new gtld

All single letter .Car and single number .Car domain names are now registered. Probably not shocking to anyone but of the 40 single charter .Car domain names that have been registered, 27 were registered at Chinese registrars and 3 more appear to be owned by people in China at US registrars so...

There was a small turn-out for the premium launch of .cars, .car and .auto gTLDs, but the registry says it cleared over $1 million in revenue. The three gTLDs are run by Cars Registry, a venture between Uniregistry and XYZ.com. The EAP started January 12 with prices of $45,000 per domain. In...

How are top level domain names doing? We might soon have a way to track them. ICANN has formed a working group to create metrics designed to assess the overall health of the marketplace for gTLDs. Preliminary documents indicate that the scope may include all gTLDs rather than just the ones...

China-based new gTLD .top has become only the second new gTLD to pass the one-million-domain milestone. The gTLD, managed by Jiangsu Bangning Science & Technology Co, had 1,000,469 domains in its zone file on Saturday, an increase of 5,808 on the day. The zone has grown by 453,833 domains in...

Aruba, the .cloud gTLD registry, said it received 500 applications during its sunrise phase, which closed this afternoon. While low by pre-2012 standards, it’s a relatively respectable performance for a new gTLD, where sunrises periods consistently result in double-digit registrations. It’s...

The gambling sector now has its own domain name. Domain registry operator Afilias introduced last week .BET, an Internet address designed for sports betting, gambling, games of chance and all other online and offline wagering activities. In a statement, Afilias said the new domain will...

This week the new gTLD .XYZ past .US, the ccTLD of the United States, in the total number of domain registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com the number of .XYZ registration is 1,726,541 compared to .US which has 1,670.478. Keep in mind that .US, which is the country code for the United...

One of the top secondary market domain sales of 2015, as reported by Sedo, appears to be a case of somebody selling a domain matching a trademark to the trademark’s owner. According to a press release yesterday, the domain basic-fit.fitness was the third-priciest reportable new gTLD domain sale...

Our mission here at XYZ is to create choice and competition on the internet. We want everyone to be able get a short and memorable .xyz domain without breaking the bank. That's why we released just about every CCC.xyz and LLLL.xyz out there (as well as plenty of other extremely desirable names)...

The XYZ registry auctioned off 16 .xyz domain names at West.cn. The auction ended today and all 16 .xyz domains were sold for a total of $379,376 USD. The auction included short domains like xx.xyz and yy.xyz as well as numerics such as 9.xyz and 22.xyz. The top selling domain name was 9.xyz...

Someone just registered DonaldTrump.Sucks via the This.Sucks platform. Whois records show that the registrant is listed as This.sucks, Inc, and the domain name was registered on December 18th. As you likely know, Donald Trump is an American businessman who is currently running for President of...

Tata Group, the humongous Indian conglomerate, has been told its flagship application for a dot-brand gTLD has been refused. ICANN on Friday changed the status of the application for .tata from “On Hold” to “Will Not Proceed”, a limbo state that is usually expected to lead to the application...

fTLD Registry Services, the operator of .BANK top-level domain, reports that nearly seven months after .BANK launched, U.S. banks are continuing to register domain names. Based on data form November 30, 2015, the organization reports 5,165 .BANK domain names have been registered in the U.S. by...

Daniel Negari, CEO of the .xyz registry has reported to TheDomains.com that there are less than 10,000 five number .xyz domain name combinations left before they are all registered! To be exact, at time of publication, only 9.59% are available to register of the once 100,000 according to the...

Today, December 16th 2015 (8 a.m. EST), .CLUB released an additional 13,293 registry reserved premium names to their tiered premium inventory. These names were priced before the value of .Club domains started increasing with the Chinese buying thousands 4N and 5N .Club domains. There are many...