiment changing with regards to .com ?
There was an interesting article by Christopher Steiner on Forbes. The article titled, "Most Startups Still Believe They Need A Dot-Com Domain, But That Is Changing." Steiner seems to be a bit all over the place with both data supporting securing a non com and some reasons why to stick with .com. He also seems to be a bit mistaken when he describes domain owners. From the article: Is this … [Read more...]
Daniel Negari .XYZ acquires it’s 10th New gTLD .Storage
Daniel Negari CEO of XYZ, announced that it has acquired it's 10th new gTLD .Storage. The new gTLD .Storage was applied for by Self Storage Company, LLC to be operated as a restricted domain extension. Self Storage Company, LLC won the domain name in a private auction against Donuts who also applied for the extension. According to Mr Negari domain names will be price at $500 … [Read more...]
Hum: 50K Domains Registered on The New gTLD .Realty at Uniregistry in 2 days; Almost All Under Privacy
The new gTLD .Realty which went into general availability on April 24th has 53,705 registered domain names. On the face, it seems like .Realty is off to a great start however of those 53,705 registered domains, 99.43% of them are registered at Uniregistry. The registrar with the 2nd most .Realty registrations is 101domain.com which has only 69 domain registrations. Of the 53,705 … [Read more...]
Chinese Are 9 of Top 10 Biggest Registrants of New gTLD’s; Top 10 Own Over 10% Of All New gTLD’s
I was looking at ntldstats.com checking out the top registrants of new gTLD's and of the top 10 biggest registrants of new gTLD's 9 are from China. Moreover the top 10 registrants account for over 3.2 million registrations of new gTLD's. According to ntldstats.com there are 29,194,819 new gTLD's registered, meaning that the top 10 largest new gTLD domain owners account for just over 11% of … [Read more...]
Startup Using New gTLD Pocket.Watch Launches With Backers Including Robert Downey Jr & Les Moonves of CBS
A new startup with huge backing is launching under the new gTLD domain name Pocket.Watch The startup with describes itself as a new kind of entertainment company: "In today’s ever-expanding, shape-shifting entertainment universe, we’re planting a flag for kids. A new kind of entertainment company, Pocketwatch is fresh, fast and exuberant — combining the vitality of today’s digital … [Read more...]