Donuts has won another private auction beating Uniregistry and Afilias to operate the new gTLD extension .Team. Unlike many other new gTLD's I'm not sure there is much vertical competition to .team, arguably .club or one of the sports verticals like .Baseball or .Football; .Soccer etc As of now there are still 5 new gTLD's set for ICANN Last Resort auction in 10 days; .App which was the most … [Read more...]
Radix Wins Rights To New Domain Extension .Store Beating Amazon & Google + 4 More
Radix has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Store, beating 6 other applicants including Amazon and Google. The other 4 applications for .Store have now withdrawn their application as well, Donuts, Uniregistry, Minds + Machines, and a company out of Delaware thedotstore.com. The new gTLD .Store was set to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. There is vertical … [Read more...]
The .Show Goes On As Donuts Wins Rights to New gTLD Beating Google & Amazon
The old saying is the .show must go on and Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Show beating out Google and Amazon. The fourth applicant, Zodiac Aries Limited of Hong Kong also withdrew their applications for .Show. There will some other new gTLD's in the vertical .Broadway, .Tickets and .Seat, not owned by Donuts, along with .Movie and .Events which are owned by … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Pockets $3.5+ Million By Losing .Blog & .Store: Now Has $48 Million In the Bank
Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) announced today that it added £2.3 Million, which is over $3.5 Million In USD, by withdrawing its applications for .Blog and .Store to settle those new gTLD's in private auctions Minds + Machines' cash holdings have risen to US $48 Million (£31.9mln). Minds + Machines also announced they won the new gTLD .DDS in a private auction with Google, although they didn't … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Energy 1,084; .Delivery 790
Two new gTLD launched yesterday into General Availability (GA), including those domain names registered in Sunrise and the Early Access Program (EAP) where people pay additional fees to register their domain names early here are the totals after the first day of GA: .Energy 1,084 .Delivery 790 The three new gTLD's that went into GA on Tuesday had nice 2nd days results as well. .Work … [Read more...]
Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry Beats Donuts & Famous Four To The new gTLD .Forum
Domain investor and the one of the creators of DomainTools.com, Jay Westerdal's company Fegistry, LLC just won the rights to the new gTLD .Forum beating Donuts & Famous Four. Fegistry won an ICANN Last Resort auction for the new gTLD .Realty ICANN auction results are public information, so we know that Fegistry paid $5.6 million for .Realty However .Forum, which was scheduled for an … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Work 3,833; .Casa 1,235; .LGBT 404
Three new gTLD's had their first day of general availability yesterday and here are the number of domains registered under each extension after the first day according to ntldstats.com: .Work 3,833 .Casa 1,235 .LGBT 404 Minds + Machines is the registry for .Work and .Casa. .LGBT registry is Afilias. Today Wednesday two more new gTLD's go into General Availability, .Delivery and … [Read more...]