The new gTLD .Science has now blown by the 220K domain name registration mark hitting 223,159 according to ntldstats.com becoming the 2nd most registered new gTLD passing .club It was just 11 days ago we wrote about .Science hitting the 120K domain registration mark and questioning the [...] Continue reading →

.Fit which launched into General Availability yesterday by Minds + Machines wound up with 1,269 domain names including selling some of those premium domain names we talked about yesterday. .Fit had less than 75 domains registered during the sunrise period by trademark holders so basically picked up 1,200 registrations yesterday. It appears trademark holders went [...] Continue reading →

XYZ.com has dismissed its own claim that .xyz is the “next .com” as “mere opinion or puffery”, in an attempt to resolve a false advertising lawsuit filed by Verisign. Attempting to get the lawsuit resolved without going to the expense of a full trial, the registry has filed with the court a lengthy, rather self-deprecating [...] Continue reading →

These auto Namejet backorders are killing me.  They haunt me for years.  I shouldn’t have to manually go back and remove every backorder I put in. It should end as soon as the present auction is over.  It shouldn’t stay eternal.  I spent a half hour last night canceling all my backorders so I don’t [...] Continue reading →

DomainFest is heading to Bulgaria for a special one-day conference a little over a month from now. NamesCon, which now owns the DomainFest brand, plans to hold the event June 3 at the Kempinski Hotel Marinela in Sofia. It will be sandwiched between the fifth annual DomainForum — June 1-2 in Varna and Ruse [...] Continue reading →

Start-ups fail to get a domain name that reflects their business name face an uphill marketing battle according to a report from a domain name consulting firm. Choosing a hard-to-spell name that fails the “Radio Test” is the number one problem, followed by not having the exact match .com domain. According to a report from [...] Continue reading →

Imagine selling a domain name for $35 million. For those out of the loop, that’s actually happened. In fact, two domain names have topped $35 million internationally. That’s an impressive investment strategy, considering most domain names retail for under $100. Just like the property and housing market, online real estate has become increasingly [...] Continue reading →