The .TOP registry has been on fire adding over 75,000 domain name registration in the past two days According to RegistrarStats.com .Top now has over 362,000 domains registered moving past .Science and is now only 2nd to .XYZ as the top registered new gTLD domain name extensions. Yesterday according to RegistrarStats.com .Top picked up over 42,000 registrations and as you can … [Read more...]
My Most Ridiculous Domain Pricing Award In The New gTLD Space Goes To Mind & Machines
I just got a renewal bill from my registrar, Hexonet on some Minds + Machines domain names I registered last year at normal registration prices. I have spent well into the six figures on new gTLD's, so I put my money at risk all the time in the very speculative new gTLD space. In this case there was an issue with the pricing sent over by the registry Minds + Machines to my registrar, … [Read more...]
Did You Know That New gTLD’s .Men: & .Lotto Launched & .Game Got Delayed?
I read Andrew's post yesterday on DomainNameWire.com, about new gTLD extensions launching this week; Tickets, .Rent and .Courses. I realized that a couple of other strings launched in the last couple of weeks that basically went unnoticed by the domain blogger community. .Lotto was launched by Afilias, at 101domain.com a .Lotto registration, not a premium but any .Lotto registration will … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Finds Operating New gTLD Much Less Profitable Than Selling Apps: Swing To a Loss
Minds + Machines Group Ltd (LON:MMX) reported today the company's financial results for the 1st half of 2015. Minds + Machines swung to a pretax loss for the first half of 2015 "due to it seeing a lower gain from participating in generic top-level domain auctions" Minds + Machines reported a pretax loss of $3.7 million for the half year to ending June 30th, from a pretax profit of $4.9 … [Read more...]
Here Comes .Bloomberg: Say Hello To Mike.Bloomberg and Michael.Bloomberg
.Bloomberg is .Brand new gTLD which is looking like its getting to launch as they have created over 50 domain names ending in .Bloomberg Bloomberg covered some of the products and topics its known for and of course it's CEO with the domain names Michael.Bloomberg and Mike.Bloomberg (which both seem to be forwarding to mikebloomberg.com. Most noticeably missing from the list is … [Read more...]
.XYZ Is Back Over 900,000 Registrations & Netsol Regs Once As High as 85% Are Under 15%
The new gTLD is back over the 900,000 domain mark in the zone file. The first time the .XYZ new gTLD crossed the 900,000 domain registration mark was in May of 2015. At that time the percentage .XYZ domain names registered at NetworkSolutons.com was over 41% The extension which had as many as over 1.13 million registrations according to https://ntldstats.com/tld/xyz, fell below 800K … [Read more...]
Is Apple Inc. Getting Ready To Use It’s New .apple gTLD Domain Extension?
Apple Inc. has applied for the new gTLD .apple and the status is currently delegated. Apple Inc. also is going to own the new gTLD .beats since it acquired Beats Electronics, LLC. On September 17, 2015 Apple Inc. has purchased 29 new .com domain names according to whois records and IMO, these domain name registrations appear to relate to what "will be" URL's using the .apple gTLD as a … [Read more...]