Perfect Usage of a .Christmas Domain

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There are a few new domain name extensions I don’t totally understand. Among them is .Christmas, a domain name extension operated by Uniregistry. I didn’t really understand why people would buy a domain name based on a holiday. This morning, my perspective changed a bit.

Michele Neylon, CEO of Blacknight Internet Solutions, sent his annual Christmas card/email this morning. In the email, he referenced his online Christmas card, which can be found at Michele.christmas (previously WhiteChristmas.me). When I received that, .Christmas clicked for me.

During the past week or so, my wife and I have received a ton of Christmas and holiday postcards from friends and family. We’ve always been a bit slow with cards like this, and most of the time it doesn’t end up happening. It gets to the final days and we can either do a last minute card and pay extra for speedy shipping, or we can just skip it like usual. With a .Christmas domain name, it is faster to setup and less expensive than mailing a holiday card, especially when compared to postage. We can also

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Have You Given a Domain Name as a Gift?

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There have been quite a few times I have bought domain names on behalf of friends or for friends and family. Most of the time, these domain names were hand registrations for people who recently had babies or for friends who started businesses.

The 101Domain blog has an article about giving domain names as gifts. For several of the gift giving occasions they cited, they recommended a new gTLD domain name. I think this could be a good option, especially when the desired .com is already taken and the new gTLD domain name can be bought inexpensively.

I am curious if you have ever bought a domain name for someone as a gift. Vote in the poll below and let us know if you bought a .com or one of the new domain names (or something else).


.XYZ, .VIP, and .Club Get Chinese Governmental Approval

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Earlier this morning, I received an email and a press release from .XYZ founder Daniel Negari announcing that his company “has received official approval from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), a Chinese governmental agency in charge of domain name industry.” Here was Daniel’s reaction to the news on Twitter:

In scrolling through my Twitter feed this morning and reading my news alerts, it looks like the operators of the .VIP and .Club extensions also received this MIIT approval as well. .Club CEO Colin Campbell also shared the news on Twitter this morning:

I can’t read the page on the

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Radix Offers £5000 Prize at TechCrunch Disrupt

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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?

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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

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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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