Perhaps 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. [...]
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What Is A New gTLD And Why You Should Care: A gTLD Primer For Brand Owners
Saturday, October 6th, 2012Group asks senator to oppose Google, Amazon gTLD purchases
Saturday, October 6th, 2012A consumer group, citing concerns about the creation of a new, private Internet, has asked a senior U.S. senator to help block Google and Amazon.com from buying dozens of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The top 10 proposed new top-level domains so far Consumer Watchdog, a [...]
VeriSign Sees More Domain Names – Analyst Blog
Saturday, October 6th, 2012The latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN) saw the addition of more than 7 million domain names to the Internet in the second quarter of 2012. As a result, the total number of registered domain names expanded to more than 240 million worldwide across all domains, as of June 30, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Religious wars brewing in ICANN gTLD expansion
Thursday, July 12th, 2012Religious convictions are emerging as the key battle line in the massive domain name expansion currently in progress at internet addressing overlord ICANN. Morality in Media, a largely Christian, US-based anti-pornography group, has become the first religious organisation to kick off a formal campaign against what it seems a “harmful” porn-themed new generic top-level domains. [...]
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 [...]
ICANN cancels Digital Archery program, has no immediate alternative
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012IDG News Service – The Digital Archery contest, devised by ICANN to determine which gTLD applications would be handled first, was canceled on Thursday, the chair of the gTLD Program Committee announced during the ICANN 44 summit in Prague. No alternative was announced. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was planning to [...]
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 [...]
ICANN cancels Digital Archery program, has no immediate alternative
Saturday, June 30th, 2012The Digital Archery contest, devised by ICANN to determine which gTLD applications would be handled first, was canceled on Thursday, the chair of the gTLD Program Committee announced during the ICANN 44 summit in Prague. No alternative was announced. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was planning to use a Digital Archery [...]
ICANN Cancels Digital Archery Program, Has No Immediate Alternative
Friday, June 29th, 2012The Digital Archery contest, devised by ICANN to determine which gTLD applications would be handled first, was canceled on Thursday, the chair of the gTLD Program Committee announced during the ICANN 44 summit in Prague. No alternative was announced. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was planning to use a Digital Archery [...]
ICANN suspends Digital Archery contest for gTLD program
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012June 25, 2012, 8:15 AM — ICANN has suspended the Digital Archery contest part of its new Generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) Program, which was destined to decide which gTLD applications would be handled first, the organization announced on Saturday. The future of this application process is still to be determined, ICANN said during a news [...]
Registry Hub Sees Opportunity In ICANN’s gTLD Expansion
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012Carl Franzen June 26, 2012, 5:45 AM In June 2011, the future of the Internet as we know it was forever changed by a group of 16 people in Singapore. The group, which made up the board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit Los Angeles-based organization that [...]
ICANN Suspends Digital Archery Contest for gTLD Program
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012IDG News Service — ICANN has suspended the Digital Archery contest part of its new Generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) Program, which was destined to decide which gTLD applications would be handled first, the organization announced on Saturday. The future of this application process is still to be determined, ICANN said during a news conference in [...]
ICANN Releases List of 1400 Possible New Internet Top-Level …
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012ICANN Releases List of 1,400 Possible New Internet Top-Level Domains by George H. Pike Posted On June 21, 2012 With a range of possibilities from “AAA” through “Zulu,” on June 13, 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) released its highly anticipated list of potential new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) for [...]
ICANN suspends Digital Archery contest for gTLD pr…
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012ICANN has suspended the Digital Archery contest part of its new Generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) Program, which was destined to decide which gTLD applications would be handled first, the organization announced on Saturday. The future of this application process is still to be determined, ICANN said during a news conference in Prague on Monday. The [...]
gTLDs: Brand owners should check domain suffix applications
Monday, June 25th, 2012Home | News events | Legal updates | gTLDs: Brand owners should check domain suffix applications 25 June 2012 For years, internet users have been used to typing into their browsers domain names ending with relatively few suffixes, of which .com has been easily the most common. Although there are many national level suffixes (such [...]
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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 [...]