The new gTLD's .Car, .Cars and .Auto went into it's first day of general availability (GA) yesterday a domain name could be registered on a first come, first severed basis. According to RegistrarStats.com here are the totals from the first day of GA .Auto 164 .Car 136 .Cars 129 So basically 430 domain registrations at a wholesale price to the registry of $2,000 per domain, let call … [Read more...]
1st Time? Frank Schilling Has 11 .Com’s At No Reserve In The Namescon Auction
Frank Schilling has 11 .Com domain names from his personal inventory up for auction at no reserve, at the RightoftheDot.com domain auction being held at NamesCon on January 11th. Pre-bidding is open for these domain names at Namejet. Over the years I'm not sure if Frank has ever put up any of his privately owned .Com domain names in auction with no reserve. According to Estibot.com these … [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...]
DosGringos.com Gets Sun.Flowers From Uniregistry Under Founders Program
Uniregistry, the company behind the new gTLD .Flowers announced today that "Dos Gringos (DosGringos.com), the expert grower and supplier of sunflowers to retailers across the United States, today announced a strategic alliance with Uniregistry who acquired the domain name Sun.Flowers through the Uniregistry Pioneers Program. Sun.Flowers (www.sun.flowers), a knowledge specialist in all things … [Read more...]
First .Auto Domain: Kain Automotive Switches From KainAutomotive.Com To Kain.Auto
Kain Automotive has changed their domain name from KainAutomotive.com to the new gTLD Kain.Auto becoming one of the first registrants of the new gTLD .auto. The domain name KainAutomotive.com is now being forwarded to the new gTLD Kain.Auto The domain name Kain.auto was created on November 3. According to their site Kain Automotive was Established in 2003 by "David Kain as a way to assist … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales Is Hiring Again; But You Still Have to Move To The Cayman’s
I got this email from Frank Schilling's DomainNameSales.com that they are expanding their 25 person sales team once again. A little over 2 years ago we put out the message that DomainNameSales.com was hiring and a bunch of people made a life changing move to the Cayman Islands and join the company. Well DomainNameSales.com is hiring again and they asked us to let people know they are looking … [Read more...]
Uniregistry Takes Over New gTLD .HIV
According to imstilljosh.com, who seems to be involved with the .HIV registry, the new gTLD string .HIV is being transferred to Uniregistry. ""Today, Uniregistry takes over the lead in this unique journey to use a top-level domain to promote a social good. The dotHIV charity will continue its work for .hiv and focus on community support. The creative agency thjnk from Hamburg, Germany, … [Read more...]