.Science just launched into general availability this morning and at least one register is allowing you to register them for free. Alpnames.com isn't advertising it on the front of their site, but if you try to register a .Science domain name you will see the cost is $0.00. By comparison Godaddy.com is charging $9.99 for a .Science registration. I don't know what the limits are or how … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Generates £2.29m From Operations: $36m From Losing Private gTLD Auctions & Spends $25.9M Winning
Minds + Machines (LON:MMX), the top-level domains owner and operator, "saw revenue surge from September when ten of its newly acquired Internet names became generally available. Sales totaled £2.9mln in the six months to December, with £2.2mln generated in the last four months. In that time, 107,000 domain names were registered for Minds + Machines' portfolio, of which 10% were sold through … [Read more...]
Fast Company: Rips .Green Calling It “An Idea Whose Time Has Passed”
Over the years I have read a ton of stories on new gTLD program and certainly some particular new gTLD's, but few have gone as far as FastCompany just published on the new gTLD .Green in a story entitled: "Why The New .Green Domain Name Is An Idea Thankfully Past Its Time" "The problem is that (.Green) maybe an idea whose time has passed." "Ten years ago, setting up a .green domain may have … [Read more...]
Afnic Takes A look at Year Zero For The New gTLDs – What have we learned so far ?
Afnic published a report on the new gtlds and looked at "Year Zero" for the new extensions. The report covered, looking back at 2014, the fee or free business model, the valuation proposition and where the new gtlds are heading. Read the full report here From the report: 2014 ended with 470 gTLDs (generic top-level domains) in the root, including 39 using non-Latin characters, and 290 ccTLDs … [Read more...]
Rightside Reports 4Q Revenue Up 13.5%: Makes Almost $8 Million on Losing New gTLD Apps
Rightside reported its earnings for the 4th Quarter today and full year ended December 31, 2014 after the market closed. Domain Name Services Revenue Increases 16% Year-over-Year 4Q Total Revenue Increases 13.5% Year-over-Year Domain name services revenue for the three months ended December 31, 2014 increased 16% to $43.2 million compared to $37.2 million for the same period in … [Read more...]
L’Oréal Wins New gTLD .BEAUTY Beating Donuts & Minds + Machines/Adding To Its Huge Vertical
L’Oréal has won the new gTLD .Beauty beating Donuts and Minds + Machines. We reported earlier today that L’Oréal also won the rights to operate .Hair L’Oréal was also the sole applicant for .skin and .makeup so L’Oréal has basically cornered the new gTLD market for that vertical. Interestingly the company withdrew its .Brand application for .LOREAL but who needs that when you own all the … [Read more...]
Quick Poll: How Much Will .APP Sell For Next Week?
The new gTLD .App, which was the most applied for new gTLD, seems to be heading to an ICANN Last Resort Auction next week. All of the other new gTLD's that were scheduled for private auction on February 25th have been settled privately. However .App which received 13 applications, (1 application was withdrawn months ago) still has 12 applicants and all you need is one applicant not to … [Read more...]