92 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) on Friday while 4 went to the dreaded extended evaluation.
Some of the bigger gTLD names passing this week was the Geo .Capetown and the .brand applications for the related car makers .Lexus and .Toyota; one of the largest department stores in the US .Macys; .both overnight delivery service, .Fedex and .Dhl; one of the world’s largest drug manufacture., Pfizer; one of the largest insurance company, .Prudential; the clothing giant .Calvinklein; the Japanese public Internet giant, .Sohu;, computer maker .Acer; Amex’s application for .Open; Google’s application for its newly acquired Motorola brand .Moto and some applications for sports including .Cricket, .Football; .Sports.
Here are the 92 applications passsing IE this week
Why is Dish continuing with the .blockbuster TLD? By the time they get it running, there won’t be any Blockbuster Video stores left!
Michael
That is a very good question, now they can only get a 35% refund
Good God Guys –
People still buy, sell and trade crusty ole’ antiquated “blockbuster like” .com’s – heck in addition to parting with some .com stuff I do not need in auction the last few months – I even did $30K this week in .com’s and probably will do another $11K .com sale on Monday for a little weasel wanker like me.
Reality is – I do not think the Blockbuster brand is going anywhere – just an updated product line 🙂
will be not easy, for common internet users, remember all these TLDs
Good job!
Donuts.co is all over the new TLDs!
I also like how another .CO company Straat got in there. I guess .CO domainers are diversifying their porfolios?
Louise –
And the point is $20,500 of those sales are folks “Replacing” their non.com presence.
One is replacing their .de at $9500 – another is replacing their .eu, .de, .co, .es (and others I am sure) at $11K. The other one involved brokers / attorneys and does not resolve yet.
Overall point is proceed with caution as a non.com speculator – the non.con speculator WILL lose in the end. non.com’s are only profit (and big profit) center for the registries themselves who will be selling countless non.com’s that will likely never get used.
Facts do not lie.