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A Domainer’s Dashboard – DNW Podcast #72

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This service lets you get a handle on your domain name investing business.

Domain Name Wire podcastCan Efty help domain name investors make more money? Co-founder Doron Vermaat explains how Efty creates a dashboard for your domain business, and how it can help you sell more domain names.

Also: Berkens’ big payday, Tesla gets Tesla.com, big .org contract out for bid, Rightside’s biz and .Cloud shoots up into the clouds.

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.Cloud finishes a strong debut week

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26,000 names registered as of today.

The .Cloud top level domain name launched in General Availability on Tuesday, and had one of the most successful launches for a new top level domain name to date.

.Cloud crossed the 20,000 domain name milestone after about 24 hours of general availability. As of this morning, it has about 26,000 registrations.

Most of the names have sold for about $25 retail at registrars. Ten premium domains have also sold through the registrar channel as well, mostly at the $15,000 price tier.

Tucows, GoDaddy, Name.com, United Domains and 1&1 have been the top five registrars so far, in that order.

The U.S. accounts for over a quarter of registrations, with Italy and Germany not far behind. (.Cloud is offered by an Italian company.)

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.Cloud hits general availability on Tuesday

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Affordably-priced domain name presents an opportunity for domain name investors.

cloud-logoOne of the most-anticipated new top level domain names arrives on registrars’ shelves tomorrow.

Aruba IT won a hotly-contested auction for the top level domain name in 2014, beating the likes of cloud giants Amazon and Google.

I interviewed Eric Sansonny, General Manager at Aruba, after his company won the auction. Although plans were tentative at the time, he said the goal was to launch the domain at mass-market pricing.

The company has delivered on the pricing promise. GoDaddy and other registrars are offering the domain names for about $20-$25.

With many “cloud” .com domain names selling for five figures, this seems like a good opportunity for domain name investors. There are no restrictions on registering .cloud domain names.

.Cloud had 500 sunrise applications and 2,651 landrush application. These are strong numbers compared to most new top level domain names, but low enough that there should still be some good domain names available at launch.

Amazon.com foreshadows AWS re:Invent news with domain name registrations

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What will Amazon reveal at AWS re:Invent this week? Here are some clues.

AWS ReinventAmazon.com registered 21 domain names yesterday that likely foreshadow product announcements at this week’s AWS re:Invent conference.

The company registered 5 internet of things domain names as it prepares to launch a cloud-based service for IOT this week: amazoninternetofthings.com, amazoniotplatform.com, awsinternetofthings.com, awsiotplatform.com, awsiotservice.com.

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Interview: .Cloud top level domain winner Aruba

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Aruba, which defeated Google and Amazon to win the .cloud top level domain name, discusses why it applied for the domain name and what it plans to do with it.

.Cloud was one of the most applied-for top level domain names, with big names like Amazon.com and Google throwing their hats in the ring.

Which is why many were surprised to see that the winner of the private auction for the domain name was a company they might not have heard of: Aruba S.p.A.

Although nowhere near the size of some of its competitors for .cloud, the Italian company isn’t small, either. Today I had a chance to talk with Eric Sansonny, General Manager at Aruba, about the company and its plans for the domain name.

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