CentralNic Group PLC has over 2.0 million domains registered using its platform representing 21% of all new gTLD domain names. Of the 2+ million new gTLD registered through CentralNic 1,552,903 are .XYZ domain names. The only other extension using CentralNic that has 100,000+ is .website, although .online is quickly approaching with just about 95,000 domain names. CentralNic passed … [Read more...]
Farmers Bank & Trust Switches From .Com To .Bank Domain
Farmers Bank & Trust which has branches in Arkansas and Texas and approximately $1.2 billion in assets has changed its domain name from .com to a .bank Farmers Bank which was using myfbtbank.com at it's website has switched to myfarmers.bank. At this time, visitors can still access the Farmers Bank & Trust website through the old web address, myfbtbank.com. The bank encourages … [Read more...]
Domain Registration At a Record Pace 460,000, Yesterday
The huge surge in daily domain name registrations continued yesterday as over 460,000 domain names were registered across all Top Level Domains (excluding ccTLD). Traditionally the number of domain name registrations slow on the weekend, to the point where it's not unusual to see the number of .Com deleted, exceed the number of new registrations for the day, leading to a negative … [Read more...]
RightoftheDot/ 4.CN Auction Sells Over $871K in Domains
The RightoftheDot.com domain name auction on the 4.cn platform as part of the Domainfest.asia conference generated over $871,000 in sales. All sales were led by a three number .com, 586.com which sold for $416,000 The two next highest sales, zhou.com and 8.xyz were both listed at no reserve. Several of the domain name sales occurred, as they often do after the domain auction concluded … [Read more...]
Last Call: 6 Number .Com’s: Less than 8K Left Out of 1 Million
If you're considering registering any 6 number Ccom domains (NNNNNN.com) I'm going calling "Last Call'. As of publication less than 8,000 NNNNNN.com remain available for registration. The possible number of 6 numbered .com domains is 1,000,000 including the dreaded number 4 and zero. We would expect all of these domain name to be registered by the end of the weekend. There is a huge … [Read more...]
Bloomberg: “Candidates Continue to Miss Obvious Domain Registrations”
Bloomberg just published another post on presidential candidates and the domain names they failed to register. In a post BNA.com calls out Jeb Bush for failing to register the matching domain of his "new campaign slogan--“Jeb Can Fix It!” "Jimmy Flanagan, a 2014 candidate for the Austin, Texas, City Council, had registered the domain name out from under the candidate." "Bush isn’t … [Read more...]
RightofTheDot/Namescon Domain Auction Is Opened for Submissions
RightoftheDot.com is holding a live and online auction with Namejet.com from the Namescon conference. RightoftheDot.com has now formally opened up submission for the auction. We are looking for great domain names, especially one word .com and new gTLD'sm along with short domains in all extensions, along with brand domains, category killers, Geographic domains. Domains should have a low … [Read more...]