According to a press release, GMO Internet Group company, GMO Registry, Inc. announced that the new gTLD .Tokyo will be open for landrush applications starting on June 9th. General Availability will begin July 22nd. Sunrise period for trademark holders is already opened. Unlike some cities like New York's .NYC, there are no residence or other nexus requirements to register a .Tokyo … [Read more...]
Company Loses Battle to Get Critical Website Taken Down
There has been a lot of discussion about the coming .sucks new gtld and some of the potential pricing that could potentially come with it. Other extensions coming down the pipeline have gotten less publicity but certainly fall in a similar camp. .Fail,.Exposed,.Gripe and .WTF are all extensions that no company or person really wants to be associated with to the left of the dot. Brands IMO … [Read more...]
Uniregistry Reserved & Sunrise .Pics Domains You Won’t Be Able To Register
I went through the zone file for .Pics the next new gTLD of Frank Schilling's Uniregistry that will go live on April 15th. The registry gets to reserve 100 domain for its own use in the operation and promotion of the registry so far Uniregistry has selected 64 of these which are: … [Read more...]
Who Said There Would be No CyberSquatting In New gTLDs? googl.glass, gogle.glass, gooogle.glass Anyone?
Who said there would be no cybersquatting in the new gTLD space? Plenty of Google Glass typos were registered on the 1st day of general availability. Interestingly all of the registrations are public not under privacy leading me to conclude that there are just a lot of new "domainers" who don't know anything about the laws, rules and restrictions around domain names. The new gTLD domain … [Read more...]
After 1st Days After Registration The new gTLD Experience.Glass Is Suspended By The Registrar
Just noticed that the domain name Experience.Glass which was just registered on April 2nd 2014 under privacy has already been suspended. The registry, Donuts said that they did not suspend the domai,n so it must by the registrar which is in this case Godaddy. The domain name's whois record was updated on April 3rd to the name severs: Name Server: ns1.suspended-for.spam-and-abuse.com Name … [Read more...]
Top 25 New gTLD By New Registration Yesterday
Here is a look at the top 25 new gTLD strings based on the number of new registrations yesterday as tracked by RegistrarStats.com: … [Read more...]
National Public Radio Covers The New gTLD’s
Several new gTLD applicants were interviewed for a National Public Radio (NPR) News piece out today that covers the new gTLD's. NPR interviewed the applicant for .Wed as well as Daniel Negari from .XYZ Daniel is quoted as saying ".Com is pretty crowded." "We end the alphabet ends with XYZ so it makes perfect sense that domain names should end in .XYZ as well. Donuts Dan Schindler … [Read more...]