According to the .Art registry during the first 24 hours of general availability which started yesterday, over 3,000 .Art domain names were purchased/registered. Of those about 95% were "standard" domains e.g., personal names of people and organizations, while the rest belonged to the .ART inventory of word and word combinations. While the personal names are mostly sold at standard prices, … [Read more...]
With Almost 10% Of New gTLD Registrations In Upcoming Delete Status; The Peak Of 28.8M May Stand Until .Web
According to ntldstats.com almost 10% of all registered new gTLD domain names are in upcoming delete status; meaning for at least a while new G's domain name may have peaked out. On March 24, 2017 the number of new gTLD domain registrations sat at 28,854,146. As of yesterday the number is 28,818,819. However the number of new gTLD's in "upcoming delete" status is 2,738,536 which 9.50% of … [Read more...]
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Acquires WWE.XYZ From The Registry With 4 More .XYZ Domains
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) registered WWE.xyz yesterday along with WorldWrestlingEntertainment.xyz. According to DomainTools.com, it's the first time those two domain name have been registered. In the case of WWE.xyz since it was first registered yesterday, that can only mean that the XYZ registry had it on its reserved list but never "registered" the domain since all available … [Read more...]
New gTLD .Cam Launched Today; Has Only 207 Registrations Through Sunrise & EAP
The New gTLD .Cam launched today into general availability. According to ntldstats.com there were about 80 Sunrise Applications by trademark holders for .cam and pulling the zone file over 80 domain names of the 207 are registered by the registry. The registry for .Cam is AC Webconnecting Holding B.V. .Cam seems to be the only new gTLD that the company operates. The backend provider is … [Read more...]
Over 53% Of New gTLD Are Registered In China: Just Over 10% By Those In US
Over 53% of all new gTLD's are registered to domain holders in China. Only 10.8% of all new gTLD's are registered to Domain holders in the United States. According to stats newly complied by ntldstats.com, who has now broken down new gTLD registrants by the country where the domain name is registered, China accounts for 53.6% of all new gTLD registrations or 8,784,383 of the 16,396,564 new … [Read more...]
Network Solution Is Stuffing .Design Domains Into Customers Accounts As “Brand Protection”
Network Solutions which stuffed .XYZ domain names into customers account for free, is at it again this time with the new gTLD .Design. Customers of Network Solutions are receiving notices that they are being given a free .Design domain, matching a domain name owned by the customer in a Network Solutions account, under the premise of "Brand Protection" using the "C" word many times; yes … [Read more...]
Radix set to Launch .Store in April
Radix put out a press release today that they will be launching .Store in April. Dot store will start Sunrise on 6th April. The TLD will follow the same rollout as Radix's last 3 launches. Sunrise will be followed by an Early Access Phase & .store will enter General Availability on 14th June, 2016. Full Press Release: Dubai (18th February, 2016): Radix, the portfolio registry behind … [Read more...]