I have been following the .Wine/ .Vin issue for what seems like years now. I get why Wine makers from Napa and France and Italy and Germany are concerned about the .Wine New gTLD and .Vin New gTLD. Like any other business on earth, the new gTLD program has the potential to verticalize the internet providing a new gTLD for each business sector, class of products, professions or … [Read more...]
Namejet.com’s .Global Live Auction Closes Tommorow & 50% Of The Domains Have Bids
Namejet.com's pre-bidding for the Live ICANN .Global Auction ends tomorrow Sunday June 22nd at 11pm EST and as of publication 50% of the domain names have bids. The live auction will be held on Tuesday in London during the ICANN 50 meeting. The event will be held at Hilton London Paddington, 146 Praed Street, London, which is just blocks from the hotel the ICANN meeting will be held and is … [Read more...]
.Trust Makes .Rich Look Cheap
Kate Vinton from Forbes is out with an article today on the .Trust extension and can it make the Internet safer ? From the article: Describing the internet as the new Wild West, NCC Group hopes to create a secure “gated community” though a new generic top-level domain (gTLD), aptly named .trust. The British security company hopes the new domain will be an elite island of safety within the … [Read more...]
Almost 4,000 .Berlin Domains Deleted
I was just reviewing RegistrarStats.com and noticed at 3,933 we deleted yesterday at the registry. Like .com domain names new gTLD domain names have a five day grace period in which they can be deleted. Not sure whether these are "free" domain names that were deleted or paid for .Berlin domains that were deleted once the free period started. Certainly if you paid for a .Berlin … [Read more...]
Shocking: Verisign Backed Study Shows 80% Of Small Businesses Prefer .Com over New gTLD’s
The results of a survey of small- and medium-sized (SMB) business … [Read more...]
1st Day Of New gTLD Launches .Community 2,206; .Cards 1,027; .Catering 854; .Cleaning 751
For new gTLD launched yesterday and the total registrations for all four of Donuts strings after the 1st day of general availability came under 5,000 registrations including Sunrise and Early Access Program registrations. Here are the totals for the new gTLD that launched yesterday according to ntldstats.com: .Community 2,206 .Cards 1,027; .Catering 854 .Cleaning 751 It certainly … [Read more...]
Radix Announces Timeline for .Press “The Changing Face of Journalism”
Radix, announced today the timeline for rolling out their new gTLD .Press .Press will be available starting June 24th for Sunrise, the Landrush phase will follow starting on August 26th, 2014 "where anyone can register short and generic domain names by paying a small premium and .Press hits general availability on September 17th after which domains become available to everyone on a first-come … [Read more...]