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When humanity finally confirms the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life, what’s the new gTLD domain name you’d want to have in your portfolio? Why, first.contact, of course. The domain name was registered with premium pricing from...
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January 5, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, premiums
Knock Knock Whois There, the .blog registry, said it is going to release its inventory of three-character domains next month. Roughly 47,000 names will be released at premium fees, with prices ranging “from a few hundred dollars to over $100KR...
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September 25, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, kkwt, premiums, three-character
New gTLD registry Radix made almost a million bucks in the first half of the year from renewal fees on its premium domains. That’s one data point that jumps out from Radix’s latest premium sales report, released last night. The company said...
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September 8, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, premiums
The long-fought, once-controversial gTLD .gay is to launch a month from now. Top Level Design, which won the string at auction against three other applicants last February, this week informed registrars that its sunrise period will begin February 10 th...
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January 10, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.gay, centerlink, Domain Registries, eap, glaad, premiums, top level design
Radix made $1,360,865 from premium domain names in its portfolio of new gTLDs in the first half of the year, according to the company’s latest report. The company said that $522,365 of that came from new registrations — there were 619 in to...
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July 31, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, premiums, renewals
Dot Vegas is releasing 2,266 previously reserved .vegas domain names, most of which accord to a decidedly sleazy theme. Based on my eyeball scan of the list, I’d say easily half of the names being released are related to pornography, prostitution...
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June 27, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, dot vegas, premiums, trademark claims
CentralNic has splashed out £2.5 million ($3.3 million) to bolster its portfolio of domain names for the secondary market. The company said in a brief statement today that it acquired an unspecified number of domains across “a number of portfolio...
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January 9, 2018 Kevin Murphy
premiums
CentralNic and .CLUB Domains have both revealed sales of premium domain names over the last several days. CentralNic said yesterday that it has sold “a number” of premiums for $3.4 million. The names are believed to be from its own portfolio, rather than registry-reserved names in any of the TLDs it manages. The company did […]
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November 8, 2017 Kevin Murphy
.club domains, Domain Services, premiums
.CLUB Domains sold half a million dollars worth of reserved premium names in the first quarter, bringing its cumulative to-date total to almost $5 million, the registry reported at the weekend. Q1 sales were $505,139, the company said, bringing its total since launch to $4,844,428. There were 475 premium sales in total, sold via auctions, […]
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April 11, 2017 Kevin Murphy
.club domains, Domain Registries, premiums