Donuts has won another new gTLD, .Plus that was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort auction later this month. Google in the form of Charleston Road Registry Inc. has withdrawn their application for .plus leaving Donuts as the sole applicant. Honestly I have no idea of why anyone applied for .Plus, much less two companies. Not sure why anyone in a world of 1,000+ domain extensions … [Read more...]
Radix Asks “Whats Your Bid for Bets.WEBSITE?”? XXX.Website is at No Reserve
Radix the registry for .Website, .Press and .Host announced today that it is releasing some of its most valuable reserved names up for auction in the upcoming RightOfTheDot Live and Online Domain Auction at NamesCon powered by leading domain name auction platform SnapNames.com. More than $175,000 worth of premium names (with annual renewals) have been sold by Radix already, however the domain … [Read more...]
At Least 16 .World Domains Registered On So Far On Day 4 of EAP @ Up To $1,228 Per
We are on the 4th day of the Early Access Program (EAP) for .World which are priced at $1,222.99 at enom.com (rack rate). This $1,222 fee is assuming there the domain names are not premium domain names, which actually some of these, are meaning that the registrants paid the premium renewal and registration fee in addition to the Early Access Fee. The biggest registrant of .World domain … [Read more...]
Las Vegas Review-Journal Renames Its Job Classified Section As RJJobs.Vegas
The Las Vegas Journal Newspaper, the newspaper with the largest circulation in the the state of Nevada has named its classified job section as RJJobs.Vegas. Although the domain name RJJobs.Vegas forwards to the reviewjournal.com/jobs, it seems that the newspaper is using the branding opportunity that a Geo domain like .Vegas brings. If your wondering the domain name Jobs.Vegas is registered … [Read more...]
MediaPost: $20M A Year AdEase Changes Its Domain To a .Agency But Credits Google Not Donuts
Mediapost.com just published a story tonight about San Diego-based ad shop, AdEase which they say has grown into a company with 35 employees and $20 million-plus in annualized billings. According to the story it is remaking itself as a cause-focused agency. As part of the makeover it is changing its name to Civilian. Also as part of the redo, the agency is adopting a .agency domain … [Read more...]
AsiaOne: “Major firms to use names as website domain suffixes”
AsiaOne.com wrote an article today that talked about brands in Asia that will be adopting their own brand extension and using it over .com or say .co.jp. One company mentioned in the article was Dai Nippon Printing Co, the company is publicly traded in Japan. The company said that the new domain has been attractive for regular consumers, but, still uses its previous domain at dnp.co.jp. Of … [Read more...]
Donuts Beats The Owner Of Gold.Org To The New gTLD .Gold
Donuts, which we can only assume won a private auction for the new gTLD string .Gold against the World Gold Counsel (WGC) which operates Gold.Org The new gTLD .Gold was scheduled to got to an ICANN Last Resort auction later this month. Here is some information from WGC application" "The Applicant is a wholly owned subsidiary of the World Gold Council, a non-profit organisation tasked … [Read more...]