.NYC celebrated its one year anniversary yesterday by releasing over 16,000 domain names which were previously unavailable due to being placed on the ICANN collision list. We ran the list through a whois program earlier today and according to the results somewhere around 650 of these domain names got registered. If you have ever gone through an ICANN collision list a substantial percentage … [Read more...]
Amazon Registry Appears To Be Off To A Rough Start
We wrote a couple of weeks ago about Amazon launching Amazonregistry.com as a domain name registrar for at least the new gTLD's At the time the site resolved but was not taking any registrations. But since at least yesterday the site is returning an error page something you usually don't see on a website of one the largest corporation's on earth: … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling (FTS, Corp) Now Owns 5.5% Of Rightside
According to a SEC filing (Schedule 13D), a corporation out of the Cayman Islands FTS, Corp (FTS) now owns over 5.5% of the outstanding shares of publicly traded Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: NAME). FTS is the initials of Frank Schilling and the form is signed by a Ria Scott Blyth who according to their Linkedin page is an Executive Assistant for Uniregistry. According to the filing FTS, … [Read more...]
.NYC One Year Anniversary Is Today; Collision List Drops & City Issues Updated Stats
To mark the one-year anniversary of .nyc, the City of New York published the latest statistics on the state of the .nyc domain name. The ICANN Collision list for .NYC is being released today for registration today as well. It will be interesting to see how many get registered. Here are the more interesting stats from the report which can view in its entirety here. To date there are … [Read more...]
CSC October’s New gTLD Utilization: 5,340 New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M
CSC’s Published Its October New gTLD Utilization Report, showing the pace of .brand registrations accelerating with a 50% increase since their September report. The report was prepared by Vincent D’Angelo Director, Brand Advisory Team CSC Here are the highlights, you can read the entire report here ""Registrations of .brand/closed TLDs are continuing to increase significantly and have … [Read more...]
Forbes.com Covers .Film & 1st Domains; February.film & Septembersofshiraz.film
Forbes.com just covered the launch of the new gTLD .Film "So far, two new movies will be the first to debut the .film web extension: Osgood Perkins’ February starring Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka and Lucy Boynton (www.February.film); and Wayne Blair’s Septembers of Shiraz starring Salma Hayek and Adrien Brody (www.Septembersofshiraz.film)." Yesterday, .film was officially launched by the … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines To Go With An 8 Day Early Access Program For .Law/.Abogado
Minds + Machines announced today for the first time, they will be running an Early Access Program (EAP) as part of the launch of .law and .abogado (spanish). The EAP period will run 8 days from 12-18 October. "During this EAP period an extra fee will be charged in addition to the standard annual charge for each domain name. Each day, the EAP fee will descend in price until the point where on … [Read more...]