According to a press release out today, Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), the owner of the new ".law" and .abogado (Lawyer in Spanish) top-level domains, "announced that .law has successfully completed its first 90 days since general availability having fulfilled more than 5,000 verified registrations, with over 700 premium names including numerous domains which have sold for $100,000 or … [Read more...]
.Auto .Car, .Cars Get 1st day Registrations at $60K Per Domain
The 1st day of the Early Access Program (EAP) opened up yesterday for the new gTLD's .Auto, .Car and .Cars with day 1 prices set at $59,049.99 for each domain name at Godaddy and there appears to have been some takers at that price. NEXTEV USA, Inc registered the domain names on January 12th: nextev.car we.car NEXTEV USA seems to be the US operations of a Planned Chinese car manufacture … [Read more...]
Com Laude published its 3rd Report “Gazetteer of Domain Names”
Corporate domain name brand protection company and registrar, Com Laude published its third Gazetteer of domain names, highlighting the key changes in another significant year for the industry. The 135 page report, covers all new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) registries from .AAA to .ZUERICH as well as legacy gTLDs (.COM, .ORG, .NET, etc.) and all 300+ Country Code registries (.uk, .de, .fr, … [Read more...]
Premium .SKI Domains Hit NamesCon Auction: Water.Ski; Jet.Ski, Shop.Ski; i.Ski
Some of the most valuable snow skiing and water skiing domain names are being made available for the first time by the .Ski Registry, in the RightOfTheDot / NamesCon live domain Auction being held on January 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time at the NamesCon conference at the New Tropicana Hotel & Casino, online bidding will be available. Names such as Rentals.ski, Water.ski, Jet.ski and the … [Read more...]
CSC’s November New gTLD Report: New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M Up 25% In a Month
Brand protection and domain name registrar, CSC (Corporation Service Company) has issued its "New gTLD Utilization Report" for November. According to CSC the number of active” .brands new gTLD's (those with five or more registrations) increased from October when there were 53 .brand new gTLD's with five or more registrations to 75 in November, representing a 42% increase. According to the … [Read more...]
.Global Is Giving Away A Premium Domain Everyday Until Christmas: Housing.Global Was The 1st
.Global is giving away a FREE Premium domain name a day, everyday until Christmas. The daily contest started yesterday and the first domain name won was housing.global and Damon Barnard was the lucky winner In all there are $50,000 worth of .GLOBAL premium names to be won! You need to enter the contest each day for a chance to win the domain name for that day. Today's free … [Read more...]
.XYZ Has More Domain Registrations Than Donuts 183 gTLD’s Combined
According to ntldstats.com, .XYZ has more domain registrations than all of Donuts strings combined. Donuts has 1,527,510 domain registrations according to ntldstats.com (including 35,306 which are upcoming delete) while .XYZ has 1,560,576 active domains according to namestat.org. There are 183 new gTLD's of Donuts in general availability (GA) meaning they can be registered on a first come … [Read more...]