Radix produced an infographic based on an ICANN survey to analyze how their new strings are doing with consumers. Some of the ICANN results: 52% of surveyed consumers were aware of at least 1 new gTLD presented to them 7 out of 10 of new-gTLD-aware consumers had visited a site on a new gTLD Volume vs. Consumer mindshare: TLDs that top the charts in terms of domain volumes don't … [Read more...]
Dot Tech Turns 1 and @MattDomains is $250 Richer
Happy Birthday to Dot Tech, the extension turned 1 years old today. Radix wanted to celebrate the birthday by giving away a $250 Amazon Gift Card to the person who came closest to guessing the exact number of .tech domains registered at 11:59 am Eastern (15:59 UTC). The number of registrations supplied to us from Radix was 171,256, the winner was @MattDomains who almost hit the number … [Read more...]
Dot Tech is Turning 1 and Radix wants to give you a shot at a $250 prize
TECH domains entered General Availability on 5th August 2015 with a vision to be the moniker for everything related to technology online. It was targeted towards serving the branding needs of startups, tech influencers, tech reviewers, developers alike. Since then, .TECH has come a long way with not only over 160K domains in its zone file but has also been a hot favorite amongst leading tech … [Read more...]
Quick Poll How Much Will .Web Sell For In The ICANN Auction On July 27th ?
The new gTLD .Web is scheduled to go to an ICANN auction, on July 27th. There are 8 companies in the auction and 3 of them are public. The public companies are Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) and Cimpress NV (NASDAQ: CMPR) which is the parent company of Vistaprint Limited. Google has a market cap close to $500 Billion, Web.com has a market cap of $1.26 Billion while Cimpress … [Read more...]
New gTLD .Store Winds Up With 1st day Total Of 22,682
The new gTLD .Store went into general availability (GA) yesterday by Radix, where it could be registered on a 1st come, 1st served basis. After the 1st day of GA including the 600+ registrations by trademark holders in Sunrise and those domain name registered for an extra fee in the Early Access Program, .Store wound up with 22,682 domain names. .Store which has premium registration and … [Read more...]
.Store Over 20K Domain Names Registered
The new gTLD .Store which launched into General Availability today has over 20,000 registrations as of publication. .Store which had over 500 Sunrise registrations by trademark holders, putting it in the top 10 in terms of new sunrise applications, got 10,000 domain name registrations in the 1st 10 minutes of GA. According to Facebook and Twitter posts, .Store has over 20,000 domain … [Read more...]
Consumer Electronics Show migrates to WWW.CES.TECH
Radix has some news out today that the Consumer Electronics Show or CES has made the move from CESWEB.org to CES.Tech. This is a sensible change as CESWEB is a bit clunky. CES.com does not resolve and CES.org is a developed website for Cooperative Educational Services. Here is the release: Radix Registry today announced that the Consumer Electronics Show (popularly known as CES) has … [Read more...]