Monthly Archives: May 2013

Fri 17th May 2013
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ICANN Still Has Virtually No Revenue Coming In From Last Resort Auctions - If two or more applicants applied for the same new gTLD unless the parties can resolve their contention between themselves the parties go to an ICANN last resort auction. We have chatted before that we expect some of the new gTLD string auctions to go into the $xx,xxx,xxx range. With potentially over 200 new gTLD strings going to an ICANN auction we would expect revenue to ICANN from these last resort auction to generate Hundreds of Millions of dollars to ICANN. Yet ICANN 2014 budget includes ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Still Has Virtually No Revenue Coming In From Last Resort Auctions - If two or more applicants applied for the same new gTLD unless the parties can resolve their contention between themselves the parties go to an ICANN last resort auction. We have chatted before that we expect some of the new gTLD string auctions to go into the $xx,xxx,xxx range. With potentially over 200 new gTLD strings going to an ICANN auction we would expect revenue to ICANN from these last resort auction to generate Hundreds of Millions of dollars to ICANN. Yet ICANN 2014 budget includes virtually ... read more ...
 
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Now At 66 ICANN Expects 105 New gTLD Applications To Be Withdrawn Before … - In its 2014 budget ICANN expects a total of 646 new gTLD applications will be withdrawn up from its estimate of 545. We know that there were 1931 applications submitted for 1,409 strings. So we know that all the non-winning applications in strings with more than one application will be withdrawn accounting for 522 of the 646 applications. Of the 646 applications it is now budgeting to be withdrawn, 105 are projected to be withdrawn prior to the end of Initial Evaluation at a 70% rate. There ... read more ...
 
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Now At 66 ICANN Expects 105 New gTLD Applications To Be Withdrawn Before End of IE - In its 2014 budget ICANN expects a total of 646 new gTLD applications will be withdrawn up from its estimate of 545. We know that there were 1931 applications submitted for 1,409 strings. So we know that all the non-winning applications in strings with more than one application will be withdrawn accounting for 522 of the 646 applications. Of the 646 applications it is now budgeting to be withdrawn, 105 are projected to be withdrawn prior to the end of Initial Evaluation at a 70% rate. There are ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Is Planning On New gTLD To Generating Less Than 10% Of Existing … - According to ICANN 2014 budget it is expecting revenue coming in from New gTLD’ to be less than 10% of existing TLD”s. The 2014 revised budget has $81,115,000 in revenue coming in from registries and registrars from incumbent TLD’s  but only $7,043,000 in revenue coming in from new gTLD’s. ICANN fiscal year closes on June 30 and since new gTLD’s most likely wont start until the 4th Q of 2013, that is taking into account less than a full year of operation. Moreover many new gTLD’s ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Is Planning On New gTLD To Generating Less Than 10% Of Existing TLD in 2014 - According to ICANN 2014 budget it is expecting revenue coming in from New gTLD’ to be less than 10% of existing TLD”s. The 2014 revised budget has $81,115,000 in revenue coming in from registries and registrars from incumbent TLD’s  but only $7,043,000 in revenue coming in from new gTLD’s. ICANN fiscal year closes on June 30 and since new gTLD’s most likely wont start until the 4th Q of 2013, that is taking into account less than a full year of operation. Moreover many new gTLD’s will ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Agrees To Private Auctions For 63 New gTLD’s: Will Anyone Come To … - Great post from Mike with insights beyond mere reporting and great comment from Domo. Personally though, I expect quite a lot of the new gTLDs to be quite successful, if you agree half a million registrations is successful (compared to dot com’s more than 100 million). Successful for endusers. What always seems to be missing from these discussions is the impact of the dot brands. Hundreds of the world’s greatest corporations are impatiently standing by ready ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Agrees To Private Auctions For 63 New gTLD’s: Will Anyone Come To Play? - According to a Press Release just out, Donuts Inc., the largest applicant in the new gTLD’s program has committed to participate in the first online applicant auction for 63 of the 307 total gTLDs for which it has applied. The announcement is made in advance of next week’s commitment date for participation in the auction, which will be held on June 3 and is the first of a planned series of applicant auctions. However the question becomes is how many other applications will agree to participate?   The ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Still Having Problems with Top-Level Domain Website Suffixes - Spring is in the air in the Northern Hemisphere, and unfortunately almost like clockwork that means the ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is back in the news because of its continuing attempts to rollout as many as 1,400 new Top Level Domain (gTLD) web site suffixes. It seems like no good deed goes unpunished, and that this is turning out to be a lot harder than expected. Last year around this time ICANN put a stop on ... read more ...
 
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Key-Systems is on the Spot at WHD.india 2013 - ST. INGBERT, Germany, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Metaregistry™ RRPproxy™, a division of the Key-Systems GmbH, will present its registrar and reseller solutions for new top level domains (TLDs) at this year's WHD.india in Mumbai from May 27-28. Jochen Kieler, Chief Business Development Officer of Key-Systems, holds a speech on RRPproxy on May 28, starting at 14:40 pm in Ballroom B. By using ... read more ...
 
 
 
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ICANN headcount bursting 50% this mercantile year - Non-profit plans to continue hiring in all departments. ICANN expects to end FY 2013 this June with nearly 50% more employees than it began the year with. That’s according to the non-profit’s FY 2014 draft operating plan, which shows an expected 233 employees by the end of June. It ended June 2012 with 158 employees. That’s nearly 50% growth in just one year. The forecast shows that ICANN expects to hire 47 people in this quarter alone. 19 of those are allocated ... read more ...
 
