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Thu 15th May 2014
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.CLUB Continues to Separate Themselves From the Marketing Pack – Will 50 … - about how little money is being spent on publicity in general for the new GTLDs. One audience member remarked that they must  be spending everything on running auctions." This ... read more ...
 
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Kurt Pritz - DNA Auction Plan to Reinvest Money Into Industry Love them or hate them, auctions are an unavoidable reality of the new Top-Level Domain (TLD) Program. By their very nature, they create winners and losers. All that is in doubt is where the money goes -- to the losing parties under a private auction model or to ICANN under their auction of last resort. There are pros and cons for both models. But what if there was another way? more» ... read more ...
 
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DNA Auction Plan to Reinvest Money Into Industry - Love them or hate them, auctions are an unavoidable reality of the new Top-Level Domain (TLD) Program. By their very nature, they create winners and losers. All that is in doubt is where the money goes — to the losing parties under a private auction model or to ICANN under their auction of last resort. There are pros and cons for both models. But what if there was another way? Instead of the two current options, what if the proceeds from auctions could be reinvested into the wider domain ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs: Is Internationalism the Solution? - "academy, academic, accumulator, adieu, alphabet, alpha, ampere, apostrophe, atlas, atmosphere, atom , baby, bacillus, balcony, banana, banjo, barbarism, baritone, bayonet, benzyl, bicycle, billiards, blonde, blouse, bonbon, boss, bouquet, boulevard, bourgeois, brave, bridge, buffet, bulletin, bull-dog, cable, cafeteria, cadet, calico, camouflage, caravan, card, carnival, catastrophe, caviar, center, chaos, civilization, cocoa, communist, condenser, contralto, cosmopolitan, crepe, cricket, crochet, ... read more ...
 
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Skeptical of the new gTLD insurgence? Finding the pièce de résistance — the … - Will the launch of new gTLDs really transform the Internet as ICANN has envisioned? Without a doubt, the increase of gTLDs at the root level will create competition and diversity, and foster innovation — simply because the option is there. Innovation takes time and often does not happen until the tools to foster it are in place. With new gTLDs, however, also comes resistance, as there is with any new concept that has the power to change an industry and the way we do business. One ... read more ...
 
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Whether Republican, Democrat or Independent, the ‘.gop’ gTLD is one to consider - ‘.gop’, now in sunrise, is notable as it is the only new gTLD in the first round of applications to be operated by a political party. However, one commentator has urged brands to consider the string when devising their registration strategies, no matter what their political persuasion. The GOP acronym stands for ‘Grand Old Party’, an alternative name for the Republican Party in the United States. Run by registry operator Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), the ‘.gop’ ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes Delivers Vertical Integration Solution for WIEN Retail Operation … - More Related Stories email article print page <![CDATA[ ]]> May 14, 2014 -- Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 14, 2014 --(PR.com)-- LogicBoxes, the Vertical Integration solutions provider for New gTLD Registries today announced that it has successfully executed a comprehensive Vertical Integration project in the .WIEN namespace. .WIEN is a new gTLD extension that caters to businesses, organizations, individuals and any other ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Reports Earnings & New gTLD’s Accounted For 6.5% of Total New Sales - Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC), a global provider of domain names and other Internet services, today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014 Beginning in the first quarter of 2014, Tucows has reclassified its revenue streams into Domain Services and Network Access Services. Domain Services includes Wholesale OpenSRS (Domain Service and Value Added Services), Retail (Hover) and Portfolio. Network Access Services includes Ting. “Our performance in the first ... read more ...
Wed 14th May 2014
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May 12: updated status of sunrise periods and trademark claims notification … - As we previously reported to you (click here to view April 29, 2013 TLD article), the internet is expanding to include hundreds of new top-level-domains (TLDs) (examples of TLDs as we know them today include .com, .net. and .org – i.e., the term that is to the right of the "dot"). While the only certainty at that time was that the launch was inevitable, like it or not, it's finally here (click here to view January 9, 2014 Sunrise article). Frost Brown Todd will be sending out ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD’s Take 1st Toll On Existing String? .Mobi Falls Below 1 Million … -   According to RegistrarStats.com the Top Level Domain (TLD) .Mobi  fell below 1 Million domain name registrations. .Mobi hit a high of 1.2 Million registrations in January 2014 before the new gTLD were released. .Mobi increased registration from late 2011,  from below 1 Million hitting  1.2 Million on January. We can’t peg the losses of 200,000 domain registrations since January just to the new gTLD’s, but it certainly could be a factor which is why the headline has a question mark. What ... read more ...
 
