The .TUBE Sunrise Period begins

The .TUBE new gTLD Sunrise Period has begun. The Top-Level Domain, or new domain name extension, is about creating, watching and sharing videos on Internet.

WHEN

1. SUNRISE PERIOD START:
   Thursday, 21 April, 2016 - 16:00
2. SUNRISE PERIOD END:
   Monday, 20 June, 2016 - 16:00

WHERE
Interested participants can contact the Nameshield Group to participate in the Sunrise Period.

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The new gTLD info for Tuesday, April 19th

Changing from a new domain name to a new sub-domain is a strange choice but in this case, there is an explanation. Recently, the owner of startup.club received an offer for the acquisition of this domain name. Startup.club was the .CLUB Registry portal for Premium domain names. To keep developing traffic on its portal, content of startup.club has moved to startup.nic.club.

1. The new gTLD lever - The Oprah Winfrey Network to use a .BUZZ domain name for website;
2. Report - New gTLDs related to COMPANIES (update);
3. New gTLD Program Safeguards: 6 days left!
4. Opinion - .AFRICA : the "arrogant and unaccountable ICANN";
5. 30,000 applications for .SWISS domain names;
6. Case figure - 6 Months to migrate website to a .BANK;
7. Join the Live the Adventure Club :-)
8. According to Verisign, also .COM Registry, all signs show that new gTLDs are not necessarily the best for SEO;
9. Good read - New gTLD Report:
1. The number of active .brands and those recently delegated;
2. The highest ranking .brands in the Alexa Top 1M;
3. The number of generic new gTLDs in the Alexa Top 1M;
4. The new gTLDs that trigger suspicion in the Top 10;
5. An alternative look at the Top 10 with our gTLD Utilization Indicator score;
6. The performance of .brands in search.
10. What's in a name on social? Be simple, be memorable;
11. .SUCKS “gag order” dropped, approved;
12. Just created: a .BRAND Observatory;
13. The .HOTEL fight;
14. Associations Offer Innovative Benefits To Consumers, Members Through New gTLD Program:
1. .REALTOR and the National Association of Realtors;
2. .AARP and AARP, Inc. (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons);
3. .BANK and the Financial Services Roundtable;
4. How Associations Can Use gTLDs – Now and in The Future.
15. More coming by the end of the day: subscribe to receive all news by email.

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The new gTLD info for Monday, April 18th

Repeating the message. New generic Top-Level Domains need to install and to do so, registries must reach out to end users. We have noticed that existing website owners won't change domain name but new creators tend to "adopt" new domains more and more. At Jovenet Consulting, we talk about new gTLDs and we are good at repeating a message again and again. To learn more about what we do, please have a look at the new version of our website.

1. Strange - No free Internet anymore in the Niue Island because of...the proliferation of new gTLDs?
2. ICANN Fails Consumers: The larger problem with new gTLDs;
3. The weekly French new gTLD report by Nameshield;
4. 8 more new gTLDs were delegated;
5. For SALE: a list of 27 new gTLDs with potential for Round 2;
6. New gTLD Reports:
1. New gTLDs related to CITIES;
2. New gTLDs related to PHOTOGRAPHY (more TLDs added);
3. New gTLDs related to CATERING (more TLDs added);
7. New - You can now buy .HOMES Premium domain names;
8. Cool - A huge fan of Sasha Banks starts her Club website;
9. More coming during the day.

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The weekly "cities" new gTLD report by Jean Guillon

Are new domain names for cities purchased? For example, a city like Miami has domain names ending in ".miami" instead of ".com". This weekly publication reports on cities new domain name registration volumes.

1. The .NYC new gTLD: 76,697 domain name registrations
2. .LONDON : 64,139
3. .BERLIN : 59,996
4. .TOKYO : 48,302
5. .AMSTERDAM : 25,330
6. .KOELN : 24,864
7. .HAMBURG : 24,617
8. .PARIS : 21,478
9. .MOSCOW : 20,225
10. .CITY : 19,123
11. .МОСКВА (xn--80adxhks) : 17,626
12. .MIAMI : 14,702
13. .WIEN : 14,015
14. .VEGAS : 13,861
15. .QUEBEC : 8,989
16. .SYDNEY : 8,836
17. .MELBOURNE : 8,693
18. .BRUSSELS : 6,122
19. .COLOGNE : 5,387
20. .TOURS : 4 ,587
21. .BARCELONA : 4,508
22. .CAPETOWN : 4,392
23. .NAGOYA : 4,160
24. .JOBURG : 3,389
25. .YOKOHAMA : 3,221
26. .GENT : 3,208
27. .TOWN : 2,654
28. .TAIPEI : 2,647
29. .OKINAWA : 2,600
30. .DURBAN : 2,447
31. .RIO : 1,306
32. .ISTANBUL : 654
33. .IST : 602
34. .OSAKA : 506
35. .KYOTO : 380
36. .BCN : 1
37. .MADRID : 1
38. .DUBAI : 1
39. .STOCKHOLM : 1
40. .HELSINKY : 1
41. .BUDAPEST : 1
42. .DOHA : 1
43. .BOSTON (coming)
44. .ABUDHABI (coming)

In blue: city extensions with a notable domain name registration increase; in pink we added ".city" and ".town" new gTLDs; in red, city extensions facing a registration decrease from one week to the other.

Source: ntldstats.com

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New gTLDs related to Catering (stats)

This week, we added one new domain name extension to this report: the .CAFE new gTLD.

We strongly believe that the .RESTAURANT new gTLD (new domain names ending in “.restaurant”, instead of “.com”) will be a commercial success in the long term. This post reports on new domain name extension registration volumes related to catering.

• The .PUB new gTLD = 50,156
• .MENU = 6,848
• .RESTAURANT = 5,809
• .CAFE = 6,859 (new)
• .KITCHEN = 6,365
• .BAR = 4,784
• .COOKING = 3,199
• .RECIPES = 3,582 (0)
• .CATERING = 3,315
• .REST = 1,441

In blue: noticeable domain name registrations increase, in red, they decrease from one week to the other.

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New gTLDs related to Photography

We added eight new domain name extensions to this report:

1. .GALLERY
2. .MEDIA
3. .MOV
4. .MOVIE
5. .GRAPHICS
6. .FILM
7. .CAMERA
8. .DIGITAL

We strongly believe that the .PHOTO new gTLD (new domain names ending in “.photo”, instead of “.com”) will be a commercial success in the long term. This post reports on new domain name extension registration volumes related to photography.

• The .PHOTOGRAPHY new gTLD = 53,018
• .PICS = 32,458
• .PHOTO = 27,392
• .MEDIA = 25,804 (new)
• .PHOTOS = 19,922
• .GALLERY = 18,407 (new)
• .VIDEO = 14,939
• .DIGITAL = 14,757 (new)
• .STUDIO = 9,588
• .GRAPHICS = 8,313 (new)
• .PICTURES = 6,869
• .CAMERA = 5,513 (new)
• .FILM = 1,786 (new)
• .MOVIE = 998 (new)
• .MOV = 2 (new)

In blue: noticeable domain name registrations increase, in red, they decrease from one week to the other.

Source: ntldstats.com

The Nameshield Group: Registry, Corporate and Retail Registrar

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