There was a tweet about an hour ago from Minds + Machines @ntlds on the first ever .VIP auction results. First-ever .vip auction on Alibaba Taobao just closed; CNY958,500; aprx USD146,000; sold all six .#vip #domainnames @dnassoc — Minds + Machines (@nTLDs) May 20, 2016 The 6 domains : I.Vip 520.VIP ( meaning I love you) 100.VIP 18.VIP Che.VIP ( Car) TM.VIP Tip of the … [Read more...]
Source: .VIP Sold 30,000 Premium Domains Including Google’s Reg of Alphabet.VIP For $10K
A source who has access to such information, has informed TheDomains.com that .VIP sold approximately 30,000 in premium domain names totaling around $1.3 million dollars through the end of its first day of general availability (GA) Premium domain names are those having a higher price than the normal registrations fees than a regular domain registration as set by the registry who sets the … [Read more...]
.Top Blows Past .Biz To Become The 6th Most Registered Top Level Domain
The new gTLD .TOP has become the 6th most registered domain extension passing .biz. As of today according to RegistrarStats.com, .Top has 2,241,164 domain names registered, passing .biz which drops down to the 7th most registered top-level domain with 2,230,709 domains registered. The 5th most registered domain name extension is .XYZ which has 2,768,291 domain names The top four domain … [Read more...]
Verisign: Landrush for the 1st internationalized version of .Com in Japanese script, .コム is Opened
Verisign today announced the opening of the Landrush Program period for the first internationalized version of the .com top-level domain (TLD) in Japanese script, .コム , is open for anyone to register on a first come, first served basis until June 12, 2016. Verisign also announced the launch of the phased rollout of .닷컴 and .닷넷, the localized versions of the .com and .net top-level domains (TLDs) … [Read more...]
Rightside Explains Premium Domains & How They Sold 675+ @ $1K a Year; & $5M+
Drew Macpherson who says he is the head of the Premium Team at Rightside (NAME) explains Rightside definition of a Premium mew gTLD domain and the various levels they have. In the post Rightside says they have sold over 675 domains at an annual renewal of $1,000 or more per year. Here is the highlights of the blog post "I’ll be one of the first to admit that new TLD registries didn’t do … [Read more...]
1 & 2 Character Domain for .Markets, .Forex, .Broker, .Trading .CFD, and .Spreadbetting
"IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG), has released one and two-character domains across its portfolio of financial Top Level Domains (TLDs), (new gTLD's) which include .Markets, .Forex, .Broker, .Trading, .CFD, and .Spreadbetting. Prices start from $200, with the domain names are available on a first-come, first-served basis. The lineup of domains available includes: Z.forex, 8.markets, … [Read more...]
Rightside Gets .Games Will Launch in 3Q; Uniregistry Launching .Game This Week (Sunrise)
Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced it has secured the .GAMES domain extension. Rightside plans to launch .GAMES in Q3 2016, starting at a standard wholesale price of $12.00. Donuts was the sole applicant for .Games, which is one of the jointly owned new gTLD domain extensions with Rightside. There were 5 applicants for the new gTLD .Game, including Google and Amazon, which was won by … [Read more...]