Sedo's auction of Premium .Bid and .Trade domain names ends tomorrow Tuesday at Noon EST. As of publication 8 domains out of the 35 in auction have bids. The auction is led by PPC.bid which has a high bid $1,050 while both LiveAuction.bid and onlineauction.com have bids of $800 All of the domain names have a reserve range of $1,000-$5,000 and none of the domains have reached reserve as of … [Read more...]
The .Uno Registry Rolls Out Futbol.Uno In Time For The World Cup
Dot Latin LLC, operators of the .Uno has a pretty creative way of bring attention to the .Uno extension by launching Futbol.Uno just time for the World Cup. I had a chance to chat with Esther Honig, the social media manager for Dot Latin LLC who chatted with me about the project: ""Today, and for the next 30 days on, the world’s eyes will be focused on Brazil. " "For the first … [Read more...]
ICANN Opens Comment Period On Allowing Two Character New gTLD Domains
ICANN has just opened up a comment period on whether new gTLD strings should be allowed to register, sell and allocate two character new gTLD domain names i.e (LL, NN, NL, LN) This exact comment period concerns those registries including Donuts that asked ICANN to allow these two charterer domains to be registered "In total, the requests concern 148 New gTLDs." Of course this is the … [Read more...]
Not Counting NSI, .XYZ Is Still The Fastest Growing New gTLD According to Namestat.org
I had a long chat with Andrew Brier of Namestat.org about their service, the other day and one of the interesting things I learned it that .XYZ even throwing out all of the Network Solutions (NSI) free registrations, its still the fastest growing new gTLD. Several days ago we reported that NameStat.org removed all of NSI registrations for .XYZ from its stats based on the free giveaway promotion … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD; .Events 3.9K, .Futbol 1.6K; .Dating 1K; .Partners 880, .Productions 771
Five new gTLD's went into their first day of general availability yesterday and including Sunrise registrations, they wound up with just over 8,000 registrations total. (The totals are combined from ntldstats.com and RegistrarStats.com and we used the higher total in all cases). Here are the totals after the 1st day including Sunrise Registrations .Events 3,902 .Futbol 1,628 .Dating … [Read more...]
Namestat Drops All Free .XYZ Domains & Schilling’s Registration Of Own Strings From Rankings
One of the two new sites that server up new gTLD stats, NameStat.org has made some changes to its ranking system for new gTLD registration. The service has dropped all free .XYZ domain names given out by Network Solutions (actually all Network Solution .XYZ registrations) and all Domain Names registered by Frank Schilling's North Sound Names in extensions owned by Frank Schilling's Uniregistry … [Read more...]
Network Solutions Promotion For .Events; 2 of 3 Featured Domains Are Reserved and NA
NetworkSolutions.com has done it again. A new promotion going out to all of their customers is marketing the new gTLD .events. The promotion features three domains, two of which are reserved by the registry thereby not available. We have written about this issue before. If registrars are going to email their customers to get them to register, or pre-register a new gTLD domain by … [Read more...]