Famous Four Media's first new gTLD extension go live tomorrow Monday June 9th at noon EST. Famous Four which applied for over 60 new gTLD's first new gTLD's are .Webcam, .Trade and .Bid. All three new gTLD's are priced at $39.95 at Godaddy and are of course available at a ton of registrars. I would assume that .Webcam will do the best of the three with a heavy adult … [Read more...]
Famous Four Wins New gTLD Private Auctions For .Cricket and .Racing
Famous Four Media, the registry operator for Domain Venture Partners, announced today that they were the winning bidders at the private new gTLD auctions for the domain nams.RACING and .CRICKET. Both domain extensions will be added to the portfolio of 17 registries in which Domain Venture Partners has ownership. The other applicants for .Cricket were Top Level … [Read more...]
Uniregisty Wins Private Auctions For .Help and .Diet; Famous Four Participates In Its 1st Private Auction
At the TRAFFIC show today, Sevan Derderian, Director of Sales of Uniregistry announced at the TRAFFIC conference being held in Las Vegas, that Uniregistry won the private auction for the new gTLD's .Help and .Diet this week. There were two other applicants for .Help; Dot Tech LLC of Kansas, and Donuts. There were two other applicants for .Diet; … [Read more...]
USA Today Covers New gTLDs: “Start-ups See Gold Mine in Burst of Net Domains”
USA Today just covered new gTLD's in a story entitled "Start-ups see gold mine in burst of Net Domains" "Visit GoDaddy for a new Internet domain name and you'll be greeted with an advertisement for one of at least 16 new domain alternatives to .com, .gov or .edu, descriptive of whatever it is you're trying to do". "Are you an expert? There's .guru. Starting an organization? Try .club. … [Read more...]
Famous Four Wins .Party
Famous Four Media, the registry operator for Domain Venture Partners announce today that is has resolved contention set for the new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) .PARTY. Domain Venture Partners along with Blue Sky Registry came to an "agreement" with the other applicant for .Party, Oriental Trading Company, Inc whereby Oriental Trading Company, Inc has agreed to withdraw its application. … [Read more...]
Famous Four Open Its First New gTLD .Bid & You Can Bid To Own The Domain
FFM today announced a "reservation program" .Bid called Bid on .Bid The .BID Reservation program is split into two phases: Bid-on-.BID and First-Come-First-Served (FCFS) Bid-on-.BID When? From 14:00 UTC on 20th January 2014 until 10:00 UTC on 14th February 2014 Registrants are invited to submit their bids for .BID second level domains through participating ICANN accredited … [Read more...]
Famous Four Media Selects Sedo For Auctions & Brokerage of Premium Domains
Famous Four Media (FFM), today announced its has selected Sedo.com to conduct auctions, privately broker premium names and promote the different extensions under FFM’s management. FFM was one of the most active participants in the program, applying to manage 57 new gTLDs. I n the coming months, FFM will begin making 12 of these extensions available to the public, … [Read more...]