Just days after launching, .Club passed .Photography into third place of the new domain extensions, (gTLD's) with the most registrations. .Club now has according to ntldstats.com over 36,700 registrations with only .Berlin and .Guru having more. .Photography has broken through 35,000 registrations. There are now 9 new gTLD's with over 20,000 registrations. 21 with more than 10,000 … [Read more...]
Trademark Hysteria On New gTLD’s Unfounded? 725K Domains/ 53 URS/17 UDRP
Since the new gTLD's launched there are approximately 725,000 new gTLD registrations. By my count, URS have been filed against 53 domain names and UDRP's have been filed against 17 domain names (counts by domain names not cases) So basically 70 domain names out of 725,000 or a 1,000th of 1% of all new gTLD domain names registered have been hit with a URS or UDRP. It should be pointed out … [Read more...]
Sunrise .Expert Registrations Include Mac.Expert & .Bowling.Expert
I just went through the .Expert Zone file which contains Sunrise registrations which are available to those having valid trademark which filed with the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). I picked out some of the more interesting Sunrise registration and some day 1 and day 2 registrations which cost as much as $12,500 depending on the registrar the domains were registered with. On the Sunrise … [Read more...]
Did Two Domain Sherpa’s Change The New gTLD Registrar Market?
As most domain investors know myself, Adam Dicker, Rick Schwartz and Page Howe have had a weekly show on DomainSherpa.com for many months were we discuss news and other things going on in the domain industry. On last Thursday's DomainSherpa.com show, Adam Dicker said that he had just a few days before found the domain name registrar Hexonet.net and told the audience that he loved the … [Read more...]
.Wiki Landrush Starts Today; Here Are Domains Suggested By The Registry That Are Available
The new top-level domain (TLD) .wiki has Landrush today. The Landrush phase is a brief 2 week period when the you can register a .wiki domain on an early access basis. Of course any domain taking in landrush will not be available during general availability. The only .Wiki domain names not available during landrush will be those that are banned or reserved by the registry, have been … [Read more...]
.Club Registers Over 25,000 Domains On 1st Day To #6; New gTLD’s Totals Over 711K
.Club which just went into general availability today had over 25,000 registrations in less than its 1st full day, according to the zone files that were just updated Ntldstats.com, is reporting 25,776 .Club domain names in the Zone file placing it as the 6th top new gTLD's in terms of domain names in the root zone files. Colin Campbell told TheDomains.com earlier today that the … [Read more...]
Twitter Registers Tweet.Cool: WalGreens Beauty.Cool; The First .Cool Registrations
.Cool which is goes into general availability tomorrow May 7th. For me its one of those new gTLD's where the word is really on the wrong side of the dot, as Cool as used in language generally is the start of the phrase rather than the end of the phrase Having said that I thought I would take a look at the zone file to see what trademarks and Early Access Program domains had bee registered to … [Read more...]