.Club Registry Reports “Record Month”

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.Club domain names are one of the best selling new gTLD extensions. The registry is currently the 6th best selling new gTLD extension, with over 300,000 domain names sold, according to nTLDStats.com. The Registry is reporting that its aftermarket sales are also selling well.

Yesterday, the .Club Registry published a blog post announcing that October was a “record month” in terms of the value of domain names it sold in the aftermarket. According to the .Club Registry, the “(t)otal premium name sales for October, including SnapNames sales and auctions, came to a record $125,372.25. In addition, the registry reported “(a)s of October 31, 2015, total cumulative sales of registry reserved premium .CLUB names came to $1,268,199.27.” I don’t know if this number includes payment plans (future revenue) or realized revenue from completed sales.

I think these are

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Paul Vixie on New gTLDs: “They Are All Commercial Failures”

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ZDNet published an article with commentary from Dr. Paul Vixie, who offers a pretty scathing assessment of the new gTLD program. According to Paul Vixie’s Wikipedia page, Dr. Vixie is described as “an American Internet pioneer.” ZDNet described Dr. Vixie as “a pioneer of the internet’s domain name system (DNS).” Currently, Dr. Vixie is CEO of a company called Farsight Security.

Below is an excerpt from the article with comments from Mr. Vixie. I think it’s worth reading the article in its entirety when you have an opportunity.

“I think it is a money grab. My own view is that ICANN functions as a regulator, and that as a regulator it has been captured by the industry that they are regulating. I think that there was no end-user demand whatsoever for more so-called DNS extensions, [or] global generic top-level domains (gTLDs),” he said.

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.Miami Domains Banner at Dolphins Game Part of Larger Effort

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.Miami Domain names at GoDaddy

GoDaddy and the .Miami domain registry have been teaming up to market .Miami domain names using a variety of channels. One attention grabbing tactic was seen by thousands who attended the Miami Dolphins NFL game this past Sunday.

As you can see from the photos above and below, a small airplane flew around Sun Life Stadium in Miami, Florida with a banner advertising .Miami domain names available at GoDaddy for “40% off.” The banner was part of a larger marketing effort being undertaken by Minds & Machines, the operators of the .Miami domain extension, and GoDaddy.

Since .Miami launched

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Dublin.Pub: Smart New gTLD Case Study from Rightside

Elliot Silver
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If you attended the ICANN Dublin meeting or if you have been following along with the reports from the meeting, chances are good that you know about Dublin.Pub. If you have not heard about Dublin.Pub, go have a look. The website was created by Rightside in conjunction with Basekit and Tapastreet.

I wanted to learn more about the Dublin.Pub website, the partnerships with local pubs on related micro sites, and the objectives of launching Dublin.Pub. I reached out to Bill Glenn, Vice President of Marketing for Rightside, and he shared some information about this website and its purpose:

“The idea for Dublin.Pub was to connect a distributed ICANN community and bring them together in Dublin. It was also to show the beverage industry (and in this case specifically the local pubs in Dublin) the potential to make the social experience of their customers, much more accessible. Rightside partnered with Basekit and Tapastreet to help develop the website and incorporate social media and user generated content.”

Rightside’s Registry operations is based out of Dublin. Part of the Dublin-based team worked with local pubs to sign them up for the Dublin.Pub website and ecosystem. Each pub received its own unique .Pub domain name and microsite at no charge. The micro sites were set up to share photos, location information, and a bit of other basic information (have a look at Toners.Pub for an example).

Rightside promoted the

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Rightside Selling Its Premium Domain Names via Name.Market

Elliot Silver
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Rightside Registry recently launched a marketplace on Name.Market to browse its registry-controlled new gTLD domain names. Konstantinos from OnlineDomain.com previously wrote about the marketplace, and I received more information about it from Matt Overman, who is Rightside’s Vice President of Sales and Premium Domains.

The domain names listed for sale on the marketplace are all TLDs owned by Rightside  Registry. With the launch of this site, Name.Market is utilizing Name.com  for fulfillment. However,  Matt said that in the future, the ability to kick over to other registrar sites for fulfillment will also be incorporated. All of the premium inventory shown at Name.market is available at any of the more than 60 registrars that support Rightside Registry premium domain names

A handful of the  38  extensions that are currently offered  in the marketplace include the following extensions:

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How to Search for Developed New gTLD Domains

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Although I am not really investing in the new gTLD domain names right now, I think it’s interesting to see what is being done with the domain names that are developed and being used by their owners.

Instead of relying on reports of newly launched new gTLD domain names from bloggers and/or domain registries, you can use Google to see what new gTLD domain names are indexed in the search engine. It seems like Google may index some new gTLD domain names that are only being used as a forwarder to another website, but this search is a good way to see what is indexed.

If you want to have a look at some of the indexed new gTLD domain names, visit Google and do a search for “site:.extension.”

Let’s say you want to do a search to see what .Movie domain names are indexed in Google. You would perform a search for “site:.Movie.” Here are some of the domain names I found

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