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De kansen en valkuilen van nieuwe gTLD’s - ICANN als verkeersleiderWat is een gTLD precies? Om het antwoord te kennen moet je bekend zijn met ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN is een non­profit organisatie die fungeert als een soort bibliotheek en verkeersleider. Zij creëert top level domains, wijst domeinnamen toe en distribueert IP­nummers. Het is haar taak om de uitgifte van de nieuwe gTLD’s te reguleren en het administratieve proces te begeleiden. Dit betekent niet dat ICANN volledig verantwoordelijk ... read more ...
Tue 13th May 2014
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TLD Racing ready for hometown Tour debut - Topics:  cycling, tld racing, toowoomba, tour of toowoomba Story Tools var addthis_config = { services_compact: 'favorites, email, facebook, twitter, buzz', services_exclude: 'print' } Tweet TLD Racing rider Sebastian Scott (foreground) along with team managers Dave Silk and Peter Watts ahead of TLD competing in the FKG Tour of Toowoomba. TLD Racing is excited about the chance to put Toowoomba in ... read more ...
 
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TLD Racing ready for hometown Tour debut - Topics:  cycling, tld racing, toowoomba, tour of toowoomba Story Tools var addthis_config = { services_compact: 'favorites, email, facebook, twitter, buzz', services_exclude: 'print' } Tweet TLD Racing rider Sebastian Scott (foreground) along with team managers Dave Silk and Peter Watts ahead of TLD competing in the FKG Tour of Toowoomba. TLD Racing is excited about the chance to put Toowoomba ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes Delivers Vertical Integration Solution For .WIEN Retail Operation … - According to a press release we just received “LogicBoxes, the Vertical Integration solutions provider for New gTLD Registries today announced that it has successfully executed a comprehensive Vertical Integration project in the .WIEN namespace. .WIEN is a new gTLD extension that caters to businesses, organizations, individuals and any other entities associated with Vienna, the Austrian capital. The vertically integrated retail operation for .WIEN, netzadresse.at GmbH, focuses specifically on the ... read more ...
 
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Is the Future of .BRAND TLDs to Be Registered Just Like a Domain Name? - Will .BRAND Top-Level Domains be made available for registration at Registrars like GoDaddy, just like second level domains are? My guess is that it will and here are the reasons why. Go what? There is no longer a need to introduce GoDaddy. GoDaddy is just the largest Registrar in the world and has no equivalent. According to nTLDStats.com, it has 24.51% market shares in the new domain names market, with 175,313 new domain names registered out of a total of 715,276, 12 million customers ... read more ...
 
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dotAfrica dispute causes more delays - The launch of the .africa TLD by the ZACR has been delayed due to the ongoing Independent Review Process between ICANN and DotConnectAfrica (DCA), Neil Dundas, chief operating officer of the SA-based ZA Central Registry (ZACR) said. The DCA, whose domain name registry operates out of Kenya, initially submitted a separate competing application for .africa, but without government support, Dundas said. As a result of the lack of support and the subsequent Governmental Advisory Committee ... read more ...
 
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Dispute further delays launch of .africa internet name - Dispute further delays launch of .africa internet name A complaint by an organisation competing for the .africa geographic top-level domain (gTLD) has further postponed the launch of the internet name, which was planned to be unveiled early June. This is according to Neil Dundas, the chief operating officer of South Africa’s ZA Central Registry (ZACR), who says the internet name may only be commercially launched in late June or July now. This is the latest ... read more ...
 
