Amazon has apparently participated in its 1st new gTLD private auction losing .Group to Donuts. There were 5 applicants for the new gTLD .Group Amazon (AMZN) Donuts Top Level Design, LLC (Raymond King .Wiki & .ink) Straat.co (related to former owner of the .Co Registry) Tucows.com (TCX) All applications other than the Donuts … [Read more...]
.Tokyo Is Live & Got Over 800 Sunrise/Landrush Domains Led By Apple
.Tokyo launched today and is live for domain registrations which seem to be running around $15 a year. It is by far the largest city to have launched its own new gTLD extension with a population of over 13 million people. I went through the zone file and found Apple who rarely participates in new gTLD Sunrise periods seemed to get a lot of .Tokyo domain names. Anyway here is a list of … [Read more...]
.Moe Launches Today & Predicts It Will Have 200 Million Registrations
".Moe" Could Potentially Hit over 200 Million Registrations! " Is the first line of a press release out this morning by Interlink Co., Ltd., a new Domain Registry Operator, announcing that the new gTLD .Moe is in general availability meaning it is open for live domain name registrations on a first-come, first-served basis. Interlink calls .Moe the "Internet's most unique Top Level Domain … [Read more...]
Very Quietly .Luxury Which Had a Domain Registration Fee of $799 Passes 1,000 Registrations
We haven't heard much about .Luxury since the new gTLD launch with the eye popping price of up to $799 per domain, per year registration for a non-premium domain. Since the launch which saw over over 600 hundred Sunrise applications of brands grabbing their new .Luxury gTLD's. However since the launch .Luxury has added another 400 … [Read more...]
After 8 Months I Finally Get A Notice On The New gTLD Paid Orders With Minds+Machines
Back In December 2013, I placed some paid pre-orders for some .Horse domain names and wrote a blog post about it. At the time we noted that what MindsandMachines.com says about these domain name registrations which are live on their site: “This is Not an “Expression of Interest” but a real reservation. The master list of reservations is kept by the registry, the authoritative source. A … [Read more...]
New gTLD 1st Day Registration #: .Exchange 1,252; .Capital 909; .Moda 724; .Gripe 212; .Engineering 142
5 New gTLD went into their first day of general availability yesterday and combined the 5 new extension have a total of less than 2,500 registrations. After the first day of general availability, including any Sunrise registrations and registrations taken in the Early Access Program here are the totals: .Exchange 1,252 .Capital 909 .Moda 724 .Gripe 212 .Engineering 142 All … [Read more...]
Crypto Currency Supporters Spend Some Serious Coin Registering .Exchange Domains
The new gTLD .Exchange moved into general availability today (you can register it now at most domain name registrars) and it appears some very good domain names were taken in Sunrise and during the Early Access Program (EAP) at premium prices, especially when it came to Crypto Currencies some of which were registered on day 1 of the EAP with prices of up to $12,500 (Plus Premium) and day 2 with … [Read more...]