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What was said recently:

1. New gTLDs: Holding ICANN Accountable;
2. Farewell to new gTLDs;
3. Combating Five Myths About new gTLDs;
4. French - Les new gTLD ont-ils de la valeur?
5. Question: Does Google index the new domain names as “keyword”?
6. Job: Director, Registry Services;
7. HOT - Notes for a new TLD round;
8. Chinese to invade .AFRICA? CEO thinks so;
9. Major SEO contest won with a new domain name;
10. Companies losing $10 BILLION by ignoring new gTLDs;
11. Two new gTLDs were just delegated:
1. .RUGBY
2. .HOTELS
12. The .WALMART new gTLD;
13. After long wait, .ECO domains roll out this month;
14. Top 10 Own Over 10% Of All New gTLD’s;
15. Lack of safeguarding checks leaves children vulnerable to online abuse (.KIDS);
16. New gTLDs = Amateur Hour;
17. Cool - "New gTLD" source of info in Japanese;
18. .CLUB Delivers Huge Sales of over $500,000;
19. French - Le .AFRICA est ouvert. Titulaires de marques, ne trainez pas!
20. Should You Use a New Domain For Your Website?
21. HOT (French) - Les extension Internet identitaires;
22. IWF calls on more in the domain industry to do the right thing;
23. .FFEDBACK fires salvo over PICDRP complaint;
24. New gTLDs are scapegoated for child abuse material;
25. Have you got the best domain name?
26. Self Driving Car Company Launches on a .AUTO Domain;
27. HOT - New gTLDs for Companies;
28. Major Startup launched with Pocket.Watch;
29. Coming Sunrise Periods:
1. .HEALTH
2. .CREDITUNION
30. Making new internet domains work for everyone;
31. How Local are They? (GEO TLDs like .LONDON in the UK, .BERLIN in Germany);
32. .FUN enters general availability today.

Financial new gTLDs

It is often an event when a new domain name extensions passes the 10,000 registrations or when it doubles its number of registrations from one month to the other. If no financial gTLD passed the 10,000 registrations this month, the .BROKER new gTLD more than "doubled" its number of domain name registered. This article might explain why.

Four domain name extensions are doing extremely well - one added more than 500,000 domain name registrations in one month (...) - and one lost a little less than 5,000 registrations. We removed the three extensions which were withdrawn from the list below.

New gTLDs with the "®" sign are registered Trademarks, which means that there domain names cannot be registered by third parties but from specific companies only.

The full report is available here.

The new gTLD concerned are: 

1. .LOAN
2. .BID
3. .TRADE
4. .ACCOUNTANT
5. .BET
6. .GOLD
7. .FUND
8. .CASH
9. .DEALS
10. .MONEY
11. .CAPITAL
12. .FINANCE
13. .EXCHANGE
14. .FINANCIAL
15. .AUCTION
16. .CREDIT
17. .BANK
18. .LOANS
19. .DIAMONDS
20. .INVESTMENTS
21. .ACCOUNTANTS
22. .CREDITCARD
23. .MARKETS (s/p)
24. .TRADING
25. .BROKER
26. .BNPPARIBAS ®
27. .CITIC ®
28. .BRADESCO ®
29. .BARCLAYS ®
30. .FOREX
31. .BLOOMBERG ®
32. .TRUST
33. .PICTET ®
34. .CBA ®
35. .SHRIRAM ®
36. .SAXO ®
37. .DVAG ®
38. .AIG ®
39. .AXA ®
40. .SCB ®
41. .BARCLAYCARD ®
42. .JCB ®
43. .SPREADBETTING
44. .CFD
45. .CFA ®
46. .EVERBANK ®
47. .NAB ®
48. .CHASE ®
49. .SOFTBANK ®
50. .NETBANK ®
51. .ALLFINANZ ®
52. .NADEX ®
53. .JPMORGAN ®
54. .CITADEL ®
55. .PAY
56. .DEAL
57. .MINT ®
58. .UBANK ®
59. .BANAMEX ®
60. .CAPITALONE ®
61. .BOFA ®
62. .FIDELITY ®
63. .VISA ®
64. .DISCOVER ®
65. .CITI ®
66. .LPL ®
67. .LPLFINANCIAL ®
68. .ICBC ®
69. .COMMBANK ®
70. .HDFCBANK ®
71. .HDFC ®
72. .STATEBANK ®
73. .工行 (xn--estv75g) ®
74. .CREDITUNION ®
75. .ANZ ®
76. .KFH ®
77. .ALLY ®
78. .PNC ®
79. .AMERICANEXPRESS ®
80. .AMEX ®
81. .SAVE
82. .HSBC ®
83. .SBI ®

New gTLDs for the Law

We listed 10 new gTLDs related to the law and only one of them is a dotBrand. Surprisingly, it is the only .BRAND new gTLD to be offering to submit new gTLD applications to the ICANN : shouldn't this be considered when thinking of a company to submit your new gTLD application in round two of the ICANN new gTLD program? We think so.

This month, one extension keeps diving into the red for the third month in a row but three others are gaining a significant number of registrations.

