Demand 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 [...]
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Demand Media’s White Paper On New gTLD’s
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom… But Watch Out for Weeds
Friday, June 29th, 2012When ICANN committed — after no small debate — to an open, rather than limited application process for new gTLDs, supporters likened it to “letting a thousand flowers bloom.” On reveal day we got our first glimpse at the thousand (plus) flowers they promised. Now it falls to ICANN to tend this wild new garden. [...]
Amazon, Google, And The Prospect of Closed gTLDs – Don’t Believe …
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012There have been a lot of complaints leveled at companies like Amazon and Google who have applied to register a number of new gTLDs. The criticism is that the public will not benefit from having Amazon own .book, .store, .you, and .grocery if they only use it for their own purposes and don’t open them [...]
Freedom Registry wants new gTLDs to be “FREE” domains!
Thursday, June 14th, 2012Have you heard of Freedom Registry? Probably not, so pay close attention, because it is likely that you will be hearing a lot about this new company in the weeks and months to come. FDR is marketing and proposing a disruptive new business model to operators/registries of the new generic top level domains (new gTLDs) [...]
Frank Schilling Unveils His New gTLD Company: Uniregistry.com
Sunday, June 10th, 2012Frank Schilling one of the largest private domain name portfolio owners in the world through Name Administration, is getting into the new gTLD space, as a registry, making application for some new gTLD’s and today officially launched his new gTLD company called Uniregistry “We are building the next wave of destinations for businesses to exist [...]
Domain attorney Doug Isenberg explains what the proposed $150 fee will get you …
Thursday, June 7th, 2012As we reported earlier, ICANN has selected IBM Deloitte as providers of trademark clearinghouse services for the new gTLD’s. Today, Doug Isenberg, a veteran domain name attorney and founder of The GigaLaw Firm has decided to chime in on the matter. He explains in detail what the proposed TMCH service actually provides at his blog, [...]
Single year .UK registrations became available in May, the latest numbers are in…
Monday, June 4th, 2012One of the biggest complaints registrants of the .UK ccTLD voiced out often was the requirement of 2 year initial registrations and/or renewals of .UK domain names. It was impossible to simply register a domain name for 1 year, just like with any other gTLD (com, net or org) or most other ccTLD’s in the [...]
Nothing Revealed on “Reveal Day”: New gTLD Application System Remains Suspended
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012[author: Geri Haight] The much anticipated “Reveal Day” — so dubbed by ICANN itself — has now come and gone without fanfare. May 1st was to be the day when ICANN was scheduled to publish the list of all applied-for new generic top level domains (gTLDs) as part of the roll-out of the new Internet [...]
Minds + Machines Will Host New dot Rugby gTLD
Thursday, April 26th, 2012Minds + Machines was chosen by the International Rugby Board (IRB) to be the registry services provider for the new dot Rugby gTLD. TLDH, our parent company, will work with ROAR Domains to help with the administration of the gTLD, while Minds + Machines will provide backend registry services on its Espresso platform. The IRB [...]
Lawley Tells Bloomberg There Are 250K .XXX Domains Under Management & Applied …
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry who operates the .XXX TLD had an interview on Bloomberg TV on Friday to chat not only about .XXX but its application to run multiple new gTLD’s. (You can watch the interview here) “We have nearly 250,000 .XXX domain names under management, our 5 year forecasts were 125,000-150,000, [...]
ICANN Extends gTLD Application Deadline, Blames Software Glitch
Sunday, April 15th, 2012MARINA DEL REY, Calif. — A software glitch is forcing ICANN to extend its generic top-level domain application process by another week. The Internet overseer’s move to temporarily close the gTLD application system until Tuesday comes just hours before the process was about to close. “ICANN constantly monitors the performance of the TLD Application System [...]
ICM Owner of .XXX Applies For .Sex, .Porn & .Adult To Give .XXX Owners …
Friday, April 13th, 2012The ICM Registry, the operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) announced it made application for the new gTLD’s in SEX, .PORN and .ADULT. According to the press release issues this morning if ICM were to get any or all of the new extensions the owner of the matching .XXX domain would be given a [...]
ICM Owner of .XXX Applies For .Sex, .Porn & .Adult To Give .XXX Owner …
Friday, April 13th, 2012The ICM Registry, the operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) announced it made application for the new gTLD’s in SEX, .PORN and .ADULT. According to the press release issues this morning if ICM were to get any or all of the new extensions the owner of the matching .XXX domain would be given a [...]
The following data pertains to the National Arbitration Forum domain name …
Sunday, April 8th, 2012Disputes involved .com, .us, .xxx and other domain names MINNEAPOLIS, April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — http://domains.adrforum.com – The National Arbitration Forum (FORUM), an international provider of dispute resolution services, today announced that a total of 2,082 cases were filed in its domain name dispute resolution program in 2011, up 18 percent from 2009 (1,759 cases) [...]
A Gap in the New gTLD Applicant Guidebook?
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012Community or Standard? I strongly believe there is a serious “breach” in the Applicant Guidebook: I checked the scoring, I checked the possible objections, I am aware of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) early warning but I really could not find … …how ICANN is going to avoid Community applications to be submitted as Standard [...]
Number of Registrants Reaches 290 in New gTLD Online Application System – ag-IP
Sunday, March 18th, 2012MARINA DEL REY, CA – Rod Beckstrom, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)’s President and CEO wrapped up the organization’s 43rd public meeting in San Jose, Costa Rica by saying that the number of successful registrants in the new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) online application system has now climbed to 290. According to [...]
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