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, 2012Will The New Domain Names gTLDs Fail?
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012Mark 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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Internet Adds More Domain Names – Analyst Blog
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign Inc. (VRSN), approximately seven million names were added to the Internet in the first quarter of 2012. Therefore, the total number of registered domain names increased to approximately 233 million on a worldwide basis. The addition of 7.5 million domain names represents a 3.3% [...]
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 [...]
What Do Donuts Have to Do With Domain Names?
Friday, June 22nd, 2012Donuts, a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup, will likely be the registry service for quite a few of the new gTLDs. Of the 1,930 applications for gTLDs received by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), 307 (15.9%) came from one of the 307 wholly owned Donuts subsidiaries. Of those, just under half (151) appear [...]
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). [...]
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 [...]
The Internet: ICANN’s New gTLD Program
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012The Internet is becoming a much bigger and more complex place for trademark owners, and ICANN’s New gTLD Program is something more for trademark counsel to consider as part of world wide protection of their client’s brands and marks. Ladas Parry and our affiliated domain name registrar, Ladas Domains, are ready to assist you in [...]
US Companies Show Most Interest in New Top-level Domain Names
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012Seven companies want news, eight want music or a movie, and seven want love. Four want pizza, but none of them make it. Only two want sex, and one even wants a unicorn. Those names figure among the 1930 applications to create and operate new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) revealed Wednesday by the Internet Corporation [...]
Etisalat applies for Generic Top Level Domain gTLD with ICANN
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012TLDs refer to the suffix attached to Internet domain names. Etisalat is among the 1,930 applicants announced to the public on June 13th, 2012, who have participated in this unique opportunity, which includes 116 applications for Internationalized Domain Names, or IDNs, for strings in scripts such as Arabic, Chinese, and Cyrillic. Commenting on ICANN’s announcement, [...]
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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 [...]