The folks over at .Club in the spirit of the holiday season have created a .Club holiday song. Tis the season… to have some fun as well, so we put together a little jingle to celebrate some of our favorite new domain names. From .dad to .directory, twenty-six of the new domain name extensions are mentioned in this Holiday ditty. Is your favorite string … [Read more...]
New gTLD’s Pass 3.3 Million; .Club Passed 140K .NYC Tops 60K; .London Passes 50k
We haven't done a update of the new gTLD program registrations in a while. According to nTLDStats.com the total number of new gTLD domain registrations just passed 3.3 million. .NYC has now passed 60,000 registrations and .London has now passed 50,000 registrations Rounding out the top 10 of all new gTLD's .XYZ has the most registrations with 729,999. .Berlin has passed 154,000 … [Read more...]
Coffee.Club Launches: 40% Discount Black Friday-Cyber Monday & Free Membership To A Reader Of TheDomains
Coffee.club, a subscription-based coffee club that delivers among the freshest access to organic, launched its site today at Coffee.Club on Black Friday to appeal to the more than 54% of Americans who drink coffee on a daily basis. To celebrate the launch, in the tradition of Black Friday/Cyber Monday, Coffee.Club … [Read more...]
How Online Retailers Are Using New gTLDs in their Holiday Marketing
Tucker Johns wrote an article on gtldstrategy.com, A FairWinds Blog about how new gtlds are affecting Black Friday marketing. Tucker gave mention to the new .blackfriday and .Christmas strings from Uniregistry and took a look at how the top 100 online retailers are using new gtlds. From the article: To check how the top 100 online retailers, as ranked by Internet Retailer, have adopted these … [Read more...]
Symantec Wins .SECURITY Over Donuts and Defender Security
Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ;SYMC) has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Security beating Donuts and Defender Security. You might recall that Defender Security, filed Legal Rights Objections to all other applicants in .Home which was subsequently knocked out by domain collision. .Security was one of 11 new gTLD's that are scheduled to be auctioned off in the ICANN Last Resort Auction … [Read more...]
.Green Release Launch Time Table: Founders Program Closes Dec 1; GA Set For March 24, 2015
The .Green registry released its launch time table for the new gTLD. The Founders Program is now open but only to December 1, 2014 "The Founders Program is Limited to Friends & Supporters of DotGreen, and attendees of San Francisco Green Festival If your interested in acquiring a .Green Founders name you need to submit an application by December 1st, 2014" The .Green Registry also … [Read more...]
Uniregistry: .Click new gTLD Generated Over 10,000 Registrations In First 24 Hours
In a comment left by Frank Schilling on TheDomains.com, on our post about yesterday Uniregistry's new gTLD first day totals, more than 10,000 domain names were registered in the first 24 hours. The stats we published earlier today were based on the last zone file update which usually cuts off at midnight, which showed the first day total of general availability for .Click was some 3,800 domain … [Read more...]