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New gTLD Domain Registrations Pass 1.5 Million

July 12, 2014 by Michael Berkens

The total number of new gTLD registrations just passed 1.5 Million according to ntldstats.com The official count is 1,510,985. .XYZ is still leading with almost 300,000 registrations. While Network Solutions is still responsible for the vast majority of domain name registrations of .XYZ,,  Netsol share of .XYZ total registrations have fallen below 80%.  Discounting all Network Solutions … [Read more...]

Company Holding Webinar On New gTLDs PR Is Full Of Errors: Google Owns .Home?

July 11, 2014 by Michael Berkens

CMSWire and ICF International are holding a one hour Webinar on Tuesday, July 22nd at 10:30am PDT/1:30pm EDT and put out a Press Release to get people to sign up for it. The problem is the PR is full of statements which are simply wrong The headline of the PR reads: "Google Enters Domain Market with .home, .blog and .hotel" Well as those that follow new gTLD's know all applications for … [Read more...]

New gTLD 1st Day Totals: .Services 4,584 .Pub 1,285 & .GOP Zone’s File is Still Empty

July 10, 2014 by Michael Berkens

The new gTLD extension  .Services had the best first 1st day registrations numbers in a month, Including the 565 Sunrise Registrations .Services total after the first day of General Availability is 4,584. Two domain name Registrars, United-Domains and 1and1com sold the biggest amount of .Services about 37% of all .Services registrations Godaddy.com sold the third most .Services domain … [Read more...]

.Global NameJet.com Auction Closes in 3 Hours; Invest.global Is Leading The Pack @ $1,400

July 9, 2014 by Michael Berkens

The .Global premium domain auction starts to close at 3PM EST on NameJet.com The domains in this auction are domain names that were in the live auction that was held in London during ICANN a couple of weeks ago and produced over $63,000 in sales Many of these domains received bids in the live auction but failed to reach reserve, however the registry agreed to lower the reserves on a lot of … [Read more...]

Updated: Christmas In July? Not So Much; 1st Day Totals .Christmas 422; BlackFriday 401

July 9, 2014 by Michael Berkens

Two of Uniregistry new gTLD strings had their first day of general availability yesterday and put up pretty horrible numbers according to ntldstats.com. Including Sunrise registrations .Christmas ended its first day with just 422 registrations, 18 of them were registered by Uniregistry itself. Here are some of the domain name Uniregistry … [Read more...]

.GOP Is Willing To Let You Call Them Crooks But It Will Cost You $250

July 9, 2014 by Michael Berkens

            The .GOP is apparently willing to let opponents and haters to call it all sorts of unflattering names but only if they pay enough. Unlike the .Democrat  and .Republican registry which is being operated by a for profit public company, Demand Media (DMD), the. GOP extension is being run by an arm of the Republican party … [Read more...]

More 2-Character Domain Requested for .XYZ, .DEALS, .CITY, .COLLEGE, .GOP, .TRADE, .WEBCAM, .BID, .HEALTHCARE, .WORLD, .BAND

July 9, 2014 by Michael Berkens

                ICANN has opened up another comment period for 12 more new gTLD which have applied to have the right to allocated 2 charter domain names. The new gTLD string are: .XYZ, .DEALS, .CITY, .COLLEGE, .GOP, .TRADE, .WEBCAM, .BID, .HEALTHCARE, .WORLD, .BAND and the IDN XN--FJQ720A. ""To obtain community input on the … [Read more...]

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