The new gTLD's .Law and .abogado are in general availability but due to the new domain extensions being restricted, registrations are taking a while to show up in the zone file. Today it appears the domain names registered in the Sunrise Period were loaded into the zone and at the moment the count is 86 domain name registrations in .law and 30 for .abogado. However interestingly there seems … [Read more...]
DNF.com Has Sold
DNF.com has sold the domain which forwarded to DNForum.com is now owned by a registrant in China. The domain recently stopped forwarding to the forum and was parked at SEDO. The amount is undisclosed. The domain name was registered in 1996. The domain is now registered at the Chinese domain name registrar, ename.com Registrant Contact Name: ZHENGTIANBING Organization: ZHENG … [Read more...]
After Offering $400, Brian Fera Loses UDRP To Grab Two Letter Domain Wi.com
Brian Fera of Heppenheim, Germany, just lost its attempt to grab the two letter .com domain name of Wi.com in a UDRP The domain is owned by Media Options S.A.who was represented by Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC, The three member panel of Tony Willoughby, The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. and Thomas Hoeren rejected the Complainant argument that its trademark in the term WICOM entitled it to Wi.com but … [Read more...]
New Study: 88% of Startups Have .Com Domain Names: 41% Are “Invented Names”
A new study out today by Clutch, a Washington, DC-based research firm, whose domain name is Clutch.co, shows that 41% of newer, venture-funded startups have invented names, almost three times the amount of invented names in comparison to other high growth companies. "The influx of invented names could be in response to the desire for a dot-com domain extension. Clutch's data showed that 88% of … [Read more...]
New Lender For Domain Names: Lendvo.com
There is a new lender for domain names, Lendvo.com. The founders of the company are Ben Lichtman and Patrick Izzo Making loans on domain names is only one of Lendvo.com products which include loans on income producing websites, buying out installment sales of domain names or leased domains, factoring and business loans. Here is how the company describe itself: "Lendvo is a Alternative … [Read more...]
Australia’s Domain Administration (auDA) Proposes To Allow Direct .au Registrations
According to smh.com.au, folowing the led of New Zealand and the Britain, Australia's regulatory body for domain names, .au Domain Administration (auDA), recently announced its 2015 Names Policy Panel proposal that individuals and entities should be allowed to register domain names directly under .au, for example www.abc.au in addition to .com.au Under the proposal, domains ending with com.au, … [Read more...]
.Wang Adds 90K+ Domains in 1 Day: 160K in 3 Days: Becomes 3rd Largest New gTLD
The new gTLD .Wang gained some 90,000 new domain registrations in the last day or so and over 160,000 new domain registrations since October 17th which is an increase of 50% According to Registered.Today .Wang gained more than 90,000 new domain registrations yesterday. According to ntldstats.com, the number of .Wang domain registration has grown from 285,000 on October 17th to … [Read more...]