This is the fourth Joseph Peterson's series examining new TLDs by country. Read parts one, two and three. This article continues our examination of GEO nTLDs – new domain suffixes, released since 2014, that describe a city, region, nationality, or ... Continue Reading19 Comments
Analyzing new top level domain registrations by country (Part 3: the Geos)
· UncategorizedThis is the third part of Joseph Peterson's analysis of new TLD registrations by geography. In 2 previous articles (here and here), we scrutinized nTLD registration volume by country, asking which nations are most / least engaged overall with the ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Analyzing new top level domain registrations by country (Part 2)
· UncategorizedOnce again, we're looking at how the world is embracing new TLDs – country by country. Last time, I compared each nation's nTLD footprint with its online population, calculating a ratio of overrepresentation / underrepresentation. Another way to view ... Continue Reading14 Comments
Analyzing new top level domain registrations by country (Part 1)
· UncategorizedThe first in a multi-part story about the geography of new TLD registrants. Who registers domains? It's a question we might answer in a thousand various ways. One approach is to examine geography. Where do most registrations come from? Who are the ... Continue Reading25 Comments
In Praise of .XYZ
· UncategorizedJoseph Peterson uncovers some great usage examples of .XYZ domain names. This "love letter" to .XYZ may surprise readers who remember me as one of that registry's more persistent critics. True that I've found fault with .XYZ's inflated registration ... Continue Reading30 Comments
Google’s Waymo domain strategy and what it says about domain choices
· UncategorizedJoseph Peterson takes a look at what domains Waymo registered...and didn't. Google's not God. MarkMonitor's no Moses. Thou shalt not treat Alphabet's domain registration patterns as the 10 Commandments. Yet it's interesting to look at what they've ... Continue Reading15 Comments
Cybersquatting complaints against .com domains are dropping
· Policy & LawHere's a story you've not heard told: For many years, the number of UDRPs aimed at .COM domains has been declining. Does that come as a surprise? We hear about high-profile UDRPs all the time, and the newsworthy cases usually involve some valuable domain ... Continue Reading14 Comments
Spielberg.com, 668666.com and more expired domain name sales
· Expired DomainsMost of us will look at Spielberg.com, an expired domain that sold for $7.6k last week, and assume that Steven Spielberg was targeted as a likely future buyer. Of course, there are other Spielbergs. The director of "Jaws", "E.T.", and "Schindler's List" ... Continue Reading13 Comments
Expired Domains: Gambling, CHIPs and more
· Expired DomainsJoseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain name sales. Money attracts money. What I mean is this: The closer a topic sits to getting paid, the more people want to sit on that topic's lap. And the higher they bid for its keywords – ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Fliers.com for $20k and more expired domain name sales
· Expired DomainsIn the movie "Mary Poppins", kids delightedly follow their father as he skips out the front door singing: Let's go fly a kite up to the highest height! Kites are a perennial pleasure; since China invented them 2500 years ago, they'e never gone out of ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment