.London which launched last week has just over 39,00 domain name registration in the zone file as of today, which many regard to be less than impressive. The population of London's metropolitan area is the largest in the EU with a total of 13,614,409. So out of over 13 Million residents not counting all the businesses and organization in the area, 39,o00 registrations isn't that terrific in … [Read more...]
Is .London Killing The Value Of .Uk Domains?
If you have been following NameJet.com over the past couple of weeks you couldn't help but notice the number of two letter .co.uk and .Uk that have been at auction. Two letter domain names are some of the most valuable Internet real estate space. In the past few weeks over 50 two letter .co.uk and .Uk domain names have been at auction at NameJet.com As you can see from the list below, no … [Read more...]
.London Tops 15,000 Domain Registrations; General Availability Starts September 9th
One of the most anticipated new gTLD domain extensions .London, now has 15,038 domain names registered, counting Sunrise registrations and now registrations granted to companies with a .London presence who had priorty to register .London domains. .London is now in 23rd place in terms of number of registered new gTLD's domain names according to nTLDstats.com DomainMonster.com, part of the … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals; .Hamburg 13.7K; Discount 1,819; .Fitness 1,271; .Furniture 605; .Schule 373
Several new gTLD went into general availability yesterday and here are the total number of domain registrations including those domains registered in Sunrise by trademark holders and in any landrush or Early Access Program (EAP) which allows registrants to pay an additional fee for early access to new domains. .Hamburg had by far the biggest new gTLD 1st day total in a many months winding up … [Read more...]
CentralNic Launches BuyDomains.London, Domain & Website Included For £39.00 A Year
CentralNic announced today that they have launched the BuyDomains.London A "website for Small SMEs to obtain their .London domain names" taking aim "at the "75% of London’s 841,000 SMEs that will fail to register for a .London domain name before the 31 July deadline". For only £39.00 per year, Londoners and London-based businesses will get from … [Read more...]
.London Launches April 29, Predicts Over 218K Registrations Just From Small Business
Dot London Domains Ltd (“Dot London”), has today announced that .LONDON will begin taking registrations on 29 April 2014, marking the formal launch of the .LONDON domain. More than 200,000 small businesses in London say they are likely to register a new .london internet address when the domain names go on sale at the end of April. A YouGov survey of small businesses in London found that more … [Read more...]
.London All Over The News Today As Its Signs Contract With ICANN
The new gTLD .London is all over news today as the Board of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) reported that its client, Dot London Domains Ltd (“Dot London”), has signed the contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) allowing the new top level domain, .LONDON, to proceed to the final round of pre-delegation testing before being introduced into the … [Read more...]