Auction for .Blog domain names that had more than one order in the Landrush period are now underway at Sedo. To participate in the Landrush auctions you would have had applied for the domain name in Landrush. I'm personally in 7 of the 36 domain names in the .blog landrush auction. Of the 7 domain auctions, two have already exceeded $5,000 with less than a day to go. Weed.blog is … [Read more...]
.SPACE becomes the choice of the first ever Space Nation Asgardia
A group of scientists launched the first ever space nation at a press conference in Paris earlier last month. Asgardia is the prototype of a free society in space. It aims to launch its first satellite in 2017 and be recognized by the UN. The official webpage of this trending space nation chose the new gTLD .SPACE for its official URL - www.asgardia.space. The website has already seen over 2.10 … [Read more...]
.Doctor Winds up With Over 1,400 Domains After First Day of Availability
The new domain extension .Doctor launched yesterday into general availability where domains could be registered on a first come first served basis. The zone file now reflects 1,421 domain registration which includes those domain names registered in Sunrise by trademark holders and those registered during the Early Access Period (EAP) for an extra fee. Many of the registered domain names have … [Read more...]
Percentage of Parked New gTLD Zoom Up Over 65% As Over 3 Million Added in A Week
According to ntldstats.com, the number of "Parked" new gTLD domain names as defined by ntldstats.com has increased by over 3 Million domain names just since October 25th 2016. On October 25th, the number of Parked domains was just 13,175,000; however as of November 2nd that number has ballooned up over 16,374,000. The percentage of new gTLD's domain names that are parked as … [Read more...]
Namejet Reports Over $770K In Sales For October 2016
Namejet just reported over $770,000 in domain name sales for October 2016. Namejet.com only reports domains that were bought and paid for by the end of the month that sold for $2,000 or more Included in this list are some substantial sales from the .NYC auction. Of the top 12 sales for the month, 8 were three-letter .com's and 2 were .nyc … [Read more...]
MarkMonitor: Infographic The Top 20 New gTLD’s With Most Registrations by Brands
Brand protection and corporate domain name registrar Mark Monitor published an Infographic on The Top 20 New gTLD's that have the Most Defensive Brands Registrations The infographic is entitled "Navigating the World of New gTLDs" and lays out the top 20 most registered domain names in the new domain name extensions (New gTLD's) by "Brands" (Trademark holders) Here is the top 20: (Note … [Read more...]
$3 Million For TrumpTv.com? TrumpTower.Live & TrumpTowerLive.com Registered Yesterday
Yesterday we published a post about the owner of the domain name TrumpTv.com putting the domain on the market with an asking price of $3 Million. The owner went on to say that the traffic to the domain name went from "about 150,000 people to 1.3 million in just the last couple of weeks” However Alexa.com which lists sites by traffic only has TrumpTv.com at 2.7 million which doesn't mesh … [Read more...]