Adweek published an article about an airline that was trying to reach millenials, They decided to use a .WS in the campaign and make the url entirely out of Emojis. From the article: Norwegian Airlines decided its target millennial audience was probably up to the challenge, though, so earlier this week it partnered with several Danish influencers on Instagram to spread the cryptic URL … [Read more...]
.Porn & .Adult Rack Up Around 4K Registrations In 1st Hour
According to Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry the operator of .XXX, .porn and .adult registry about 4,000 domain names were registered in the 1st hour of general availability today of the new gTLD's .porn and .adult that went live at noon EST today. Of today's registrations about 60% where for .porn and 40% were for .adult The first .porn domain that was registered was large.porn The … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .School 1,933; .Football 1,730; .Casino 1,447
Three new gTLD domain name extensions launched into General Availability (GA) yesterday, where domains can be registered on a first come, first served basis. Including the domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and those who paid an extra fee to register domain name ahead of GA in the Early Access Program (EAP) here are the number of domain names in the zone file … [Read more...]
Domain Movers: MyM.com, NowTrending.com and More Domains
This is Domain Movers! The series by Jamie Zoch who discovers recently registered, acquired and simply moving domain names mainly all by large corporations. These are often very early detections and can result in new companies, brands, services, products, advertising campaigns and much more. Sit back and enjoy! Time Inc. has registered the domain name SportsIllustratedPlay.com, adding to its … [Read more...]
.porn and .adult gTLD Domain Names Available Today
New gTLD domain names .porn and .adult become available for registration to the public today (6/4/2015) and there has been a lot of buzz around the two, simply because there often is around the adult industry. Last night, Stuart Lawley was on Bloomberg talking about .xxx, .porn and .adult that ICM Registry operate and you can watch that video here. About 6,900 .porn domains have been … [Read more...]
A little 6number.com Frenzy on Namepros and a look back at 5n.com
Ali Zandi formerly of Flippa and currently with his own shop at Perception.com, wrote a blog post on Namepros that listed 370 available 6n.com domain names. Ali has been publishing a series he calls the "Daily Dose" which lists names available for registration. A couple members regged one or two names before someone came in and took the lot, registered them and put them under privacy. This … [Read more...]
Fred Krueger: “Why I Hate ICANN”
Fred Krueger announced he was leaving Minds + Machines (MMX) two weeks ago, and then announced he sold over 10% of his shares a few days later, wrote a an interesting post on Facebook today which is well worth a read so I'm reprinting it here. Fred is a good writer so here is his post from his Facebook page entitled "Why I hate ICANN" (and he is not alone). Here is the post reprinted … [Read more...]