A very interesting, well written post by Jeff Sass, DOT CLUB's Chief Marketing Officer, was posted on their company blog today entitled "How do You Define Success" I assume most of you do not subscribe to the .Club blog and would otherwise miss this post which is worth a read. For those that don't know .Club on is a client of RightoftheDot.com which is a company I'm a director of Still … [Read more...]
My Preorder For Cool.Vegas Just Got A $35,525 Bill & CoolVegas.com Is Priced at $12K
I placed a pre-order for the domain name Cool.Vegas on a landrush basis with 101domain.com a while back. I got word the other day that the domain name was placed on the reserved list of the registry and made a premium domain. So I got a bill for the difference between what I previously paid for the pre-order $234.99 and the new premium price for the domain name of $35,760.00 I have no … [Read more...]
Ntldstats.com Updated Registrant Distribution Feature
Ntldstats.com updated their "Registrant Breakdown" I thought it would be interesting to see who is the top 25 as we now have been live for just over four months. These guys continue to do a great job and the same goes for Andy at Namestat.org I posted the top 25, click the link above to see the whole list. Registrant Breakdown Registrant Domains % … [Read more...]
.XYZ Moves Into 4th Most Registered New gTLD Topping 38K But 72% Are From NetSol
Ntldstats.com, has updated this morning and .XYZ is now the 4th most popular gTLD with over 38,000 registrations. However over 72% of these, or over 27,500 domains are at Network Solutions (NSI), which as we discussed yesterday and today, offered free .XYZ domains to certain customers on an opt out basis, meaning that many of these customers may not even know they have an .XYZ domain. If we … [Read more...]
Network Solutions Has No Idea What I am talking about – UPDATED WITH PROOF OF EMAIL
So there was a lot of talk about Network Solutions and .XYZ yesterday. We had a comment in one thread which led to Michael doing a follow up post and mentioning that specific comment. The comment was : “I recently got the email from Netsol offering me a complementary .xyz for my so-so .com free for 1 year. and in order to decline such an offer I had to visit a link and click decline, … [Read more...]
Did NetworkSolutions.com Give Away Free .XYZ Domain Names?
I published a post earlier today about .XYZ registering over 18,000 domain names in its first day of General Availability based on ntldstats.com, which is what we rely on consistently for our registration numbers. At the time we did point out that over 50% of all registrations were made at NetworkSolutions.com which was quite unusual, since that … [Read more...]
Donuts Wins Private Auction For New gTLD .Pizza; Minds + Machines Wins .Fashion
Minds + Machines, (AIM:MMX) has won the private auction for the new gTLD .Fashion The three losing applicants in the private auction held last week for .Fashion were Uniregistry, Donuts and Famous Four Media. The losing bidders for the new gTLD .Pizza were, Asiamix Digital Limited,Minds + Machines, and Uniregistry. Uniregistry previously announced they won the private auctions for the new … [Read more...]