Last week ago I put a pre-order for the domain name Luxury.Villas for the 5th day of the Early Access program for a total of $220, $150 for EAP 5 and a registration fee of $70.17. I know that other registrars at the time where showing this domain name Luxury.Villas as a very expensive premium domain. Hexonet for example had the domain for around $9,500 however when I check Godaddy the … [Read more...]
PIR Registry (.Org) Launches 3 New gTLD IDN’s Of Organization Into General Availability Today
"The Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, launches General Availability for its three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organization” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one in Devanagari (.संगठन), one in Cyrillic (.орг), and one in simplified Chinese (.机构). “The launch of these international domain names allows us to … [Read more...]
USA Today Covers New gTLDs: “Start-ups See Gold Mine in Burst of Net Domains”
USA Today just covered new gTLD's in a story entitled "Start-ups see gold mine in burst of Net Domains" "Visit GoDaddy for a new Internet domain name and you'll be greeted with an advertisement for one of at least 16 new domain alternatives to .com, .gov or .edu, descriptive of whatever it is you're trying to do". "Are you an expert? There's .guru. Starting an organization? Try .club. … [Read more...]
If You Want a Great .Vacations Domain Bring Your Wallet & These Are Gone
.Vacations which went into the 5th day of the Early Access Program today, goes into General Availability on Wednesday with a host of other domain extensions. In my opinion its the best of the Donuts domains this week. I was taking a look at some great .Vacation domains and found that if you want one, your going to pay up as many of them carry high premium registration and renewal … [Read more...]
1st .Ninja Domains Including Car.Ninja; Brand.Ninja, SEO.Ninja; Wine.Ninja & Fart.Ninja
I just review the .Ninja zone file which includes domain names registered in Sunrise and Landrush (with only 1 application). Note that some of these domain names carry a premium annual renewal and registration fee. Long time domain industry veteran Jothan Frakes scored with Brand.ninja and Conference.ninja. The University of Michigan registered Personal.Ninja The strangest … [Read more...]
50 Cent Is Officially In The .Club As His Site, 50inDa.Club Goes Live
50 Cent's .Club Fan site just went live minutes ago. The Site, 50inDa.Club, now combines all of his fan sites, a store where you can buy merchandise, watch videos, listen to music engage in all of his social networks. Basically any and things 50 are a part of the site. The site went live just a few hours before the big .Club Launch party that is being held in New York tonight and 50 will … [Read more...]
.Foundation Gets 1,393 Registrations On Day-1; .Dance 881; .Exposed 746 .Democrat 535 Best-79
The new gTLD stats just updated for the 5 new gTLD that went into general availability yesterday and the numbers were pretty low. 5 new gTLD went into general availability yesterday and numbers are less than impressive. Including Sunrise domain registrations here are the numbers according to ntldstats.com: . Foundation 1,393; .Dance 881; .Exposed 746 .Democrat 535 and Best just 79 domain … [Read more...]