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, 2012The 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 [...]
Three Steps to Prepare Your Company’s Brand for the New gTLD Expansion
Monday, July 23rd, 2012Brand managers: You’ve been hearing about the generic top-level domain (gTLD) registration expansion for a while now. What are top-level domains, and what do they have to do with your brand’s existing digital presence and strategy? A top-level domain (TLD) is the portion of a website address that is to the right of the dot, [...]
Rob Grant On The New gTLD’s: “Dot Com will Always Win The Horse Race”
Monday, July 23rd, 2012In an story and interview published about domainer Rob Grant a few days ago by whoapi.com, entitled From “Madison Avenue to Adirondacks – domainer millionaire” Rob was asked what he thought of the new gTLD’s: “Which new gTLD has the most potential? What’s your opinion on hundreds of new gTLD’s that are lining up?” Rob [...]
Two Years In, Sedo Domain Market Report Examines Performance of .CO …
Monday, July 23rd, 2012CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, today unveiled a report that highlights the success of the .co extension since its introduction two years ago today, on July 20, 2010. “Sedo has done an excellent job of helping to establish and develop the secondary market for premium .CO domain names, as it [...]
Paul Stahura Of Donuts Picked By ManagingIP As One Of “The Most Influential …
Thursday, July 19th, 2012ManagingIP.com has named Paul Stahura of Donuts, Inc. as one of the “The Most Influential People In The Americas”. ManagingIP selected 50 people who are “shaping the IP industry Worldwide”. Here is what the publication had to say about Paul: “”If you are a trade mark owner and aren’t already familiar with Donuts, you soon [...]
ICANN’s New gTLDs Program: Disputes, Comments and Objections
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012What if someone applied for a new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) that is confusingly similar to the gTLD applied for by your company? Who has standing to file an objection or to submit a public comment in response to an applied-for gTLD? These are the questions that many participants and observers of the Internet Corporation [...]
With The Domain Space Only Growing By 17 Million A Year, Where Will All The …
Thursday, July 12th, 2012We know that .com/.net registrations as of the last report sits at 116 million registrations is growing at the rate 8 million new registrations a year. We also know including the 116 million .com/.net registrations, there are 225 million domains name registered as of March 31, 2012 with 10% or some 20 million new registrations [...]
From the Application Window to the Ballot Box
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012Politics and government abound when your headquarters are located in Washington, DC. The White House is a relatively short walk down Pennsylvania Avenue from our office in Georgetown, and the Capitol is not much further than that. There are even rumors that the CIA used to have a secret drop-off spot just a block from [...]
ICANN’s overlordship of the internet confirmed again by US gov
Friday, July 6th, 2012ICANN has had its powers over internet domain names, IP addresses and protocol numbers renewed by the US Department of Commerce. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced late last night that it has continued ICANN’s contract to run the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for the next three to seven years. Crucially, the deal [...]
Desi Networks Applies for .DESI TLD with KSregistry
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012(Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) – Desi Networks, LLC submitted an application for a new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD), DOT DESI as part of the new gTLD program of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. DOT DESI will use the registry system of the German based provider KSregistry GmbH as technical framework. [...]
Desi Networks applies for .DESI TLD with KSregistry as backend provider – Your
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012Tweet Tweet Desi Networks, LLC submitted an application for a new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD), DOT DESI as part of the new gTLD program of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. DOT DESI will use the registry system of the German based provider KSregistry GmbH as technical framework. Desi Networks, LLC [...]
4 steps to prepare for the new gTLD expansion
Monday, July 2nd, 2012The internet is about to expand on a massive scale in 2013, and we can see the possible contours of that expansion with the recent release of the list of more than 1,900 applications for new generic top-level domains. When you consider that, currently, there are only 22 top-level domains — the portion of a [...]
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 [...]
Dot Landrush – ICANN Releases List of TLD Applications
Friday, June 22nd, 2012| More Print Version Friday, June 22, 2012 Antonio Turco and Joanna Myszka On June 13, 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization with the technical and policy-making responsibility for the domain name system, released the list of over 1,900 applications it received for new sponsored generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs). [...]
.FREE, .OPEN gTLDs may not be open to public
Thursday, June 21st, 2012June 21, 2012, 10:29 AM — The applications for new gTLD domains offered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) have been made public, and although the .LINUX registry has been unclaimed, other potentially FLOSS-related gTLDs are being vied for in this big Internet land grab that could leave some domains out [...]
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Melbourne IT Urges Brands to Swiftly Evaluate New Internet Domain Application …
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–With fewer than four weeks of ICANN’s official public-comment period for the 1,930 new Top Level Domain applications remaining, online brand specialist Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services (DBS) today urged brands to prioritize the assessment of potential risks and promptly respond before the comment window closes on August 12th. “It is not [...]