The new gTLD .Web is scheduled to go to an ICANN auction, on July 27th. There are 8 companies in the auction and 3 of them are public. The public companies are Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) and Cimpress NV (NASDAQ: CMPR) which is the parent company of Vistaprint Limited. Google has a market cap close to $500 Billion, Web.com has a market cap of $1.26 Billion while Cimpress … [Read more...]
Donuts Offers To Buy All Of Rightside new gTLD’s For $70 Million Cash
Donuts Inc., publicly announced its interest in acquiring Rightside Group, Ltd.'s (NAME) entire registry of generic top-level domains (gTLDs, also known as domain extensions) and related assets for $70 million in an all-cash deal. According to a press release out today, Donuts said "this move is in keeping with Donuts' stated strategy of expanding its selection of not-com domain extensions, … [Read more...]
Over 600 .Group Domains Registered Through Sunrise & EAP; Let’s Take a Look
The new gTLD .Group which goes into General Availability (GA) on Wednesday has, as of publication, over 600 domain name registered through Sunrise and the Early Access Program (EAP) I thought I would take a look at some of the better and more interesting domain name registrations. For the record, I have not registered any .Group domains: 1.group (Day 5 … [Read more...]
Rightside Gets .Games Will Launch in 3Q; Uniregistry Launching .Game This Week (Sunrise)
Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced it has secured the .GAMES domain extension. Rightside plans to launch .GAMES in Q3 2016, starting at a standard wholesale price of $12.00. Donuts was the sole applicant for .Games, which is one of the jointly owned new gTLD domain extensions with Rightside. There were 5 applicants for the new gTLD .Game, including Google and Amazon, which was won by … [Read more...]
Hexonet Launching Backorder Service For Dropping Donuts & Rightside New gTLD’s Domains
The domain name registrar Hexonet just announced they are starting a backorder service for dropping new gTLD domain names starting on May 1st for Donuts and Rightside strings. Prices vary by the string and domain names that have more the one backorder will go to auction Here is the announcement: HEXONET's is activating Backordering for all Donuts and Rightside TLDs (400 TLDs in total) … [Read more...]
Google + 5 Registries Release Domain Test: “Developers Can Test Compatibility with new gTLD’s”
Google registry released a new tool "Domain Test" which is a "tool designed to help developers test their applications for compatibility with new top-level domains (TLDs). " Domain Test was "developed by Google and launched in a partnership between Google Registry and Ausregistry, CentralNic, Donuts, RightSide, and Uniregistry. Domain Test is an open source project available under the Apache … [Read more...]
Donuts: We are not Going To Delete New gTLD Extensions
Donuts has responded to last Friday's cybersecurity consulting firm Internet Identity (IID) report predicting "the eventual demise of any number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and the websites populated within them—primarily due to financial underperformance". Donuts has responded strongly to debunk the report saying as the largest new gTLD operator they will not be closing down any … [Read more...]