The Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Blog closed a few days ago on October 17th and it looks like .blog ended with just about 950 domain registrations (although the zone file maybe behind and more domains will be added Several two letter and three letters domain names were registered in Sunrise. Many generic domain names were also grabbed in Sunrise including Art.blog; Billions.blog; … [Read more...]
Will more registrars stop supporting certain new gtlds ?
A little over a week ago Adam Yamada-Hanff broke the story about NameCheap no longer supporting .xyz. According to the article NameCheap made the decision to end their registration support for .xyz. Here is a chat transcript between Adam and NameCheap support: Dmitriy O.: Yes, regretfully, Namecheap does not provide the registration of .XYZ anymore. Adam: You will accept renewals … [Read more...]
3 Years Later: Team Schilling vs Team Schwartz On New gTLD’s; Who Was Right?
It was three years ago to the date that marked the epic debate between the "Domain King" Rick Schwartz and arguably the most successful domainer in history , Frank Schilling on the New gTLD's. The debate went on for almost 80 Minutes at a session held at the old TRAFFIC conference held back in October 2013 on basically "will the new gTLD's be a game changer". So the question now becomes in … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales – 2016 .us handreg sells for $13,000
Sedo released their weekly sales chart and MyMed.com was the top sale at $25,000. The most remarkable sale for me Evus.us registered in March 2016, sold for $13,000. EVUS is an acronym for Electronic Visa Update System. The buyer is out of Spain. Imbernes Premium S.L. In our interview with Rick Schwartz he said he received a $10,000 offer for Rigged.us a domain he handregged. L3T.com for … [Read more...]
August/September .CLUB Premium Domain Sales Top $135k
The .Club registry just announced that is sold over $135,000 domain names in August/September 2016 .Club sold 52 names totaling $32,103.52 through the registrar channel . 84 other domain names were sold for a total of $103,245.47, including the Sedo auction. "In both August and September, premium names were sold by 14 different registrars. One name was sold directly by the Registry in … [Read more...]
Trump Wants to Do Post Election Trump TV Channel; Should He Buy Trump.tv or TrumpTv.com?
According to a story in The Hill today, Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, reportedly contacted a top dealmaker in the media industry within the past couple of months about creating a Trump television network. According to the story Trump is mulling the idea of creating a cable channel as his personal media company. The publication said Trump had talked about a "mini-media … [Read more...]
.Net Domain Registrations Cross The 16 Million Mark For The 1st Time
The number of domain name registrations ending in .Net crossed the 16 million mark for the first time today according to Verisign. According to Verisign the number of .Net domain names is 16,004,860. This all time high is despite over 1,000 new domain extensions being released over the last 2+ year and the fact that a .net domain name wholesale cost now just slightly lower than … [Read more...]