Registrations of domain names seem to be going on at a record pace. Yesterday saw the number of domain registrations across all Top Level Domain (TLD) names have a net add of over 750,000 domains according to registrarstats.com "Net Add" mean its the amount of domains registered less the number of domain names deleted. The gross numbers of domain names registered yesterday were close to … [Read more...]
.Auto .Car, .Cars Get 1st day Registrations at $60K Per Domain
The 1st day of the Early Access Program (EAP) opened up yesterday for the new gTLD's .Auto, .Car and .Cars with day 1 prices set at $59,049.99 for each domain name at Godaddy and there appears to have been some takers at that price. NEXTEV USA, Inc registered the domain names on January 12th: nextev.car we.car NEXTEV USA seems to be the US operations of a Planned Chinese car manufacture … [Read more...]
XYZ & Negari Beats Verisign In Federal Court, Again: CentralNic Too
.XYZ has just won another court battle against Verisign (VRSN). Back three weeks ago a Federal Court dismissed a case brought by Verisign against XYZ.com, the registry for .XYZ and Daniel Negari personally alleging false advertising by granting XYZ and Negari a short summary judgement opinion. Now in a second case in Verisign sued XYZ.COM, DANIEL NEGARI and CentralNic, which is the … [Read more...]
Radix: .ONLINE Fastest New gTLD to Sell 100,000 Domains
Radix the registry for .ONLINE announced today that .Online is the fastest gTLD to sell 100,000 domains names since their launch less than 3 months ago. After a very successful launch which broke all new gTLD records with 38,000 domain names registered in the first 24 hours of General Availability, .online surpassed 100,000 domain registrations this morning. The 100,000th domain to be … [Read more...]
New Domain Extension .Cloud Announces 1st Three Pioneers: Sets Out Launch Dates
The new domain name extension .cloud, announced today over the coming weeks, more than 30 Pioneers will begin using .cloud domains starting with ScreenCloud, a London-founded SaaS company, which is "creating powerful, easy-to-use products to help businesses and retailers take control of their digital signage. Screen.Cloud has built the new. cloud into its entire company branding, recognizing the … [Read more...]
Amazon Turns On AmazonRegistry.com To Sell New gTLD Domain Names
Amazon applied for 76 new generic top-level domain names (gTLD's). When Amazon applied for their new gTLD's they applied to operate them on a closed basis meaning the public would not be able to register any domain names without Amazon allocating them, but the Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) to ICANN nixed the plan for the most part, while still allowing .Brand Applications. Amazon won … [Read more...]
