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Radix Offers £5000 Prize at TechCrunch Disrupt

Elliot Silver
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One of the ways for registries to get their new extensions in front of a large audience is to sponsor hackathons. Radix is a sponsor of this weekend’s TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon in London. As a part of their sponsorship of the event, Radix is awarding a prize of £5000 for the best use of a Radix domain name, including .Tech, .Store, .Online, .Space, .Site, .Host, .Press, and .Website.

Judging from some of the tweets shared by Radix and TechCrunch, there have been quite a few hackers using Radix domain names for their projects. If you want to have a look at some of the others, you can search Twitter for #TCDisrupt or click through to the Radix Twitter feed to see other presentations the company shared.

The winner of the hackathon is a project called The Emotion Journal, which uses a .Online domain name: EmotionJournal.online. You can read more about it on TechCrunch.

I embedded  some of the video presentations for hackers and teams that used Radix-operated domain names:

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Did You Register a .Blog Domain Name?

Elliot Silver
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KKWT BlogThis morning as the .Blog general availability phase went live, I registered one .Blog domain name. Or so I thought. After receiving the order confirmation email, I checked the Whois, and someone else’s name was listed as the registrant. Shortly thereafter, I received another email to let me know about the error and I am sure I will be refunded soon.

I own just a handful of new domain names (n.Holdings, n.Ventures, Elliot.Link, ElliotSilver.Link, Silver.Ventures, and maybe a couple of others I am forgetting about). My attempt to register this one .Blog domain name  wasn’t any strategic change for my business. It’s more like taking a bit of a gamble for less than the cost of a hand of blackjack in Las Vegas. The domain name didn’t get registered to me, but it’s no big deal.

I checked quite a few other keyword .Blog domain names this morning, and most came back

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Radix Shares Its Q3 Premium Domain Name Sales Report

Elliot Silver
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radix-logoRadix  is a large  new gTLD registry, and the company operates new domain name extensions such as .Website, .Site, .Online, .Store, and several other extensions.

This morning, I was alerted to the fact that Radix is sharing its premium domain name sales report “for the first time ever.” The Q3 2016 sale report, which came to me by way of a neat infographic, tallies the number of premium domain names registered, number of premium domain names renewed at a premium price, the top sales, the average sale price, and more information that you can see below.

I was told that Radix’s premium domain names are available through two channels: domain registrars and aftermarket venues such as Sedo, Afternic, auction platforms, domain broker listings, and direct sales to customers inquiring about domain names in extensions operated and managed by Radix.

For your convenience, I published the inforgraphic below. You can click on it to see the larger version. Keep in mind that this appears to only be for Q3 2016. Hopefully Radix shares subsequent reports or an end of year report as it would be difficult to track trends or get a comprehensive look at the business with only one quarter of information.

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Kitchen Collective Launches on a .Club

Elliot Silver
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I always find it interesting to see businesses using a new domain name extension, especially startup businesses. A little over a week ago, I saw a tweet about a new social club in Napa Valley that launched its website on a .Club domain name:

kitchen-collectiveIn this tweet, the .Club registry highlighted a recently opened high-end Napa Valley culinary  and social  club  called Kitchen Collective. As you can see, this business is using a recently registered .Club domain name for its website: KitchenCollective.Club.

Kitchen Collective is billed as “America’s first urban cooking club.” According to a press release announcing the club, “Kitchen Collective is the only culinary club of its kind in the nation.” The initiation and membership fees are fairly steep, but  I could

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.Blog Landrush Started Today

Elliot Silver
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KKWT BlogFor people who want to ensure that they secure their .Blog domain name, the .Blog landrush period started today, and it runs for one week. .Blog general availability begins on November 21.

In a video published yesterday, Don Ruiz, the .Blog registry’s head of Business Development, explained what the .Blog landrush means and the way it works for new domain names in general. I think the video would be helpful to someone interested in registering a .Blog domain name but is unfamiliar with the terminology and how the release process works for new domain names.

I am following along pretty closely because of the reach WordPress has, and I think their promotion of .Blog domain names could help increase awareness about the new extensions.

Here’s the video the registry created and shared:

School District Using a .Vegas Domain

Elliot Silver
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I was on a flight when I came across a .Vegas domain name “in the wild.” The Clark County School District (CCSD) is using the Teach.Vegas domain name in its marketing materials to recruit new teachers into the school district.

Have a look at the full page advertisement that I saw:

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When you navigate to Teach.Vegas, visitors are redirected to the jobs/career subdomain within the Clark County School District website. The school district uses CCSD.net for its primary domain name, and the TeachVegas.CCSD.net subdomain for its recruiting url. In my opinion, the Teach.Vegas domain name is easier to remember than the longer url, so it makes sense for them to use it in their marketing materials.

As you can see in the advertisement,

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