.XYZ the new gTLD which bills itself as the new .Com, had a very good 1st day of general availability (GA) winding up with almost 18,000 registrations. According to ntldstats.com, .XYZ has 17,800 domains registered putting it in 11 place after the first day of GA. Interestingly NetworkSolutions.com has over 50% of the registrar market for .XYZ with … [Read more...]
Best Deal for .XYZ Registrations looks to be at Uniregistry
So far no official numbers on the first day GA registrations for .XYZ. I have been chatting with Andy from Namestat.org and he said the same. Andy told me, "Nope, no zone file today, no-one has the figures. Total guess but I suspect they had a very good first 8 hours;) It does look like comedian Kevin Hart regged KevinHart.xyz and KevinHartNation.xyz Ntldstats.com is showing 3,264 … [Read more...]
158 .Condos Domain Names Taken in EAP; Here They Are & Here’s The Best Of What’s Left
If your planning on registering any .Condos new gTLD domain names this week, most of the bigger markets in the United States are spoken for. In what looks to be a very successful Early Access Program for Donuts' .Condos new gTLD, we counted 158 domain names registered in the 5 day EAP period. In addition to paying the one time fee which ranges for around $12,500 to $250 depending on the … [Read more...]
Famous Four Wins New gTLD Private Auctions For .Cricket and .Racing
Famous Four Media, the registry operator for Domain Venture Partners, announced today that they were the winning bidders at the private new gTLD auctions for the domain nams.RACING and .CRICKET. Both domain extensions will be added to the portfolio of 17 registries in which Domain Venture Partners has ownership. The other applicants for .Cricket were Top Level … [Read more...]
Daniel Negari Predicts 1 Million .XYZ Registrations In First Year ; “Its My Gift To The World”
In a blog post tonight the founder and CEO of the .XYZ registry made a bold of a prediction I have seen from any registry saying that; There is no doubt in my mind that the growth rate of .xyz will surpass the growth rate of .com. It won’t take us 20 years to reach one million registrations. It will only take 1 year." .XYZ go on sale with general availability through over 200 domain name … [Read more...]
Shocker: Rick Schwartz Now Owns More New gTLD’s Domains Than I Do
On the Live Domain Sherpa show from TRAFFIC in Las Vegas, Rick Schwartz let the world know that he went on a buying binge with regards to new gTLD domains the past few days and now actually owns more new gTLD domains than I do. As we sit today, my company Worldwide Media, Inc. owns 455 new gTLD domain names. Mr. Schwartz who is a fellow Domain Sherpa, told the attendees at TRAFFIC that he … [Read more...]
TechCrunch.com Covers One Applicant For .Art
We haven't seen Techcrunch.com cover the new gTLD program very much but today they did and picked out a story surrounding one applicant for .Art, deviantART The TechCrunch article covers the letter sent to ICANN by deviantART’s as to why it deserves a “community designation” in the application process, saying: “We are on the cusp of an extraordinary opportunity with the simple use of a … [Read more...]