Frank Schilling

Uniregistry launched its .BlackFriday new gTLD domain extension in July of 2014. According to nTLDStats.com, there are currently a bit more than  12,000 .BlackFriday domain names registered.

I wanted to see if and how major retailers are using .BlackFriday domain names. I looked at the exact match .BlackFriday domain names for 25 of the top 100 retailers, according to the National Retail Federation’s Top 100 Retailers 2015 list. To select the retailers that have an online presence and would be expected to have Black Friday deals, I used my judgment to create this list from the larger list of 100 retailers, eliminating brands like Jack in the Box and Wegman’s.

Here is a list of exact match .BlackFriday domain names for 25 major retailers and how each is being used:

In an email advertising .Pics domain names for $1.00, Uniregistry announced that DomainNameSales.com sold Commercial.property for $25,000. Based on a historical Whois record from DomainTools, it looks like Commercial.property was previously registered to North Sound Names. The .Property domain extension is operated by Uniregistry.

Commercial.property is now registered at GoDaddy, and the Whois record for this domain name has privacy protection. The landing page still shows a default Uniregistry “for sale” landing page, so it is unclear who bought the domain name. At the time of publication, the domain name is listed for sale at Sedo with a buy it now price of $59,999.

This domain name had been on an

I was reading an article on Medium this morning, when I came across a new app that is using a .Link domain name for its website. According to the article, Opener “takes in links from the web and opens them in apps on your phone instead.” If you prefer to directly navigate to Opener instead of visiting the app store, you can find it at Opener.Link.

I think it makes sense for Opener to use Opener.Link for its website.

For one thing, Opener is all about links. “Opener has an action extension that shows in the iOS share sheet and allows people to open links in apps. This means you can long press on links or tap the action button in other apps to access Opener,” the author wrote in the Medium article. At the present time, Opener supports opening links in about 50 apps. Once more people learn about it, I am sure this number will increase.

In addition to this, Opener is