Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced it has secured the .GAMES domain extension. Rightside plans to launch .GAMES in Q3 2016, starting at a standard wholesale price of $12.00. Donuts was the sole applicant for .Games, which is one of the jointly owned new gTLD domain extensions with Rightside. There were 5 applicants for the new gTLD .Game, including Google and Amazon, which was won by … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz Files UDRP on DomainKing.biz
Rick Schwartz's company Virtual Dates, Inc has filed a second UDRP based on his "Domain King" federally registered trademark, this time on the domain name DomainKing.biz. About a month ago Rick Schwartz filed a UDRP on the domain name DomainKing.ng. .Ng is the country code (ccTLD) for Nigeria. At that time Rick told TheDomains.com that the UDRP on the domain DomainKing.ng was "the first … [Read more...]
$224,224 for MikiHouse.com ? Here’s Why
So the big sale this week on Sedo was MikiHouse.com. $224,224 for a domain that had been registered since 1999 and surprisingly had dropped two times previously. As strange as the sale may seem, for the buyer it's just a huge upgrade from their current .Com web address. The buyer is MIKI SHOKO CO.,LTD out of Japan. According to their site, Miki House sells "premium fashion for … [Read more...]
Hexonet Launching Backorder Service For Dropping Donuts & Rightside New gTLD’s Domains
The domain name registrar Hexonet just announced they are starting a backorder service for dropping new gTLD domain names starting on May 1st for Donuts and Rightside strings. Prices vary by the string and domain names that have more the one backorder will go to auction Here is the announcement: HEXONET's is activating Backordering for all Donuts and Rightside TLDs (400 TLDs in total) … [Read more...]
More Avatar Movies Coming? Domain Registration & Purchases Point to Avatar 3 & 4
Avatar directed by James Cameron was released in 2009 and generated around $2.8 million in box office receipts has a sequel planned for release in 2018, Avatar 2. Yesterday some domain registrations and purchases show that there maybe another couple of sequels in the works. Brand protection company MarkMonitor.com acquired the domain names AvatarThree.com, and Avatar4Movie.com, from third … [Read more...]
.Gov Domain Registrations Maybe Increasing From $125 to $400 a Year
According to Targetednews.com, the cost of a .Gov domain registration and renewal are proposed to increase from $125 a year to $400 a year. .Gov is a domain name extension that is only available to be registered by governmental entities in the United States, including Federal, state, local and tribal governments.. The increase is a recommendation of the General Services Administration (GSA) … [Read more...]
Verisign: There Are 314 Million Domain Names As of December 31, 2015
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), announced that approximately 15 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 314 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs). The increase of approximately 15 million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 5% over the third quarter of 2015. … [Read more...]