Here’s How Apple is Using it’s Apple.News Domain Name

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According to this tweet below, it looks like Apple is using the Apple.News domain name in its Apple News app, now available for iPhone users who are using iOS 9. As you can see, if a user shares a news article on social media via the Apple News app, the url that is shown is an Apple.News url. The .News gTLD extension is operated by Rightside.

I think it is a smart move from Apple to use Apple.News in this manner. It makes it very clear that the news article that was shared was done so via the new app. This enables Apple to help build its brand as others will see their social networking contacts using the app and might give it a try. This also enables publishers to see that people are accessing their content via links from the Apple News app.

Apple could

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.Club Making Presence Felt at TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon

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It looks like the .Club registry is taking a page out of the .CO registry playbook by appealing to startups and companies at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon event in San Francisco. According to a press release, “.CLUB is offering every Hackathon participant a free .CLUB domain name to use for their project and will award $6,000 cash to the teams with the best projects using a .CLUB web address.”

From my perspective, one of the main reasons .CO domain names have been such big sellers is that the registry appealed to startups. Registry representatives attended conferences like SXSW, hackathons, tech meetups, and other events that were attended by people who need domain names for their startup businesses. I think this is a smart way for .Club to let startup founders and decision makers know about .Club domain names.

The Hackathon

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I Am Not Interested in Educating Buyers About New TLDs

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I think it’s pretty clear that I am not really investing in the new domain extensions. More importantly than this, I think readers should understand why I am not investing because I do think there are some good reasons for people and companies to use the new extensions.

My domain portfolio is relatively small compared to others who invest in domain names for a living. I continue to maintain a portfolio of somewhere in the ballpark of 500 domain names, but probably closer to 400 domain names. I also tend to actively reach out to prospective buyers to sell my domain names. For instance, I bought BeerSigns.com at auction this weekend, and I already received interest from a few people I contact.

Even the most ardent new gTLD supporters and people within the space would likely admit that the

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Donuts Website Now Found at Donuts.Domains

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When Donuts first launched, the company used a .CO domain name, Donuts.CO, for its website. The company recently changed its url to Donuts.Domains. I presume this news was announced at DomainFest Asia (and reported via tweet by Colin Campbell of the .Club Registry):

The new gTLD domain names

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Bloomberg.Market Awarded to Bloomberg

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In an unsurprising UDRP decision, the Bloomberg.Market domain name has been awarded to Bloomberg Finance. As you may recall, a website was set up on Bloomberg.Market to look like the actual Bloomberg website and an unfounded news report was published. The result was a giant temporary fluctuation in the price of Twitter stock.

The UDRP decision was published by the World Intellectual Property Organization, and it can be found on the UDRPSearch.com website. There was one panelist presiding over this UDRP decision, and not surprisingly, the respondent did not issue a response to the complaint.

You can read the entire UDRP decision for yourself if you would like, but here are a couple of interesting tidbits I found:

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Vote: .Website or .Online?

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Radix announced that its .Website new gTLD extension surpassed the 100,000 registration mark. According to the company, “.website has become one of the top nTLD domain choices of corporations across the world. Consistently in the top 10 fastest growing nTLDs, .website crossed 100k domains to be the 11th largest new gTLD.”

Last week, Radix announced that it expected that its .Online extension would see 15,000 registrations in the first day of general availability. The company even targeted the .Club registration mark of more than 25,000 domain names registered on the first day of general availability.

I think .Online and .Website are fairly similar and could appeal to the same types of buyers. I think “online” and “website” are also popular keywords in domain names that already exist. It will be interesting to see how the growth rate of these two extensions compares.

I am curious how

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