The new gTLD's were certain the talk of the domain industry in 2014. I thought it would be a good time to take a look at where the program is in our opinion and make a few predictions for 2015. The new gTLD 's ended with lets call it 3,650,000 domain name registrations just to round the numbers off. We did an analysis when the new gTLD's hit 3.5 million and backing out the free domains … [Read more...]
Inc.com Asks “Will New Top Level Domains (New gTLD’s) Even Matter in 2015” Hint: No
Inc.com just published a post, entitled "Will New Top Level Domains Matter in 2015? Will new URL endings change web design and marketing in 2015?" The Inc.com story is about as negative on new gTLD's as I read recently and pretty much the opposite of Paul Stahura recent post on Circleid.com ""In 2014, the new Top Level Domains (TLDs) were introduced to much fanfare from the press and tech … [Read more...]
Christopher Hofman Asks Industry Participants “What’s in the DNA of a Successful New gTLD ?
Christopher Hofman of EuropeanDomainCentre.com did a big piece back in August where he got insight from several industry players on the new gtld program. He revisited these individuals with some new questions for the New Year. The primary theme was what is inherent or the DNA of a successful new gtld ? From the article: To help them on their way I asked these additional questions: – Do … [Read more...]
.Net’s Fall Below 15 Million Registrations
The number of domain names in the .Net zone file fell below 15 Million as of the last update by Verisign There are now officially 14,998,816 .Net domain registered. .Net first passed the 15 million mark in August 2013. At the end of the first quarter of 2014 (March 31st 2014) there were around 15.2 million registrations according to Verisign. However the reduction in .Net domains which … [Read more...]
What’s Going On With The Huge Increase in Domains Regs In The Color New gTLD’s .Red; .Pink; .Blue?
There has been a sudden and huge boost in domain registrations for all the color new gTLD's extensions in the past few days, .Red, .Blue, .Pink each increasing around 25% from its previous totals Each new domain extension that are operated by Afilias, have added thousands of registrations in last the 2-3 days. .Blue has added over 2,000 registrations in the last 2 days going from less than … [Read more...]
Yikes: Rightside Falls Below $7 A Shares Hitting Another All Time Low: Down 30%+ In 6 Weeks
Shares of Rightside (NAME) which we actually own some of have been falling like a rock. Today shares fell below $7 which I guess stock market guys might call a support level, hitting an intraday all time low of $6.73. Shares have recovered slightly and are trading as of publication at $6.83. Volume is like yesterday, when the shares hit that $7 a share number, before closing at $7.10 … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Dentist 907: .Rehab 293
Two new gTLD went into General Availability yesterday on Christmas eve day. Including all registrations by trademark holders in Sunrise and those who paid an additional fee to register domain names before GA in the Early Access Program (EAP) here are the total number of registrations after the first day of GA: .Dentist 907 .Rehab 293 We noted yesterday on Twitter that only 25 domain … [Read more...]