Uniregistry

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

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

I don’t own very many new gTLD domain names. A couple of weeks ago, I bought two more. I now own Elliot.Link and ElliotSilver.Link. I didn’t buy them for investment purposes, as I am currently using them to forward people to my LinkedIn profile.

At NamesCon, Frank Schilling gave a keynote speech, and he discussed some synergy between .Link domain names and LinkedIn. I thought that made sense, as it seems much easier to remember a url such as Elliot.Link or ElliotSilver.Link rather than the longer LinkedIn.com/in/elliotsilver url that is the default url for my LinkedIn profile. This is especially the case for people whose names are used by others for their shortened LinkedIn profile link.

I primarily use LinkedIn as