TechRepublic.com published a scathing article on the new gTLD program. The story is entitled "ICANN's generic top-level domain rules cause major headaches for online businesses and confusion for consumers." Here are some highlights: " In August 2011, ICANN founding chairman Esther Dyson wrote an argument against the proliferation of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs), .....like .cloud, … [Read more...]
Checking Out Some Available “Los Angeles” New gTLD; Priced From $14.88-$55K A Year
I was checking out a new gTLD domain yesterday with the keyword Los Angeles at Uniregistry and I got a bunch of available domain names back with some pretty interesting pricing. I think it's an interesting look at the pricing of some new gTLD's by various new gTLD registries: losangeles.pizza $220.00 Renewal $220.00 / year losangeles.cars $2,888.88 Renewal $2,888.88 / … [Read more...]
Former Founder of InfoSpace Raises $6.7 Million For Blue.Tech
According to the seattletimes.com, entrepreneur Naveen Jain who founded Intelius and InfoSpace, has raised $6.7 million from investors for his newest venture, BlueDot, "which aims to form health-care and energy businesses from federal research". The company uses the new gTLD Blue.Tech for its website. The domain name Blue.Tech was acquired in a private transaction from the .Tech registry … [Read more...]
91.top leads auction results at 220,000 Yuan ($33,846)
Dot Top posted results from an auction held in Nanjing on March 26, 2016. 91.top led all results at 220,000 Yuan, PP.Top was second at 210,000 Yuan. Full list: … [Read more...]
Over 53% Of New gTLD Are Registered In China: Just Over 10% By Those In US
Over 53% of all new gTLD's are registered to domain holders in China. Only 10.8% of all new gTLD's are registered to Domain holders in the United States. According to stats newly complied by ntldstats.com, who has now broken down new gTLD registrants by the country where the domain name is registered, China accounts for 53.6% of all new gTLD registrations or 8,784,383 of the 16,396,564 new … [Read more...]
Daniel Negari Of XYZ Offers $5 Million To Buy 4 New gTLD’s From Rightside
Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry just offered Rightside (NAME) $5 Million dollars cash to buy four of their new gTLD extensions; .Army, .Vet, .Dentist, Dance. The four extensions were uncontested, meaning Rightside did not have to buy them in an auction and got them for the $185,000 application fee per string. The four extensions according to ntldstats.com have a total of less than … [Read more...]
Google Launches Unfiltered.News
Google's parent company, Alphabet’s tech incubator, Jigsaw just launched another website on a new gTLD. Unfiltered.News which is described as a "new experiment at Google which many of you may enjoy, a site which analyzes news feeds from around the world, and tells you which news stories are most missed by the media where you live. From there, you can see how these stories are being covered … [Read more...]