With all the discussion about price increases at Uniregistry on certain new gtld strings, I reached out to a sponsor here at TheDomains, Radix. I wanted them to let our readers know what their plans were as far as potential price increases. Sandeep Ramchandani, Vice President and Business Head at Radix had this to say: At Radix, we had made a conscious decision to operate only broad-based … [Read more...]
2 Years of .Space
Radix published an infographic and some info related to the 2 year anniversary of .Space. .SPACE seems to have struck a chord with the creative bunch such as photographers, artists, bloggers and freelancers, along with coworking spaces as well as the space community. From the first nation in space - asgardia.space featured in the mainstream news, to the fashion curators on globalfashion.space, … [Read more...]
.Ceo and .best to release 1 and 2 character domains
Cameron Bale from PeopleBrowsr.com dropped me a note to let me know that the .Ceo and .best registries will be releasing 1 and 2 character names on Feb 20, 2017. When you click the google docs link it will show you pricing. Releasing 2 Char domains Releasing over 30,000 Reserved Names Reducing the prices of over 3,000 Premium Domains See the lists for … [Read more...]
The Trademark ClearingHouse Worked So Well One Company Got 24 new gTLD using The Famous Trademark “The”
The Trademark ClearingHouse (TMCH) which was set up/ contracted by ICANN to protect those famous worldwide brand names from abuse by those nasty domain name squatters resulted in a whole new industry. Those playing the TMCH for their own benefit to get first jump at new gTLD domain names to get registered in Sunrise ahead of all other under common words like "the" Actually there maybe no … [Read more...]
Arbel Arif posts largest .shop sale to date with Blade.shop
Domain investor Arbel Arif has posted the highest selling .shop name with his sale of Blade.Shop for $10,000. Arbel kept Namepros members in suspense for a few days while waiting for escrow to clear. There have only been 9 .shop sales reported by Namebio Domain Price Date Venue jetski.shop 4,446 USD 2016-11-03 Sedo 420.shop 3,000 … [Read more...]
CENTR Report: 309.4 Million Domains At End of 2016
DomainWire Global TLD Stat Report published its CENTR’s quarterly publication covering status and trends in global top-level domains with a focus on European ccTLDs (country code top-level domains). At the end of Q4 2016 there were 309.4 million domain names across all top-level domains (TLDs) globally. Net growth over the quarter was around 1.03 million (0.3%) - a large decrease compared … [Read more...]
Coming up on 3 year anniversary, what are your thoughts on the new gtlds ?
We are now coming up on the three year anniversary of the first 7 new gtlds to be launched. .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles, and .ventures. These 7 are no longer "new" they are just gtlds now. Of course many more extensions have been launched over the last 3 years. When looking at NtldStats.com they show the following … [Read more...]