Afternic, the world’s largest premium domain marketplace, and NameJet, a leading domain name auction platform, announced today have been selected by dotStrategy to launch the .BUZZ top level domain (TLD), which has just passed ICANN Initial Evaluation Afternic has been tapped to define and value the .BUZZ reserve auction list, and to provide marketing and sales support for premium domain … [Read more...]
FAIL: DomainIndex.com Releases 8 Million Appraisals For New gTLD’s Domain Names
DomainIndex.com has released 8 Million Appraisals for new gTLD domain names those including trademarks and those with just generic terms and the results are pretty interesting. Mt first observation is that of the new gTLD domain names with the highest valuation, only 1 non-trademarked term has a value in the six figures, Car.Insurance (which may not even be available to be registered depending … [Read more...]
Do We Have Our 1st New gTLD Application Trade? 4 More Applications Withdrawn
Do we have our first new gTLD application trade? Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) withdrew two applications tonight one for .Review which had a prioritization number of 492 and its application for .Science which had a prioritization number of 924, leaving Famous Four as the sole remaining applicant for each of those extensions. Famous Four withdrew its 1st new gTLD application for .Fit … [Read more...]
100 New gTLD Pass IE: Moscow, .Wales; .Lol; .NBA; .Target; .HSBC; .Ninja
ICANN released another set of results from Initial Evaluations (IE) with 100 new gTLD applications passing and 1 getting the dreaded eligible for extended evaluation. Highlighting those applications passing today are: The Geo's .Moscow, .Wales and .Istanbul. Generic's include Google's application for .mom; and .lol; Amazon's controversial closed application for .Book and my personal … [Read more...]
Boston.com; Globe.com .Boston May Soon Be For Sale As Boston Globe Is On The Market
According to post on Boston.com, the domain names/sites Boston.com, BostonGlobe.com and Globe.com may soon be available for sale. The domain names are owned by the Boston Globe newspaper which is for sale and has a June 27th deadline for submitting bids. Today Robert Kraft the owner of the Patriots dropped out of the bidding. "Even without daily traffic Boston.com gets, the URL alone would … [Read more...]
Washington Post On New gTLD’s: Brings The Value of Any One Domain Down to Almost Nothing
A very interesting article in the WashingtonPost.com today basically proclaimed the death of the domain investor with a big assist from Sedo. The article cites the growing inventory of domain names from new gTLD;'s saying the parking and type in traffic will be gone and value of any one domain " down to almost nothing". The article was chatting about the new gTLD's and domain investing … [Read more...]
Radix Registry Announces Launch of Pre-Registration for .host Domains
According to press release, Radix Registry, operators of the upcoming .host TLD are pleased to announce the launch of pre-registration for .host domain names. .Host is the new TLD created specifically for the hosting industry, and one of three uncontested strings applied by Radix. Radix is the only applicant for the new gTLD .host but there are three applicants for the new gTLD … [Read more...]