Kitchen Collective Launches on a .Club

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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

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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

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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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Neustar Comments on .NYC Auction Results

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nyc registryNeustar sold a small portfolio of real estate related .NYC domain names on NameJet, and the auction grossed $70,650 in sales. As one might expect, the top three domain names that were sold in this auction were RealEstate.NYC ($21,300), Apartments.NYC ($16,155), and Rentals.NYC ($5,700).

I do not have any more ties to New York City, so even if I wanted to bid on the auctions, I was not permitted due to nexus restrictions for .NYC domain names. I watched the conclusion of some of the auctions, and it seems that there were at least a few well known New York-based domain investors participating. I am unsure of who won these auctions, but I am interested to see how the domain names will be used.

Lori Anne Wardi, VP of Registry Services at Neustar shared some comments with me about the auction and its results:

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Did You Buy Any of the Released Uniregistry Domain Names?

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Yesterday, I wrote about Uniregistry releasing 3.5 million domain names for people  to register. I am not really much of an investor in the new domain names besides a handful of them, so I did not register any of these domain names.

I know there are people who are investors in the new domain names, and I am curious if anyone was willing to share the names they registered yesterday. I briefly used the search tool that Uniregistry released in conjunction with the news, but I did really use it enough to comment about it.

It would be interesting to see what types of names became available and what types of names readers thought were valuable enough to register. Feel free to share your new registrations below so I (and other readers) can see the types of domain names that were purchased after the names were released.

Uniregistry to Release 3.5 Million Domains Within the Hour

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I just received an email from Uniregistry announcing that they will be “releasing over 3.5 million previously withheld domain names across 19 TLDs.” This will happen in approximately 10 minutes, beginning at 1pm Eastern time today. I believe these domain names will be available at the standard registration and renewal rate, but you will need to check with Uniregistry to confirm as I do not know for certain.

In conjunction with the release of these domain names, the company also launched a search tool to help find domain names amongst the 3.5 million that are being released. Uniregistry announced this to domain industry news outlets, and I also received an email as a Uniregistry client.

I have not yet had a look at the list of domain names that have been released, so I can’t comment on the types of names that will be available to purchase.

Here is the news that was sent to me today:

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