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 = 49,017
• .MENU = 6,838
• .RESTAURANT = 5,783 (0)
• .KITCHEN = 6,366
• .BAR = 4,769
• .COOKING = 3,186
• .RECIPES = 3,586
• .CATERING = 3,311
• .REST = 1,440

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 8th

NEWS:

• Hot - Why are .BRANDs dragging their feet?
• Caught in the act - Council member of .Sport applicant SportAccord is on U.S. Sanctions List"
• Not-coms" are quickly becoming the new normal;
• “CLUB” adds valuable meaning to literally any word;
• Back-end registries - separating deals with Registrars;
• Premium new domain names:
• They can be negotiated with the registry;
• Report on Premium sales.
• Reporting on the .STORE Sunrise Period;
• More new domains WIPO decisions;
• More coming during the day: subscribe to receive all News in your email.

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The new gTLD info for Thursday, April 7th

"Universal Acceptance", in the new gTLD world, is a way to discuss how new domain name registration volumes are doing: how new domain names are installing on Internet. Like we wrote it yesterday - we see more an more announcements from the music industry and other major players launching their websites with a new domain name. Universal Acceptance of new domain names is improved when Google communicates on a design.google or abc.xyz. Today, it is BAIDU's turn.

1. The Chinese giant BAIDU uses a .TOP new domain name for its website design agency;
2. The official .INSURANCE website has launched (reminder about the Sunrise Period);
3. Seven new gTLDs were delegated and one of them is the .ABUDHABI domain name extension;
4. Something about the .VLAANDEREN new gTLD;
5. Examples of .SEAT websites and how to extract new gTLD URLs from the Google index;
6. .VATICAN: now in English;
7. Podcast on .EARTH new domain names;
8. 150 ".store" registrations in day 1;
9. More coming during the day.

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List of .SEAT new gTLD car dealers

The SEAT Trademark starts to have its car dealers to use domain names ending in .SEAT. These domain names are no redirection and Google already lists more than 100 URLs ending in ".seat"registered its index. Here is a short list of these websites.

To find out if a new domain name extension has websites listed in the Google index, just go to the search field and enter: site:seat (this is the example used for ".seat" domain names).

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2 new Sunrise Periods start today

The Trademark Clearinghouse is launching two new Sunrise Periods today. The new domain name extensions concerned are:

1. the .STORE new gTLD:
1. Sunrise begins: Wednesday, 6 April, 2016
2. Sunrise ends: Sunday, 5 June, 2016
2. the .MOTORCYLES new gTLD:
1. Sunrise begins: Wednesday, 6 April, 2016
2. Sunrise ends: Sunday, 5 June, 2016

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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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