I was on the west coast this morning and decided to get up early and take a shot at registering some .tube domains at Uniregistry. I threw a bunch of domains into the system, include the single letter domain a.tube and out of the bunch of 100 or so, only a.tube and one other domain name, Filthy.tube came back available to be registered at normal registration prices. Once I got confirmation … [Read more...]
New gTLD .Tube Goes Live Thursday: Less Than 50 Sunrise Domain Registrations By TM Holders
The new gTLD .Tube goes live where domain names can be registered on a first come, first serve basis at a handful of domain name registrars starting at 14:00 UTC. However some of the largest registrars are not listed on the .Tube website including Godaddy.com; Chinese registrars West.cn, HiChina (www.net.cn) and ename.net. Actually out of the top 10 domain name registrars for new gTLD's … [Read more...]
Phil Corwin Of The ICA To Speak At Heritage Foundation Event On ICANN With Ted Cruz
Phil Corwin from the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), of which we are a Gold Member of, is speaking at a Heritage Foundation event on ICANN taking place from 3-4:30 pm tomorrow along with Senator Ted Cruz. The event is entitled: What Are the Concerns about Ending the U.S. Contractual Relationship with ICANN? The event will be webcast … [Read more...]
Mark Monitor Registers a Bunch of 5, 6 & 7 Letter Domains
Brand protection company and domain name registrar, MarkMontior registered at least 79 domain names yesterday that are what some domainers call brandable domains; 5, 6 and 7 letters that do not spell a word. They do not seem to be typos of famous brands and almost all were hand registered. All of the domain names we tracked are .com's Here is the … [Read more...]
Who is the Greatest Domainer of All Time ?
Almost two years ago to the day, we asked, "Who is the greatest domain investor of all time ?" From the comment section Frank Schilling was the person mentioned the most. So two years later we have seen portfolio sales, the good, the bad and the ugly of new gtlds, Chinese highs and lows, etc... Has your opinion changed or stayed the same ? Now right away some are going to say when they … [Read more...]
Is The .Party Over? The Domain Extension Loses Over 50% of it’s Registrations In Past Month
The domain name extension .Party has been losing thousands of domain name registrations a day over the last few weeks. The new gTLD domain extension .party launched in February 2015. However in May 2015, after just 5,600 domain names had been registered, Alpnames.com offered free .party domain name registrations, then offered deeply discounted .$49 registrations, taking the domain name … [Read more...]
.XYZ Registry Launches Searchable Domain Name Drop Tool
The .XYZ registry has released a searchable tool for dropping .XYZ domain names. You can see all the .XYZ domain names dropping today, tomorrow or those in pending delete on a drop down menu on the site. Pending delete .XYZ domain names are those that will delete up to five days out. For example as of publication there are 10,445 .XYZ pending delete domain, just over 2,000 domain names … [Read more...]