.Email is stilling just short of 12,000 registrations after its first full day of General Availability. According to ntldstats.com .Email zoomed past .Company to become the 7th most registered new gTLD to date. The 2nd most popular new gTLD released this week after the first day of registrations is .Solutions which got just short of 7,000 registrations. There are now over 386,000 new gTLD … [Read more...]
Some Interesting .Email Domain Registrations & The Dallas Cowboys Miss Again
As we said in an earlier post today we went through the zone file for .Email to see what people have been registering. We noticed some interesting registrations. The Dallas Cowboys which has an illustrious history when it comes to domain names, just missed again not applying for the domain name cowboys.email, in Sunrise and the owner of the domain is now Cowboys Concert Hall, Inc which is … [Read more...]
Meet The 1st .Email Cybersquatter Grabs Up ESPN, Pepsi, Starbucks, Chevrolet, NFL & More
We just went through the zone file for the .email new gTLD to see what interesting new domain registrations I found. I couldn't help miss the registrations by a organization out of Los Alamitos, CA named Viva Las Vegas who wound up getting a great domain in LasVegas.email, but went after and got domain names matching some trademarked and well known companies. It should be noted all these … [Read more...]
TMCH Has Caused More People Not To Register 450K Domains, As New gTLD’s Pass 350K
The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) said today that is has delivered 500,000 Claims Notices (CNIS) of which 95% of the queries for trademark terms are not being followed through to a live registration. That means that up to 475,000 new gTLD domain names may have gone unregistered due to the THCM, let discount that number for some potential duplicate domains and call it 450,000 domain names A … [Read more...]
Radix Awards Contracts for .Website, .Host, .Space, and .Press to CentralNic
CentralNic Group PLC has exclusively signed a Registry Service Provision contract with Radix Registry (“Radix”), for its four uncontested new gTLD's; .website, .press, .host or .space. ARI Registry had the contract for these four string before this announcement .website is a true alternative to the .com TLD; it is open and available to all for the full range of possible uses< .press … [Read more...]
PIR Lists Four Reasons Why to Register a .NGO
Public Interest Registry (PIR) the operator of the .org extension is out with a list of reasons to register a .ngo/ong new gtld. In May 2012, Public Interest Registry formally submitted its applications to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the .ngo and .ong domain extensions as part of the organisation’s global Internet expansion initiative. Along with … [Read more...]
Sedo Macau Auction Concludes With Close to $200,000 in Sales
In what was an interesting way to follow an auction, Sedo concluded their Macau auction this morning and they were updating people on Twitter as the auction ran. They actually set up a Twitter handle for the auction, @twitter.com/macauauction The account had 20 followers and they made close to 400 tweets. Click on the link and you can follow all the bidding action as it was tweeted … [Read more...]