Uniregistry CEO Frank Schilling has expressed his “surprise” that GoDaddy has decided to stop selling his company’s gTLDs, but said he expects the registrar to return in future. GoDaddy’s decision to stop new registrations and inbound transfers for Uniregistry’s portfolio of gTLDs came after the registry revealed price increases for 16 strings that ranged from […]
Uniregistry is to massively increase the price of some of its under-performing new gTLDs in an effort to keep them afloat. Sixteen TLDs from the company’s portfolio of 27 will see price increases of up to 3,000% starting September 8, CEO Frank Schilling confirmed to DI today. “We need more revenue from these strings, especially […]
Some networks in Iran appear to be systematically blocking Uniregistry’s .sexy gTLD. That’s one of the conclusions of a slightly odd experiment commissioned by ICANN. The newly published An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance was conducted by APNIC Labs. The idea was to figure out whether there are any issues with new gTLDs on […]
The gTLD aftermarket is starting to pop with this the fifteenth major sale from NorthSound Names (crucial.link, Commercial.property (for $25,000) etc. proceeding it) and an interesting idea. In this case they created a brand for the product around an available domain- in this case the Jean label is XXX. Then they simply redirect the tagline Jeans.Sexy […]
.sexy not so sexy after all? Uniregistry’s first new gTLDs to launch, .sexy and .tattoo, have showed a poor first-day performance after the company failed to secure Go Daddy as a registrar partner. During the 60-day sunrise period and the first 30 hours of general availability, .sexy sold just shy of 2,700 domains, judging by […]
I was excited about .SEXY and .TATTOO going live today. While I don’t think either is worth spending thousands of dollars on there are a few names in each I’d like. Unfortunately it looks like there are some problems on the backend and registrars are allowing you to buy names that aren’t actually available. I […]
I was excited about .SEXY and .TATTOO going live today. While I don’t think either is worth spending thousands of dollars on there are a few names in each I’d like. Unfortunately it looks like there are some problems on the backend and registrars are allowing you to buy names that aren’t actually available. I […]
Will .sexy and .tattoo trip on the starting blocks today due to registrars’ fears about competition and Whois privacy? Uniregistry went into general availability at 1600 UTC today with the two new gTLDs — its first to market — but it did so without the support of some of the biggest registrars. Go Daddy — […]
.Tattoo and .sexy enter general availability tomorrow, although relatively few registrars are offering the domain names. Frank Schilling’s first two top level domain names, .tattoo and .sexy, enter general availability tomorrow at 11 am EST. Judging from registrar support so far, Uniregistry’s first two domains are going to be a bit hampered. That may be […]
areyou.sexy? youare.sexy? If you’re thinking about trying to bag these names when Uniregistry takes .sexy into general availability next week, you’re out of luck — they’re among almost 100 registry-reserved names. Under ICANN’s standard Registry Agreement, new gTLD registries are allowed to register up to 100 names to themselves “necessary for the operation or promotion […]
