.Website Hits 50,000 Domain Name Registrations
Radix announced recently that Dot Website has crossed 50,000 domain name registrations in less than seven months.
The company announced that dot website i one of the fastest growing new TLD.According to ntldstats.com, .website has at the time of writing this article 51,052 registrations.
14,995 (29.37%) of all registrations came from NameCheap, 6,392 (12.52%) registrations came from GoDaddy, while the others came from eNom, PDR Ltd, 1&1 Internet AG , GMO Internet,EuroDNS and other registrars.
About 120 .dot website domains are already in the Alexa Top 1 million. MOreover, the number of registrars that are currently offering .website domain names is 103, which means that about 99.7 percent of all registrars are offering .website domain names.
CHeck out EuroDNS here to register your .Website domain name.
.FR Offers Registration Periods of One to Ten Years
As of 30 March, registrants of .fr (France) domains, along with other ccTLDs managed by AFNIC, will be able to choose registration periods of one to ten years.
Prior to this change, registrants of .fr domains had to renew their domains every 12 months.
As well as .fr, the changes also apply to the overseas French ccTLDs managed by AFNIC – .re (Reunion Island), .pm (St. Pierre and Miquelon), .tf (French Southern and Antarctic Territories), .wf (Wallis and Futuna), and .yt (Mayotte).
article by David Goldstein
How to get your hands on dropping .de domains
It has become a lot easier to get your hands on dropping .de (ccTLD of Germany) domains since the German registry Denic implemented a quarantine period last year, which they call RGP or Redemption Grace Period. Some of the bigger players in the ccTLD dropcatching market added .de to their services since then. One of those companies is the Dutch DomainOrder.com.
DomainOrder.com offers a weekly auction of the dropping .de domains (and also .nl (Netherlands) en .be (Belgium)) that will become available for registration during the next 7 days. Last week the list of .de domains contained no less then 50.000 domains, this week shows a more usual list of around 20.000 domains, giving you plenty of choice.
My experience so far:
I placed a few bids and DomainOrder was able to catch more than half of them, which is satisfying. As the service is ‘no catch, no pay’, I didn’t have to pay anything for the domains that were not registered.
Prices for my domains in the auction remained very reasonable, even low, with only a few exceptions.
Bids are private, which means that hard work to find the gems really pays off. As no one else will see on which domains you placed a bid, you will most likely remain the only bidder. The auction list contains a lot of statistics (a custom score, generic and SEO stats), still you may want to use your own tools as well.
Using online payment, I was able to transfer my domains within minutes after payment.
Some statistics on Germany and .de domains:
Population: 82 million.
Internet users: 72 mln.
Registered domains: 15.8 million (and still rising). Making it the largest of the regular ccTLD’s.
Dropping domains weekly: around 20.000.
Domain sales are high, second on the Sedo marketplace right after .com. Kaffee.de sold in 2014 for Eur 100.000.
The DomainOrder auction starts on Monday 9am CET and ends on Tuesday 2pm CET. Give it a shot: www.domainorder.com
March 2015 Highest Reported Domain Name Sales
Luxe.com was the highest selling domain name in March, 2015. The domain name changed hands for $172,500 through Heritage Auctions.
Here are the highest reported domain name sales in March, 2015:
1. Luxe.com $172,500 Heritage Auctions
2. CurrencyConverter.com $150,000
3. VVV.com $136,400
4. TheRecRoom.com $89,888
5. Car.info $76,000
6. Generational.com $70,000
7. Import.com $66,000
8. Goliath.com $60,000
9. EscapeArtists.com $60,000
10. Videos.de €50,000 = $53,000
11. Consoles.com $50,000
12. BuyMyHouse.com $45,000
13. RSL.com $45,000
14. SmartWatches.com $35,000
15. MissCandy.com $30,000
16. VisitDubai.ae $29,800
17. DEH.com $29,680
18. MakeItPop.com $25,000
19. MNB.com $23,850
20. AdTheory.com $23,688
NameJet Reports $641,557 in Domain Name Sales in March, 2015
NameJet has just sent in their monthly sales list. VVV.com was the highest selling domain name at $136,400.
Sales add up to a total of $641,557 in March,2015.
Here are the sales for February 2015 (sales over $2,000 ) :
vvv.com $136,400
nlf.com $33,700
qms.com $22,342
szp.com $18,109
pzm.com $17,008
jzc.com $16,910
nqj.com $15,619
1303.com $14,545
8316.com $13,345
7610.com $12,601
voj.com $11,312
lfv.com $11,100
mybooks.com $11,100
3202.com $11,000
luckygames.com $9,501
gvy.com $9,200
6105.com $9,000
prepschools.com $8,888
bearclaw.com $8,600
hobb.com $7,777
6474.com $7,701
transnet.com $7,499
banerjee.com $6,901
shawls.com $6,900
ankles.com $6,099
usd.org $5,450
kyte.com $5,303
alibab.com $5,200
baocan.com $5,137
laohu.net $5,020
babyphoto.com $4,944
jetrental.com $4,700
taokuang.com $4,559
0down.com $4,503
sleepstudy.com $4,300
mailmarketing.com $4,210
rryy.com $4,200
propero.com $4,200
sealbeachrealestate.com $3,866
electricheaters.com $3,800
fancycars.com $3,500
000001.com $3,500
m86.com $3,400
swapstuff.com $3,388
makanan.com $3,363
yaobi.com $3,209
onlinebackup.org $3,188
860888.com $3,101
servizi.com $3,020
negatives.com $3,000
epitech.com $2,988
suza.com $2,985
vvtt.com $2,902
iz8.com $2,901
voices.org $2,801
punches.com $2,800
chicagodivorce.com $2,755
gsvc.com $2,701
wt8.com $2,622
pembrokepinesrealestate.com $2,621
lirio.com $2,615
internetradios.com $2,602
secretlover.com $2,600
webuyhousescash.com $2,600
autu.com $2,600
localshops.com $2,588
lloo.com $2,545
fondly.com $2,500
bapy.com $2,500
yens.com $2,450
discovertexas.com $2,422
beston.com $2,421
tcas.com $2,410
websurveys.com $2,400
bwin9.com $2,324
turbotap.org $2,322
finsol.com $2,311
infoshield.com $2,269
debitcard.org $2,225
eate.com $2,222
softwaredeals.com $2,200
eletro.com $2,151
wdxx.com $2,149
15200.com $2,111
bonz.com $2,109
haly.com $2,109
inizio.com $2,101
allergyaware.com $2,100
phonesavings.com $2,100
draken.com $2,099
helix.org $2,099
nestingdolls.com $2,009
weroll.com $2,000
ringbands.com $2,000