Now that Uniregistry announced that it's offering .XYZ domain name registrations at just one penny now through June 2nd we thought we would run a quick poll to ask you how many domains you are planning on registering. Our answer range from none to over 10,000 so vote now on the right hand side of thedomains.com (on June 3rd the price moves uo to $.18 per domain) Here are you … [Read more...]
.Store Passes 500+ Sunrise Registrations With 5 Days to Go
The new gTLD .store which entered the sunrise phase on the 6th of April, is already slated to make its mark in the Top 10 new gTLDs in terms of sunrise performance, standing at the 515 sunrise orders with 5 days of the sunrise remaining. As the first e-commerce focused domain, .store has seen an eclectic mix of brand applicants ranging across different industries and categories from fashion … [Read more...]
1st Day .Game Totals: 991 Domains; 337 Premiums @ $1,300 Wholesale
.Game launched into general availability (GA) on Wednesday and received 991 domain name registrations in the 1st 24 hours of registration The wholesale price set by the .game registry, Uniregistry, is $300 for a non-premium domain names for a registration and for each renewal. Premium .Game domain names, were all priced at $1,300 wholesale. Premium domain names will renew annually at the … [Read more...]
Report Shows How New gTLDs Are Actually Helping Cyber Criminals
There was a story posted on NakedSecurity.Sophos.com about how the new gtld program has made it easier for cyber criminals to infiltrate and hack entire organizations. The vulnerability lies with WPAD, Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol, a system that makes it easy for organisations to configure the many web browsers inside their network. It is important to note that poorly configured networks are … [Read more...]
Money wasted all around
A very easy UDRP decision came down on Spiriva.top. I see this name a lot because my Father uses it for C.O.P.D. The tm holder BOEHRINGER Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG of Ingelheim, filed a UDRP and of course the registrant an individual from Russia had no rights to the domain. This continues a cycle of wasted money, companies having to pay UDRP filing fees for a name they really don't … [Read more...]
CentralNic Profit Triples in 2015; Revenue Up 70%
CentralNic PLC (AIM: CNIC) reported its financial results for 2015 recording pretax profit of GBP 1.5 million for 2015, nearly tripled from the GBP 520,000 it posted in 2014. Revenue rose 70% to GBP 10.4 million from GBP 6.1 million. CentralNic is the backend provider for many new gTLD extensions including .xyz which has the most registrations of all new gTLD's, provides registrations on … [Read more...]
Schilling’s North Sound Names Is No Longer The Top Registrant of New gTLD’s
Frank Schilling's North Sound Names has been the largest registrant of new gTLD domain names for about as long as ntldstats has been tracking registrants. However North Sound Names has been knocked off from the top spot by West263 company out of China According to ntldstats, North Sound Names owns has just over 230,000 new gTLD domain names. "West263 Company" is the registrant of 253,459 … [Read more...]