It was a busy day today for Frank Schilling and his company Uniregistry, as five uncontested strings went live at around 12 noon Eastern time. The strings that went live today were the following: .Pics, .Photo, .Gift, .Link and .Guitars. Out the gate at 12:03 Frank tweeted: .photo past 1000 — Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) April 15, 2014 Pretty quickly there were 2000 regs between … [Read more...]
.Buzz May Have The Strangest List Of 100 Reserved Domains Of All New gTLD’s
.Buzz goes live today and like all new gTLD registries they are entitled to keep 100 domains for their own use for marketing and other purposes, but going through the list of .Buzz reserved domains it maybe the strangest list of 100 (actually 85 by my count) that I have seen for any registry. Bill Doshier who owns the DotStrategy the company which applied to operate the .Buzz registry is one of … [Read more...]
Big Week For New gTLD’s Including .Buzz, .Link, .Pics & 1st Singular/Plural Battle
Its a big week in new gTLD world as 14 new domain name extensions go live, as they become available to be registered on a first come, first served basis. Here are some of the extensions going live starting tomorrow: .BUZZ .Pics .Guitars .Gift .Link .Holiday .Marketing .ONL .Pink .Red .Blue .Kim and two IDN's .pink, .red, .blue, .kim, .shiksha (Hindi for … [Read more...]
.Guru Becomes 1st New gTLD To Pass 50,000 Registrations
.Guru has just become the first new gTLD to pass 50,000 registrations according to ntldstats.com .Berlin is firmly in the number 2 spot and might pass .Guru shortly. .Photography has passed 30,000 registrations and .Email has quickly jumped into 4th place with over 22,000 domains .Tips rounds out the top 5 There are now 14 new gTLD's that have 10,000 or more … [Read more...]
Famous Four Wins .Party
Famous Four Media, the registry operator for Domain Venture Partners announce today that is has resolved contention set for the new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) .PARTY. Domain Venture Partners along with Blue Sky Registry came to an "agreement" with the other applicant for .Party, Oriental Trading Company, Inc whereby Oriental Trading Company, Inc has agreed to withdraw its application. … [Read more...]
CentralNic acquires assets of DomiNIC GmbH
CentralNic publicly traded on the AIM Exchange under the symbol CNIC, announced an acquisition of the assets of DomiNIC GmbH. Since 1994 DomiNIC has been continually developed into an all-round domain and DNS management system with integrated customer and user administration. In January 2014 CentralNic acquired all rights to the DomiNIC software with the intent of offering this solution to a … [Read more...]
Uniregistry Gets 300+ Sunrise .Gift Registrations As J&J Goes In Heavy But Don’t Buy Me These
Uniregistry's new gTLD .Gift has over 300 Sunrise applications which is pretty impressive as Johnson & Johnson went in pretty heavy to protect many of their products in an extension not usually associated with "gifts". Here are some of the more interesting .Gift Sunrise domain … [Read more...]