Two more new gTLD's that were scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction next week have been settled by privately. Amazon has withdrawn its application for .Box leaving NS1 Limited of Hong Kong who is run by the same principal of .Asia, Edmon Chung as the winner. It seems .Box see's itself as a competitor to .Cloud. Here is how .Box explains its vision for the extension in its ICANN … [Read more...]
.College To Offer Trademark Holders & Universities Free Registrations
XYZ.COM LLC, the company behind the .xyz domain extension, announced the global launch of the .College domain extension today offering for the first time free Sunrise registrations for trademark holders and a special early access program for universities in which they can also get their .college domain registered for free. .College also announced a four stage roll out of the extension that will … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Yoga 1,546; .Sydney 1,508; .Party 1,105; .Vote 264: .Cricket 167; .Voto 124
Six new gTLD's had its first day of general availability (GA) yesterday where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis and from the 6 new gTLD's we have around just 4,500 registrations. Including any Sunrise registrations by trademark holders or any pre-registration period here are the totals after the first day: .Yoga 1,546 .Sydney 1,508 .Party … [Read more...]
Scottish Government Jumps on the new gtld train
Scottish Government switches to a .Scot domain Herald Scotland published an article that the Scottish government is switching to a .Scot domain with the older scotland.gov.uk continuing to function. It makes sense not to do away with the old address which I would imagine will eventually become a redirect. From the article: THE Scottish Government has switched its website to a new "dot Scot" … [Read more...]
How Committed Is Google To The New gTLD Program? Applied For 101; Now Lost 29 Out of 34 Auctions
Google was the 2nd largest applicants of New gTLD's applying for 101 of them and spending $18.6 Million dollars in application fees catching the eye of many publications outside of the domain space Here, Here, and Here Non-domainer publications wrote about how Google would basically get everything they applied for basically because they could afford to. Wired.com called Google's support of … [Read more...]
Google Wins the .Moto New gTLD Beating Rightside.co (NAME) For Its Motorola Division
Google has won the rights to operate the .Moto new gTLD beating United TLD Holdings which is now Rightside.co (NAME) in what we can only assume was a private contention auction. The new domain extension .Moto was scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Google of course owns Motorola and applied for .Moto to use as a closed extension as a .Brand application more than … [Read more...]
.XYZ Passes .Mobi in Domain Registrations As It Closes In On 800K
According to ntldstats.com, the new gTLD .XYZ has passed .Mobi in the number of registered domain names. The .Mobi registry which went live on September 26, 2006 according to RegistrarStats.com has 791,396 domains under registration having lost over 1/3 of the registrations it had at its peak in 2014. According to ntldstats.com (which does not track legacy TLD's), .XYZ has almost 795,000 … [Read more...]