Some of the most valuable snow skiing and water skiing domain names are being made available for the first time by the .Ski Registry, in the RightOfTheDot / NamesCon live domain Auction being held on January 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time at the NamesCon conference at the New Tropicana Hotel & Casino, online bidding will be available. Names such as Rentals.ski, Water.ski, Jet.ski and the … [Read more...]
CSC’s November New gTLD Report: New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M Up 25% In a Month
Brand protection and domain name registrar, CSC (Corporation Service Company) has issued its "New gTLD Utilization Report" for November. According to CSC the number of active” .brands new gTLD's (those with five or more registrations) increased from October when there were 53 .brand new gTLD's with five or more registrations to 75 in November, representing a 42% increase. According to the … [Read more...]
Donuts: We are not Going To Delete New gTLD Extensions
Donuts has responded to last Friday's cybersecurity consulting firm Internet Identity (IID) report predicting "the eventual demise of any number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and the websites populated within them—primarily due to financial underperformance". Donuts has responded strongly to debunk the report saying as the largest new gTLD operator they will not be closing down any … [Read more...]
Uniregistry Put Premium New gTLD’s Domains In Auction @ No Reserve
Frank Schilling's Uniregistry has put many premium new gTLD's, at no reserve, in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction at Namescon. Unlike many new gTLD's, all of these domain names have normal renewal fees. None of these domain names have been offered to the pubic before and include single letter and numbered domains like 8.Link, e.gift, and b.sexy, as well as two letter words like … [Read more...]
My Sale to Godaddy
By now I assume you have read the press release that my company Worldwide Media, Inc., more commonly known in the domain community as MostWantedDomains.com, has sold the vast majority of our domain portfolio to GoDaddy/Afternic. While I can't get into the details of the transaction, I did want to share some thoughts about the sale and what it means and does not mean about the state of the domain … [Read more...]
.Club Has Record Month Selling Over $1.6 In Premium Domains
.Club announced today on its blog, that they had a record-setting month in November selling $1,622,164.13 in premium domain names. In all .Club sold 326 premium domains in November. .Club continues to be fully transparent in its sales activities: November was a record-breaking month for both regular .CLUB registrations and premium name sales. It was our first month with more than $1 … [Read more...]
.Global Is Giving Away A Premium Domain Everyday Until Christmas: Housing.Global Was The 1st
.Global is giving away a FREE Premium domain name a day, everyday until Christmas. The daily contest started yesterday and the first domain name won was housing.global and Damon Barnard was the lucky winner In all there are $50,000 worth of .GLOBAL premium names to be won! You need to enter the contest each day for a chance to win the domain name for that day. Today's free … [Read more...]