Robert Bruce a self described expert in online marketing strategies, wrote an article on Entrepreneur.com that he purchased two .forsale domains for $90,000 in total. From the article: The startup I'm currently building aims to modernize real estate marketing, and is scheduled to launch this summer. To position myself in the market, I opted for the exact-match domains www.homes.forsale and … [Read more...]
.Art Gets 3K Domain Registrations on 1st Day of General Availability
According to the .Art registry during the first 24 hours of general availability which started yesterday, over 3,000 .Art domain names were purchased/registered. Of those about 95% were "standard" domains e.g., personal names of people and organizations, while the rest belonged to the .ART inventory of word and word combinations. While the personal names are mostly sold at standard prices, … [Read more...]
Is Startup sentiment changing with regards to .com ?
There was an interesting article by Christopher Steiner on Forbes. The article titled, "Most Startups Still Believe They Need A Dot-Com Domain, But That Is Changing." Steiner seems to be a bit all over the place with both data supporting securing a non com and some reasons why to stick with .com. He also seems to be a bit mistaken when he describes domain owners. From the article: Is this … [Read more...]
.PRESS supports Press Freedom Day for 3rd Consecutive Year
Radix owned .press is showing their support for Press Freedom Day They will be donating part of their May revenue to Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF). Release: 3rd May, Mumbai: .PRESS, a domain extension for journalists and media, has partnered with Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), an international non-profit, to support the cause of free journalism on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, … [Read more...]
Daniel Negari .XYZ acquires it’s 10th New gTLD .Storage
Daniel Negari CEO of XYZ, announced that it has acquired it's 10th new gTLD .Storage. The new gTLD .Storage was applied for by Self Storage Company, LLC to be operated as a restricted domain extension. Self Storage Company, LLC won the domain name in a private auction against Donuts who also applied for the extension. According to Mr Negari domain names will be price at $500 … [Read more...]
Hum: 50K Domains Registered on The New gTLD .Realty at Uniregistry in 2 days; Almost All Under Privacy
The new gTLD .Realty which went into general availability on April 24th has 53,705 registered domain names. On the face, it seems like .Realty is off to a great start however of those 53,705 registered domains, 99.43% of them are registered at Uniregistry. The registrar with the 2nd most .Realty registrations is 101domain.com which has only 69 domain registrations. Of the 53,705 … [Read more...]
Walden Savings moves from .com to .bank
Walden Savings Bank is moving from a .com to a .bank. An article published in RecordOnline.com gave some background and stats on the usage of .bank. Many have not used their .bank domain due to the costs of such things as computer/email systems, marketing materials, etc... From the article: So far, 2,723 banks have registered 5,591 iterations of the .bank web address, though banking experts … [Read more...]