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New TLDs Shaking Up Domaining?
Aug 24th
Don’t know if you’ve noticed but the quality of domains on auction at Domainfest, TRAFFIC and other online marketplaces has improved dramatically. On offer earlier this month were Stocks.com, Quotes.com, Alcohol.com XXX.com, Cable.com, Rate.com, Artist.com, Hamburgers.com, Koran.com, Patents.com and many more! Up at TRAFFIC are such blockbusters like UI.com, DA.com, BS.com, Lover.net, HomeSchooling.com, Mouse.com, Lifts.com and Keyboard.com among others.
You now routinely hear of top of the line keywords being offered and selling – Discos.com – Sold, Tees.com (lot) – Sold, BigApple.com – Sold, CableTelevision.com – Sold, Opticians.net – Sold and Lottery.net – Sold. This is just in the last month More >
The .Pro Opportunity
Aug 12th
One of the most under registered stlds out there with the maximum brand value is .Pro – only 40k or so names registered. Lots of top keywords available as well as some good geos. Plenty of opportunity there for people to invest in a global top level domain, even if it is sponsored.
Though .Pro is tricky – 1. It has nexus requirements – you need to self certify as a professional. 2. Not all keywords that would work in other tlds will work with .Pro, it requires a bit of linguistic and also a degree of gut feel to register More >
The End of Domain Tasting
Jun 29th
In all this hype and hoopla of new gTLDs being proposed by ICANN one major issue was completely overshadowed – that of domain tasting. ICANN has addressed it in this meeting and measures recommended to prevent it from taking place.
Domain tasting is the practice of registering domain names and ‘tasting’ the traffic before registering or dropping them. This is mostly done by the bigger players in the industry like registrars and drop services though some registrars do allow registrants to take benefit from this policy.
It is estimated that at any given time 20 million domains are being tasted by various More >
