The new gTLD .News has set what WE believe is a record number of domain name registrations in Day 5 of AN Early Access Program (EAP) and now has over 1,000 registration. In the Early Access Program registrants pay an extra fee to register a domain name ahead of general availability (GA) where domain names become available to be registered on a first come, first served basis. On day 5 the … [Read more...]
Reliance Industries Of India To Move From Its .Com (RIL.com) To Its Own new gTLD .Jio
Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries (RIL) has decided to move away from ".com" to the new gTLD .JIO to be used across the Reliance empire. Reliance now uses the three-letter domain name RIL.com Affinity Names Inc, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs, including the .Jio brand domain. According to the Indiatimes.com, the company plans to use up to … [Read more...]
.News Gets At Least 45 Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP At $10K+
Looks like the new gTLD .News is going to be a big winner for Rightside (NAME). The 1st day of the Early Access Program is about to close at 1pm EST today where people could get first shot at registering domain names at a wholesale cost of $10,000 per (retail price varies by registrar, plus any premium registration cost, if any). As of the last zone file update we found 45 domain names that … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Golf 1,778; .Tours 1,693; .Plus 899; .Gold 768
4 new gTLD domain name extensions went into General Availability (GA) yesterday and including domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise period and those who paid an extra fee to register domain names in the Early Access Program (EAP), here are the number of registrations for each after the first day of GA: .Golf 1,778 .Tours 1,693 .Plus 899 .Gold 768 I know some … [Read more...]
.Site Now In Early Access: Here Are Some Non-Premium & Low Premium Domain Names
.Site a new gTLD that is being launched by Radix and is in the Early Access Period (EAP) where for any extra fee you can register a .site domain ahead of General Availability (GA) which starts on July 15th at 16:00 UTC. If a domain is still available after the EAP it can be registered on a first come, first served basis. We asked Radix to provide a list of non-premium .Site domain names, … [Read more...]
Paul Allen Decides To Go With .Fish instead of buying the .com from Most Wanted Domains
Jay Westerdal blogged on Tuesday about Microsoft co - founder and billionaire Paul Allen going with a .Fish domain. Allen chose to go with SmartCatch.fish instead of purchasing SmartCatch.com. Allen registered the domain at the end of March and regged it out til 2020. The interesting thing about this story for us here at TheDomains.com, Mike Berkens and his company Worldwide Media Inc. owns … [Read more...]
From CBS to CNN To Fox To Google: New gTLD .News Has Almost 500 Sunrise Registrations
The new gTLD .News enters the Early Access Program (EAP) for Rightside Tomorrow, Wednesday July 8th with the highest number of Sunrise domain registrations the registry has had in any of its new domain name extensions, just short of 500. Matt Overman of Rightside told TheDomains.com, "out of our entire portfolio of 36 active TLDs, .NEWS had the greatest number of Sunrise registrations, clocking … [Read more...]