With all the news yesterday about the ridiculous UDRP decision on ADO.com, I read a comment on DNW.com that I thought was very interesting. The point made by commenter RP may require people to rethink whether all these logos are needed to sell very short names like three and four letter .coms. As Andrew Allemann pointed out, part of the discussion that motivated these 3 panelists to rule against … [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...]
Are Domains The New Bitcoin?
One of those in the domain industry whose opinion I greatly respect, Alan Dunn, has made a lot of inroads in equating the value of domain names to commodities at least when it come to those "Chinese Domains"; ultra short domains with single, double and triple characters . According to many in the domain space, "Chinese Domains" equate their value to a commodities like Gold, Platinum, Silver, … [Read more...]
.Pet Went Live On Tuesday & Has Over 5.4K Domains Registrations
The new gTLD .Pet went live into general availability (GA) on Tuesday where is could be registered on a first come, first served basis and according to ntlstats.com .Pet has 5,428 domain name registered. There were less than 100 .Pet domain names registered before GA in Sunrise. Godaddy is charging $11.99 for a .Pet domain for example but there are also premium domain names like Vet.Pet … [Read more...]
UDRP Filed on Two Letter .Com Domain ZT.com
A UDRP has been filed on a two letter .Com domain name ZT.com It appears the domain name was owned in 2014 by Cincinnati Bell Telephone/Fuse Internet then transferred into privacy in September 2014, then transferred to a Raymond Liu in August 2015 and then was transferred to another Chinese buyer in October 2015, and transferred once again to another Chinese registrant in December 2015. The … [Read more...]
Domain Registration on Record Pace? Over 750K Added Yesterday Alone
Registrations of domain names seem to be going on at a record pace. Yesterday saw the number of domain registrations across all Top Level Domain (TLD) names have a net add of over 750,000 domains according to registrarstats.com "Net Add" mean its the amount of domains registered less the number of domain names deleted. The gross numbers of domain names registered yesterday were close to … [Read more...]
New gTLD Add Over 1 Million Domain Registrations in Just Last 5 Days
According to ntldstats.com, the number of new gTLD's domain registrations grew by 1.1 million domains, in just the last 5 days. In terms of percentage of increase, the 1.1 million increase in new gTLD domain names, is close to a 9% increase in just 5 days. On February 13th, there were a total of 12,675,000 new gTLD domain names registered. Today on February 18th, ntldstats.com shows the … [Read more...]