After years of debating the topic of how successful the new gTLD program will be and what the effect of new gTLD's will have on the value of existing extensions including .com. Mostly every post has wound up with people arguing whether .com's will win or the new gTLD's will win. Other including myself has voiced the opinion that many new gTLD's can become quite profitable without any hugely … [Read more...]
SeekingAlpha: “New gTLD’s Pose No Threat To Verisign”
Stock site SeekingAlpha.com just published a blog post entitled New gTLD's Pose No Threat To Verisign. Verisign (VRSN) is the registry for the .com and .net registry The author of the post is stock analyst Zeus Kerravala, is the founder and principal analyst with ZK Research. Prior to ZK Research, Zeus Kerravala spent 10 years as an analyst at Yankee Group. Here is part of his post which … [Read more...]
Lets Set The Record Straight; My 5+ Year Journey Through New gTLD’s
As the year closes I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at thedomains.com and what we have had to say about it since we started writing about it over 5 years ago. For many, you first heard of the new gTLD program on theDomains.com. Seeing that a monumental change to the naming system was coming we have written about it every step of the way Readers have all kinds of … [Read more...]
Tucows Joins Sedo MLS Network
Sedo, today announced that Tucows, one of the leading global provider of domain names and other Internet services, has joined its SedoMLS network. The partnership will enable Tucows to automatically distribute more than 17 million actual existing premium domains and premium domains of more than 400 upcoming new generic toplevel domain (gTLD) extensions to the more than 13,000 resellers in … [Read more...]
Shocking; ICANN May Make Money Off The New gTLD Program
ICANN released its 1st quarterly financial statement, as Domainincite.com, pointed out, ICANN has spent $119.2 million of its original $344.9 million program budget (which comprises application fees net of refunds)." "As of September 30, it still had $225.7 million in cash dedicated to the program, which is accounted for separate to ICANN’s regular operating budget." ICANN completed the … [Read more...]
Porn.XXX Ranks On 1st Page Of Google for Porn; Good News For New gTLD’s
Well its taken a while but the bang on domain name Porn.xxx is has made it to the first page of Google for the search term "porn". As you might imagine, porn its one of the toughest terms to rank on the first page on, with millions of adult sites all trying to get in that position. Interestingly with all the talk about how Google has lessened the importance of Exact Match Domains, 4 of the … [Read more...]
Is ICANN Going To Hold Registries; The $25K .Sucks One To What They Said In Application??
Vox Populi Registry Inc. (VOX) was in the news last week when it put up a site taking Priority Registrations for .sucks domain names for $250 per domain, per year, and Trademark Priority Registrations of $2,500 per domain threatening trademark owners to act now because if they wait until the Sunrise Period, the cost would be $25,000. The $25,000 Sunrise fee is a per domain per year fee and of … [Read more...]