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.SHOPPING Tops 3,200 DN Registrations / Currently at RANK #322 / 'General Availability' Began Wed, Sep 28, 2016 @ 4 pm GMT --------------------------- On a separate note: --------------------------- 1 Month, 7 Days before the US PRESIDENTIAL Election (TUE, NOV 8) >> RNCtracking.GOP...

Registry already has some notable premium domain name sales. GMO Registry paid a whopping $41.5 million to acquire rights to the .shop top level domain name. It’s certainly having a good start with some major premium domain sales. Beauty.shop sold for somewhere less than $500,000 and Fan.shop...

Earlier this week, the .shop Sunrise, a phase open exclusively to trademark holders, closed with 1,182 applications, making it one of the most successful new top level domain Sunrises to date. Some of the world’s biggest ecommerce and retail brands were registered during the Sunrise phase...

Yesterday, GMO Registry partnered with Alibaba Group to hold the first ever auction of .shop domain names. That was the first opportunity to bid for .shop premium names. Around 20 names were put up for auction, under the theme of “shopping”. The auction targeted the Chinese market and featured...

.Shop domains launch next Thursday September 1 at 15:00 UTC with the Early Access Program (EAP). Registration prices for day 1 of the EAP start at about $30,000 at 101Domain.com and go up to $40,000 at Name.com. The .shop General Availability starts on September 26. The .shop sunrise period...

GMO Registry’s outlay for .shop is difficult to rationalize. I’m still trying to wrap my head around GMO Registry paying $41.5 million for the .shop top level domain name. .Shop is a monster TLD, but it’s hard to justify this upfront cost for any top level domain name. Clearly, GMO is in this...

An Auction will be facilitated by Power Auctions LLC on 27 January 2016 to resolve string contention for one new generic top-level domain (gTLD) contention set: SHOP. This set was previously identified as an indirect contention set consisting of both the SHOP and SHOPPING strings. Complete...