The new gTLD's Cruise.Discount and Cruises.Discount just sold in an auction on the site FreeMarket.com The pair of new gTLD domain names were sold together in one lot for $10,005. Here is how the description on the auction listing read: "Cruise.Discount Cruises.Discount I don't have to tell you on how profitable the Cruise Industry is and how much Companies love Cruise Domains. Every … [Read more...]
Name.Space is looking for your help to take on ICANN
Name.Space starts fund raising campaign to take on ICANN There is a campaign running on Rally.org to help Name.space take on ICANN. On the home page of their campaign it explains what the battle is all about, it seems like Name.space has been running an alternate route and feels like it has claim to .nyc, .sex and a whole host of other extensions. The company is looking to raise $75,000 and … [Read more...]
CENTR – Myth & Fact: New gTLDs, Registries & Registrars
The Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR) commissioned a study to look at the impact of new gtlds in the sales and the registar- registry relationships. Introduction: In August of 2014, CENTR commissioned Architelos to conduct a study documenting the new gTLD sales channel and registry-registrar dynamic. The goal of the study was to review the most prevalent beliefs and … [Read more...]
1st Official New gTLD Registry Purchase As Radix Acquires .Tech
Radix a new gTLD registry announce today that is has acquire the new gTLD .Tech The ICANN auction for .Tech was held last month with the winning bid of $6,760,000 being placed by dot Tech LLC, which is owned by the same principals of the company the operate the .UNO registry. The other applicants for .Tech were Donuts, Uniregistry, Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds + Machines) and Google … [Read more...]
.Lawyer: Lots Of End Users Including National Law Firms: Here’s Our Picks For The Best
We looked into the zone file for the .Lawyer new gTLD and saw a good number of end users registering domain names including a lot of national law firms. I assume we would see the same thing for .Attorney but honestly its pretty time consuming to go through these zone files. Of course for the domainer community we are looking for Generic's that were registered and a good number of premium … [Read more...]
CentralNic Joins SedoMLS “to Distribute New and Premium Internet Domain Names”
In a press release out this morning, described as a "First-of-its-Kind Partnership Enables Premium Registry Reserve Domain Names to be Quickly Listed and Sold through Hundreds of Partners, Including Top Registrars, Sedo announced that , a leading backend registry provider, CentralNic, joined the SedoMS to sell premium domain names "For the first time, this partnership will give Registry … [Read more...]
1st New gTLD Totals .NYC 26,858; .Lawyer 3,240; .Attorney 2,156
Yesterday we saw the launch of three new gTLD's Once of the most anticipated new gTLD, .NYC for New York City finished its first day of general availability (GA) with .NYC domain registrations with a total of 28,858 registrations. .NYC had some 6,000 landrush and Sunrise registrations already on the books before GA. Meaning that .NYC gained some 20,000 domain name registrations in its … [Read more...]