.Club Explains Landrush in Infographic

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If you’re like me, you may have been a bit confused when you first heard about what a “domain landrush” is. I have to assume that most people in the general public don’t have any idea what a domain landrush is, and I think domain registrars could probably do a better job explaining what the term means. For example, it doesn’t seem like registrars are using the “landrush” terminology in favor of calling it “pre-registration.”

For those of you who still don’t know what a domain landrush is, I want to share this infographic from the .Club Registry that explains how the domain landrush process works. Some new gTLD extensions will run landrush in a different way, especially as it relates to running auctions for domain names that have more than one applicant (.Club is working with Sedo to run these private auctions).

The .Club landrush concludes on May 1, when .Club domain names become available to hand register on a first come, first served basis.

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New gTLDs: Any Purchase Inquiries Yet?

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I know the new gTLD domain names haven’t been available for that long, but I am curious if you’ve had any end user buyer inquiries for any of them yet. Although end user inquiries would obviously be more desirable than inquiries from other domain investors, I think any inquiry would be a good sign.

I still only own four new gTLD domain names, although I will probably only purchase a few more in the short term. I plan on only hand registering the domain names I do purchase as opposed to paying a premium for them via the registry or through the aftermarket.

Since buying these domain names, I received

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Saturday Updates!

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We are taking our daughter to her first Red Sox game of the season today. I didn’t really like it when the Red Sox introduced Wally the Green Monster as a team mascot, but it makes me smile every time Hailey yells out “Wally!” when she sees him on tv. If you are celebrating Easter, I hope you have a great holiday and are spending it with friends and family. The Spring is coming!

Here are some weekend updates:

  • Speaking of Easter, holiday weekends can be good times for domain investors to
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.Club Outfits a Bus in Vancouver

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According to this tweet made by the .Club Registry, there is at least one bus driving around Vancouver with .Club branding. This might not be the most targeted form of advertising, but it’s pretty clever.

One problem with this advertisement that can easily be resolved is the url that is being promoted on the side of the bus: YourName.Club. If someone visits the url, it does not resolve. I understand it’s being used as a way to illustrate that someone can buy their own name in the .Club extension, but I think that the url should either be forwarded to the main .Club Registry website, or better yet, have a secondary website built. Fortunately, the Registry controls that domain name, so it shouldn’t be difficult to do.

If you see other creative advertising being done by a new gTLD registry, let me know. I think making consumers aware of the new gTLD domain name opportunities will be the key to adoption, and this type of advertising is a unique way to accomplish that.

Safari Won’t Directly Navigate to New gTLD Websites [Updated]

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Let’s say you want to visit a website built on one of the new gTLD domain names from your iPhone. If you type that domain name into your browser bar using Safari, the default Internet browser for the iPhone, you’ll be taken to a Google search page instead of the website you intended to visit. [Update: This only happens if you don’t have the newest version of Safari.]

According to a thread in the Apple Support Community  started on April 10th as well as some personal testing, Safari doesn’t seem to be recognizing the new gTLD domain names as being valid urls yet. Other browsers don’t seem to have an issue with this, and it is unclear why this remains an issue, similar to the issue related to Skype not recognizing new gTLD domain names.

In order to visit a new gTLD website using Safari on the iPhone, you must do one of two things:

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DNS: “We May Have the Perfect Alternative For You”

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dotlink-imgThis afternoon, I received an email from DomainNameSales.com that said, “We may have the perfect alternative  for you to [Redacted].com.” The brief email continues, “Many great names, including those ending in .LINK, are available now!” Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry operates the .Link domain registry, and the company began selling .Link domain names today. It is one of the first “generic” new gTLD domain extensions that has been introduced.

The redacted domain name was one that I had inquired about back in 2006 directly to the owner. The owner of the domain name had entered my email into the DNS offer management system, and when a DNS broker followed up last year, I expressed surprise about receiving the inquiry. As a result, my lead was sent to the dismiss folder because I was obviously not going to move forward to purchase this domain name.

I believe I received today’s email because the owner of the domain name signed up for the Uniregistry affiliate program and my lead was considered a dead lead. As sort of a last ditch effort to make money from the dismissed lead, I was emailed about the opportunity to buy the keyword .Link domain name, which is not currently registered.

I think this tactic is pretty clever.

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