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--> New online neighborhoods open Wednesday when a US company starts offering Web addresses ending in ".guru," ".bike" - and even ".singles." Donuts Inc plans to launch seven new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and then roll out more on a weekly basis through most of the year.In the mix initially are addresses ending in guru, bike, singles, ... read more ...
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Fri 31st January 2014
New Domain Names For Sale: 4 Facts -
First seven new generic top-level domains rolled out for public purchase Wednesday; hundreds more coming. Get prepared.
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Take note, Joe Plumber. You're now able to hang your shingle online at www.joe.plumbing, provided some other Joe doesn't beat you to the punch.
The first seven of what will eventually be hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) on the Internet began rolling out for public purchase on Wednesday, including .bike, .clothing, ... read more ...
New Top-Level Domains Flood Web -
Just days from now, a flood of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) will come online. From .Plumber to .Sexy and more, the number of gTLDs marks a five-fold increase over those introduced in the entire 20th century.
Akram Atallah, president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), said the rush means more consumer choice and more industry competition. He predicted the online landscape would be transformed by the innovation these new domain names would ... read more ...
New Top-Level Domains Could Affect GoDaddy, Network Solutions, and More -
Quick, how many web-address extensions (the suffix after the dot in the URL) can you name in five seconds?
During the final week of January, Internet web addresses have been finding their "neighborhoods" more diverse as an influx of new and more descriptive domain names began to surge onto the scene. While some view this phenomenon as a seismic shift in the Internet, not everybody is doing cartwheels.
Answering the question above, I would have come up with "dot com," "dot ... read more ...
TLD Holdings Raises Over $33 Million, Names Tucows CEO To Board and Will … -
Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) is a publicly traded company on the London AIM, the company came out with a press release today which details a lot of things going on for the company. It placed shares at 12pence and surprisingly traded up after the placement. Elliot Noss the CEO of Tucows will join the board, and they are doing a name change to Minds + Machines Limited
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Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
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TLD Holdings Raises Over $33 Million, Names Tucows CEO To Board and Will Change the Name -
Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) is a publicly traded company on the London AIM, the company came out with a press release today which details a lot of things going on for the company. It placed shares at 12pence and surprisingly traded up after the placement. Elliot Noss the CEO of Tucows will join the board, and they are doing a name change to Minds + Machines Limited
Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (“TLDH”, the “Company” or “Group”) announced today they raised £21 million (approximately ... read more ...
SiberName Signs Registry-Registrar Agreement with .CLUB and Starts … -
Ottawa,ON – Over the past year, SiberName has engaged with several parties to provide new comprehensive top level domain (TLD) name registration services to customers. The new TLD names span a wide array of categories connected to an extremely broad range of interests and capabilities including: e-commerce, personal professional identity, education, entertainment, internet life, sports, small business and social media.
SiberName will now begin to offer its customers the opportunity to ... read more ...
ASEOHosting Introduces Many New Country-Code Top Level Domains -
Hudson, FL – ASEOHosting, a provider of premium multiple IP hosting, has announced the availability of several new country-code top-level domains to its clients. The new ccTLDs will be an invaluable addition for webmasters seeking to increase their exposure in international markets and broaden the link diversity of their site portfolios.
Among the new ccTLDs are Austria(.at), Portugal(.pt), Macedonia(.mk), Lithuania(.lt), Hungary(.hu), Poland(.pl), Switzerland(.ch), Greece(.gr), Belgium(.bg), ... read more ...
On a collision course: how domain name collision could be your biggest security … -
We are barely a month into 2014 and one of the news stories that is likely to be most memorable for the year is the Target security breach that resulted in upwards of 70 million customers’ personal information being disclosed. Data and other security breaches are fast becoming a critical issue for any organization that handles third party data.
One of the biggest threats to your company’s data and information technology security may be a problem known as “domain name collision” ... read more ...
Pretty Soon We’ll Have Websites Ending In .WTF -
Prepare for the upending of the internet. This year hundreds of new "top-level domains" or gTLDs (like .fish, .family, .jaguar, and the veritable .wtf) will go live.
The application fee to start a new top-level domain (like, say, DeliverMe.pizza) is a staggering $185,000, payable to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the powerful governing body of ... read more ...
Who Are the Major New gTLD Applicants and… (Part One: Famous Four Media) -
...what is their approach to bringing new domain names to market?
This article is the personal analysis by a new gTLD consultant who has been following the ICANN new gTLD program from the beginning but with a Frenchman's perspective.
I recently read an article which made me smile because entitled "the top 10 new gTLDs to follow in 2014". But according to what? I partially read it to find out that it was written by a professional from a certain culture and written for a certain culture. None ... read more ...
Upcoming flood of new top-level domains could change how we surf the internet - A big name start-up called Donuts Inc. is finally getting a chance to test its great theory of the internet: URLs matter, and if Donuts just happens to get rich along the way, so be it. That’s the sales pitch, as the company rolls out the first seven of potentially hundreds of new top-level domains (TLDs), insisting that the new approach will change the way we use the internet. The new TLDs (sometimes called generic TLDs or gTLDs), which became available this week through dozens of domain sales ... read more ...
What may be the world’s most valuable IP rights are now up for grabs -
Earlier this week, the first handful of new general top-level domains (gTLDs) opened to public registration. Whatever your views on the new gTLD programme, the public availability of these domains is a significant development for IP owners.
Since Wednesday, anyone in the world has been able to obtain web addresses ending in ‘.bike’, ‘.clothing’, ‘.guru’, ‘.holdings, ‘.plumbing’, ‘.singles’ and ‘.ventures’. Domain registry company Donuts – which expects to eventually ... read more ...
