Afilias has written ICANN asking that it disqualify Nu Dot Co’s $135 million winning bid for .Web, which as we now know would give Verisign (VRSN) control of what many consider to be the best of the new gTLD. Afilias also asked ICANN to conduct an investigation, and has also filed a complaint with the Ombudsman. This is in addition to the amended lawsuit filed last week by Donuts’ after it … [Read more...]
How Radix new TLDs fare with End-Consumers ?
Radix produced an infographic based on an ICANN survey to analyze how their new strings are doing with consumers. Some of the ICANN results: 52% of surveyed consumers were aware of at least 1 new gTLD presented to them 7 out of 10 of new-gTLD-aware consumers had visited a site on a new gTLD Volume vs. Consumer mindshare: TLDs that top the charts in terms of domain volumes don't … [Read more...]
Dot Tech Turns 1 and @MattDomains is $250 Richer
Happy Birthday to Dot Tech, the extension turned 1 years old today. Radix wanted to celebrate the birthday by giving away a $250 Amazon Gift Card to the person who came closest to guessing the exact number of .tech domains registered at 11:59 am Eastern (15:59 UTC). The number of registrations supplied to us from Radix was 171,256, the winner was @MattDomains who almost hit the number … [Read more...]
Dot Tech is Turning 1 and Radix wants to give you a shot at a $250 prize
TECH domains entered General Availability on 5th August 2015 with a vision to be the moniker for everything related to technology online. It was targeted towards serving the branding needs of startups, tech influencers, tech reviewers, developers alike. Since then, .TECH has come a long way with not only over 160K domains in its zone file but has also been a hot favorite amongst leading tech … [Read more...]
Thoughts About Verisign’s $135 Million Dollar .Web Acquisition & What It Means For Domainers
I didn't write much leading up to the Verisign (VRSN) acquisition of .Web for $135 Million this week, but I have plenty of thoughts on the subject. First and foremost it's a no brainier for Verisign Forget the $1.9 Billion they have sitting in the bank and focus in on the over $9 Billion dollar valuation the company has which went up over 3% on Friday. This more than made up for the … [Read more...]
ICANN releases official statement on the $135million .web auction
ICANN releases official statement on the $135 million .web auction. I have to give credit to Michael Berkens, he told me months ago he thought it would be $100 million plus. On 27 July 2016, Power Auctions LLC, ICANN's authorized auction service provider, conducted a New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Program auction to resolve contention for .WEB and .WEBS. Auction serves as the method of … [Read more...]
Results of our .WEB Poll – 60% Of Voters Expect $50 million+
The .web auction will conclude today and in the opinion of those who participated in the poll, it's going to be the most expensive new gTLD string. In a poll posted on TheDomains two weeks ago, we asked readers what they thought the high bid price would be in the ICANN auction being held today. 60% of the voters believe the string will sell for $50 Million or more with almost 20% thinking … [Read more...]