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. [...]
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 [...]
Demand Media Reports Second Quarter 2012 Financial Results
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug 07, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – –Adjusted EBITDA(1) Increases 20% Year-over-Year –Cash Flow from Operations Grows 30% Year-over-Year –Company Achieves Positive Net Income Demand Media, Inc. /quotes/zigman/3620702/quotes/nls/dmd DMD +1.22% , a leading digital media company, today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2012. “We are pleased to report another [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
BREAKING: You Can Now Purchase .Africa Domains
Friday, July 20th, 2012BY: Irina Papuc | July 18, 2012 The .Africa domain is the new top level domain for the whole African continent. The 90′s saw the .com era; the 2010′s may see the .Africa era. Earlier this year, the dotAfrica project suggested this domain as the new generic top level domain (gTLD) for all African business, [...]
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 [...]
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% [...]
Internet’s New Wild West: gTLDs
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012Possible generic top level domain names (gTLDs), many of which were applied for recently. (Graphic by Elizabeth Wiley/Flip the Media) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a little known entity that controls the naming system on the Internet, just got $347 million richer this year. And it appears to be only the beginning. [...]
ICANN Publishes List of Applications in gTLD Expansion Program
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012Over the last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been engaged in the first round of its planned expansion of generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) names. gTLDs are internet domains with general address extensions, such as .com, .net and .edu. There are presently 22 gTLDs, and this expansion plan could add [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]