GAC Advice on New gTLDs Issued During ICANN 50 London
The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) has issued further advice to the ICANN Board in the GAC London Communiqué regarding New gTLD applications. The New gTLD advice in the London Communiqué related to Section 3.1 of the Applicant Guidebook is further to the contents of the Beijing, Durban, Buenos Aires, and Singapore Communiqués.
Review the GAC London Communiqué [PDF, 138 KB]
Per Section 3.1 of the Applicant Guidebook, relevant applicants have 21 calendar days from this publication date to submit a response to the ICANN Board. Applicants will be notified directly by the New gTLD Customer Service Center and will receive instructions for submitting a response. To be considered by the ICANN Board, applicant responses should be submitted to the Customer Service Center no later than 23:59:59 UTC on 04 August 2014. ICANN will publish applicant responses and provide them to the Board.
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announcement-14jul14-en
Punto 2012 Launches .BAR and .REST New gTLDs
According to a press release sent your today, Punto 2012 has launched two new gTLDs : .BAR, a domain name designed for nightclubs and bars and .REST, the abbreviation for Restaurant.
You can read the press release after the jump:
“Restaurants and bars all over the world can now register new domain names ending with .REST (dot-rest) and .BAR (dot-bar) in a new global online neighborhood designed specifically for restaurants and bars. The simple and defined domain names categorize restaurants and bars so that diners, food-lovers and nightclub-goers can easily find them online.
.BAR, a domain designed for bars and nightclubs, and .REST, the abbreviation for “restaurant” in almost 30 languages and in more than 50 countries, are launching simultaneously in order to create a space on the Internet specifically for the food and beverage industry.
The domains, created by Mexico-based Punto 2012, were engineered by restaurant technology professionals working to make restaurants and bars more relevant, visible and easier to find online. The domains are part of a larger Internet trend, wherein domain endings categorize industries, making Internet addresses simpler and more accessible for customers. The .REST and .BAR domains are more precise, making Internet addresses more memorable offline, so that restaurants are easier to identify and recognize online.
“.REST and .BAR will connect the food and beverage industry with customers online,” said Aaron Grego, CEO of Punto 2012. “This is a perfect opportunity for businesses to grab a simple and easy-to-use domain name that describes their bar or restaurant with a descriptive name. Our industry needs to stand out online and be found — with .REST and .BAR they can be.”
.REST and .BAR domain names have already been reserved during trademark and early registrations by restaurants and bars from all over the world, including: United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, and Russia, and also by major international food and beverage brands.
.REST and .BAR domain names can now be registered with registrars such as GoDaddy, Name.com and 101domain. For more information visit, www.register.rest and www.register.bar.”
.EU Continues Solid Growth With Registrations Increasing 2.2% To 3.8m In Q1
The total number of .eu registrations grew by 2.2 percent in Q1 2014 to 3.79 million, according to the latest progress report released last week by the .eu registry EURid.
“This relatively high growth rate is thanks, in part, to our high renewal rate of above 80% and the higher than expected level of new registrations,” commented EURid General Manager Marc Van Wesemael.
“The latter is especially comforting as it shows that the popularity of.eu is further growing in a crowded market place, even as the many new gTLDs jostle for position.”
The report also found .eu registrations increased in 27 of the 28 EU member states with Croatia and Portugal both seeing growth of more than 10 percent.
According to the report, the number of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) in the .eu portfolio at the end of Q1 2014 was 52 683, or 1.4 percent of all registrations. The number of IDNs as a percentage of new registrations is at the same level as that of other registries. As well, the number of DNSSEC-signed names was 261 304 or 6.9 percent of all registrations.
The .eu TLD is the seventh largest ccTLD and eleventh largest TLD overall according to the Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief for the last quarter of 2013. The largest TLD is .com with 113.7 million registrations, followed by .tk (Tokelau) with 24.5 million, then .de (Germany – 15.7m), .net (15.1m), .uk (United Kingdom – 10.5m), .org (10.4m), .cn (China – 10.6m), .info (5.7m), .nl (Netherlands – 5.4m), .ru (Russia – 4.9m) and then .eu.
In addition to the growth, EURid also announced during the second quarter, on 12 April to be precise, the European Commission officially re-confirmed EURid as the registry manager for the .eu top-level domain for the next five years.
The full report is available for download at link.eurid.eu/reports.
Most Expensive Reported Domain Name Sales in The First Half of 2014
MI.com was the biggest domain name sale in the first half of 2014,based on the data from DNJournal. MI.com was sold for an impressive $3,6 million.
Sedo, eName/ .CN Registry Auction and DomainNameSales brokered most of the big-value domain name sales in the first half of 2014.Compared to the same period a year ago, sales slightly increased. In the first half of 2013, the top 40 domain name sales add up to a total of $22 million, while in the first half of 2014 the top 40 domain name sales add up to a total of $25 million.
One thing hasn’t changed : .COM was and still is the most popular TLD,accounting more than 50 percent of all TLD sales.
Here are the 40 biggest domain name sales in the first half of 2014:
1. MI.com $3,600,000
2. Whisky.com $3,100,000
3. Sex.xxx $3,000,000
4. Youxi.com $2,430,000
5. 37.com $1,960,800
6. MM.com $1,200,000
7. 100.com $950,000
8. Wan.com $800,000
9. Teamwork.com $675,000
10. Game.cn $512,307
11.tie DataCenter.com $500,000
11.tie Mobile.net $500,000
13. Symphony.com $375,000
14. True.com $350,000
15. Malls.com $320,000
16. LK.com $287,500
17. Accommodation.com $286,000
18.tie FlashCards.com $250,000
18.tie BitcoinWallet.com $250,000
20. Wan.cn $247,830
21. Mob.com $220,000
22. DL.com $210,689
23. Gab.com $200,002
24. YouPay.com $200,000
25. LB.cn $176,000
26. LGG.com $175,000
27. Autos.de $166,800
28. One.cn $160,640
29. Shop.cn $160,320
30. LIU.com $155,688
31. CornerstoneHomes.com $150,000
32. ME.cn $147,200
33. Kaffee.de $136,000
34. AI.cn $130,560
35. 0060.com $120,848
36. BOE.com $120,000
37. Scada.com $110,000
38. SAT.cn $108,800
39. 106.com $107,000
40. VitaminC.com $104,000
41.tie MEH.com $100,000
41.tie Liao.com $100,000
41.tie Credits.com $100,000
41.tie QY.com $100,000
41.tie DDOS.com $100,000
June 2014 Highest Reported .COM Domain Name Sales
MM.com was the highest selling .COM domain name in June 2014. MM.com changed hands for $1,2 million through Sedo.
Here are the top 20 biggest .COM domain name sales in June 2014:
1. MM.com $1,200,000
2. Symphony.com $375,000
3. Mob.com $220,000
4. MEH.com $100,000
5. Suzies.com $62,050
6.BigSale.com $50,000
7.AutoAssurance.com $42,500
8.Tolo.com $40,250
9.1346.com $38,000
10.Weights.com $36,500
11.RoyalFortunes.com $35,000
12.MyLifebox.com $27,500
13.BMH.com $27,200
14.Sozcu.com $27,000
15.MySex.com $25,000
16.InterracialPorn.com $24,000
17.tie HotelNews.com $20,400
17.tie JobBoerse.com $20,400
17.tie Healthspark.com $20,000
17.tie GardenHotel.com$20,000
20.PuzzleRings.com$18,000