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Dot luxury domain names going on general release - New top-level domain name .luxury is now going on general sale. Some 500 brands from Bvlgari to Versace, signed up for their own .luxury top-level domain (TLD) name in the initial 60-day sunrise period in which registrations were only available for trademarked brands. Now the .luxury name is available through internet registrars including CentralNic which has launched a dedicated website, www.domain.luxury through its TRS subsidiary. “.luxury is one of the most successful new TLDs to launch ... read more ...
Mon 12th May 2014
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CentralNic Launches Website For Sale Of .Luxury Domains - LONDON (Alliance News) - CentralNic Group PLC said Monday that it had launched a new website for the sale of new domain names ending in .luxury through its subsidiary TLD Registrar Solutions.Over 500 brands had already signed up for domain names with the .luxury top level domain, including Chanel SA, Société Cartier, Gucci Group and Gianni Versace SpA, during its initial 60 day window for trademark holders only.Following the close of this initial period, where domains were offered at USD1,199 for ... read more ...
 
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CentralNIC looking forward to a life of .luxury - No investment advice The Company is a publisher. You understand and agree that no content published on the Site constitutes a recommendation that any particular security, portfolio of securities, transaction, or investment strategy is suitable or advisable for any specific person. You further understand that none of the information providers or their affiliates will advise you personally concerning the nature, potential, advisability, value or suitability of any particular security, portfolio ... read more ...
 
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Verizon counsel slams gTLD opportunists - “We have seen lots of cybersquatting but not a lot of innovation, which was one of the arguments for the new gTLDs programme”. So stated Sarah B Deutsch, vice president and associate general counsel for Verizon Communications, speaking at the INTA Annual Meeting earlier today, where she added: “We are seeing a steady flow of cybersquatters jumping in as new gTLDs roll out”. She therefore called on trademark counsel to record instances of abuse to inform later reviews of the gTLD programme. Drawing ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic launches website for .Luxury domains - StockMarketWire.com - CentralNic Group has launched a new website - http://www.DOMAIN.LUXURY - dedicated to selling domain names ending with the new top-level domain .LUXURY, through its wholly owned subsidiary TLD Registrar Solutions. CentralNic chief executive Ben Crawford said: ".LUXURY is one of the most successful new TLDs to launch so far, having already signed over 500 brands in their Sunrise. "Other companies applied for dozens, even hundreds, of top-level domains, and so far few ... read more ...
Sun 11th May 2014
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.Club Jumps Into 3rd Place Of The Most Registered New Domain Extensions … - Just days after launching, .Club passed .Photography into third place of the new domain extensions, (gTLD’s) with the most registrations. .Club now has according to ntldstats.com over 36,700 registrations with only .Berlin and .Guru having more. .Photography has broken through 35,000 registrations. There are now 9 new gTLD’s with over 20,000 registrations. 21 with more than 10,000 registrations. 40 with more than 5,000 registrations. The only new gTLD’s that have launched into general availability ... read more ...
Sat 10th May 2014
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Trademark Hysteria On New gTLD’s Unfounded? 725K Domains/ 53 URS/17 … - Since the new gTLD’s launched there are approximately 725,000 new gTLD registrations. By my count, URS have been filed against 53 domain names and UDRP’s have been filed against 17 domain names (counts by domain names not cases) So basically 70 domain names out of 725,000 or a 1,000th of 1% of all new gTLD domain names registered have been hit with a URS or UDRP. It should be pointed out that not all of the filed cases went in the favor of the complainant and decisions are still pending. Of course ... read more ...
Fri 9th May 2014
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Dot NYC (.nyc) TLD Enters First Phase of Launch - This week, the City of New York and Neustar launched the first phase of availability for the new .nyc Top-Level Domain (TLD). The "Sunrise” phase gives NYC businesses with trademarks first priority in claiming their .nyc names through June 20. This is the first of three phases prior to general availability opening October 8, 2014. As one of the most anticipated arrivals in the City and the Internet's history, the .nyc address is a unique opportunity for New York City residents, businesses ... read more ...