Searchenginejournal.com, just wrote a post asking What is "The Best Domain Extensions When a .COM is Not Available" and seems to conclude it's another .com ""What do you do when the domain name or suffix you want is not available?"" "You may want to evaluate whether another gTLD (generic top-level domain) would work. The core group of gTLD’s is comprised of the com, info, net, and org … [Read more...]
ICM Says After .XXX Matching .Porn Has 7,500 Registrations; .Adult 7K & Sells A $500K .Porn Domain
The numbers are now in for the number of .porn and .adult domain names registered during the .XXX matching program Under the matching .XXX program the owners of a .XXX domain has the right register the matching .porn and .adult domains before general availability. Including to the ICM registry the operator of .XXX, .Porn and .Adult registries, including domain name registered in Sunrise, … [Read more...]
ICANN Study Finds 46% Aware of New gTLD’s; Only 80% Know .Com, .Net and .Org
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings from its ICANN Global Consumer Research Study, to measure aspects of consumer awareness, perceived consumer choice, experience and trust related to the current generic top-level domain (gTLD) landscape and the domain name system (DNS). The global study surveyed 6,144 consumers aged 18+ representing Asia, … [Read more...]
You Want To See Great New gTLD’s? Look at The Early Domains In .School, .Football & .Casino
The new gTLD's of .School, .Football and .Casino are launching this week into General Availability on Wednesday beyond the .porn and .adult of this world. If the new gTLD's are going to be an investment vehicle for domain investors you need to look no further than the domain names registered in the Early Access program (EAP) for each of these new domain strings to find the bang on brandable … [Read more...]
New gTLD Utilization Report by CSC
CSC put out their most recent New gTLD utilization report, the report is published every two months. The report looks to find trends and make observations for corporate clients and digital marketers. Observations from the report include: there have been 1,300+ registrations to date which represents a more than 60% increase from the March report. When it was feasible, they analyzed .brand … [Read more...]
Quick Poll: How Many Sunrise Domain Registrations Will .Sucks Get?
The new gTLD .Sucks has been in the news for a few months since announcing its pricing plan which place a suggested retail price of up to $2,499 for trademark holders. ICANN claimed .sucks domains were being sold to trademark owners in a "predatory" manner, and took the unprecedented step of asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) if it was legal. This week the FTC answered and told the … [Read more...]
Co-Founder Fred Krueger Sells Over 10% Of His Shares of Minds + Machines
Minds + Machines announced today that Fred Krueger informed the company that he sold 14,000,000 shares on May 28, 2015. Based on his last disclosed interest, Fred Krueger now owns 114,481,604 ordinary shares representing approximately 13.7% of the issued shares capital of the Company. On May 26th Mr. Krueger announced he was leaving the company as executive … [Read more...]