Mark Whysall | Jul 31, 2012 | Comments 1 Some experts only think a few of the new gTLDs will succeed. A ‘Father of the Internet’, Vint Cerf, said in this article “I think only a few new TLDs will be notably successful, but I could be wrong.” Some other experts say they actually think [...]
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Will The New Domain Names gTLDs Fail?
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012Outdoors Notebook: Tournaments and more
Monday, July 30th, 2012(Entries for this section can be emailed to franksargeant@charter.net.) Aug. 11: National Wild Turkey Federation JAKES event for young hunters at Belle Mina on Mooresville Road, volunteers needed; jkprofozich@comcast.net, 256-880-0842. Aug. 11: NBT tournament at Wilson out of Safety Harbor; www.nbtbassaln.com. Aug. 11: Patrick Johnson State Farm Top Rod Solo Open at Pickwick out of [...]
ICANN GTLD: The Power of Dictionary Words Shakes Traditional Brands
Thursday, July 12th, 2012What will happen to the niche of existing brands and their cute marketing angles when ‘name fortification’ strangles their image positioning and market shares? As an example when new gTLD dot names like dot call, dot mobile, dot cell, dot phone, or dot voice or dot data may encircle a Telco’s market like sharks and [...]
What If New gTLD Applicants Held Private Auctions Where Losing Applicants …
Friday, June 29th, 2012Over the last week at ICANN the arguably best idea coming out of the ICANN meeting is the concept that applicants for new gTLD strings with more than one application, hold a private auction amongst themselves with the winning amount going to the other losing applicants instead of to ICANN. As a backdrop, under the [...]
Registry Hub Sees Opportunity In ICANN’s gTLD Expansion
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012Carl Franzen June 26, 2012, 5:45 AM In June 2011, the future of the Internet as we know it was forever changed by a group of 16 people in Singapore. The group, which made up the board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit Los Angeles-based organization that [...]
gTLDs: Brand owners should check domain suffix applications
Monday, June 25th, 2012Home | News events | Legal updates | gTLDs: Brand owners should check domain suffix applications 25 June 2012 For years, internet users have been used to typing into their browsers domain names ending with relatively few suffixes, of which .com has been easily the most common. Although there are many national level suffixes (such [...]
Amazon.com’s domain power play: We want to control them all
Sunday, June 24th, 2012If Amazon.com gets its way — and that’s still a big “if” — it will soon control 76 new domain extensions on the Internet. Most observers had expected the company to apply for .amazon and .kindle, but it seems that was just for starters: Amazon’s ambitions also include a host of generic terms, including the [...]
LOCUS-T Now Offers a WordPress CMS for Website Design
Friday, June 22nd, 2012Intrigue continues to surround the Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton that was sold for a whopping $1,052,000 at auction back in May. Even before the auction took place, the government of Mongolia stepped forward to claim that the bones were stolen from the country. … Continue … Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/locus-t-now-offers-wordpress-cms-website-design-080207271.html
My Take on The gTLD Winners
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012Last week, I shared my gTLD predictions, and today I want to discuss who I think will come out ahead when it comes to new gTLDs and why I believe they are going to do well. Ultimately, this is about who will benefit financially from the introduction and sale of gTLD domain names. ICANN – At [...]
Right Of The Dot™ Launches Contention Resolution Service for …
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012“There are over 1,900 applications and 751 are in direct conflict, meaning more than one applicant for those specific extensions” – Michael Berkens, Esq., Co-Founder, Right Of The Dot™, LLC Ft. Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) June 20, 2012 Right Of The Dot™, LLC introduces Contention Resolution Service for new gTLD applicants who have applied for the [...]
Right Of The Dot™ Launches Contention Resolution Service for … – Virtual
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012The domain industry experts at Right Of The Dot™ are proud to announce their new gTLD Contention Resolution Services for companies that have conflicting applications for new generic top level domains. Ft. Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) June 20, 2012 Right Of The Dot™, LLC introduces Contention Resolution Service for new gTLD applicants who have applied for [...]
Analysis of the IDN New gTLD Applications
Thursday, June 14th, 2012There has been a lot of excitement since ICANN revealed the list of 1930 applications for new gTLD yesterday at an event in London yesterday. Even some of the strongest opponents of the ICANN’s new gTLD program have acknowledged there is a case to open up new gTLDs for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). I am [...]
ICANN GTLD: The Aftermarket Boom
Thursday, June 14th, 2012What June 13th 2012 tells us? Domain name expansion is a big game changer and marketers of the world will have to come to terms with their love or hate relationship with ICANN and equally make room for domain registries, registrars and ICANN as they too will call the shots on global name branding and [...]
Parent company of popular .CO domain wants 13 new gTLDs added to it’s portfolio
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012Miami based STRAAT, an investment company run by entrepreneurs and internet geeks, has announced that it wants to add 13 more new domain extensions to it’s portfolio. STRAAT is the parent company of .CO Internet, the registry operator of the .CO domain name extension, which has over 1.3M registrations from individuals and companies in over [...]
Juan Diego Calle’s STRAAT Investments Reveals gTLD Applications
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012Earlier this morning, Paul Sloan published an article on CNET about the new gTLDs, and he mentioned that Juan Diego Calle, founder of the .CO Registry, “is going after 13 new TLDs through the investment company that backed .co Internet.” I just received a press release from Calle’s STRAAT Investments detailing the company’s newest investment [...]
The Naming Guide: ICANN gTLD – Reveal Day – June 13th 2012
Saturday, June 9th, 2012What June 13th, 2012 tells us, when ICANN opens its long awaited ‘Reveal Day,’ is that about 1000 entities have applied for some 2000 gTLD names. Now, if the applicants have already spent USD $350 million on buying these 2000 proposed names plus ready to spend additional million dollars on average on each single name in [...]
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