Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League and its member teams have gone in pretty heavy into the new gTLD .Social registering domain names during Sunrise for almost every team and several variations of teams and for the League it itself. .Social has the deepest registrations in Sunrise of professional sports teams that I have seen in the new gTLD space to date. MLB.social and … [Read more...]
DomainNameLogic.com: “New gTLD’s Are Pathetic Comapred To Even .Net.Au”
*UPDATE Michael Gilmour was not the author of the post, and it was DomainNameLogic not ParkLogic. Our apologies to Michael and the actual author. DomainNameLogic.com just put out a post on their blog, saying that New gTLD's are Pathetic even compared to a ccTLD, in this case Net.Au. I understand the point the author is making which is that new gTLD's are a bad investment from a … [Read more...]
.Expert Winds Up With Just Over 9K Registrations After 1st Day Of General Availability
.Expert has just over 9,000 registrations after the first day of general availability (GA) The new domain extension had over 2,000 registrations going into the 1st day of GA which is far less than the start that .Guru got off to. We have chatted about .Expert and how it would compare to .Guru, for a while and think the lower number of registrations con .Expert could be a result of what we … [Read more...]
New gTLD Advertising Hits The London Tube (Subway)
Thanks to a reader of TheDomains.com who spotted an ad in the London Tube (otherwise known as the subway ) for new gTLD's The Ad looks like a pretty big billboard (unfortunately it looks like the picture got chopped off slightly on the right) sponsored by the domain name registrar, 123-reg.co.uk Looks like the ad is featuring the new gTLD's of .Club, .Ninja and .XYZ as well as .London, … [Read more...]
LogicBoxes Delivers Vertical Integration Solution For .WIEN Retail Operation, Netzadresse.at
According to a press release we just received "LogicBoxes, the Vertical Integration solutions provider for New gTLD Registries today announced that it has successfully executed a comprehensive Vertical Integration project in the .WIEN namespace. .WIEN is a new gTLD extension that caters to businesses, organizations, individuals and any other entities associated with Vienna, the Austrian … [Read more...]
.Club Landrush Auctions Have Started On Sedo
I just got notice that the Landrush auctions have started on Sedo for .Club domain names. An auction occurs when 2 or more landrush applications are submitted regardless of registrar. I can tell you that the starting bid is $100. Unlike other landrush auctions I have participated Sedo is not showing me how many other bidders there are. The auction are slated to run for 4 days. It … [Read more...]
.Expert Gets Over 1,300 Registrations Just In Early Access Program
.Expert which goes into general availability on Wednesday, already has over 1,300 registrations through the Early Access Program (EAP) with most of them coming on days 4 and 5. I personally haven't kept any records on how many domain names have been registered in any of Donuts previous new gTLD strings, but I'm pretty sure this is a record for domains registered in EAP When I went through … [Read more...]