Brand protection and domain registrar, Corporate Service Company (CSC) issued its latest "New gTLD Utilization Report" which is designed to update digital marketers and their peers in legal and IT about how new gTLDs are being adopted. The report also examines how .brand domains are being used and how effectively the new generic TLDs are penetrating the Alexa.com, top one million websites (a … [Read more...]
.Club Sells Over $140K in Premium Domains In January: Over $3.5 Since Launch
.Club reported on its blog that it sold $142,470.52 in Premium Name Sales in January bringing the total cumulative premium name sales for .CLUB to $3,540,637.79. During the month of January 2016 there were 408 premium names sold. 5 names (Athletic.club, Night.club, Pot.club, Space.club and Strip.club) were sold in the NamesCon auction. The bulk of the remaining premium name sales were … [Read more...]
.XYZ Says They Just “Blew Past” 2 Million Domain Registrations
Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry just sent me over a note that the new gTLD .XYZ has "blew past 2 Million domain name registrations". According to ntldstats.com .XYZ was sitting at 1,967,963 domain registrations as of the last zone update, however there has been a huge surge in 6 number .XYZ domain names from China (NNNNNN.xyz) (also known as 6N domains) of over 100,000 domain … [Read more...]
.Law Gets 5K Registrations in 1st 90 days: We Break Down The Numbers
According to a press release out today, Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), the owner of the new ".law" and .abogado (Lawyer in Spanish) top-level domains, "announced that .law has successfully completed its first 90 days since general availability having fulfilled more than 5,000 verified registrations, with over 700 premium names including numerous domains which have sold for $100,000 or … [Read more...]
Namejet.com Reports Almost $2.5 Million In Domain Sales In January
Namejet.com reported almost $2.5 Million dollars in domain name sales in January 2016. Only domain names that sold for $2,000 or more are included as are only domain sales that were paid for by the end of the month. In all Namejet.com reported over 300 domain sales including many from the RightoftheDot.com auction that was held on Namejet.com as part of the Namescon Conference. By … [Read more...]
XYZ Launches .Security, .Protection, & .Theatre: All Domain Including Single Character Are Avail
We just received an email from XYZ which launched the new gTLD extensions .Security, .Protection, and .Theatre today. Apparently on the launch some registration requests for single character domain names were being rejected due to a technical error, however we just received a note that the error has been fixed and that all domain names are available for registration (unless of course already … [Read more...]
.WS Changing 2-3 Character New Domain Pricing & Releasing All 5-20 Number Domains
Due to the recent demand for the .WS extension coming from the emerging China Domain market, Global Domains International, the operator of the .WS registry, announced today that they are changing their pricing for all 2 and 3 character .WS domain names. In December 2015, thousands of .WS domain names were registered in China. The entire 4 number Chinese Premium .WS space sold out over a … [Read more...]