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...]
.XYZ Says They Just “Blew Past” 2 Million Domain Registrations
Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry just sent me over a note that the new gTLD .XYZ has "blew past 2 Million domain name registrations". According to ntldstats.com .XYZ was sitting at 1,967,963 domain registrations as of the last zone update, however there has been a huge surge in 6 number .XYZ domain names from China (NNNNNN.xyz) (also known as 6N domains) of over 100,000 domain … [Read more...]
Amazon Turns On AmazonRegistry.com To Sell New gTLD Domain Names
Amazon applied for 76 new generic top-level domain names (gTLD's). When Amazon applied for their new gTLD's they applied to operate them on a closed basis meaning the public would not be able to register any domain names without Amazon allocating them, but the Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) to ICANN nixed the plan for the most part, while still allowing .Brand Applications. Amazon won … [Read more...]
Washington Post Covers Several New gTLD’s & Asks: Who Needs .com?
The movement is on! Google has greatly helped all new gTLD's and there are many mainstream media sites covering gTLD's daily. This is really great news in general for the domain industry as a whole and clearly the gTLD's! Although many of these stories relate to .com when talking about the new gTLD's, like a new one today from the WashingtonPost.com with a title of: "Who Needs .com? Domains … [Read more...]
Another 7 Figure Domain Name Sale? Futbol.com is Sold
GoDaddy.com has sold the premium domain name Futbol.com which is the word that most of the world outside of the US refers to as Soccer. The domain name Futbol.com was one of the 200,000+ domain names that Godaddy bought from Marchex or $28.1 Million in April of this year. I broke the news on TheDomains that GoDaddy sold Beijing.com in May, shortly after they acquired the Marchex portfolio in … [Read more...]
.porn and .adult gTLD Domain Names Available Today
New gTLD domain names .porn and .adult become available for registration to the public today (6/4/2015) and there has been a lot of buzz around the two, simply because there often is around the adult industry. Last night, Stuart Lawley was on Bloomberg talking about .xxx, .porn and .adult that ICM Registry operate and you can watch that video here. About 6,900 .porn domains have been … [Read more...]