Taking a look at some of the biggest reported new gtld sales on Namebio and it seems like a lot of people spent a lot of money on domains that are doing nothing. Wine.Club purchased for $140,000 and the name just shows a 101Domain.com landing page. Web.Hosting was purchased for $52,500 at NamesCon in January of 2016 and it's being used as a redirect to iBeeHosting.com. IBEE Hosting is part … [Read more...]
New Top Level Domain Industry First Half 2016 Analysis & Insights
Christa Taylor is the CEO of DotTBA published an infographic and new gtld analysis on CircleID. Here is a look at some of the analysis: Top Level Domain Statistics and Business Implications First Half 2016 Overview Average prices were based on prices at the end of September retrieved from 101domain, eNom, GoDaddy and United Domains. If a TLD was not found on any of these … [Read more...]
Quick Poll How Much Will .Web Sell For In The ICANN Auction On July 27th ?
The new gTLD .Web is scheduled to go to an ICANN auction, on July 27th. There are 8 companies in the auction and 3 of them are public. The public companies are Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) and Cimpress NV (NASDAQ: CMPR) which is the parent company of Vistaprint Limited. Google has a market cap close to $500 Billion, Web.com has a market cap of $1.26 Billion while Cimpress … [Read more...]
I Owned 17 Single Letter/Number .Tube Domains Today Until The Registry Took Them Back
I was on the west coast this morning and decided to get up early and take a shot at registering some .tube domains at Uniregistry. I threw a bunch of domains into the system, include the single letter domain a.tube and out of the bunch of 100 or so, only a.tube and one other domain name, Filthy.tube came back available to be registered at normal registration prices. Once I got confirmation … [Read more...]
New gTLD .Tube Goes Live Thursday: Less Than 50 Sunrise Domain Registrations By TM Holders
The new gTLD .Tube goes live where domain names can be registered on a first come, first serve basis at a handful of domain name registrars starting at 14:00 UTC. However some of the largest registrars are not listed on the .Tube website including Godaddy.com; Chinese registrars West.cn, HiChina (www.net.cn) and ename.net. Actually out of the top 10 domain name registrars for new gTLD's … [Read more...]
Is The .Party Over? The Domain Extension Loses Over 50% of it’s Registrations In Past Month
The domain name extension .Party has been losing thousands of domain name registrations a day over the last few weeks. The new gTLD domain extension .party launched in February 2015. However in May 2015, after just 5,600 domain names had been registered, Alpnames.com offered free .party domain name registrations, then offered deeply discounted .$49 registrations, taking the domain name … [Read more...]
.XYZ Registry Launches Searchable Domain Name Drop Tool
The .XYZ registry has released a searchable tool for dropping .XYZ domain names. You can see all the .XYZ domain names dropping today, tomorrow or those in pending delete on a drop down menu on the site. Pending delete .XYZ domain names are those that will delete up to five days out. For example as of publication there are 10,445 .XYZ pending delete domain, just over 2,000 domain names … [Read more...]