The new domain extension .Doctor launched yesterday into general availability where domains could be registered on a first come first served basis. The zone file now reflects 1,421 domain registration which includes those domain names registered in Sunrise by trademark holders and those registered during the Early Access Period (EAP) for an extra fee. Many of the registered domain names have … [Read more...]
Percentage of Parked New gTLD Zoom Up Over 65% As Over 3 Million Added in A Week
According to ntldstats.com, the number of "Parked" new gTLD domain names as defined by ntldstats.com has increased by over 3 Million domain names just since October 25th 2016. On October 25th, the number of Parked domains was just 13,175,000; however as of November 2nd that number has ballooned up over 16,374,000. The percentage of new gTLD's domain names that are parked as … [Read more...]
$3 Million For TrumpTv.com? TrumpTower.Live & TrumpTowerLive.com Registered Yesterday
Yesterday we published a post about the owner of the domain name TrumpTv.com putting the domain on the market with an asking price of $3 Million. The owner went on to say that the traffic to the domain name went from "about 150,000 people to 1.3 million in just the last couple of weeks” However Alexa.com which lists sites by traffic only has TrumpTv.com at 2.7 million which doesn't mesh … [Read more...]
Guy Who Owns The Domain TrumpTv.com Wants $3 Million For It
TheWrap.com has an exclusive interview with the owner of the domain name TrumpTv.com; Hollywood entrepreneur Fernando Escovar. Mr. Escovar told TheWrap that he bought the domain name back in 2004, and "totally forgot I owned it; Then, all of a sudden, traffic began to go crazy and I realized what was going on." "We’ve seen our traffic go from about 150,000 people to 1.3 million in just the … [Read more...]
The Domain Name Texas.com Hits The Market
The 22 years old domain name Texas.com is for sale. The domain is being brokered by eNaming. Tracy Fogarty, eNaming founder and CEO is quoted in a press release out today as saying.com: “With only one generic name dot-com available per state, this domain name is as exclusive as they come. Texas is the second-largest state, and there are many businesses there that could benefit … [Read more...]
3 Years Later: Team Schilling vs Team Schwartz On New gTLD’s; Who Was Right?
It was three years ago to the date that marked the epic debate between the "Domain King" Rick Schwartz and arguably the most successful domainer in history , Frank Schilling on the New gTLD's. The debate went on for almost 80 Minutes at a session held at the old TRAFFIC conference held back in October 2013 on basically "will the new gTLD's be a game changer". So the question now becomes in … [Read more...]
Trump Wants to Do Post Election Trump TV Channel; Should He Buy Trump.tv or TrumpTv.com?
According to a story in The Hill today, Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, reportedly contacted a top dealmaker in the media industry within the past couple of months about creating a Trump television network. According to the story Trump is mulling the idea of creating a cable channel as his personal media company. The publication said Trump had talked about a "mini-media … [Read more...]