A Few weeks ago we wrote about the highest priced premium domain names we have seen in the new gTLD launch those for the super premiums of .Attorney and .Lawyer, that carry an registration and annual renewal fee up to $60,000 a year and today it appears some of them sold in the first day of general availability . Accident.Attorney and injury.lawyer are two domain names that had a registration … [Read more...]
.NYC Says Over 10K Landrush Applications Were Received For Domain Names
AdAge.com just published a post covering today's .NYC launch into general availability. Its just one of many publications that have covered New York City big day but a quote from the story caught my eye. AdAge updated their story for a correction: CORRECTION: A previous version of this story said more than 100,000 people signed up for a .nyc domain. More than 10,000 people signed up. In … [Read more...]
1 Day After Launch, Namejet’s “Premium” .Desi New gTLD Auction Is Live
Yesterday .Desi launched into general availability with 324 registrations. Today Namejet.com announced it's holding a Premium .Desi domain auction with 30 "premium" .Desi domain names. According to Namejet.com .Desi is "a global term to refer to the culture, people and products originating from the Indian sub-continent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka). It evokes a sense of … [Read more...]
.NYC Landrush Auctions To Start On October 23rd & SnapNames.com Will Handle Them
According to an email we received from a domain investor, The .NYC landrush collision auctions will be managed by SnapNames, the .nyc Auction Provider. A landrush collision occurs when more than 1 landrush application was submitted for the same .NYC domain name "Auctions will be held on three different dates to best suit bidders with multiple applications for .nyc domains. Auction dates … [Read more...]
Vern Jurovich Is Back As Chief Operating Officer of Uniregistry
Uniregistry.com announced today that it has re-hired of Vern Jurovich as its Chief Operating Officer (pictured here with my wife Judi) Vern will help oversee all aspects of Uniregistry and help Frank Schilling shoulder business relationships and tactical day-to-day business operations across all … [Read more...]
.Desi Ends 1st Day Of GA With Just 324 Registrations; .NYC Gets 1,400 More: .OVH Gets 43K Free Registrations
.Desi which went into general availability yesterday wound up with just 324 registrations according to ntldstats.com. .NYC which is still having uncontested landrush applications to the zone file, (we had mentioned we knew they had not all been added), added another 1,440 landrush domains and now sits at just over 6K registrations. .NYC goes into general availability tomorrow October 8th and … [Read more...]
BRS Media Submits Reconsideration Request for Dot Radio
BRS Media the company behind .FM, .AM and Idotz.net, put out a press release that they have submitted a reconsideration request pertaining to the Dot Radio extension. They are seeking to overturn a ruling from last month which said that the European Broadcasting Union had the winning community priority evaluation score. From the release: On Sept. 10, 2014, ICANN announced that the European … [Read more...]