GMO Registry, Inc. the registry operator for .Shop, announced today that new top level domain has already grossed over $2 million dollars in revenue with close to 2,000 registrations, mid-way through the…
Category: New gTLD’s
Verisign: As Of June 30 There Are 334.6 Million Domains In The World; Up 12.9% From Last Year
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that approximately 7.9 million domain name registrations were added to the internet in the second quarter of 2016, bringing the total number of domain name registrations…
Radix Launches Startup League to help startups launch their ideas
The Startup League (www.startupleague.online) is a unique startup-support program designed to aid early stage startups that use any of Radix’s TLDs to launch their idea or company. This initiative will support startups…
UPDATED: Minds + Machines Lost Registrations Result of Registry Deletions Not Non-Renewals
Yesterday we reported that Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) lost on average around 30% of its registrations in 13 of its new gTLD’s due to non-renewal. Today we were informed by Minds +…
New gTLD conspiracies may have finally jumped the shark
There is a new thread on Namepros that may have taken the new gtld discussion to another level, a weird level. Although anything is possible it is the Internet. Namepros member GarpTrader…
CentralNic Shares Hits 52 Week Low on More Than 10x Avg Daily Volume
Shares of CentralNic Group Plc (LON:CNIC), sank after releasing its financial results for the six months ending June 30, 2016. After hitting a 52 week low of 38p, shares of CentralNic closed…
Looks Like At Least 4 Brands Paid Tens of Thousands Each To Register 6 .Shop Domain
Yesterday, September 1, 2016, was the first day of the Early Access Program (EAP) for .Shop. I found six .Shop domain registrations that were made on September 1 by 4 brand-holders. It’s…