.Tokyo – Nearly 10,000 Domain Name Registrations On Day One of General Availability
.Tokyo new gTLD entered general availability yesterday. 9,597 .Tokyo domain names have been registered during the first 24 hours of its General Availability.
The numbers also include registrations from Sunrise and Landrush period.
Compared to .Berlin,that had about 32,000 domain registrations on day one of general availability, .Tokyo didn’t do so good with only 9,598 registrations.
Deadline for .Cymru and .Wales Trademark Registrations Approaches
To secure your .Wales or .Cymru domains, businesses that hold a trademark and wish to appeal to customers in Wales need to register with the Trademark Clearinghouse before 31st July.
You can read the press release after the jump :
“Businesses that hold a trademark and wish to appeal to customers in Wales, or want to be identified as having a Welsh heritage, need to register with the Trademark Clearinghouse before the 31st July to ensure the best possible chance of securing their .wales or .cymru domain names.
Businesses that do this will be able to register their new domains during a ‘sunrise period’ likely to begin in the early autumn before the first come, first served phase that starts in January. They will also be able to find out if somebody else has registered for a domain using their trademarks.
Non-trademark holders are still able to register their interest, but will not be eligible for early registration. For more information, please visit ourhomeonline.org.uk.”
.MOE New gTLD Launches Today
Interlink Co., Ltd. announced that it has opened the new Top Level Domain Name, .MOE to the public for registrations, on a first-come,first served basis.
You can read the press release after the jump:
“.moe” Could Potentially Hit over 200 Million Registrations! –
Interlink Co., Ltd., a new Domain Registry Operator, announced on July 22 that it has opened the Internet’s most unique Top Level Domain (TLD), “.moe”, to the public for live registrations on a first-come, first-served basis. For the first time ever, users will finally have an online platform worthy to express their MOE (passion) with!
(Photo: http://prw.kyodonews.jp/opn/release/201407182382/)
The word “moe” (pronounced as “moh-ay”) comes from the Japanese Otaku (geek) culture and is used to deeply express “kawaii” (cute things) or things you “love” where words just won’t do. The “moe” subculture is globally recognized for anime, manga, comics, visual novels, gamers, cosplayers, and hobbyists.
“.moe” Voted Most Popular Amongst Otaku’s (Geeks)
Interlink conducted a survey to identify which new gTLDs users have the most interest in while participating as a sponsor at the Japan Expo event held in Paris, France (2-6 July 2014). Participants were asked to select their preferences for various domains (ex. “.moe” vs. “.com”; “.moe” vs. “paris”). The results showed that “.moe” was more popular amongst this audience by a large margin over other popular new gTLDs (see below for more details of survey).
Calculating the results for “.moe” vs. “.com” (“.moe” won by a vote of 70 to 30) the number of “.moe” registrations could potentially double “.com” (113,401,886 as of January 2014!). If the entire world population were Otaku (geeks) “.moe” could hit 264,604,400 registrations!
Starting on July 22, anyone can visit global registrars such as Name.com, Gandi.net, EuroDNS, 101Domain, Dynadot, Hexonet, and many others to register a unique .moe domain.
WorldChampions.com Domain Name is Up For Sale
The domain name WorldChampions.com has been release for sale by its current owner DomainWise.com. According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in 1997.
You can read the press release after the jump:
” Domainwise.com, a UK Company who specialise in the sale and development of high quality generic domain names, have today released the premium Dot Com sports domain WorldChampions.com for immediate sale.
The release of this prestigious domain name is timed to coincide with the culmination of the 2014 FIFA Football World Cup and the start of the forthcoming Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
A spokesman for the current owners of WorldChampions.com commented, “The sporting calendar for 2014 offers unbelievable potential for advertisers to develop, market and monetise this prestigious, naturally searched for, memorable domain name.
“This should be of particular interest to sports sponsors, sports advertising agencies, sports media, sports goods manufacturers, branding agencies and indeed the current or past World Champions of all major sports.
“MediaOptions.com reported that consumers, when presented with a list of unknown companies in their search results, are significantly more likely to click on the exact match domain option.
“DNJournal.com, the Domain Industry News magazine produces a list of premium Dot Com domain names changing hands each year and with the release of such a prestigious domain name as WorldChampions.com it could well challenge for the top spot amongst premium domain name sales this year.”
More Information:
Interested parties should view the landing page at http://WorldChampions.com for contact details.
Welsh Farmers Show Off Their New .WALES And .CYMRU Domains
It was Royal Welsh Show day yesterday (21 July) and it was notable in the domain name world because at the show a number of prominent Welsh organisations announced they were switching to .wales and .cymru domains.
The Welsh language TV channel S4C, the National Assembly for Wales, Wales Federation of Young Farmers Club, Sport Wales, the Welsh Books Council and the Arts Council for Wales all announced they will be using their new domains to underline their Welsh identity online. The Welsh government announced its switch to .cymru and .wales just last month and some will be switching over as soon as the new domains go live in late autumn.
Nominet, the company behind .cymru and .wales is encouraging trademark holders to act now to help to secure the corresponding domain name by submitting it to the Trademark Clearing House before the end of July.
General availability will commence on St David’s Day (1 March) in 2015. St David is the patron saint of Wales.
