Abdu Tarabichi uploaded a photograph of his new vanity license plate this afternoon, and it is advertising a new gTLD domain name. The license plate is from the state of North Carolina, and it says “Get.Club.”
Got my car a vanity plate for @getDotClub! 1st #NewgTLD plate in the world? Visit http://t.co/bbqKE0SzkW today!! pic.twitter.com/XZ9EGJ8Cu4
— Abdu Tarabichi (@AbduTarabichi) July 2, 2015
It’s interesting that
Back in May, Barclays announced that it would be moving to a .Barclays domain name from .com “[i]n a move aimed at streamlining customer experience.” It looks like the company made the change very recently, and the financial services company website home page is now found on Home.Barclays.
If you visit Google this morning and perform a search for “Barclays,” the Barclays.com url is still the primary domain name indexed for Barclays’ website. When you click the link, you are redirected to the website found on Home.Barclays. I think this will likely be updated very soon, perhaps even today.
This is a big change for the company and is welcome news for people active in the new gTLD space. In a tweet this morning mentioning this change, Christopher Hofman Laursen asked, “Is this the tipping point for the new gTLDs?”
First Dot Brand to go all-in. Barclays Bank can now be found at http://t.co/TCXaqYwEYJ. Is this the tipping point for the new gTLDs?
— Christopher Hofman (@HofmanLaursen) June 30, 2015
The company does not seem to have
I received an email from Adam Freeman from Essex, UK who reported that he sold a .Money domain name for $90,000. Due to a confidentiality agreement, he could not reveal the domain name or the buyer. Adam sent me a screenshot of his Escrow.com closing statement, and Escrow.com’s Sandra Gordon confirmed the transaction to me.
Adam told me he bought the domain name at day 3 of EAP in March 2015, and he paid $3,000 for it. He set up a landing page similar to how he has Travel.money set up, and the buyer inquired about the domain name via email. It took three weeks for the buyer and seller to come to an agreement on the domain name, and the deal closed at Escrow.com today. I asked Adam to share some details about why he bought the domain name and how the negotiation went, and he was happy to share them with me:
In an article published on CircleID this afternoon, Tony Kirsch, Head of Global Consulting at ARI Registry Services, announced the TLD Operator Webinar. According to the webinar website, the purpose of the webinar is to “provide all new TLD applicants with an opportunity to share their experiences, learn from each other and focus on the commercial realities of operating a TLD – away from the confines of ICANN, policy or technical discussions.”
I think this is a great concept. All of the companies that operate new gTLD domain names need to ensure that the general public knows about the new domain names. Many of the companies have learnings that could help other companies, and they could work in coopetition for the most part. The exception would be companies operating very similar strings, but for the most part, a company selling .pizza domain names isn’t really competing with a company selling .christmas domain names.
Announced speakers/presenters include the following:
In an email advertising .Pics domain names for $1.00, Uniregistry announced that DomainNameSales.com sold Commercial.property for $25,000. Based on a historical Whois record from DomainTools, it looks like Commercial.property was previously registered to North Sound Names. The .Property domain extension is operated by Uniregistry.
Commercial.property is now registered at GoDaddy, and the Whois record for this domain name has privacy protection. The landing page still shows a default Uniregistry “for sale” landing page, so it is unclear who bought the domain name. At the time of publication, the domain name is listed for sale at Sedo with a buy it now price of $59,999.
This domain name had been on an
I was reading an article on Medium this morning, when I came across a new app that is using a .Link domain name for its website. According to the article, Opener “takes in links from the web and opens them in apps on your phone instead.” If you prefer to directly navigate to Opener instead of visiting the app store, you can find it at Opener.Link.
I think it makes sense for Opener to use Opener.Link for its website.
For one thing, Opener is all about links. “Opener has an action extension that shows in the iOS share sheet and allows people to open links in apps. This means you can long press on links or tap the action button in other apps to access Opener,” the author wrote in the Medium article. At the present time, Opener supports opening links in about 50 apps. Once more people learn about it, I am sure this number will increase.
In addition to this, Opener is
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