A reader to thedomains.com asked as a comment on another post, as to how many new gTLD's are there still to come Good question The answer is quite a few. We have excluded .Brand gTLD's which can basically launch once the .Brand decides to move it along There are two new gTLD's that are scheduled for an ICANN auction in May unless settled privately prior. .DOCTOR .MOBILE The … [Read more...]
Chinese Domain Registrar Moves from 72e.Net To 72.Win
According to a press release out today, Foshan DiYong Network Co. Ltd, a domain name registrar in China has decided to change their domain name, from 72e.net to the new gTLD 72.win. .Win is owned and operated by Famous Four Media, and Richard Downs, VP of Sales at Famous Four Media had this to say in the PR: “We are over the moon with the growth of the .WIN domain extension. “We are … [Read more...]
Domains.Wine Marketplace Launches with over 1,000 Premium .Wine/.Vin Domain Names
According to a press release out today, Domains.wine has launched a marketplace with over 1000 premium wine related domain names. "Domains.wine was created by the domain professional Braden Pollock and wine connoisseur James Bradley Williams to provide the wine industry a place to help them find the perfect wine domain. "With all the buzz about the new .wine extension, I figured that there … [Read more...]
Radix Has Record Month With Over 760K Domain Registrations
Domain name registry operator, Radix announced today that it had a record month in February 2016, generating over 760,000 domain registrations across its domain portfolio. February 2016 was its biggest ever month ever in terms of new registrations. Lead by .online, .site, .tech, .pw, Radix saw a record number of 768,683 new registrations in the month. "The boost in registrations is a … [Read more...]
Network Solution Is Stuffing .Design Domains Into Customers Accounts As “Brand Protection”
Network Solutions which stuffed .XYZ domain names into customers account for free, is at it again this time with the new gTLD .Design. Customers of Network Solutions are receiving notices that they are being given a free .Design domain, matching a domain name owned by the customer in a Network Solutions account, under the premise of "Brand Protection" using the "C" word many times; yes … [Read more...]
89 of The Top 100 New gTLD Domain Holders Are From China
We have chatted about the growing influence of Chinese domain investors in the domain industry before, however today I checked out ntldstats.com to review the top 100 largest holders of new gTLD domain names and found 89 of the top 100 domain holders are from China. That number gets even more dramatic when you take into account that of the 11 non-Chinese largest new gTLD domain holders in the … [Read more...]
Spamhaus Publishes List of “10 Worst Top Level Domains”
Spamhaus.org published today a list of the "10 Worst Top Level Domains" The list is "not a list of the worst TLDs in quantity, several other TLDs have far more spam domains, but they also have vastly more non-spam domains. " "This list shows the ratio of domains seen by the systems at Spamhaus versus the domains our systems profile as spamming or being used for botnet or malware … [Read more...]