Donuts has won the new gTLD extension .Golf beating out Famous Four Media, TLD Assets which owns the new gTLD .Irish and Jay Westerdal's Fegistry. We reported eailer today that Donuts won the new gTLD .Football as well. The ICANN last resort auction for .Golf was scheduled to take place later this month. No details about how the string was settled or how much was paid is … [Read more...]
Donuts Beats Famous Four Media To The New gTLD .Football
Donuts which lost the new gTLD .Basketball yesterday, won the rights to .Football today. The only other applicant for .Football was Famous Four Media, which was also a losing applicant for .Basketball. .Football was scheduled to go to ICANN's Last Resort Auction later this month According to its application Donuts: ".Football is a generic term and its second level names will be … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Paris 6,848 .Moscow 3,404; .Gal 1,140
Three new gTLD's had their first day of general availability yesterday, where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis. .Paris which only made 10,000 domain names available for registration wound up with 6,848 registrations, including those registration in Sunrise. .Moscow ended its first day of general availability with 3,404 domain names including those issued … [Read more...]
Can Verisign Maintain Its Leadership Moving Forward ?
Trefis is a financial analysis site, they describe themselves as an interactive financial community structured around trends, forecasts and insights related to some of the most popular stocks in the US. They wrote about Verisign yesterday and whether or not they can maintain their growth. They note that .com has built such a niche that it has been able to stand the test of competition, in … [Read more...]
.Auction Sunrise Winds Up With Over 220 Registrations & Over 1/4 Are From Major League Baseball
.Auction which goes into general availability next Wednesday December 10th, Sunrise period just ended for trademark holders and wound up with 228 Sunrise registrations. Major League Baseball, including many of its member teams applied for a over 1/4 of all .Auction domain names. The NBA registered a few domain names and the NHL which we have seen register a lot of Sunrise domains in some … [Read more...]
Econsultancy Takes A look at whether the new gtlds help you rank higher in search
Marcus Tober wrote an article this morning on Econsultancy.com about whether or not new gtlds help you rank higher in search ? I read econsultancy.com regularly so I as interested to see them covering the new gtlds. Marcus pointed to the fact that Google has categorically denied that there would be any rankings benefit from using the new domain extensions. He also notes the October 2012 EMD … [Read more...]
How many new gtlds have you registered in 2014 ? November poll results in
Our November poll question was, How Many New gTLDs Have you registered in 2014 ? We had 200 votes exactly and the most popular answer was zero. 78 out of the 200 responses stated they have registered no new gtlds in 2014. Of course this is not a huge sample size but it was still a bit higher than expected. 1-9 was the next most popular result with 54 people responding that they own 1 to 9 new … [Read more...]