In a creatively written tweet posted yesterday afternoon, Uniregistry General Counsel Bret Fausett announced that the company prevailed in its application for the .Game gTLD extension. Fausett posted a link to the He Got Game music video and wrote “WeGot.Game.”
WeGot.Game https://t.co/6oQFAJCzuu
— Bret Fausett (@bretfausett) May 11, 2015
There was some serious competition for the .Game registry. In total, 5 applicants applied to operate the .Game registry, including
You probably noticed the new banners on DomainInvesting.com advertising “The Story of Netnopolis.” If you clicked through, you learned it was an advertising campaign created by new gTLD registry and applicant, Radix.
I reached out to Namrata Arya, one of my contacts at Radix, and she shared more details about this new marketing campaign and what Netnopolis means:
Rolling out http://t.co/reGIWx5EVv Today! – Free-To-Use Space Photography! pic.twitter.com/n3IykOP5J1
— Patrick Goethe (@gopatrik) April 20, 2015
On occasion when I visit Hacker News, I see a business or website using a new gTLD domain name that is receiving some recognition. On Monday afternoon, I saw that Peek.Space was trending on Hacker News. As you can see, Peek.Space uses a .Space new gTLD domain name.
Judging by the Peek.Space offering, it seems that a .Space domain name makes sense for this website. Here’s what you can expect to find when you visit Peek.Space, according to the website’s about page:
The RSA Conference is a respected and well-attended Internet security conference that brings security experts together from all over the world. This year’s main event in the United States is currently being held in San Francisco, California through April 24th. I learned that there is a panel focusing solely on domain names, and as one might expect, it’s not one that puts the domain name space in a positive light.
On Thursday, April 23 at 9:10am, there is a session called “Domain Name Abuse: How Cheap New Domain Names Fuel the eCrime Economy.” The panel will be led by Paul Vixie, CEO of a company called Farsight Security, Inc.
Here is how the panel is described on
I understand why trademark holders and their trade organization are upset about .Sucks domain names. Personally, I think the concern is a bit overstated considering people can easily register CompanySucks.info, Company-Sucks.com or CompanyIsHorrible.com without the need for a .Sucks domain name, and they can do that right now.
Long after knowing about .Sucks, ICANN recently asked the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to review .Sucks and have a look to see if there are any legal issues. This move brought a considerable amount of attention to the .Sucks registry
I think this .Sucks controversy is great for helping to bring awareness to the new gTLD registries. It does not cast domain investors and people in the domain space in a positive light, but it is certainly an issue that is being discussed quite a bit.
Over the weekend, I spent some time with friends at a couple of parties. Two
I read Mike Berkens’ article about how over 24k .Flowers domain names were registered after the extension went into general availability. In the article, he wrote that “it appears that North Sound Names, owned by the principal of Uniregistry, registered over 98% of the domain names.”
In my opinion, the most obvious .Flowers domain names are geographic (city, town, state, region…etc) domain names, and I wanted to see if I could find any decent unregistered names of that variety in light of Mike’s aforementioned article. I searched for quite a few city .Flowers domain names, and all were registered.
Ordinarily, this wouldn’t be all that interesting, except for the landing page that appeared on all of the domain names I searched, which I took a screenshot of and shared: