The new gTLD info for Tuesday, April 12th

Did you know that "GMBH" stands for "Gesellschaft Mit Beschränkter Haftung"? It is the equivalent for "company with limited liability": a kind of German company and the equivalent of a French SARL. Two Sunrise Periods are launching today: to participate, contact Nameshield.

1. Sunrise Periods starting today:
1. the .GMBH new gTLD;
2. the .LTD new gTLD.
2. Report - new gTLDs related to companies (weekly update);
3. Answer - Search Quality Senior Strategist from Google answers the question: "what are the two first most important signals contributing to result for a good indexing in google";
4. Lol - A squatter is selling icann.online on Sedo;
5. No .KIDS (new gTLD) community priority evaluation;
6. New gTLDs and Trademark infringements;
7. Conference - The first "domain hackaton";
8. More coming by 8PM CET (time when Newsletter is sent).

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The new gTLD info for Monday, April 11th

Monday is always full of News related to new domain names. The week-end is also a moment for me to publish reports with figures. We want to recommend French speaking readers of our publications to have a look at the Nameshield's report: it focuses on domain name extensions which have a French meaning.

• Must-read - Past TLDs have Failed and Many More Will Follow in Their Path;
• The weekly French new gTLD report by Nameshield;
• Ending soon - The .VIP Sunrise Period (participate);
• Leveraging Emerging gTLDs;
• Multiple Registry rejects $5M offer;
• Reports:
• HOT - New gTLDs related to "cities";
• New gTLDs related to "photography";
• New gTLDs related to "catering".
• Podcast on new gTLD backend Registry service provider;
• Article on .CARS new gTLD;
• Someone disagrees with latest TechRepublic's article on new gTLDs;
• New domains: are they about to blow?
• Cybersquatting reaches new heights with the introduction of new gTLDs (WIPO);
• Registry enters top 10 Registry service providers;
• 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.

1. The .NYC new gTLD: 76,665 domain name registrations
2. .LONDON : 64,036
3. .BERLIN : 59,954
4. .TOKYO : 48,151
5. .AMSTERDAM : 25,260
6. .KOELN : 24,815
7. .HAMBURG : 24,575
8. .PARIS : 21,391
9. .MOSCOW : 20,470
10. .CITY : 19,225
11. .МОСКВА (xn--80adxhks) : 18,079
12. .MIAMI : 14,646
13. .WIEN : 13,978
14. .VEGAS : 13,866
15. .QUEBEC : 8,934
16. .SYDNEY : 8,797
17. .MELBOURNE : 8,670
18. .BRUSSELS : 6,115
19. .COLOGNE : 5,372
20. .TOURS : 4 ,532
21. .CAPETOWN : 4,383
22. .BARCELONA : 4,315
23. .NAGOYA : 4,155
24. .JOBURG : 3,386
25. .YOKOHAMA : 3,214
26. .GENT : 3,202
27. .TAIPEI : 2,642
28. .TOWN : 2,648
29. .OKINAWA : 2,585
30. .DURBAN : 2,463
31. .RIO : 1,294
32. .ISTANBUL : 654
33. .IST : 602
34. .OSAKA : 504
35. .KYOTO : 372
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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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 = 52 995
• .PICS = 32,385
• .PHOTO = 27,215
• .PHOTOS = 19,894
• .VIDEO = 14,570
• .STUDIO = 9,324
• .PICTURES = 6,833

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 = 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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