You may have notice a couple of days of light postings from theDomains.com, which may lead you to ask where did Berkens go? Although due to a ton of NDA's I can't reveal the extension, or the parties I have been involved in negotiations over the last two day, but it looks like the new gTLD race, is going to be on some levels, just a high stakes poker game. No more. No less. Instead of … [Read more...]
Neustar: “The .Com Era Is Ending”
When the ad copy came in from Neustar's new site dedicated to the new gTLD launch we couldn't notice the statement on the site: "The .Com Era Is Ending" Neustar is a publicly traded company with a market cap of $1.7 Billion dollars, that provides the back end for many extensions including .Co & .Biz and is expected to be a big player in the new gTLD space and is part of our domain name … [Read more...]
Who Will Get .Delta & Other Sticky Points In Our Final Dot Nxt Post
This is going to be my last post about the Dot Nxt Conference but an important one. In the audience from Dot Nxt was a women from Nigeria from a region known as Delta and she was at the conference to try to learn about getting .Delta for her community. Of course there are many other potential applicants for a .Delta including Delta Airlines and Delta Faucet. In the session on "Evaluation … [Read more...]
From The Dot Nxt Conference: The Top Auction For A New gTLD May Top $50 Million
I moderated a panel on from the Dot Nxt conference yesterday and asked the panel how much they predicted the highest price of a auction new gTLD extension would go for. As you may know if more than one application is received for the same string, the string maybe awarded to the high bidder in an auction. The panel was entitled "Show Me The Money" and the panelist certaily thought the … [Read more...]
DomainTools.com Makes A “Strategic Investment” & Gets A Board Seat On OpenRegistry.com
OpenRegistry SA, " announced today in a press release, is has raised capital "from strategic investors including DomainTools (www.domaintools.com) and that DomainTools.com will be getting a seat on the Board." OpenRegistry provides back end platforms for many domain extensions including .Eu. OpenRegistry is expected to be a major player as a backend provider in the for new gTLD … [Read more...]
Rob Hall Of Pool.com on The Coming New gTLD’s : If I Was A Big Domain Holder I Would Start Dumping Domains
Today at opening session of the Dot Nxt conference entitled: Setting the Scene, a questions was asked what would you tell large domain holders in anticipation of hundreds or thousands of new gTLD's Rob Hall of Pool.com made stated "if I was an owner of a large amount of two, three and four word .com's I would dump them as new gTLD generic terms will be worth more than the .com equivalent in … [Read more...]
.APP gTLD Project Launches & Is Pre-Selling Domains To Fund The Application Fee
A new group of App developers have stepped up and announced plans to apply for the .APP new gTLD and is going about raising the money for the application in a very unusual manner. According to the site to promote the application: ".app Project” is a community funded and executed project to obtain rights to the .app gTLD when ICANN makes them available in 2012." "We’re looking to gain … [Read more...]