.Financial goes into general availability on Wednesday meaning it becomes available to be registered on a first come basis just completed it Sunrise period for trademark holders and its Early Access Program (EAP), for those who were willing to pay a one time additional fee for early access. Reviewing the zone file so far it looks like many of the major banks, brokerage houses, financial … [Read more...]
As The GAC Restricted new gTLD’s Launch Registrants Maybe Unaware They Are already in Violation of TOS
For the first time some of the new gTLD's that fall within the "GAC Category 1 Advice", which generally are strings that the GAC determined should not be open to be registered by everyone, have started to launch. From what I'm hearing, the vast majority of the general public along with domain investors, have no idea that such rules exist but they have agreed to follow them in the Terms of … [Read more...]
.Mail Gets Added To .Home and .Corp As Strings Killed Off By Collision
According to a resolution of the ICANN Board the .Mail has joined .Home and .Corp as extension that will not be delegated as part of the collision report. .Mail was basically killed off as part of the "ICANN NAME COLLISION OCCURRENCE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK" which is putting into place a plan which will start the process of freeing up domain names on the Collision list: "Registry Operators will … [Read more...]
.Kiwi Premium Domain Sales Top $250,000
The .Kiwi Registry is reporting for the firs time that they have sold over $250,000 in .Kiwi premium domain names. The total amount of sales including domains sold under NDA which comprised about $70,000 of the $250,000 in sales. .Kiwi is also listing some sales as "Undisclosed" as these domains were sold on the basis that the sale and amount could be released … [Read more...]
1st Day Totals For New gTLD’s: .Reisen 2,262; .University 1,340; .Toys 1,320; .Town 590
Several new gTLD's went into its first day of general availability GA) yesterday and according to ntldstats.com,here are the number of registrations after the first day of GA which include all Sunrise applications and those domains registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) Once again the total for this weeks new gTLD are less than impressive: .Reisen 2,262; .University 1,340 .Toys … [Read more...]
Interlink Co., Ltd. Wins Community Priority Evaluation For The New gTLD .Osaka
Interlink Co., Ltd. Application for The New gTLD .Osaka just won its Community Priority Evaluation .Osaka has prevailed with its Community Priority Evaluation application getting 15 of the maximum 16 points. This means that GMO's application for .Osaka will not move forward. Here is part of the decision: "Thank you for your participation in the New gTLD Program. After careful … [Read more...]
HardRock; BMW; Starbucks; BretMichaels & God All .Rocks; Here are the first .Rocks Registrations
.Rocks which goes live into general availability on August 6th, has a little over 200 domains which were registered in Sunrise (Trademark holders) and in the Early Access Program (EAP) for those who were willing to pay a higher fee for early access to domain registrations The cost of a non-premium .Rocks registration is at $14.99 at Godaddy A lot of the registrations are company.rocks or … [Read more...]