Domain Name News: “List of big Brands using Premium Domains” plus 3 more

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• List of big Brands using Premium Domains
• Uniregistry releases .Backfriday Promotional Site
• .CA Breaks 2 Million Domain Registrations, .CZ breaks 1 Million
• Domaintools Data on Whois Privacy [Infographic]

List of big Brands using Premium Domains Posted: 21 Nov 2012 05:25 PM PST Earlier today Domain Guardians released a list of big brands that are using Premium Domain names on their website. The Domain Guardians team writes about the list on Facebook: Together with a number of industry peers, we have compiled a list of major companies that have acquired and own premium domain names. [...] Thanks to all for your contributions and support!   Related posts: Aftermarket.com Releases TRAFFIC Down Under Auction List – Bidding Open The Top 100 Global Brands Still Don’t Get Online Media EnCirca Provides List of .Travel and .PRO Domains that are Expiring/New or in Auction TRAFFIC Live Auction features Premium Domains at no reserve DirectI to Merge Big Jumbo and Domain Advertising Parking Brands

Uniregistry releases .Backfriday Promotional Site Posted: 21 Nov 2012 11:33 AM PST Just in time for Black Friday, Frank Schilling’s Registry company, Uniregistry, has launched a site for their application for the .Blackfriday TLD. Uniregistry is the sole applicant for this TLD. The site says about the purpose of the .blackfriday TLD: .blackfriday will become the recognized label for websites with worthwhile deals and specials on this renowned shopping day. Internet users and retailers will benefit from an online hub for Black Friday information, ads, and deals. It will open up opportunities for creative marketing and unique shopping experiences that will make this day even more legendary. Businesses that set up shop on the .blackfriday domain will capture the attention of shoppers and get more out of the day. When every shopping moment counts, consumers will jump at this opportunity to quickly identify the worthy online shopping destinations on Black Friday. As brick-and-mortar stores and online retailers look for new ways to showcase themselves online, .blackfriday will become an important part of their marketing toolkit to fully capitalize on this opportunity that only comes once a year. As for information on pricing the company writes the following: .BLACKFRIDAY will be a specialty gTLD, with a flat pricing structure and fixed renewal costs, with no material price increases for the first five years. This moderately priced namespace is designed to offer registrants an attractive, competitive registration alternative or complement to existing registratiaons for the purpose of specialized content. [via The Domains] Related posts: One of the .AUTO new gTLD applicant launches pre-registration and promotional site Rick Latona Releases New Mini-Site Service Andrew Rosener Cashes Out of DX.com Site 2 Weeks After Launch DomainTools Releases Mail Server Investigation Site, ReverseMX.com Pool Releases Digital Archery Game for new TLD Applicants

.CA Breaks 2 Million Domain Registrations, .CZ breaks 1 Million Posted: 21 Nov 2012 09:20 AM PST CIRA passes 2 Million Registered Domains As per a tweet from the .CA registry,  the registry passed the 2 Million domain mark yesterday. However with today being a Wednesday, that number has dropped below the 2 Million mark again, as the registry drops deleted domain names in their “to be released” process once a week. There is no press release on this highly anticipated milestone yet., but there is a list of 22 “facts” that the registry published on Facebook – including 7 false facts that they are asking you to find.   .CZ: Over 1 Million Domains registered As reported on Robbies’ Blog, the  Czech ccTLD registry for .CZ passed 1 Million domain name registrations. The registry publishes realtime statistics on their homepage. According to the announcement by the registry, 58% of domains are owned by individuals. The Czech Republic has a population of just over 10 Million people. Robbies’ Blog also has an interview and more information. [via CIRA, Robbies' Blog] Related posts: .UK Registrations Surpass 7 Million .ES Passes 1 Million Mark .AT Crosses 1 million Domain Registrations [updated] .TEL passes 200,000, .me 250,000 registrations .ORG Passes 9 Million Domain Registration Mark

Domaintools Data on Whois Privacy [Infographic] Posted: 21 Nov 2012 08:42 AM PST DomainTools released an info graphic on whois privacylast week and we wanted to make sure that you didn’t miss it. DomainTools went through their data and identified 130 different privacy services across almost 225 million unique domain name Whois records. Almost 32 million domains were identified as private, or about 15% of the total population they reviewed. Privacy Concentration for Registrars with between 100K and 1MM Domains Under Management: Above.com PTY LTD  94% April Sea Information Technology Corporation 93% New Dream Network (DreamHost) LLC  91% Brandon Gray Internet Services (NameJuice.com)  80% Bargin Regisgtrar 76% BigRock Solutions pvt LTD  47% Cloud Group Limited 47% Netart Registrar Sp. z.o.o. 47% Net Earth One (Net Earth)  43% FBS Inc.  43% Privacy Concentration for Registrars with over 1MM Domains Under Management: GMO Internet (Onamae.com)  51% Fabulous.com pty LTD 48% PDR (PublicDomainRegistry.com)  37% DomainSite  33% Moniker Online Services  26% Register.com  25% Enom  25% Network Solutions  23% Tucows  22% GoDaddy  21% Privacy Concentration for TLDs with over 1MM Domains in DNS: INFO  28% CN  20%* ORG  20% COM  19% NET  19% BIZ  18% MOBI  17% CO  17% JP 12% IN 1% * Nearly all the 'private' domains in .CN are associated with one registrar and privacy provider, and there are indications of underlying domain tasting on .CN as well.  Absent this registrar, privacy on .CN is virtually nil. Some TLDs that do not provide a public whois or only provide a limited public whois were excluded from the survey. Related posts: Moniker Whois Privacy Confuses Miami Journalist Whois Privacy Is ‘Material Falsification’ Registrar Sued Because of Cybersquatter Using Whois Privacy Service Anti-Phishing act to outlaw Whois-Privacy? Through Thick & Thin: ICANN RFP for Registrar Data Escrow Services

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