Donuts Commits 68 New gTLD’s To Private Auction

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According to a press release we just received Donuts, has committed 68 of its applied for new gTLD’s to a private auction that will be held  on August 13th.

Of course for any auction to take place all applicants for that particular string will have to agree to holding the private auction on the same terms and conditions as Donuts has.

It should be noted that for the previous private auction held by Applicant Auction Donuts committed 63 of its applied for new gTLD  strings to the auction that took place in June but only 6 auctions took place.

Many of the domains committed by Donuts in this auction are the same ones committed to the previous auction held in June.

Of the 6 auctions held in June Donuts lost 5 of them, however under the private auction model the winning bid gets paid to the losing applicants (less administration cost of the auction)

The gTLDs Committed to Auction by Donuts Inc this time around are:

.APARTMENTS

.HOT

.ART

.JEWELRY

.AUCTION

.LAW

.AUDIO

.LAWYER

.BASEBALL

.LEGAL

.BEAUTY

.LIFE

.BLOG

.LIVING

.BOATS

.LOANS

.BROADWAY

.MEMORIAL

.BROKER

.ONLINE

.CAFE

.PHONE

.CASA

.PIZZA

.CHAT

.PLACE

.CHURCH

.PLUS

.CITY

.PROPERTY

.CONSTRUCTION

.RENT

.DATA

.RUN

.DEALS

.SALON

.DIRECT

.SCHOOL

.DISCOUNT

.SEARCH

.DOG

.SHOW

.EXPERT

.SITE

.FISH

.SOCCER

.FOOTBALL

.STORAGE

.FORUM

.STORE

.FURNITURE

.STUDIO

.FYI

.STYLE

.GARDEN

.TEAM

.GLOBAL

.THEATER

.GRATIS

.TRADING

.GROUP

.WEBSITE

.GUIDE

.WEDDING

.HELP

.WORLD

.HOSTING

.YOGA

 

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  1. Rubens Kuhl says

    At least one of the listed strings (.ART) has community applications as part of the contention set, so unless those community apps give up their chances with Community Priority, which I don’t think it’s likely, shouldn’t be part of private auctions prior to Community Priority Evaluation Panel.

    At least one of the listed strings (.ONLINE) has a contention set with at least one application that failed Initial Evaluation, so unless those apps give up their chances with Extended Evaluation, which I also don’t think it’s likely, shouldn’t be part of private auctions prior to Extended Evaluation.

  2. Sean Sullivan says

    It will be interesting to see if Google really will not bid on the strings that are going to auction. Seems so unlikely simply because they had to have known that there would be many companies going after some of the more desirable strings.

  4. Zany says

    Rubens – if the community application for .ART actually thinks they have a chance of being considered a community, then I would say they really don’t understand the gTLD application process nor the CPE criteria. It’s sort of like Constantine believing his .music is a community application. Which community are they representing under each generic term. If I’m the community .ART application, I might as well try to get some money out of a private auction

  5. Rubens Kuhl says

    Zany, .ART has two community applicants, EFLUX and Dadotart. Both have encouraged supporters to post public comments, so it seems they believe they have a shot at CPE by doing one of the tasks that is part of the community scoring. I don’t see both giving up on CPE, as I don’t see Constantine and Far Further giving up on CPE for .music. The actual chances of those isn’t the question, but the odds applicants perceive.

    One thing that the string similarity panel showed us is that what happens isn’t always what was expected to happen, specially where there are no precedents. In their place, I would wait for CPE, even if considering it a long shot.