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Dot NYC Celebrates One Year Anniversary – Reaches 85,000 Registrations

October 8, 2015 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

.NYC is celebrating its one year anniversary and has reached the 85,000 registration mark. To mark the one-year anniversary of .nyc, the City of New York published the latest statistics on the state of the .nyc domain name, showcasing its growth. Unlike other top-level domain names, the .nyc web extension is available only to individuals, […]

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Mike Berkens Drops Five Figures to Pick up the best domain in the .Dating extension

September 2, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 13 Comments

Mike Berkens picked up the best domain imo in the .dating extension. He announced on Twitter that he picked up the name on EAP day 1, so that makes this a five figure pick up. I registered the one and only category defining term for the new gTLD .Dating today http://t.co/3uK5RntUJ8 on day one of […]

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Is The Alphabet Sexy ? Someone Thinks So – There is a Run on Alphabet new gtlds

August 11, 2015 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

We may have jumped the shark as a world wide regging spree of Alphabet related new gtlds is sweeping the net. The first 5 names I checked were all regged yesterday: Alphabet.domains Alphabet.Holdings Alphabet.Media Alphabet.Tech Alphabet.Wtf Add to the list Alphabet.sexy, is the Alphabet sexy ? How about Alphabet.photo ? Well it makes sense to […]

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TheNextWeb.com Gives 10 reasons to use a new gtld

August 8, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Mia Vals is out with an article on TheNextWeb.com, “10 reasons to use a new domain extension for your business” Mia took umbrage with some of the alt spellings that have been popular with startups over the last decade. She mentioned one of the reasons to think about new gtlds as price. That is not […]

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One of the better one day new gtld hauls – Mike Berkens Strikes Again

June 13, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 17 Comments

If and it is a very big if, the new gtlds do pan out and companies of the future seek out the best, spot on names, Mike Berkens picked up some names on Thursday that should be sitting pretty. These are the kind of names that have the best chance to be resold. When you […]

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Sold My First New gTLD

March 4, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 26 Comments

It is not something to shout from a mountain top or any huge deal, but I did complete my first new gtld sale. I have not gone wild with new gtld purchases, I have just registered 10 in total, and was trying to focus on topics that I actually like so if there was zero […]

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You Are Probably Not Going To Be Able To Register That .App Domain You were so keen on

March 2, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

More than a handful of people have told me they are looking forward to registering a .App name and wondered where they would be priced ? Google just won the rights to the extension for $25,000,001 as has been reported everywhere on the Internet, some sites actually reporting it today likes it is hot off […]

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Roger Kay”Why, Even After A Year, There’s Still No Land Grab For New Internet Domains”

January 22, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Roger Kay in a new article on Forbes today gives his opinion on year 1 of the new gtld program. So far Mr, Kay does not see much good. He points to the facts of: consumers aren’t flocking to the new domains security issues cybersquatting confusion cost and much more. From the article: And it’s […]

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Panel At Namescon to Discuss Doing Domain Business in China sponsored by TLD Registry

December 16, 2014 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

TLD Registry (DotChinese Online and Dot Chinese Website) continues to unveil more of their plans for NamesCon. For those truly interested in the Chinese market from a new gtld standpoint this does look like they are putting in the effort to truly educate potential registrants. The new gtlds from a domain investor/trader standpoint certainly hold […]

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TLD Registry To Offer Chinese Masterclass at NamesCon

December 2, 2014 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

TLD Registry the operator of the Dot Chinese Online (.在线 ) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网 ) top level domains is going to be holding an educational program with regard to Chinese domaining at Namescon. The Chinese Masterclass program will run over all four days of Namescon. The sessions will run multiple times throughout the […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, new gtlds

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