FairWinds Partners is working hand in hand with many of the biggest companies and brands in the world to get them their own domains. A total of 109 applications are being handled by FairWinds including those for Nike, Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, Staples, Old Navy, Marriott, Allstate, Symantec, Comcast and the MLB. The company even applied [...] Continue reading →

Rumors had it that Google applied for around 50 new gTLD’s. Now we can put those rumors to rest, as the list is now officially in. Google Inc. applied for 101 new gTLD’s such as .WEB, .SHOP, .YOU, .SEARCH, .BLOG, .BUY and more. The official applicant name/company used was Charleston Road Registry Inc. The full [...] Continue reading →

ICANN has released the list of all new gTLD applicants during their press conference in London today. After the jump is the list of the new gTLDs that were applied for, the names of the applicants and links to their websites.  The list can also be viewed in it’s entirety at ICANN.org. [...] Continue reading →

Miami based STRAAT, an investment company run by entrepreneurs and internet geeks, has announced that it wants to add 13 more new domain extensions to it’s portfolio. STRAAT is the parent company of .CO Internet, the registry operator of the .CO domain name extension, which has over 1.3M registrations from individuals and companies in over [...] Continue reading →

Nokta is one of the most innovative and successful companies in the domain space, as well as a one of the top 20 largest domain portfolio holders in the world. When we noticed that they were aggressively marketing their domains with the availability for lease, we decided to get in touch with them directly and [...] Continue reading →

The National Association of Realtors® just announced that they have applied for 3 top level domains with ICANN. The NAR is North America’s largest trade association, and it represents over 1 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries. The NAR has been interested in getting it’s own new [...] Continue reading →

As reported by Mike Mann on Facebook, here are some reported sales of this week at DomainMarket.com. According to Mann his company held CoreGaming.com for less than a year. DomainSold DatePriceCurrencySource CoreGaming.com2012-06-06$20,000USDDomainMarket MobileWorkforce.com2012-06-08$30,000USDDomainMarket GreatBurgers.com2012-06-09$3,000USDDomainMarket CoreGaming.com already redirects to core.perfectworld.com, [...] Continue reading →