SiberName Signs Registry-Registrar Agreement with .CLUB and Starts … -
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Ottawa,ON Over the past year, SiberName has engaged with several parties to provide new comprehensive top level domain (TLD) name registration services to customers. The new TLD names span a wide array of categories connected to an extremely broad range of interests and capabilities including: e-commerce, personal professional identity, education, entertainment, internet life, sports, small business and social media.
SiberName will now begin to offer its customers ... read more ...
Top Level places 175m to raise auction funds -
News from Sharecast:
Shares in Top Level Domain rose strongly on Friday morning after the company raised 21m pounds following the placing of 175m shares at 12p each.
The company also announced its intention to be renamed Minds + Machines in recognition of its planned transition to an operating business with a material trading activity.
The group said the funds raised by the placing would be used for the development of its operations and to ... read more ...
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In vista dell’arrivo dei nuovi domini gTLD, Aruba offre la possibilità di creare … -
Arezzo, 30/01/2014 (informazione.it - comunicati stampa) Aruba S.p.A. (www.aruba.it), leader nei servizi di web hosting, email, PEC e registrazione domini, in vista dell’arrivo di oltre 700 nuove estensioni di dominio (gTLD – Generic Top Level Domain), offre la possibilità di creare in modo totalmente gratuito la propria wishlist attraverso il sito http://nuovigtld.aruba.it/.
Nei prossimi mesi, infatti, agli attuali noti TLD (come ad esempio .it o .com), andranno ad aggiungersi ... read more ...
Nominet nominates .uk domain launch date -
UK superfast broadband rollout triples in rural areas
Google loses High Court bid to block UK legal action
Nominet gives green light to .uk domains, touts business benefits
UK internet registry company Nominet has announced that .uk domain names will be available from June 10 2014. The .uk domain Top Level Domain (TLD) will be offered in addition to similar domain TLDs such as .co.uk and .org.uk.At present, .co.uk is aimed at British businesses, while .org.uk is predominantly for non-commercial ... read more ...
Aruba offre la possibilità di creare gratuitamente la lista delle proprie estensioni … -
Aruba S.p.A., specializzata nei servizi di web hosting, email, PEC e registrazione domini, in vista dell’arrivo di oltre 700 nuove estensioni di dominio (gTLD – Generic Top Level Domain), offre la possibilità di creare in modo totalmente gratuito la propria wishlist attraverso il sito http://nuovigtld.aruba.it/.
Nei prossimi mesi, infatti, agli attuali noti TLD (come ad esempio .it o .com), andranno ad aggiungersi numerose nuove ... read more ...
Go Daddy Owns it Role in a Twitter @N Case – Paypal Does Not - Go Daddy admits that it was at fault in the @N case. Paypal denied any fault.
ItWorld covered the story that has been going on for a few days with regards to Naoki Hiroshima, his Twitter handle @N and his Go Daddy account.
The story has been covered inside the domain world and out and now comes an acknowledgement from Go Daddy and a denial from Paypal.
— GoDaddy has acknowledged that one of its employees fell victim to a social engineering attack allowing a hacker to take over a customer’s domain ... read more ...
Apple sichert sich mehrere .guru-Domains -
Sie heißen .bike, .clothing und .guru, drei von über hundert neuen Top-Level-Domains, die in den nächsten Wochen starten werden. Firmen wollen sich natürlich so schnell wie möglich Domains für ihre Marken sichern, Apple hat dies bereits für die .guru TLD getan.Zukünftig könnte die Apple-Website auch über apple.guru, iphone.guru, ipad.guru und mac.guru erreichbar. Die Adressen appletv.guru, macbook.guru und ipod.guru lassen sich nicht registrieren. Apple hatte sogar eine eigene ... read more ...
Zynga Purchases Natural Motion for $527 Million – Stock adult after hours on earnings - It was a busy day for game maker Zynga, the company reported earnings and laid of 15 % of their workforce. Then they announced the acquisition of Natural Motion for $527 million.
Tech Crunch covered the Natural Motion acquisition :
Zynga has long been famous (or infamous?) for its data-driven approach to game design. The company never focused on building strong character IP, or intellectual property, in favor of releasing games that had been thoroughly funnel-tested.
But now that founding CEO Mark ... read more ...
NC State University loses domain name brawl for Wolfpack.com -
Arbitration panel rules that NC State shouldn’t get Wolfpack.com domain name.
North Carolina State University, whose athletic teams are called the Wolfpack, has lost a domain name arbitration case for the domain Wolfpack.com.
The university filed the case against a company that registered the domain name in 1997. The university argued that the domain name was registered for the purpose of selling it, and used an unsolicited 2007 letter from the domain owner offering ... read more ...
Digging in on Donuts’ Sunrise: Amazon tops a list, gaming, and tip registrars -
Here’s a look at the top registrants and registrars, plus details on possible gaming and EAP day one registrations.
Last night I published initial data about Donuts’ sunrise period on its first seven domain names. This was based on names in the zone files that were published last night.
As I mentioned in my previous post, the number of names in the zone file should be considered the lower bound of names that were actually registered in sunrise. I’ve already ... read more ...
Why cybersquatting won’t be a large understanding in new TLDs -
Cybersquatting is motivated by profit, and it will be difficult to make money cybersquatting on new TLDs.
Much of the talk and consternation over introducing new top level domain names has focused on protections for intellectual property owners. Trademark holders have been worried about having to protect their brands in hundreds of new domain name extensions.
When it comes to cybersquatting, I think it’s clear that it won’t be nearly as big of a deal as it has ... read more ...