Key Bank Using Key.Insurance for Email

Elliot Silver
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Screen Shot 2017-02-02 at 9.37.18 AMA friend of mine from my days at AIG alerted me to something I found interesting. Key Bank is using the Key.Insurance domain name for email. They Key.Insurance domain name was registered in July of 2016. It looks like their main insurance portal is found at Key.com/insurance.

There were a few things I found interesting with this:

It does not look like Key Bank is using the Key.Insurance domain name for a website. When I visited Key.Insurance and www.Key.Insurance, I was taken to an ISP error page. It is interesting that the company would use its .Insurance domain name for email but not for an active website. It is possible that the company is using its .Insurance domain name for a website that I can’t see. For instance, there could be some sort of intranet website on a subdomain name or something along those lines.

Key Bank does not own

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.Club Sells $150k Worth of Names in First Week of Broker Program

Elliot Silver
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Dot ClubDuring NamesCon, the .Club registry announced its new  Broker Program and interest-free financing plans to help sell .Club domain names. Konstantinos of OnlineDomain.com wrote about this news in an article published a week ago.

In a press release announcing this news, here’s what the registry had to say:

“As we enter a new year, .CLUB continues to innovate new ways to make our brandable premium names accessible to entrepreneurs and small businesses. We were the first to offer financing to select registrants under our Startup Club program, which successfully incubated businesses such as Coffee.club and Soap.club. Now we are expanding the opportunity by offering Registry-backed financing for all premium names sold directly by the Registry and priced at $1,000 or more. With 60-month, interest free financing, that $1,000 name can be had for less than $17/month. For businesses and entrepreneurs, great 5 and 6-figure premium names become much more attainable when payments are spread out over 5 years. You can search for and purchase premium .CLUB names, with a one-time payment or with 60-month financing, at www.get.club.”

This afternoon, .Club registry CMO Jeff Sass shared that the registry sold a hair under $150,000 worth of .Club domain names in its first week offering these programs. This translates into

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NamesCon Sponsor Spotlight on .Club

Richard Lau
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Dot ClubNamesCon 2017 is on track for another record-breaking year! People from all facets of the domain industry have already started networking on the NamesCon mobile app and are getting ready to head to Las Vegas in less than two weeks. Tickets are still available for purchase to those wishing to attend the largest domain name conference in the world. The conference is held at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas from January 22-25, 2017.

We are running these interviews to introduce attendees to NamesCon sponsors, and to get to know the people behind the banners. Today’s Spotlight interview is with  Jeffrey Sass, CMO at .CLUB Domains, LLC.

What is your company’s mandate; what sets you apart?

Unlike many of the new domain extension registries, we are solely focused on one word, .CLUB, and from the beginning, we have approached things from the perspective of building a global brand that anyone with a passion can relate to. As a domain extension .CLUB is unique because its usage is truly global. The word “club,” in English, is recognized, used and means the same thing all over the world and across multiple languages. The other thing that is special about “club” is that it represents community and people coming together around a common interest or passion. This makes .CLUB easy to understand as a domain and meaningful for a broad range of uses, from existing clubs, to sports figures and celebrities for their fan clubs, to startups with membership and subscription models, to bloggers who are passionate about a particular topic, and on and on and on.

Who benefits from your product or service?

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Yeezy.Supply Now Using YeezySupply.com

Elliot Silver
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In early February of 2015, Kanye West tweeted about Yeezy.Supply. As I noted at the time, this appeared to be good news for people in the new gTLD space because of the potential for West to use and actively promote a .Supply domain name. This morning, I was  alerted to the fact that Yeezy.Supply now forwards to a developed website on  YeezySupply.com.

The Yeezy.Supply domain name was created on February 1, 2015, and the YeezySupply.com domain name was created on the same date. It looks like Yeezy.Supply had been used as the website for over a year, although I am not sure if there was actual commerce on that domain name because I just see a timer and “Season 3” in the Archive.org entries. Based on my Archive.org search, it looks like the domain name started forwarding to the .com domain name in or around June of 2016. There aren’t a ton of archived entries, so that could be wrong.

I am not sure if  the

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2.XYZ + 350 Other .XYZ Domain Names on Auction

Elliot Silver
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xyz-logoThe .XYZ Registry hopes to start off 2017 on a high note by auctioning 350 .XYZ domain names on Chengdu West. The domain names in this auction all have no reserve and will sell to the highest bidders. The auctions begin concluding today (January 4), and it will run through January 13. Bidders need to be registered with the China-based auction house in order to participate.

I believe the most valuable domain name in this auction is 2.XYZ. This auction ends in approximately one week from today. Several single number .XYZ domain names have previously sold, with the largest sale being 1.XYZ, which sold for $182,000 in March of 2016. Other single number sales include 9.XYZ, which sold for $176,000 in December of 2015, 6.XYZ, which sold for $125,000 in November of 2015, and 8.XYZ, which sold for $82,000 in September of 2015.

Commenting on the auction, Shayan Rostam, Global Director of Registry Operations at .XYZ, shared the following with me:

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TwinPicks.Football: Non .com in Snickers Commercial

Elliot Silver
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I was watching a highlight video on ESPN tonight, and I saw a new gTLD domain name in a commercial that caught my attention. Snickers is running a commercial that prominently displays the TwinPicks.Football url throughout the commercial. When you visit the Twin Picks website, you can see the sisters sitting on the couch, and it looks like just about all the links open a banner imploring you to click a link to buy  Snickers bars.

I embedded the commercial for your viewing pleasure:

The .Football extensions is operated by Donuts. According to nTLDStats.com, there are 4,450 registered .Football domain names in existence. .Football domain names aren’t too expensive, with a domain name registrar like Name.com charging $9.99/year (renewals are more expensive).

I thought it was a neat usage of a .Football domain name from Snickers.

PS: If you don’t close out the Twin Picks website, it will say  “shut up” every 30 seconds or so!

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