Google has added another domain name to its growing Alphabet brand, this time Alphabet.sex which got registered yesterday. But Google registering another Alphabet domain name is not the story. The issue is…
Category: New gTLD’s
This Weeks New gTLD Totals: Amsterdam 12,681; .FYI 1,159; .MBA 701; .Fans 653
4 new gTLD extensions launched this week into General Availability (GA) where the could be registered into a 1st come, 1st served basis. Including domain names registered in Sunrise by trademark holders…
Paris Hilton; Harry Potter; Playboy; AARP Among 1st To Own a .Sex Domain Name
The new gTLD .Sex went into the first day of the Sunrise on September 1st where trademark holders registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse can register .Sex domain names. Over 700 .Sex domain…
.SEX is Now Available: .XXX, .Porn & .Sex Premiums Go Tiered-Pricing on Registrars
ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, and .ADULT domain names announced that the new gTLD .SEX opened up yesterday for Trademark holders. .SEX launched on September 1, with three…
BlueCoat Study: Top 10 Shady Sites in New gTLD’s Is Flawed as Unlaunched .Zip is #1
Blue Coat Systems, Inc, an enterprise security company, issued a report today of the 10 new gTLD’s that have the most “Shady Sites” (pdf) concluding that “more than 95% of websites in…
Over 100 Kanye West President Domains Registered Today In Many Extensions Even .XYZ
Since announcing he is running for President of the United States in 2020 at the MTV Music Video Awards last night, people have been registering domain names related to the hip-hop artist…
20 Yr Old, 160 Person Agency Rebrands From UpShot.net to Upshot.Agency: “Everyone Will Be Using Them”
Inc.com just published a post on a Chicago based marketing firm that just re-branded itself from upshot.net to the new gTLD Upshot.Agency saying that once the new gTLD’s catch on everyone will…