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...]
Report: 88.XIN Sells for $180,000
According to a blog post appearing in .XIN registry, the domain name 88.XIN recently sold for ¥1,140,888 at a domain name auction, which is around $180,000 USD. According to the blog post .XIN sold a total of 9 domain names for 3.14 million yuan which equates to over $523K USD. Other domain name reportedly sold in the auction included 789.xin for 400,500 yuan and 188.xin for 403,800 yuan … [Read more...]
AT.com Added To ROTD/ NamesCon Auction As Submissions Closes Tomorrow
The two letter domain name AT.com is one of several new domain names that were added to the RightoftheDot/Namescon auction yesterday, which is opened for pre-bidding on Namejet.com. As of publication there are now 147 domain names at Namejet.com for pre-bidding. 89 domain names have at least one bid and there are 531 total bids placed. To see the updated list of domains at Namejet.com you … [Read more...]
Google Starts Rolling Out Fully Designed The New Google+
In a blog post today, Google introduced the world to the new Google+ "Today, we’re starting to introduce a fully redesigned Google+ that puts Communities and Collections front and center" "Communities, which now average 1.2 million new joins per day, and Collections, which launched just five months ago and is growing even faster. Whether it’s the Nonfiction Addiction Community, where people … [Read more...]
DosGringos.com Gets Sun.Flowers From Uniregistry Under Founders Program
Uniregistry, the company behind the new gTLD .Flowers announced today that "Dos Gringos (DosGringos.com), the expert grower and supplier of sunflowers to retailers across the United States, today announced a strategic alliance with Uniregistry who acquired the domain name Sun.Flowers through the Uniregistry Pioneers Program. Sun.Flowers (www.sun.flowers), a knowledge specialist in all things … [Read more...]
3.2 Million .Com Added In Last 3 Weeks More Than Increase In All Domains in 2Q
As of today Verisign is reporting that the .Com zone file has topped 123 million domain names; 123,203,096 On October 27, 2015, three weeks ago, the .com zone file topped 120 Million for the first time and had 120,034,068 domain names. So we are looking at an increase of almost 3.2 million new .com domain names since October 27th, three weeks ago. Consider that Verisign reported in this … [Read more...]
Report: All Chinese Premium LLLL.org Domains Registered
I have received a report that all Chinese Premium four letter .org domain names have been registered. Chinese Premium domain names are those without a Vowel or the letter "v" According to registrarstats.com .Org had a net gain of over 12,000 domain registrations on Sunday which is a strong number for a Sunday but many of these were registered today as well. I'm also told that very few … [Read more...]