Bill Hartzer who frequently write on domain names and SEO issues has published a list of the Top 20 Best New gTLDs Based on Quality. "As a part of Globe Runner’s New gTLD SEO Power Rankings Index, we gathered data from over 20,000 websites that have been actually built–or developed, on New gTLD domain names. From that list of over 20,000 websites, we have studied these websites’ qualities, and … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Site 9,788; .News 9,122; .Cafe 1,727; .Express 916
Four new gTLD's had their first day of general availability (GA) yesterday, where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis, and as expected both .Site and .News had big days. Including the domain name registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders, those that paid additional fees to register domain names ahead of GA in the Early Access Period, here are the … [Read more...]
One of The Most Applied For The New gTLD .Art is Settled By Private Auction
The new gTLD .Art appears to have been settled by private auction. The new gTLD string was set for an ICANN auction on July, 29th 2015 but several applications were withdrawn today indicating that .Art was settled privately. In all there were 10 applicants for .Art and as of publication 5 applications have been withdrawn Since there are 5 applications still pending we cannot say who the … [Read more...]
Rightside Publishes Post On Taking Down The Bloomberg.Market Website
Rightside (NAME) just published a post about the new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Market which as we wrote earlier today which led to a huge rally in shares of Twitter and more than 50 million shares being traded today which is more than double its average three-month volume. Within a few hours of our post Rightside shut the domain name down. Rightside, which is the registry for the new gTLD … [Read more...]
Fake Story on New gTLD Domain, Bloomberg.Market Sends Twitter Shares Up Over 5%
According to several sources, a fake news story appearing on a new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Market sent shares of Twitter up over 5% today when they reported Twitter was going to be bought for $31 Billion dollars to over $38 a share. The domain is Bloomberg.market, not Bloomberg.com but its made to look like Bloomberg.com We have chatted on many occasions that … [Read more...]
CSC Publishes July’s NewgTLD.Report: 3,945 New gTLD’s in Alexa Top 1 Million
The brand protection company Corporate Service Company (CSC) published its bi-monthly New gTLD Utilization Report (newgtld.report) yesterday "with expanded metrics and analysis around dot brands" In the July Report CSC saw a significant increase in .Brand new gTLD's registrations. There are now over 2,050 registrations under .Brand (and closed) top-level domains, up 55% since the May … [Read more...]
You Can Buy .Love, But It’s Going To Cost You Up To $15K Per Year, Per Domain
.Love which launches Thursday, is the first offering of Merchant Law Group which applied for 8 new gTLD's. Despite a report yesterday, the best domain names for the new gTLD .Love have huge premium registrations/renewal prices, actually the highest we have seen other than some Rightside new gTLD domain names up to $15,000 a year. There are other top .Love domain names that are reserved and … [Read more...]