A Christmas poem featuring some delegated new gTLD strings.
It’s .Christmas .Day, and I .Trust you are full of cheer.
Unless you spent too much time at the .Bar drinking .Vodka and .Beer.
If you’re .Hosting people from around the .World, join the .Club.
Get the .Coffee going, I am sure your home is full of love.
From .Quebec to .London, and .Melbourne to .NYC,
It’s time to .Party with family and friends, I think you will agree.
Did Santa
If you don’t regularly read CircleID, you may be missing out on a variety of interesting topics that impact the domain name space, and consequently, domain investors. Yesterday and today, there were two interesting articles posted about the new gTLD domain names that I think you will find interesting.
On Wednesday, Jeannie McPherson, Verisign’s Senior Manager of Corporate Communications, published an article called “The Real Facts About New gTLDs.” In the article, McPherson discussed some of the “troubling trends” related to the new gTLDs. Some of these trends she cited include:
I thought McPherson brought up some interesting points, although one should understand that Verisign operates the .com and .net domain name registries.
Today, Paul Stahura, Founder and CEO of
Yesterday afternoon, Susan Lawrence of Minds & Machines shared some news that could provide a boost for the new .Country domain names. According to an article that was published on MusicRow, the .Country new gTLD extension has some early adopters that might help drive awareness of the new .Country domain names. Awareness is a critical aspect in generating new registrations of the domain names.
Excited to announce our newest .country Pioneer, The Academy of Country Music! http://t.co/w2UioLLoSc #countrymusic #ACM #country
— Susan Lawrence (@Susan_MM_gtlds) December 12, 2014
In the article, it was mentioned that some of the early adopters of .Country domain names are
Apparently, December 5th is a holiday known as International Ninja Day. No, this isn’t something that Rightside made up to sell .Ninja domain names, but their registrars and registrar partners have been using Ninja Day to promote .Ninja domain names. On Twitter, I’ve seen offers from Enom, Domain.com, and Name.com offering .Ninja domain names for $1.00 or less (first year I presume).
This afternoon, I was sent a link to a humorous video about the annual “Vegas.Ninja Marathon.” The description under the video says, “Las Vegas Strip closed for annual Vegas.NINJA marathon. Don’t blink or you’ll miss it!” Vegas.Ninja is a new travel website focusing on the city of Las Vegas. I had not heard of the website before, and after doing a bit of research using the footer copyright (1 Degree World Systems, LLC), it appears that Vegas.Ninja is associated with Howard Lefkowitz, formerly the CEO of Vegas.com. According to his LinkedIn profile, Lefkowitz is Founder & CEO at One Degree World, Inc. Joe Alagna also reported this last week.
It will be interesting to
Last week, I announced a drawing for a free six month Coffee.club subscription valued at over $300. The subscription includes deliveries of two 13 ounce bags of coffee twice a month for six months. I compiled all of the entries into an Excel spreadsheet, and I used Random.org to select a random cell.
The winner of the subscription is Gary S. I will put Gary in touch with Bill McClure and the .Club Registry later on today so they can set up the subscription. Thank you to everyone who entered the drawing.
Coffee.club is currently featuring a special combination Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Grand Opening sale with a 40% discount offer for gift and regular subscriptions. This offer is valid through December 1st using the code “DotClub” at checkout. The full details of the offer can be found on the website. If the coffee is as good as the coffee from Bill’s Coffee.org website, then it will probably be a great deal for coffee drinkers.
As I mentioned in the original article, I was also given a
As Frank Schilling announced via Twitter this afternoon, Amazon is now using the Amazon.BlackFriday domain name. .BlackFriday is a new gTLD extension that is operated by Uniregistry.
The company is not using it as a standalone website, but they are forwarding the domain name to a 2014 Black Friday deals landing page within the Amazon.com website. I would not be surprised if the company is using Amazon.BlackFriday in marketing materials.
http://t.co/COkwezSQKu went live today.. Like a dream, only it’s real. I feel like Marty McFly in the future
— Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) November 21, 2014
Some people might pooh pooh the fact that
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