We recently added the .ESQ new gTLD which belongs to Google and the funny thing is that it's been launched a very long ago but...no one noticed it. Here is what the new gTLD application says about .ESQ: "The purpose of the proposed gTLD is to provide a forum for lawyers and law practices to offer content related to their profession. ʺEsq.ʺ is typically used to refer to an individual who has been sworn in or accepted into their stateʹs or countryʹs bar. The mission of the proposed gTLD is to provide a dedicated domain space in which verified legal professionals can enact unique second-level domains."

Congratulations to the .LEGAL new gTLD which passes the 10,000 domain name registrations.

Oh, and yes, we consider that the .BAR new gTLD should be added to the 2017 LAW new gTLD report :-)

The list of new gTLD concerned:

1. .LAWYER
2. .LEGAL
3. .ATTORNEY
4. .LAW
5. .PARTNERS
6. .BAR
7. .ASSOCIATES
8. .ABOGADO
9. .FAIRWINDS ®
10. .ESQ

The full report is available here and we welcome more .BRAND TLD suggestions to be added to this report.

The .AFRICA Sunrise Period

The Trademark clearinghouse just announced the launching of the .AFRICA new gTLD Sunrise Period.

When:

• START: Tuesday, 4 April, 2017 - 16:00;
• END: Saturday, 3 June, 2017 - 16:00.

What the application says about .AFRICA
This is an extract of the new gTLD application submitted to the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN):

"Our mission is to establish the dotAfrica TLD as a proud identifier of Africa’s online identity, fairly reflecting the continent’s rich cultural, social and economic diversity and potential. In essence we will strive to develop and position the dotAfrica TLD as the preferred option for individuals and businesses either based in Africa or with strong associations with the continent and its people. The dotAfrica TLD represents a unique opportunity for Africa to develop and enhance its domain name and Internet eco-systems and communities by collaborating with each other to:

• identify, engage and develop African-based specialist skills and resources;

• share knowledge and develop DNS thought-leadership; and

• implement world class registry standards and contribute towards their continued development."

Companies to register more "new" domains

That is a fact, companies don't have the budget to register their name in all new domain name extensions but they tend to register more domain names in targeted extensions. But...by the way, why would a company want to register its name in all available new domain name extensions?
Would it make sense for a company based in...Washington (USA) to register a domain name ending in ".sarl" when "SARL" is a corporate identifier in France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon?

For this reason, we selected what we consider, the best domain name extensions to register a domain with for Companies; no matter where they are located.

The list of domain name extensions also includes the legacy ".com" domain name extension because we consider (for probably the next 10 years) that this old extension will remain a good one to secure and to use as a redirection to a new domain name. We also included two other legacy extensions and .TEL is one of them.

In this report, seven registries have more than 100,000 domains registered and four of them are increasing their domain name registration volume very significantly this month.

Two extensions, including an IDN, are losing registrations: 7,000 for the IDN when the .BLOG new gTLD does the opposite and gains 7,000 more domains!

The full monthly report is available in our Newsletter only which is sent tonight at 8PM CET.

For those who have an access to this specific report, we welcome your comments and will be happy to add an extension if it answers this question: "my company is based in Africa; does it make sense to register the Company's name in this specific extension?" Note that all websites are not translated into English but could be at a certain point in the Future of the Company. Some companies also secure their assets and register domain names to block a third party from doing it. There are various reasons why it can make sense to register a domain name, even if it won't be used.

New gTLDs and City names

The city of Istanbul gains more than 1,000 new domain registrations in one month, with its .ISTANBUL new gTLD. Three cities have sticked to the red for the past 3 months and keep losing registrations. Six cities are "in the blue" and have kept gaining more registrations for the past two months.

Eight cities just...don't want to launch and have one single domain name registered. One of them, the city of Boston and its .BOSTON new gTLD, should launch soon.

The .SYDNEY new gTLD passed the 10,000 new domain name registrations: "Congrats".

We are comfortable with adding the .TOURS new gTLD as a city name since this French city, also called "Le Jardin de la France" ("The Garden of France"), has a population of 140,000.

The domain name extensions concerned are:

1. .NYC
2. .BERLIN
3. .LONDON
4. .TOKYO
5. .CITY
6. .AMSTERDAM
7. .KOELN
8. .HAMBURG
9. .MOSCOW
10. .PARIS
11. .ISTANBUL
12. .МОСКВА (xn--80adxhks)
13. .WIEN
14. .VEGAS
15. .IST
16. .MIAMI
17. .SYDNEY
18. .MELBOURNE
19. .QUEBEC
20. .BARCELONA
21. .BRUSSELS
22. .TOURS
23. .COLOGNE
24. .CAPETOWN
25. .NAGOYA
26. .YOKOHAMA
27. .GENT
28. .JOBURG
29. .TAIPEI
30. .OKINAWA
31. .TOWN
32. .DURBAN
33. .RIO
34. .OSAKA
35. .KYOTO
36. .DUBAI
37. .BCN
38. .MADRID
39. .STOCKHOLM
40. .HELSINKI
41. .BUDAPEST
42. .DOHA
43. .ABUDHABI
44. .BOSTON

The April 2017 full report is available here.

We are open to add more city names, no matter if they are a generic string with multiple meanings. Forward the names to us. Thank you.