Uniregistry launched .Flowers into general availability yesterday and ended the day with 24,194 registrations according to ntldstats.com However it appears that North Sound Names, owned by the principal of Uniregistry, registered over 98% of the domain names. The registrar with the 2nd most .Flowers registrations was CSC with 100 domains, which were all trademark holders. I had a bunch of … [Read more...]
FastCompany Covers The New gTLD’s: Highlights Coffee.Club
Fast Company just gave some love to the new gTLD program with a using Coffee.club as one of the success stories "Instead of having only a few meaningless TLDs like .com, .net, .biz, and country codes like .ly, the organization agreed to usher in a more freeform system: Why not have more specific options like .dentist and .nyc? The proliferation of new domains opens up a world of new branding … [Read more...]
Dot Website Hits 50,000 Registrations
Dot Webstie hits the 50,000 registration mark Radix released some stats about one of their strings today, Dot Website went over 50,000 regs, they did actually give my OnlineCasino.website sale a mention. To be fair it was not for a huge amount but profit is profit (non premium registation of $14.99). I have mentioned that .website was a generic string that I have speculated in, for full … [Read more...]
$7,500 For Easter.Sucks + 3K A Year, Or EasterSucks.com For $8 A Year?
The new gTLD program was supposed to in part index the domain name by verticals, interests and geographical areas. They jury is still out on whether a photographer named John Smith would be better off with John Smith.Photography or JohnSmith.com or JohnSmithPhotographer.com However when it comes to some extensions like .sucks where the selling point is the expression of free speech it … [Read more...]
NYPost.com: “Gotham’s ‘.nyc’ is fastest growing city domain on Internet”
Josh Kosman wrote a an article on Friday night with regards to .NYC and the rest of the new city gtlds. Kosman used data from Domain Punch that stipulated that 72,000 freebies should not be included in the totals for .Berlin, so with that technicality, .NYC is the leader in paid registrations. From the article: New York City is on the fast track to becoming the dot-com capital of the … [Read more...]
Registrar Promo Leads to 10,000 Paid .Link Registrations Per Frank Schilling Tweet
Frank Schilling tweeted out late tonight that there were 10,000 new .link registrations added as the result of a registrar promo. One registrar ran a .LINK promo today and more than 10,000 paid registrations were added to the zone. .LINK will become a top 5 generic ext. — Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) April 4, 2015 … [Read more...]
You May Have To go To Auction To Get Your Brand.Sucks Domain
According to a press release we received toady by the registrar 101Domain.com, now that the .Sucks domain extension has launched they are pricing the "reserved" .sucks domains at $2,199 well below the $2,499 suggested retail price, however the PR makes it clear that you could wind up in an auction for a yourbrand.sucks domain. Here is the info from the PR: There are two distinct launch … [Read more...]