The number of new gTLD registrations just crossed the 3.5 million mark according to ntldstats.com The question is how many of these 3.5 Million new gTLD domain names are paid for registrations made by third parties unrelated to the registry So we are basically backing out any  known free registrations, any domain name registered to the registry itself or to parties related to the registry in … [Read more...]

Several new gTLD's go into general availability today where they can be registered on a first come first serve basis and many have quite a few registrations after its Sunrise  period which was for trademark holders and those who paid an extra fee to register the domain during the Early Access Period (EAP) .Business has 506 registrations which is more registrations that 17 fully launched, new … [Read more...]

.Auction which goes into general availability on Wednesday is coming with some pretty stiff premium registration and renewal pricing. The new extension is being sold by Rightside. A regular registration will cost around $42. Here are some of the more interesting domain names I found that are available as of publication (pricing based at rack rate at Enom.com): $60,012 Registration fee … [Read more...]

Uniregistry which has lost a bunch of recent new gTLD auctions, won a private auction for .Cars beating Donuts and DERcars which is Dominion Enterprises which applied for several new gTLD's. If your wondering why .car and .cars is in the contention set, well its a long and in typical ICANN fashion pretty confusing. The short story  is that Google had filed a string confusion objection with … [Read more...]