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Here's the The Lowdown
from DN Journal,
updated daily
to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
compiled by DN Journal Editor & Publisher Ron
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Radix
Adds .Online to Growing Portfolio of New gTLDs -
.CO.COM Happy With Year One Results
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Radix
Registry
is celebrating the addition of .online
to their portfolio of solely owned new
gTLDs that already includes .website,
.host and .space among
others. Radix originally joined
forces with Tucows and NameCheap
to acquire .online in an auction
last fall at an undisclosed price
(though it is believed their
investment fell in the $10-$12
million range). The latter two
companies agreed to sell their
ownership stakes in the new gTLD to
Radix (again at an undisclosed
price), however both Tucows, a
leading wholesale registrar, and
Namecheap, one of the top retail registrars,
will continue to work closely with
Radix as marketing and
distribution partners.
The
launch schedule for .online has not
yet been announced but Radix said
the extension has been among
the most popular
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Online
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pre-registered
names across registrars.
Radix CEO Bhavin Turakhia
said, “.online has far
greater potential than
anything we or anyone else has
launched to date." |
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Tucows
CEO Elliot Noss |
Tucows
CEO Elliot Noss noted, “We have started
investing more heavily in our
telecom business with Ting.
NameCheap, likewise, has
increased its singular focus
on delivering an outstanding
retail domain name experience.
Meanwhile, Radix has emerged
as one of the most ambitious
and capable domain name
registries in the world. We
still believe that .online has
huge potential as a
fresh alternative to .com. We
are confident that Radix is
the right company to run it
and both Tucows and Namecheap
are thrilled to play our
rightful part in its
success.”
Radix has already
invested over $30 million
to secure licenses to operate
their new extensions and they
expect to acquire several more.
In .online they have acquired
the most commonly used word to
end domain names with over 550,000
.com domain names today ending
with the word “online.” |
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While
a lot of new extensions, like
.online, have yet to launch,
others have now reached the
1st anniversary of their
availability to the general
public. Not all of those are
new gTLDs though - one
of the most notable exceptions
being .co.com.
The registry celebrated
its first anniversary last
week by announcing it had
booked more than 10,000
registrations in its opening
year of business. With over
200 accredited registrars
around the globe. co.com sees
a lot of growth ahead.
CEO
Ken Hansen said,
“Momentum began building in
December when .co.com Registry
had more domain registrations
and revenue than any month
since launch. Most encouraging
is the quality of the websites
going live on .co.com."
Hansen
added that countries with
existing third-level domain
extensions (like .co.uk
and .com.au) have
generated the strongest demand
for .co.com. He noted that 40%
of all .co.com registrations
have come from companies and
organizations located in the UK
where over 7 million .co.uk
domains have been
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.co.com
LLC CEO Ken Hansen |
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registered.
"Many companies are
using their .co.com
domain rather than their
country code top-level domain
to better reach potential
outside of their
borders," Hansen
said. |
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