Famous Four Media (FFM), today announced its has selected Sedo.com to conduct auctions, privately broker premium names and promote the different extensions under FFM’s management. FFM was one of the most active participants in the program, applying to manage 57 new gTLDs. I n the coming months, FFM will begin making 12 of these extensions available to the public, … [Read more...]
New gTLD Strings With The Smallest Number of Domains In Collision (Non-Brand, Non-IDN’s)
We have chatted about the new gTLD strings with the most number of collisions based on ICANN report here are the 10 new gTLD's with the smallest number of collisions, that are not Brand applications and not IDN's: .MutualFunds 26 .CancerResearch 27 .Bargains 52 .Yachts 62 .Passagens (Portuguese for cheap) 67 .Gripe 120 .Voto (Spanish for Vote) 137 .Translations … [Read more...]
Donuts Picks Sedo To Run Sunrise Auctions & Run Premium Domain Name Auctions
Donuts, Inc. selected Sedo, to manage contention resolution for competing trademarked domains, and will also assist in auctioning premium names that will be reserved from general registration. Donuts will commence Sunrise periods in November 2013 and they will continue through the middle of 2014. Sunrise provides an opportunity for trademark holders to secure their names before domains are … [Read more...]
NameJet.com Pulls All 16 New gTLD Domain Names On Collision List Out of Auction
After ICANN released the collision list today for all new gTLD strings, Namejet.com informed TheDomains.com that it has pulled all auction for new gTLD domain names that were on the collision list. NameJet.com in conjunction with the .XYZ and .College registry has been first out of the block to sell new gTLD domain names by auction certain new gTLD domain names off on its platform However … [Read more...]
WOW: .Wow Leads All Strings In Number of Domains On Collision Report With Over 205,000
Wow is right .Wow has the highest number of collisions in the ICANN report of new gTLD strings released today with over 205,000 domain names. I think most people in the domain industry wouldn't think there would be 200K domain registrations in .Wow much less than 205,000 strings in the collision report. For the record here are the top 10 new gTLD with the most domain names listed on the … [Read more...]
LoveRoom Gets Some Love By Business Insiders But The Real Winner Is Thought Convergence Owner Of LoveRoom.com
Businessinsider.com just covered the launch of Love Room, The startup boasts that it's "a platform where single people from all around the world can rent their living space to others under one condition: they need to be attractive." Only one problem for Love Room that I see right out of the box. They don't own LoveRoom.com They have been are running off a subdomain of LaunchRock.com … [Read more...]
.London All Over The News Today As Its Signs Contract With ICANN
The new gTLD .London is all over news today as the Board of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) reported that its client, Dot London Domains Ltd (“Dot London”), has signed the contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) allowing the new top level domain, .LONDON, to proceed to the final round of pre-delegation testing before being introduced into the … [Read more...]