The .US domain name extension gained over 100,000 domains yesterday. The domain name registrar, Uniregistry started a promotion of .US registrations for only $.10 officially starting at on October 1 but but yesterday was the first day Uniregistry actually sent out an email blast of the $.10 domain registration promotion. According to RegistrarStats.com; the number of .US domain names … [Read more...]
.NYC Gets Around 650 Domain Registrations Out Of 16k+ On The ICANN Collision List
.NYC celebrated its one year anniversary yesterday by releasing over 16,000 domain names which were previously unavailable due to being placed on the ICANN collision list. We ran the list through a whois program earlier today and according to the results somewhere around 650 of these domain names got registered. If you have ever gone through an ICANN collision list a substantial percentage … [Read more...]
Centralnic passes Donuts as Backend Provider For New gTLD Domain Names
According to ntldsstats.com, CentralNic has passed Donuts in the number of domain names it is providing backend registry services for new gTLD domains. ntldstats.com is showing CentralNic having 1,426,647 new gTLD's under its backend management while Donuts is sitting at 1,425,466 domain names, each representing about 20% of all new gTLD's. However CentralNic is the backend provider for just … [Read more...]
.CO Turns Five: With 1.8M Domains: 120 .CO Startups Raised $460M In Funding in 2015
Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), sent out a press release today in celebration of the fifth birthday of the .CO web extension and there are released some pretty interesting stats: • Over 1.8 Million .CO domains under currently under management • 120 companies using the .Co domain name extension raised $460 million in funding in 2015 (1st half of year) • Over 55% of .CO registrants are from the … [Read more...]
A look at Dot Luxury One Year Into The Process
Tony Kirsch of ARI Registry Services posted an interview with Monica Kirchner of Dot Luxury. Tony was looking to get some perspective on how things are going one year into the process. Dot Luxury names are not cheap, checking out a few registrars: TheDomains.Luxury $780 101Domain TheDomains.Luxury $724.99 Name.com TheDomains.Luxury $799.99 Go Daddy According to ntldstats.com there … [Read more...]
Neustar Files Suit Against the FCC
Neustar (NSR) is suing the FCC over the loss of the Local Number Portability contract which it held for 18 years. Neustar which has watched the price of its stock drop close to 50% from August 2, 2013 when the shares were at $55.71, initiated a $150 million share buyback once the contract loss was official. Local Number portability refers to the ability of a "customer of record" of an existing … [Read more...]
Is This The Domain With The Longest Registration Date? SMITHSONIAN.US Expires 2102
Here is new one on me. A domain name that doesn't expire until the next century. The domain name is Smithsonian.us and it is as you would expect owned by the Smithsonian Institution of Washington. The domain is not registered through a registrar, but instead is still showing as being registered through NeuStar the company that operates the .US registry under license of the United States … [Read more...]