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Hanes Spends About $30,000 to Buy T-shirts.store
June 7, 2016 @ 9:03 AMCompany registers domain on first day of EAP. Radix started the Early Access period for .store today. When I wrote about it yesterday, I noted Radix’s steep day one prices of about $30,000 retail. I wrote: “While that number might seem crazy, I can’t blame .store registry Radix for trying.” Indeed, it has already paid…
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.vip Domain Hits $5.5 Million and 400,000 Registrations
June 7, 2016 @ 4:01 AMNew domain continues to grow in China. .VIP is proving to be a winner for MMX (Minds + Machines). The company announced today that it already has $5.5 million in sales (wholesale) of .VIP domains after three weeks on the market. It paid $3.0 million to win rights to the domain in an ICANN auction…
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China Conference Leads to 49% .vip Spike
June 7, 2016 @ 12:57 AMThe Global Domain Industry Conference, held in China over the weekend, has led to a huge boost in .vip domain sales. Registry Minds + Machines told the markets this morning that the recently launched gTLD hit 404,892 as of 1600 UTC yesterday, up 49% from Friday. CEO Toby Hall confirmed to DI that China is…
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ICANN Slaps First Deadbeat Dot-brand With Breach Notice
June 7, 2016 @ 12:39 AMThe world’s third-largest mobile phone company, worth some $14 billion a year, is the first new gTLD registry operator to refuse to pay ICANN fees. That’s according to ICANN’s compliance department, which last night slapped Bharti Airtel with the new gTLD program’s first public contract breach notices. The notices, which apply to .bharti and .airtel,…
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.xyz Tops 5 Million Domains As Penny Deals Continue
June 3, 2016 @ 11:23 AMXYZ.com became the first new gTLD operator to top five million domains in a single TLD last night, when .xyz added almost 1.5 million names. According to our parse of today’s zone file, .xyz has 5,096,589 names, up 1,451,763 on yesterday’s 3,644,826. On Monday, the number was just under 2.8 million. The massive spike came…
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Uniregistry: 1.5 Million Domains in One Day
June 3, 2016 @ 8:41 AMA whole lot of domains, but probably not much revenue. How successful was .xyz’s promotion at Uniregistry? Judging by volume, quite successful. Uniregistry put out a press release today saying that 1.5 million domain names were registered at the registrar over 24 hours. If the domains were all .xyz, this represents a whopping…$15,000 in revenue…
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Amazingly, .blockbuster Will Soon Be a gTLD
June 3, 2016 @ 3:22 AMVideo rental chain Blockbuster may have gone the way of the the 8-track, the VCR, and the Nokia cell phone, but it will soon have a gTLD of its own. The .blockbuster gTLD application completed its pre-delegation testing with ICANN this week and is now with IANA/Verisign, ready to go live on the internet in…
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China Might Be Inching Closer to Granting Licenses for New TLDs
June 2, 2016 @ 12:41 PMJob postings suggest licensing process might be progressing. Top level domain name companies have been eagerly waiting for the Chinese government to issue licenses that will allow Chinese citizens to be able to host sites on their domains in China. The government might be taking a step forward, based on recent job postings. As background,…
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.xyz Domain Registry: "How to Blow 1 Million Dollars in 2 Days"
June 2, 2016 @ 8:32 AMThe .XYZ registry decided to blow more than a million dollars in 2 days to boost they registration numbers. Also a new renewal deal with West.CN and .XYZ domains comes to light. .XYZ $0.01 Domain Name Promotion XYZ registry is running this promotion for the past couple of days offering $0.01 .xyz domain name registrations…
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Donuts to Hike Prices 50% On Some TLDs
June 2, 2016 @ 8:13 AMWhile some new gTLD registries are all about the giveaways and deep discounting, Donuts has taken the unprecedented decision to actually increase its prices. The company announced today that it will add a whopping 50% to its wholesale fee for 10 of its TLDs. The TLDs are: .camera, .camp, .cleaning, .dog, .glass, .kitchen, .plumbing, .shoes,…
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