I was at an opening of a hair salon the other night and saw a bunch of new products that look to be branded like new gTLD's. All of the products carried the name of Kevin.Murphy. Of course inside the domain world Kevin Murphy is the publisher of the blog over at Domainincite.com whom I immediately thought of when I saw that these products that were titled in a very new gTLD type of … [Read more...]
SeekingAlpha: “Get Ready To Profit From The ‘Dot-Com Boom 2.0′”
SeekingAlpha.com a publication that goes out to stock investors. In a post entitled "Get Ready To Profit From The 'Dot-Com Boom 2.0" The article starts out with the subtitle: ""Dot-com is so 1990s" "Starting March 23, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will increase the availability of Web addresses by assigning some 1,900 domain suffixes, the part of a website … [Read more...]
Top 50 Most Requested New gTLD’s Domain Names: The One With The Most Apps Is 49th
United Domains announced this week that it has pre-registered over 1,000,000 new gTLD's domain names. Below are the top 50 new gTLD's extensions and the number of pre-registrations for each new gTLD. As we always do we point out that there is no cost to pre-register a new gTLD, no obligation to actually register it even if you do pre-register it and pre-registering obviously doesn't … [Read more...]
Alexander Schubert Of .Gay “The Only Good Domainer Is A Dead Domainer”
If you have attended any TRAFFIC conferences or Domainfest conferences you have probably have run into Alexander Schubert who was a self admitted domainer from 1997-2004. Alexander was one of the first who went to ICANN and asked for what has become the new gTLD program to be opened when he was petitioning … [Read more...]
DotGreen Suggests How ICANN Should Use Funds From Contention Auctions
In a letter sent to ICANN by Annalisa Roger the Founder and CEO of DotGreen Community which has applied for the .GREEN TLD, suggested that ICANN use the proceeds of an auction of a contention string to go back to the "communities of users" for that particular string. As a backdrop, according to the ICANN Guidebook for new gTLD's , if applicants for a particular TLD or one found by ICANN to be … [Read more...]
Architelos Marks Successful 2nd Year, Hits $2 Million in Sales & Launches NameSentry™
According to a press release out this morning, Architelos, Inc. a consulting and software company concentrated in the new gTLD space, announced it completion of its second year of business, "earning over $1.7 million in revenue and booking sales of over $2 million dollars in consulting and software service fees in 2012". Its interesting to note that while Architelos is just one company to … [Read more...]
Citing New gTLD’s Forbes Asks: Did MLB Overpay For Rockies.com?
Forbes.com just published an article asking "Did MLB Overpay By Spending $1.2 Million For Rockies.com?" "All it took was $1.2 million dollars for Major League Baseball (MLB) to purchase the domain name Rockies.com, a URL that was formerly owned by the Canadian tourism portal Tourism Canadian Rockies. " "The ownership of a professional sports franchise’s name as a URL is a very valuable … [Read more...]