The new gTLD .store which entered the sunrise phase on the 6th of April, is already slated to make its mark in the Top 10 new gTLDs in terms of sunrise performance, standing at the 515 sunrise orders with 5 days of the sunrise remaining. As the first e-commerce focused domain, .store has seen an eclectic mix of brand applicants ranging across different industries and categories from fashion … [Read more...]
1st Day .Game Totals: 991 Domains; 337 Premiums @ $1,300 Wholesale
.Game launched into general availability (GA) on Wednesday and received 991 domain name registrations in the 1st 24 hours of registration The wholesale price set by the .game registry, Uniregistry, is $300 for a non-premium domain names for a registration and for each renewal. Premium .Game domain names, were all priced at $1,300 wholesale. Premium domain names will renew annually at the … [Read more...]
CentralNic Profit Triples in 2015; Revenue Up 70%
CentralNic PLC (AIM: CNIC) reported its financial results for 2015 recording pretax profit of GBP 1.5 million for 2015, nearly tripled from the GBP 520,000 it posted in 2014. Revenue rose 70% to GBP 10.4 million from GBP 6.1 million. CentralNic is the backend provider for many new gTLD extensions including .xyz which has the most registrations of all new gTLD's, provides registrations on … [Read more...]
Schilling’s North Sound Names Is No Longer The Top Registrant of New gTLD’s
Frank Schilling's North Sound Names has been the largest registrant of new gTLD domain names for about as long as ntldstats has been tracking registrants. However North Sound Names has been knocked off from the top spot by West263 company out of China According to ntldstats, North Sound Names owns has just over 230,000 new gTLD domain names. "West263 Company" is the registrant of 253,459 … [Read more...]
Source: .VIP Sold 30,000 Premium Domains Including Google’s Reg of Alphabet.VIP For $10K
A source who has access to such information, has informed TheDomains.com that .VIP sold approximately 30,000 in premium domain names totaling around $1.3 million dollars through the end of its first day of general availability (GA) Premium domain names are those having a higher price than the normal registrations fees than a regular domain registration as set by the registry who sets the … [Read more...]
.Top Blows Past .Biz To Become The 6th Most Registered Top Level Domain
The new gTLD .TOP has become the 6th most registered domain extension passing .biz. As of today according to RegistrarStats.com, .Top has 2,241,164 domain names registered, passing .biz which drops down to the 7th most registered top-level domain with 2,230,709 domains registered. The 5th most registered domain name extension is .XYZ which has 2,768,291 domain names The top four domain … [Read more...]
Warning: With Namejet/Snapnames Joint Backorder You Can Windup Bidding Against Yourself
A few weeks ago Namejet.com and SnapNames.com announced that if you placed a backorder on one of the systems for a deleting domain name backorders would be placed for the deleting domain names on both systems. It makes a lot of sense since saves the effort of putting the same deleting domain names into both systems. The idea is if the domain is caught by one or the other service and there … [Read more...]