Donuts has won the right to operate another new gTLD extension .Family beating Google and Uniregistry. Uniregistry just won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Mom over the weekend beating Google and Rightside. It would think if you won one of these new gTLD's you would want the other. I don't know how many people or companies, in a world of 1,000 choices of domain extension would choose … [Read more...]
Amazon Wins The .Free New Domain Extension Beating Google, Donuts, Uniregistry M +M
Amazon has won the rights to operate the .Free new gTLD. Amazon beat Google, Donuts, Minds +Machines, and Uniregistry in a private auction to win the rights to .Free .Free was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Amazon already won the rights to the .buy new gTLD which is pretty much the opposite of .free It will be really interesting to see what Amazon … [Read more...]
Uniregisty Wins The New Domain Extension .Mom Beating Google & Rightside
Uniregistry has won a three way battle for the new gTLD .Mom. Both Google and United TLD Holdco Ltd. which is now Rightside, have withdrawn their application with ICANN. .Mom was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Here is how Uniregistry describes the extension in their ICANN application for .Mom ʺGod could not be everywhere, so mothers were created.ʺ -- … [Read more...]
TheRegister.co.uk Publishes Story on New gTLD’s: They Think The Period To Apply Is Still Opened
TheRegister.co.uk, just published a story today on the new gTLD program and it contains plenty of very basic factually inaccurate statements about the program. Here we go: "The internet is poised to gain a whole lot of new domain names in the very near future, from the useful (.app, .dev) to the more whimsical (.ninja, .lol)." Many of of the new gTLD's domain extension have already … [Read more...]
Is The Trademark Clearinghouse Causing New gTLD’s To Lose 6X The Number Of Registrations?
Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), just published a very interesting story on how the trademark clearinghouse (TMCH) program maybe negatively effecting the numbers of new gTLD's registrations to a factor of 6X. Its a great read and I think Phil maybe on to something. As an unintended consequence of trying to protection legitimate trademark holders, there is a lot of … [Read more...]
Corrected 1st Day New gTLD Stats: .Coach 1,650; .LEGAL 1,353; .MONEY 1,264; .MEMORIAL 191
Earlier today we published a post that had the 1st day stats for 4 new gTLD's that went into their first day of general availability yesterday relying on ntldstats.com as we always do. We have been informed by Donuts the registry for all 4 new gTLD's that the ntldstats.com number were not current nor correct. The corrected registration numbers including domain name registered by trademark … [Read more...]
Donuts Wins .Taxi, Beating Famous Four, To Go With .Cab & .Limo
Donuts has won the new gTLD .Taxi beating Famous Four Media and Taxi Pay GmbH who had filed and lost a community application. The new domain extension was scheduled to go to A ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Donuts already owns .Cab and .Limo so .Taxi make the car transportation hat trick. According to ntldstats.com .Cab has lover 3,800 registrations. .Limo has over … [Read more...]