Matias Vangsnes

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Demand Media Announces Designs.com to Support New gTLDs

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Demand Media Announces Designs.com to Support New gTLDs Platform enables new generic Top Level Domain registrants to create vivid, feature-rich websites attuned to their needs AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Demand Media® (NYS: DMD) , a leading media and domain services company, today announced the debut of Designs.com, the latest step in the company’s efforts to facilitate [...]

Demand Media Announces Designs.com Platform For gTLDs

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Demand Media announced that later this year, it will launch Designs.com, as the new gTLDs become available. The site will feature a platform to create designs for sites utilizing the new domain extensions. “The goal is to have easy ways for folks who have registered a new gTLD to quickly find categorized templates and tools [...]

Google Withdraws New gTLD Application For Contested Application .Goo

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Google has withdrawn its first application since ICANN started releasing Initial Evaluations (IE) dropping its application for .Goo. Google’s  application  had a prioritization number of 1,814. There is another application for .Goo which was filed by NTT Resonant Inc.of Japan. NTT has filed a Legal Rights Objection against Google over its .Goo application which is [...]

Demand Media Announces Designs.com to Support New gTLDs

Monday, June 17th, 2013

Demand Media® (NYSE: DMD), a leading media and domain services company, today announced the debut of Designs.com, the latest step in the company’s efforts to facilitate the launch of upcoming generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). Today’s move brings a robust platform to create complementary, high-quality web experiences to leading new TLD registries, which are already [...]

International – Predicting gTLD take-up: survey provides clues

Monday, June 17th, 2013

As gTLDs move ever closer to launch, the one unknowable for applicants and non-applicants alike is the likely uptake in terms of internet user behaviour. Once live, will non-applicants rue their decision to not apply as they watch internet users migrate to ‘.brands’? Will consumers prove sceptical of the introduction of hundreds of new TLDs [...]

Demand Media Rolls Out Designs.com For New gTLD’s

Monday, June 17th, 2013

According to a press release just out, Demand Media(R) (NYSE: DMD), announced the debut of Designs.com, the latest step in the company’s efforts to facilitate the launch of upcoming generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). “”Today’s move brings a robust platform to create complementary, high-quality web experiences to leading new TLD registries, which are already working [...]

Debate Over New GTLD Applications Won’t End Soon

Friday, June 14th, 2013

Share us on: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn   0 Comments Law360, New York (June 13, 2013, 1:08 PM ET) — With the entire domain landscape about to change, many parties with varying interests are eager to see how the new generic top-level domain applications currently pending with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will [...]

Predicting gTLD take-up: survey provides clues

Thursday, June 13th, 2013

As gTLDs move ever closer to launch, the one unknowable for applicants and non-applicants alike is the likely uptake in terms of internet user behaviour. Once live, will non-applicants rue their decision to not apply as they watch internet users migrate to ‘.brands’? Will consumers prove sceptical of the introduction of hundreds of new TLDs [...]

So, Your gTLD was Approved – What Now?

Thursday, June 13th, 2013

The world is just waking up to the fact that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been accepting applications for new generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, since 2012 and that hundreds of these gTLDs have already been approved through Initial Evaluation, with more being approved every week. It is expected that [...]

Donuts Loses 2 More Private Auctions As .Red Becomes 1st New gTLD To Be …

Thursday, June 13th, 2013

According to the ICANN website tonight Donuts has withdrawn two more applications as a result of the private auctions held last week Donuts withdrew both its new gTLD applications for .Red and .Luxury Donuts application for .Red was filed under Steel Keep, LLC had a prioritization number of 332 and had already passed ICANN Initial [...]

Insane in the do-main: the new gTLDs and the Trademark Clearinghouse

Wednesday, June 12th, 2013

ICANN (the entity that essentially controls the worldwide domain name system) is in the final stages of processing approximately 1,900 applications for new gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains – like “.com”) many of which are expected to come online in 2013. Some of these applications are private brands, like .ford and .audi, while some generic [...]

ICANN Announce New GTLD Timeline

Monday, June 10th, 2013

Share |Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading… New gTLDs could appear from end of August according to new ICANN’s new ‘best case scenario’ timeline. Worcester, UK (PRWEB UK) 10 June 2013 – ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the body responsible for managing and coordinating the Internet’s Domain Name System, last night made a surprise announcement [...]

Insane In The Do – Main : The New gTLDs And The Trademark Clearinghouse

Monday, June 10th, 2013

ICANN (the entity that essentially controls the worldwide domain name system) is in the final stages of processing approximately 1,900 applications for new gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains like “.com”) many of which are expected to come online in 2013. Some of these applications are private brands, like .ford and .audi, while some generic gTLDs [...]

Insane In The Do-Main: The New gTLDs And The Trademark Clearinghouse

Saturday, June 8th, 2013

ICANN (the entity that essentially controls the worldwide domain name system) is in the final stages of processing approximately 1,900 applications for new gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains like “.com”) many of which are expected to come online in 2013. Some of these applications are private brands, like .ford and .audi, while some generic gTLDs [...]

113 New gTLD Pass IE: .London; .Windows; .Bloomberg; .Broadway; .Ferrari …

Saturday, June 8th, 2013

113 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today. The winner of the day might be Uniregistry which had 12 applications pass IE today which had been previously passed over. Today also saw the most number of previous passed over applications passing IE, by my count 28,  thereby making 113 applications passing IE with [...]

Why Are Brands Abandoning gTLD Applications ?

Friday, June 7th, 2013

A number of brands have recently fallen from the list of visionary companies applying for gTLDs. Hasbro’s Transformers, Hilton, GM’s suite of gTLDs and Heinz have all decided to pull their gTLD applications, opting out of participating in the first paradigm shift of the Internet. Why? There two likely reasons — companies are having difficulty [...]

The new gTLDs and the Trademark Clearinghouse: four tips for brand owners

Friday, June 7th, 2013

The imminent launch of more than 1,400 new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) poses a major challenge to brand owners seeking to enforce and maintain control over the way their key trademarks appear in domain names. The domain ender “.com” is the most widely used of the current gTLDs, but “.net,” “.org” and “.edu” gTLDs are [...]

First Private Auction for New Generic Top Level Domains Completed: 6 gTLDs …

Friday, June 7th, 2013

On behalf of Innovative Auctions, I am very happy to announce that we’ve successfully completed the first private auction for generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). Our auction resolved contention for 6 gTLDs: .club, .college, .luxury, .photography, .red, and .vote. Auction winners will pay a total of $9.01 million. All other participants will be paid from [...]

Top Level Domain Holdings ‘in a strong position’ following US$10mln funding

Friday, June 7th, 2013

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1st Private Auction May Be Complete As Donuts Withdraws Its 1st New gTLD …

Friday, June 7th, 2013

Donuts has withdrawn its 1st new gTLD of the 307 applications it filed with ICANN. This certainly could be the result of a private auction which are underway this week. There is only one other applicant for the new gTLD .Vote and that company application, under the name of Monolith Registry LLC was filed by [...]

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