The coming weeks could see Booking.com given the go ahead by ICANN for the .HOTELS top level domain. What that means is that the online accommodation giant will effectively control how and when .HOTELS is used, a thought that is sending shivers down the spine of some in the hotel industry. The Priceline-owned brand is [...]
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Sunday, October 7th, 2012What Is A New gTLD And Why You Should Care: A gTLD Primer For Brand Owners
Saturday, October 6th, 2012Perhaps hoping it would never come to pass, you are likely one of many who is not yet conversant regarding ICANN’s[1] new generic top level domains (“gTLDs”). A recent survey by Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services discovered that even most trademark attorneys do not have a true understanding of this recent expansion of the Internet. [...]
Citibank: New gTLD .Citi Is Not Confusing to Applications For .City or .CITIC
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012Sooooo, Mike…NOW do you agree that the gtld’s are utter foolishness? Startin’ to rethink the ol’ “right of the dot” now, ain’t ya? If not, me think you should be. Caution, numerous icebergs significantly larger than this still lie in the deep waters ahead. Sheer stupidy to even discuss this garbage or for ICANN to [...]
Saudi royals seek ban on .virgin, .sex, .catholic, .wtf and 159 MORE
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has objected to the proposed new top-level internet domains .virgin and .baby – applied for by Virgin Group and Johnson Johnson respectively – on the grounds that they will encourage pornography. The bizarre claims are among 163 complaints about new dot-word gTLD applications that the Saudi Communication and Information Technology [...]
Demand Media’s White Paper On New gTLD’s
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012Demand Media, Inc. published a white paper (pdf) on the new gTLD’s today and I found it an interesting read. The paper is entitled: “The Opportunity for generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) Some of the highlights: “After years of planning and debate, a big change is coming to the way organizations and individuals identify themselves [...]
TLD Transformation Underway
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012[authors: Rosemary Wallis and James Morrison] A rapid transformation of the internet landscape is underway. By “Reveal Day”, 13 June 2012, ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) had received 1,930 applications for global Top-Level Domain names (gTLDs). While a few of these applications are for the same name, so that the actual [...]
Protect your company’s rights in the race to register new gTLDs
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012The eagerly anticipated unveiling of the list of generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) names (the letters to the right of the dot) was revealed in June by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Historically, only 22 general use-approved TLDs, including .com, .org, and .net, just to name a few, have existed across the [...]
ICANN Reveals the Applications for the New gTLD’s: It’s Time for Brand Owners …
Thursday, August 2nd, 2012You may recall that earlier this year the International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) began a historic expansion of the internet domain name system by accepting applications for new generic top level domain names (“gTLD’s”) (i.e. the string of letters to the right of the dot in a domain name). (See Changes in [...]
Video: Michele Neylon Shows The Difficulty in Submitting gTLD Comments
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012I want to share a video with you that was posted by Michele Neylon, CEO of Blacknight, a domain registrar and hosting company. In the video, Michele walks people through the process of posting a comment on ICANN’s gTLD website for the the gTLD applications Based on Michele’s experience, and as you can see, it [...]
ICANN Seeks Input on gTLD Batching – ag-IP
Monday, July 30th, 2012MARINA DEL REY, CA – At the Prague Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting, the new gTLD Program Committee decided to terminate Digital Archery, and instructed ICANN staff to proceed with the initial evaluation of applications as quickly as possible. This evaluation, according to ICANN, is in progress based on a tentative [...]
ICANN Orders Bulk Transfer of Domains From Two De-accreditated Registrars …
Friday, July 27th, 2012“ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of Planet Online Corp’s gTLD domain names to NamesBeyond.com (“NamesBeyond”) due to a compliance action taken by ICANN that resulted in the de-accreditation of registrar Planet Online Corp. “ICANN has also authorized the bulk transfer of Name For Name, Inc.’s .com and .net names (which represent all gTLDs currently sponsored [...]
The Internets Own Your Religion
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012I am a scholar of religion by profession, but I like to play in technology. So when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body responsible for generic top level domains (gTLD) like .com, .org., and .net, asked for proposals for new gTLD, I watched with some fascination. One of the earliest [...]
Dubai: Domain name
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012The California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has published the long-awaited list of organisations seeking to obtain new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), commonly recognised as internet address endings or suffixes. Dubai eGovernment (DeG) is one of the more than 1900 applicants for gTLDs and is hoping to secure the recently dubbed dotDubai [...]
The Top Policy Mistakes ICANN Made In The New gTLD Program
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012Now that everyone has had time to fully digest the big reveal of the new gTLD applicants and the strings applied for, its time to look at the biggest issues ICANN has created for the domain name system. We are not going to look at mistakes ICANN made in the implementation of the program (such [...]
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Weighing in on Batching
Thursday, August 23rd, 2012At the end of July, ICANN opened a public comment period to gather input from the community about how it should handle the issue of batching new gTLD applications. gTLD Strategy readers will remember that once Digital Archery met its bitter end during the last ICANN Public Meeting in Prague, the ICANN Board had not [...]