The new gTLD info for Wednesday, April 6th

New gTLDs are establishing: the reason why I write this is that I read more and more articles related to members from the sport industry (basketball players, cricket players, ...) to create their website with a descriptive domain name. Only new gTLDs can offer that.

1. Two Sunrise Periods start today:
1. .MOTORCYLES;
2. .STORE.
2. Report - New gTLDs related to SPORT (weekly update);
3. In French - the .CATHOLIC new gTLD is launched and establishes presence on Internet;
4. Basketball players to change to a new domain name;
5. Funny - This "universal super star" .PORN domain name points to...
6. 15mn "Vlog" on new gTLDs from a serious Fan with examples of .BRANDs;
7. .CASINO city new domain names are...for sale!
8. The Football.Club;
9. More coming.

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The new gTLD info for Tuesday, April 5th

 Many new gTLD reports on this Tuesday: regional new gTLDs, company TLDs and the report for .BRAND Registry Nameshield to inform on French new gTLD extensions registration volumes.

1. Report - The weekly French new gTLD report by Nameshield;
2. Back-End Registry: stock goes up 8.33%;
3. Don't want to pay excessive renewal fee for a Premium domain name? Read this.  
4. Someone bought jet.ski for $12,000;
5. Infographic - Regional new gTLDs;
6. Update - New gTLDs related to Companies (weekly report);
7. Scathing Article on New gTLD’s;
8. Universal Acceptance - User Profile page not accepting new domain names;
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? This weekly publication reports on cities new domain name registration volumes.

The cities of Barcelona and Istanbul are the two new cities to see their domain name registration volume increase. For a reason I misunderstand, the two TLDs for Moscow keep diving in the red deeper and deeper.

1. The .NYC new gTLD: 76,611 domain name registrations
2. .LONDON : 63,898
3. .BERLIN : 59,022
4. .TOKYO : 47,902
5. .AMSTERDAM : 25,140
6. .KOELN : 24,736
7. .HAMBURG : 24,530
8. .PARIS : 21,334
9. .MOSCOW : 20,578
10. .CITY : 19,122
11. .МОСКВА (xn--80adxhks) : 18,025
12. .MIAMI : 14,514
13. .WIEN : 13,934
14. .VEGAS : 13,895
15. .QUEBEC : 8,835
16. .SYDNEY : 8,759
17. .MELBOURNE : 8,659
18. .BRUSSELS : 6,236
19. .COLOGNE : 5,347
20. .TOURS : 4 ,473
21. .CAPETOWN : 4,358
22. .NAGOYA : 4,136
23. .BARCELONA : 4,036
24. .JOBURG : 3,370
25. .YOKOHAMA : 3,203
26. .GENT : 3,197
27. .TAIPEI : 2,636
28. .TOWN : 2,626
29. .OKINAWA : 2,570
30. .DURBAN : 2,456
31. .RIO : 1,278
32. .ISTANBUL : 626
33. .IST : 583
34. .OSAKA : 496
35. .KYOTO : 367
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. Please note that ".tours" (a French city) was added to the list.

Source: ntldstats.com

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The new gTLD info for Monday, April 4th

Again, this Monday is a long day travelling for me so info collected is from this week-end and a few articles that I found from last weeks As usual, all are related to new generic Top Level Domains. I recommend reading the info related to the .SEAT new gTLD from dotStories.

1. China - New Registries: "don't Worry About China's New Domain Name Regulation";
2. dotBRANDs - SEAT Dealers to use domain names ending in ".seat";
3. Case study - It seems that .CARS domain names improve SEO;
4. ICANN's new gTLDs rules cause major headaches for online businesses;
5. Reports:
6. New gTLDs related to Cities (The weekly "cities" new gTLD report by Jean Guillon);
7. New gTLDs related to Catering;
8. New gTLDs related to Photography.
9. Question - "How to run own gTLD on my DNS server?"
10. The Advantages of Registering a New gTLD;
11. Two new gTLD events added to the calendar;
12. Available “Los Angeles” New gTLD;
13. More coming by the end of the day.

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New gTLDs related to Photography

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 = 52 926
• .PICS = 32 292
• .PHOTO = 26 931
• .PHOTOS = 19 845
• .VIDEO = 14 333
• .STUDIO = 8 885
• .PICTURES = 6 794

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

Source: ntldstats.com

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New gTLDs related to Catering

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 = 48 519
• .MENU = 6 828
• .RESTAURANT = 5 758 (0)
• .KITCHEN = 6 254
• .BAR = 4 754
• .COOKING = 3 190
• .RECIPES = 3 582
• .CATERING = 3 295
• .REST = 1 434

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

Source: ntldstats.com

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The new gTLD info for Friday, April 1st

Today is April Fools day so it is possible that what you read is not the entire truth: it is how I learnt - a long ago - about DomainGang.com :-)

1. China -  "Clarification" explained according to a new gTLD expert. Did you know it requires governmental approval of new domain name extensions in China so that websites can resolve there?
2. April the first - ICANN to ban sandwiches from next meeting;
3. Record Breaker - .Club All Time Top 10 Domain Name Sales (interesting stats from the 346 sold domains);
4. "Multiple Registry" informs of its Domains Across the Globe: "the number of total registrations may not be telling the whole story";
5. Domain Companies: who is rich and who is poor?
6. 新頂級域名(New gTLD)域名爭議處理現況觀察;
7. Report - Understanding the world of dot brands (requires payment);
8. "No, you won't register .SUCKS as a Trademark".

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The new gTLD info for Thursday, March 31st

This is the recap of the day for new gTLDs NEWS. We added info from yesterday as we could not post anything. There is a petition to develop a new geographic/community TLD.
We have seen many projects of this kind in Round one of the ICANN new gTLD program and we hope a funding will be found. We faced this stage of a new gTLD project when hunting for money for the dotVinum project in Round one. It really is the hardest part: not to forget that this TLD could already be added to the list of an ultra rich applicant preparing for Round 2...

The problem with initiating such communication so early is that it gives ideas to others: when the first .WINE and .GREEN projects were launched, they thought that they would be alone to submit their application.

1. Trademark Clearinghouse: the .TUBE new gTLD Sunrise Period was just announced;
2. New - The .SRD new gTLD project was added to the list of projects for Round 2 of the ICANN new gTLd program on Registries.tel;
3. Report - new gTLDs related to SPORT (the Wednesday Thursday UPDATE);
4. Another monthly Newsletter from Registrar, which includes section on new gTLDs;
5. China wants to block domain names outside the country (...);
6. Search Engine - a new search engine to use new domain names "only";
7. New gTLD applicant offers $5 Million to buy 4 other new gTLDs;
8. Strange - A new way to search and follow the News;
9. Wine - The .GALLO new gTLD is launched, as well as the .BAREFOOT: did you know that Barefoot uses the word "Champagne" on its wine stickers? ;-)
10. Online Branding strategy and new gTLDs;
11. 1,372 domain name extensions are on the market if you include ccTLDs;
12. Google Domains still not available in other countries but...changed to new .GOOGLE domain;
13. 53% Of New gTLD Are Registered In China;
14. Article: How Are the New gTLDs Truly Faring?
15. More coming.

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