The zone files for the new gTLD that launched on Wednesday updated later than usual this week but here are the 1st day totals for the new gTLD's that launched this week. The totals include domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders as well as those registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) or Landrush, as well as during the 1st day of general availability. .Bio … [Read more...]
Registry For New gTLD IDN .网络 (Network) Registers & Reserves Over 23K Domains
A new gTLD IDN .网络 which means network in Chinese (xn--io0a7i) registered and reserved over 23,500 domain names yesterday increasing the overall number of new gTLD registered to 1.96 million according to ntldstats.com. The registry of the IDN new gTLD is Computer Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences （China Internet Network Information Center) You can read more about … [Read more...]
ANA: “Hard to Imagine That Most of The Already-Launched TLDs Will Be Around in 2 Years
The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) an opponent of the new gTLD program wrote a post on its corporate blog today asking "Already Launched New gTLD's : Is Anyone Out There?" The post is a "report" written by their general counsel Reed Smith LLP, and Brad R. Newberg of the firm wrote the piece which gave its rundown of the state of the new gTLD program and is definitely worth a … [Read more...]
.XYZ Claims Its The Most Used New gTLD Extension
In a blog post Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry claims that .XYZ its the most used new gTLD extension. The post uses the numbers furnished by ntldstats.com that we disclosed in our post the other day that looks at the percentage of registered new gTLD domain names that are parked by extension. ""Let’s look at utilization on a few levels: 1. Registration numbers 2. Active website … [Read more...]
Tech Publications In China Giving Postive Coverage to .XYZ
Techweb.com.cn, gave a pretty good endorsement to the .XYZ registry. We had to use Google Translate to turn this into broken English but you get the general idea, that they are recommending to their readers they try .XYZ as an investment: 2014 has been in the past half more, this time in the domain name industry after another we see a lot of new top-level domains, such as Online, Chinese … [Read more...]
.Cash & .Tax Launch Today Here Are The Registered Domain Names
We have chatted earlier this week about the new domain names registered in two of the 5 new gTLD's going live today, .Fund and .Investments and thought we would let you know what domain names were not going to be available when General Registration opens today for .Cash and .Tax. We think .Tax is going to be the weakest of the 4 new Donuts extensions launching today. Although its the … [Read more...]
420K ICANN Collision New gTLD Domains Start The Process of Being Freed As They Are “Registered”
There are a ton of new gTLD's being "registered" today. Many readers have written and commented about the volume of domain "registered" today and that these registrations may screw up the new gTLD stats when the zone files update tomorrow. However the vast majority are domain names on the ICANN Collision list and appears to be a technical entry, rather than a real domain registration, one … [Read more...]