Uniregistry

Early Access to the Uniregistry Market Now Closed

One of the things Frank Schilling discussed during his NamesCon keynote was the introduction of Uniregistry Market. To be totally honest, I didn’t attend the keynote and can’t tell you much about Uniregistry Market yet, but as with anything new that is introduced by Frank, the interest level is high.

Earlier today, the company opened up Uniregistry Market for beta testing, and there was significant interest. The company has now closed the queue for testers because of the high response rate.

Here’s what Uniregistry Marketing Manager Rebecca Junck told me this afternoon:

Apple Registers Apple.Car Domain Name

According to Whois records  at DomainTools, it looks like Apple has registered the Apple.Car domain name. The domain name has a creation date of December 9, 2015, but it appears the company took possession of it just yesterday.

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The .Car domain extension is operated in a partnership between the XYZ (Daniel Negari’s company) and Uniregistry (Frank Schilling’s company). The partnership also operates the .Cars and .Auto domain name extensions. It looks like Apple also secured the Apple.Cars and Apple.Auto domain names as well.

As of right now, Apple.Car, Apple.Cars, and Apple.Auto

2016 NamesCon Sponsor Spotlight on Uniregistry

This morning’s NamesCon sponsor spotlight is on Uniregistry. Vern Jurovich, Chief Operating Officer at Uniregistry, answered some questions about the company and the upcoming NamesCon domain industry conference.

NamesCon 2016 will take place at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas from January 10-13, 2016. Over 800 attendees have registered to attend, and 1,000 attendees are expected.

If you have any questions about Uniregistry, you are welcome to leave them for Vern in the comment section.

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How Retailers are Using .BlackFriday Domain Names

Uniregistry launched its .BlackFriday new gTLD domain extension in July of 2014. According to nTLDStats.com, there are currently a bit more than  12,000 .BlackFriday domain names registered.

I wanted to see if and how major retailers are using .BlackFriday domain names. I looked at the exact match .BlackFriday domain names for 25 of the top 100 retailers, according to the National Retail Federation’s Top 100 Retailers 2015 list. To select the retailers that have an online presence and would be expected to have Black Friday deals, I used my judgment to create this list from the larger list of 100 retailers, eliminating brands like Jack in the Box and Wegman’s.

Here is a list of exact match .BlackFriday domain names for 25 major retailers and how each is being used:

Domain Name Sales Maintenance

If you visit DomainNameSales.com to check on your parking revenue or lead management platform, you will notice it is currently not operational. A message on the website states, “We’re taking some time to do some much needed maintenance. We’re not often down, but when we are it’s for a very good reason.”

Earlier this week, the company email customers to apprise them of the maintenance downtime. Here’s the message that was sent to customers:

Uniregistry Introduces “The Domain Archive”

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I received an email from Uniregistry this afternoon announcing a unique feature called “The Domain Archive.” Essentially what this does is allow you to track domain names you previously had registered at Uniregistry. It seems like a unique screen that could potentially be helpful.

Here’s what the introductory email said:

Domain name management just got even better with our new Domain Archive folder. View the status of all domains previously owned, redeem a domain or register a domain again if it is available — all directly from the Domain Archive. Access the Domain Archive from the Manage section of your account. Another time saving feature now available at Uniregistry.

Based on the Domain Archive

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