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ICANN expects 646 new TLD applications to be withdrawn - ICANN forecasts 646 applications will be withdrawn, mostly after the initial evaluation period. 66 applications for new top level domain names have been withdrawn as of today. For budgeting purposes, ICANN projects that number will explode to 646 before everything is said and done. The number was disclosed in ICANN’s proposed operating plan and budget for the 2014 financial year, which begins in July 2013. The number is up from a previously budgeted 545 applications ... read more ...
 
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Donuts offers to attend in private auction for 63 new TLDs - Largest new TLD applicant commits to resolve up to 63 new TLD contention sets through first private auction. Donuts, the company that applied for the most top level domain names, announced today that it will commit to private auctions for 63 of the 307 strings that it applied for in the first auction to be held by Applicant Auction. Private auctions allow new TLD applicants to settle contention sets faster than waiting for ICANN’s “auction of last resort”. They ... read more ...
Thu 16th May 2013
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Christian Craig Out for Season, Malcolm Stewart to Fill in on TLD Honda 450 - Christian Craig was dealt another dose of bad luck, breaking his wrist again before the start of the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross season. Craig has had to deal with multiple injuries over the last few years, including breaking the same wrist at Southwick two years ago. With Craig sidelined, in steps Malcolm Stewart. After doing some testing on the bike last week, Mookie was officially announced as a replacement rider for the Troy Lee Designs/Lucas Oil/Honda team. He'll be moving up to the 450 Class this ... read more ...
 
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ICANN still having Problems with Top Level Domain (gTLD) web site suffixes - Spring is in the air in the Northern Hemisphere, and unfortunately almost like clockwork that means the ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is back in the news because of its continuing attempts to rollout as many as 1,400 new Top Level Domain (gTLD) web site suffixes. It seems like no good deed goes unpunished, and that this is turning out to be a lot harder than expected.   Last year around this time ICANN put a stop ... read more ...
 
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WIthdrawn Applications Are Reflected On The ICANN Website The Same Day - Earlier today Straat Investments let us know they had withdrawn their application for .Book today, we now know that once a site is withdrawn with ICANN it is reflected on the ICANN site the same day. Straat’s withdrawn application for .book is now reflected on ICANN’s site just hours after it was withdrawn making it the 65th new gTLD application to be withdrawn. Also today another .Brand application was withdrawn, L’Oréal application for the new gTLD,  .KIEHLS with a prioritization number ... read more ...
 
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WIthdrawn Applications Are Reflected On The ICANN Website The Same Day - Earlier today Straat Investments let us know they had withdrawn their application for .Book today, we now know that once a site is withdrawn with ICANN it is reflected on the ICANN site the same day. Straat’s withdrawn application for .book is now reflected on ICANN’s site just hours after it was withdrawn making it the 65th new gTLD application to be withdrawn. Also today another .Brand application was withdrawn, L’Oréal application for the new gTLD,  .KIEHLS with a prioritization number ... read more ...
 
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Are you dialing back domain investments as you wait for new TLDs? – Domain … - Are new TLDs changing the way you approach domain investing? Tucows filed its 10-Q yesterday . In the report , Tucows suggested that domain name investors may be proceeding cautiously with aftermarket domain purchases this year as they wait for new top level domain names:We have two primary buyers for our domain names – domain investors and businesses. While businesses domain sales continue to grow, we have begun to see evidence of domain investors interest slowing as they attempt to assess the ... read more ...
 
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Malcolm Stewart To TLD Team For Outdoors - It has been made official- Malcolm Stewart will be joining the TLD Lucas Oil Honda team for the 2013 AMA Motocross season.  The former JDR J-Star KTM rider is filling in as a replacement for the injured TLD rider Christian Craig who broke his wrist at the final Supercross round in Las Vegas. In addition to the growing relationship between the Stewart family and Troy Lee Designs with older brother James Stewart’s Seven brand, TLD Race Team Manager Tyler O’Keefe adds that Malcolm has been in ... read more ...
 
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New Top-Level Domains Coming Later This Year - (Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) - As a small business owner with a website, you may have been reading news lately about new “TLDs” being released later this year, which will alter the landscape of the internet. TLD stands for “top-level domain.” A domain name is the name that a user types into their internet browser to access your website, such as www.1and1.com. The top-level domain refers specifically to the end of that name, such as .com, .net, or .org. Your ... read more ...
 
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Straat Withdraws Application For .Book In Favor Of Deal With Another Applicant - NU DOTCO LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of STRAAT Investments, has withdrawn its application for the  new gTLD .Book which had a prioritization number of 357. The withdrawal is not yet reflected on ICANN’s site. .Book is one of 13 new gTLD applications filed by STRAAT, which is affiliated with .CO Internet. According to Jose Rasco, Managing Director of NU DOTCO, the organization is still very interested in acquiring the .Book TLD, but instead of pursuing the application directly, is working ... read more ...
 
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Straat Withdraws Application For .Book In Favor Of Deal With Another Applicant - NU DOTCO LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of STRAAT Investments, has withdrawn its application for the  new gTLD .Book which had a prioritization number of 357. The withdrawal is not yet reflected on ICANN’s site. .Book is one of 13 new gTLD applications filed by STRAAT, which is affiliated with .CO Internet. According to Jose Rasco, Managing Director of NU DOTCO, the organization is still very interested in acquiring the .Book TLD, but instead of pursuing the application directly, is working on ... read more ...
 
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Fly9 Launches Customizable Software Platform for New Top-level Domains - Getting the attention of consumers in the crowded domain registrar channel is difficult when there are thousands of top level domain names. Fly9 empowers new TLD (top-level domain) owners to control the distribution, customization and expansion of their product offering to a targeted community. Portland, OR (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 Portland-based Fly9, LLC is launching a customizable software platform for owners of new top-level domains (TLDs). This platform enables new TLD owners to expand ... read more ...