Amazon has won the rights to the new gTLD .Hot as the other two applicants, Donuts and SecondGen.com withdrew their applications from ICANN's site. The new gTLD was probably settled by private auction. It will be interesting to see what Amazon's Plan for .Hot is. Amazon's application for .Hot does not really lay out a vision for the extension. … [Read more...]
Rightside (NAME) Is Up 20% In After Hours Trading
After its first earnings report as a public company, Rightside (NAME) is up about 20% in after hours trading. Rightside is currently trading at $11.26 up $1.85 from its closing price of $9.41 Rightside has a 52 week low is $8.96 and its 52 week high of $17 but just started trading on August 1st 2014. Here are the highlights: Rightside reported 16 Million domains under management … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Capetown 1,772; .Joburg 1,458; .Market 1,229; .Durban 985; .Mortgage 635
5 new gTLD extensions had their first day of general availability(GA) yesterday including three Geo's of cities in Africa (Tuesday Africa time) and two by Rightside (NAME) Including Sunrise registrations by trademark holders, those that paid an extra fee for earlier access through Landrush or the Early Access Program (EAP) here are the totals after the first day of GA: .Capetown … [Read more...]
.xyz Is The First New gTLD to Surpass 700,000 Registrations
.xyz Is The First New gTLD to Surpass 700,000 Registrations .xyz is the first new gTLD to surpass 700,000 registrations with 701,495 today, according to nTLDstats.com. Last week, new gTLDs topped 3 million registrations, which .xyz accounts for nearly 23%. Even when subtracting the Network Solutions registrations, .xyz is still the largest with 324,000 domains. .xyz is doing especially well … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Says They Are Pleased With New gTLD Results; Investors Not So Much
Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) in a story published by proactiveinvestors.co.uk today saying "it is pleased with the revenues from its emerging portfolio of generic top level domains." "Around US$4 Million has been generated by the new domains M+M is involved with and, according to analysts, the AIM group’s share is around £300,000 for the first half of 2014, driven mostly from .London domain name … [Read more...]
Registrant Of Playboy.London Wants To Keep The Domain For His unborn Child Hoping Its A Boy
Standard.co.uk just published a blog post entitled "Property boss at war with Playboy over Dot London domain name" Michael Ross, director of CNM estates, registered the domain name Playboy.London after the publishing company failed to register the domain name in the Sunrise period that was opened to trademark holders According to Mr. Ross, he received a strongly worded letter from its Los … [Read more...]
.NYC Now Has More Registrations Than .London
.NYC has passed .London in the number of domain registrations. According to nTLDstats.com, .NYC now has 48,671 domain names registered compare to .London which has 48,479. .NYC has moved into the 8th spot for the most registered new gTLD and .London is number 9. Both .NYC and .London, passed .Photography which now has 47,439 domain names. According to RegistrarStats.com, .NYC passed … [Read more...]