fTLD Registry the operator for .Bank announced today that 36% of U.S. banks have purchased a .BANK domain name and many are planning as using them for their online banking operations making .Bank the first break out success of the new gTLD program from an end user perceptive. "Since May 2015, 2,465 banks have purchased one or more .BANK domain names— signaling their commitment to providing a … [Read more...]
Delta Airlines Loses UDRP To Grab Domain Delta.Tours
Delta Air Lines, Inc. just lost its bid to grab the new gTLD Delta.tours in a one member panel UDRP of Douglas M. Isenberg. The domain holder's case was greatly helped because he registered four other .Tours domains on the same day. ""Complaint states that the Disputed Domain Name was registered on July 8, 2015, that “[w]ithout [Complainant’s] authorization, Respondent is likely intending to … [Read more...]
.Wang Adds 90K+ Domains in 1 Day: 160K in 3 Days: Becomes 3rd Largest New gTLD
The new gTLD .Wang gained some 90,000 new domain registrations in the last day or so and over 160,000 new domain registrations since October 17th which is an increase of 50% According to Registered.Today .Wang gained more than 90,000 new domain registrations yesterday. According to ntldstats.com, the number of .Wang domain registration has grown from 285,000 on October 17th to … [Read more...]
Verisign: XYZ Is 6 On The Top 10 Trending Keyword For .Com Registrations In September
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...]
New gTLD’s: Stock Firm Trefis Says Verisign “Doesn’t Have Much To Worry About”
Stock investment firm Trefis.com issued a report on Verisign (VRSN) today entitled "The New Domain Name Game" and concluded when it comes to new gTLD's (new domain name extensions): "It appears that VeriSign doesn’t have much to worry about, at the moment, when it comes to the introduction of new domain name extensions. "Even though the company’s market share has been reduced (52.5% in 2007 … [Read more...]
.Club Publishes August Domain Results, Over $1 Million Cumulative Sales
The .club registry has published its registry reserved premium name & SnapNames sales report for the month of August 2015 and it has now passed the $1 Million dollar mark in cumulative registry reserved premium domain name sales! The release states: As of August 31, 2015, total cumulative sales of registry reserved premium .CLUB names came to $1,099,780.20. The highest single sale remains … [Read more...]