Donuts and Radix win auctions to settle four more new TLD contention sets.
Innovative Auctions has helped settle four more top level domain name contention sets through its auction service.
Donuts, by the far the largest applicant for new top level domains, won three auctions. It is now the sole applicant for .lawyer, .fish, and .discount.
It beat Top Level Domain Holdings for .lawyer and beat Whatbox for .discount and .fish. (Interestingly, Whatbox’s application for .fish shows Dot Club, LLC as the applicant, but that appears to be an error.)
Radix* won an auction for .website against Top Level Domain Holdings and Donuts. Radix originally applied for 31 domains, but has withdrawn its applications for .movie and .play. It has 29 outstanding, and now has four uncontested applications: .website, .press, .space, and .host.
(*I work with Media.net, which has some common ownership with Radix.)
dotclubregistry says
Andrew,
DOT CLUB, LLC is a different company than .CLUB Domains, LLC. He dropped his application prior to reveal date after I had publicly announced that I was not going to negotiate but wanted a fair and open auction process. I am aware that there were at least 2 others who dropped out as well. Fortunately this made an early auction for .CLUB feasible.
Colin.club.
Andrew Allemann says
Ah, thanks. That makes sense.
Dan says
How can anyone justify the cost buying and maintaining a registry like .fish?! What’s the likely business model? Selling off sexy.fish, naked.fish and Iamacheekylittle.fish to return all that outlay and time spent formulating the registry?!
Apart from a few Aquarium Stores and Tackle Retailers, anyone with the surname Fish, and the odd Fishing Trawler wanting a vanity name, this to me is a great example of a ridiculous extension that will discredit the gTLD’s very quickly.