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May .CLUB premium domain name sales were led by 6 direct sales made by the Registry out of a total of 38 names sold for the month. In addition to the registry, 13 registrars contributed to total May premium name sales of $43,029.30. The top sale was for ganja.club, sold by the registry for...

New gTLD registry, Donuts, rolled out dot .Group very recently, and it’s already at almost 4,000 registrations. There’s no better affirmation of a new gTLD’s worth, other than seeing a major corporation adopt it en masse. Software giant Microsoft registered several dot .Group domains, and...

12,000 more domains will be available at registrars. .Club is getting ready to release more premium names through the registrar channel, making it easier for customers to register the domain names. 12,000 premium domains will be released through the channel on June 16, with suggested retail...

Imagine a world where the default is to be spammed first,and be removed from the spam list only after you complained about it. Like the Greek fable of Hydra, by the time you complain about the first incident, 10 more instances have showed up. Let’s not forget the manner in which the .XYZ...

The .Store early access period starts on Tuesday when you can get .store domains for a hefty price of about $30,000. While that number might seem crazy, I can’t blame .store registry Radix for trying. Prices drop to about $11,000-$13,000 on day 2, and 101Domain has the final day priced at $299...

6 .VIP domains sold for 1,334,000 CNY at West.cn according to a press release from Minds + Machines. The news was also reported on Ename.cn. Press release from MMX.co "Six .VIP premium domains were auctioned on West.CN—a Chengdu-based registrar in China—on May 31st for a total of 1,334,000...

The new gTLD .XYZ has passed .info to become the 4th most registered Top Level Domain Extension in the world. According to RegistrarStats.com, .info has 5,508,922 domain names registered. The zone files for yesterday have not updated but TheDomains.com reached out to the .XYZ registry who...

A 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...

40,000 more .vip registrations, .store has over 500 sunrise applications. The .VIP domain name continues to rack up registrations and the .Store registry says it’s off to a solid start. .VIP broke launch records when it was released earlier this month, and it continues to grow rapidly...

Leading Chinese registrar West.cn has said it will subsidize .xyz renewals to the tune of $1.5 million. According to a West.cn press release, CEO He Xiaojiang made the announcement alongside XYZ.com counterpart Daniel Negari at meeting in Beijing on Friday. The registrar’s .xyz customers “are...

The 1,000th new gTLD from the 2012 application round was delegated yesterday. It was either .shop or .realestate, appropriately enough, which both appear to have been added to the DNS root zone at about the same time. But since once new gTLD was removed, here is the 1000th new gTLD in the...

Minds + Machines has billed $3.2 million in .vip domain names sales after the first five days of operation, the company said this morning. It’s already managed to pay off the cost of acquiring the domain at the September 2014 auction, which was $3.1 million. Between 1600 UTC May 17, when .vip...

There was a tweet about an hour ago from Minds + Machines @ntlds on the first ever .VIP auction results. First-ever .vip auction on Alibaba Taobao just closed; CNY958,500; aprx USD146,000; sold all six The 6 domains : I.Vip 520.VIP ( meaning I love you) 100.VIP 18.VIP Che.VIP ( Car)...

It has been one year since the .BANK internet new domain name extension launched in May 2015, and the number of domain name registrations now stands at over 5,900. In this initial year, 45% of banks in the U.S. have registered domain names – according to fTLD’s latest infographic. fTLD has...

.VIP entered General Availability on the 17th of May breaking all New gTLD registration records for domain name registrations in the first 24 hours after launch. .VIP is a Minds + Machines (MMX) new extension. Within the first 24 hours of launch exactly 167,231 domains were registered according...

According to an article on TechCrunch, “PornHub is launching a new fitness system (wearable + workout videos) called BangFit.” From a domain name perspective, the most interesting aspect of the article is the domain name that Porn Hub chose for its BangFit product. Instead of using the exact...

“We might end up breaking the world record of biggest domain auction ever organised. That would be a spectacular moment not only for the newly launched domain extensions but for the entire domain industry.” On January 2014, Donuts inc launched the first 7 new domain extensions including the...

Today Dollar Bank launched a new website. Features of the new site include: A responsive design that is compatible with all devices and adjusts according to the device being used (e.g. desktop, tablet, phone). Updated content to assist visitors in finding the right product, service or rate for...

Two of Donuts’ co-founders discuss the company’s results, strategy, and plans for the future. 185 launches later, the company now has 1.7 million domain names under management and about 40 employees. Last week in Bellevue I sat down with two of Donuts’ founders, CEO Paul Stahura and COO...

Promotion cuts the holding cost of premium domain names. Rightside’s (NASDAQ:NAME) promotion on premium domain names has begun and will run through the end of June. As I explained last month, the promotion enables you to pay just one year of premium pricing when you buy a domain name at...