Verisign’s (VRSN) published the top 10 keywords in registered in .COM and .NET in September and with the help of Google who bought amazing publicity to the .XYZ extension with its acquisition of abc.xyz, the term XYZ was number 6 on the top 10 .com list. In all 2356 .com domain names were registered that contained XYZ and here is the list of September .com registrations that contained … [Read more...]
Famous Four Media Becomes 3rd New gTLD Registry To Pass 1 Million Domains
According to a Press Release out today, Famous Four Media has become the 3rd new gTLD registry to pass one million domain names. Donuts was the first to hit 1,000,000 domain registrations but they offer well over 100 new domain extensions for sale. .XYZ was the second registry to hit 1,000,000 domain names but they did that only on 1 new domain extension .XYZ. According to the press … [Read more...]
.NYC Gets Around 650 Domain Registrations Out Of 16k+ On The ICANN Collision List
.NYC celebrated its one year anniversary yesterday by releasing over 16,000 domain names which were previously unavailable due to being placed on the ICANN collision list. We ran the list through a whois program earlier today and according to the results somewhere around 650 of these domain names got registered. If you have ever gone through an ICANN collision list a substantial percentage … [Read more...]
Amazon Registry Appears To Be Off To A Rough Start
We wrote a couple of weeks ago about Amazon launching Amazonregistry.com as a domain name registrar for at least the new gTLD's At the time the site resolved but was not taking any registrations. But since at least yesterday the site is returning an error page something you usually don't see on a website of one the largest corporation's on earth: … [Read more...]
Domain Movers: YN.com, Battlecast.com, Zpack.com + Twitter, Walmart & Disney Buys
Welcome to Domain Movers where we detect domain names on the move, mainly all by large corporations for one reason or another. These are often early detection's and often result in a new product, service, business or advertising campaign in the near future. Since this is often the very first time anything is being mentioned about "it", it can be challenging to find out very much information … [Read more...]
Domain Movers: Remodeling.com, TrueFan.com, 147.com & RII.com & More Domains
Domain Movers is always exciting as it is every changing. Large corporations spending some $$$ to secure a brand and you get an early insight into this because of domain name? YES! Large corporations SELLING domain names they already own... it happens and today proves it happens more than just once or twice.. Here is an "insiders view" of some recently purchased, registered and sold domain … [Read more...]
Comcast Launches “Watchable” Video Service, Reported Paid “Six Figures” For Domain
Comcast has launched a new digital video platform to take on YouTube, Facebook and more with the brand name of Watchable. Comcast has secured the exact matching .com domain name to use for its newest video brand, with the stand alone website being at: Watchable.com The latest product, Watchable.com, is a free video service and focuses on videos from online services like Vice, BuzzFeed, … [Read more...]