Author Archives: DomainHack.er

Tue 12th November 2013
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ICANN approves .website as top level domain name - The English language Internet is all set to grow in multiples as Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers starts the process of approving new generic Top Level Domain names. Radix, a group firm from Mumbai-based Directi that is a leading players in internet domain registry, announced that it has won the rights to operate the new top level domain, .website, after winning a private auction late last month against two other applicants. With this win, Radix will now ... read more ...
Mon 11th November 2013
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.Club Domains Signs ICANN Registry Agreement - .CLUB Domains, the operator of new gTLD .CLUB, announced on Monday that it has signed its registry agreement with ICANN .Club Domains, the operator of new gTLD .CLUB, announced on Monday that it has signed its registry agreement with ICANN. As one of multiple applicants for the .CLUB gTLD, .Club Domains had to beat out other companies including Donuts and Merchant Law Group in a private auction in order to secure the new gTLD. Donuts announced seven of its new gTLDs last week, including ... read more ...
 
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The English-language internet just grew by a third—but you probably won’t notice - On Jan. 29, 2014, you will be able to navigate over to your friendly neighborhood domain registrar and register a website on any (or indeed all) of nine new top-level domains (TLDs). So far, the English-language internet has gotten along just fine with a mere 22 TLDs, the best known of which are .com, .net and .org. Last week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which runs the internet’s addressing system, approved the first nine of some 1,400 new TLDs that ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy kicks off gTLD land rush with first domain sales - Free Regcast : Managing Multi-Vendor Devices with System Centre 2012 Domain dealer GoDaddy has begun the first registrations of domains under the ICANN generic top-level domain (gTLD) programme.The company said that it will be allowing customers to pre-register sites in the .build, .luxury, .uno and .menu domains. The release marks the first registration for the new domains since the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) formally approved the ... read more ...
Sun 10th November 2013
 
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Domain Name Experts Discuss Policy, Future Of New Internet Top-level Domains - Representatives of ICANN, MarkMonitor and Donuts discuss the future of the new gTLD program at a Donuts-sponsored panel WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), yesterday hosted a panel discussion aimed at bringing Washington policymakers, journalists and influencers up to speed on the status and future of the Internet Corporation ... read more ...
 
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First Nine English-Language newgTLDs Delegated by ICANN – .Camera … - This past week brought word that the first nine Latin / ASCII "new Generic Top Level Domains (newgTLDs)" were delegated by ICANN and are now found in the root of DNS. This means that the registries behind these newgTLDS can now start the process of making "second-level domains" (the ones we normally register) available in each of these TLDs. These were not the first newgTLDs delegated in this latest expansion of the domain name space — that honor went to four internationalized domains back ... read more ...
Sat 9th November 2013
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Verisign Publishes 2nd Part of 4 Part Series On Why Domain Blocking Of New … - Verisign just released the second in a four part series of why ICANN’s effort to fix the potential collision issue caused by the release of new gTLD’s, by blocking domain registrations, isn’t good enough to fix the potential problems Here is the second post of the promised four part series: For several years, DNS-OARC has been collecting DNS query data “from busy and interesting DNS name servers” as part of an annual “Day-in-the-Life” (DITL) effort (an effort originated by CAIDA ... read more ...
Fri 8th November 2013
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Verisign Publishes 2nd Part of 4 Parts Series On Why Domain Blocking o New … - Verisign just released the second in a four part series of why ICANN’s effort to fix the potential collision issue caused by the release of new gTLD’s, by blocking domain registrations, isn’t good enough to fix the potential problems Here is the second post of the promised four part series: For several years, DNS-OARC has been collecting DNS query data “from busy and interesting DNS name servers” as part of an annual “Day-in-the-Life” (DITL) effort (an effort originated by CAIDA ... read more ...
 
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Way beyond dot-com: New era begins with orders for .menu, .luxury and other … - Can’t get your favorite dot-com address? GoDaddy announced today that it will start taking pre-registrations for a quartet of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that will become available early next year. GoDaddy says it’s the first domain registrar to offer pre-registration for gTLDs — launching the market for what amounts to new real estate on the Internet. Users will be able to pre-register for domains that end in .build, .uno, .menu and .luxury at GoDaddy’s new TLD site. ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy abre pre registro para nuevos dominios TLD - Los planes para extender la cantidad de terminaciones para el registro de dominios lleva tiempo gestándose y después de tanta espera por fin GoDaddy anuncia que abre el pre registro para quienes quieran registrar algún dominio con las extensiones .UNO, .MENU, .BUILD y .LUXURY. En la página se puede ver que además pronto habrá otras extensiones disponibles, 897 para ser un poco más exactos, todos divididos en 17 categorías. Negocios (49) Comercio (85) Educación (19) Comidas y bebidas (29) Genericos ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Starts Registering gTLDs - Scottsdale, Arizona-based domain registrar GoDaddy said this morning that it has begun to sell pre-registration on the ICANN's new domain name extensions, the broad extension of global top level domains (gTLDs) that the Internet domain industry has been working on for the last few years. According to GoDaddy, it has started launching pre-registration of .UNO, .MENU, .BUILD and .LUXURY, the first of what GoDaddy says are 700 additional domain name extension expected to be available over the next ... read more ...
 
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How Your Premium Domain Might Be Sold By Godaddy As People Try To … - Here we go, boys and girls. What is the explanation for the variation in renewal fees on the so-called, Premium, domains: PurelyPurses.com $14.99 LeatherPurses.net $16.99 vs. $9.99 on a newly-registered dot com, and $8.99 for dot net? “Premium Domain Names are more valuable than other domains because they are based on common words or phrases people often use in their online searches. While GoDaddy does not own these domains names, we are one of a select group ... read more ...
 
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NameJet.com To Auction .XYZ & .College Domain Names Starting This Month - NameJet and XYZ.COM announced they  have partnered  “in a groundbreaking advanced auction format prior to the release of the TLD to the open market in 2014.” “Forty premium .XYZ and .COLLEGE domain names will be offered in this first-of-its-kind advance auction, where  the highest bidder purchases an option to acquire the domain at the winning price, taking possession of the domain when it becomes available at the registry.” “As more gTLDs become available, individuals and organizations ... read more ...
 
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NameJet to Offer New .XYZ and .COLLEGE Generic Top Level Domain Names … – Virtual - NameJet and the XYZ.COM LLC Registry are offering 40 never before released domain names under the new generic top level domains (gTLDs) .XYZ and .COLLEGE in a group of advance auctions. Kirkland, WA (PRWEB) November 08, 2013 As leaders in innovating the domain name space, NameJet and XYZ.COM have partnered to offer some of the very first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to the public this month. These never before released domain names are being offered by the new Top Level Domain Registry ... read more ...
 
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Nuove estensioni dominio 1&1: un importante accordo - Nuove estensioni dominio e prenotazione: 11 annuncia un'importante novità, nell'attesa che l'ICANN renda disponibili i nuovi gTLD Più volte, su queste pagine, ci siamo occupati delle nuove estensioni dominio e delle iniziative di alcuni provider come 11 riguardanti questo argomento. Il nostro obiettivo è sempre stato quello di erudire i lettori riguardo alle reali opportunità offerte dalle prenotazioni ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Adds Seven Generic Top-Level Domains To The Internet, Signs 13 … - BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), took major strides this week toward broadening choices in the domain name system (DNS) and will introduce seven gTLDs. Further, Donuts now has received signed Registry-Registrar Agreements (RRAs) from some of the world's largest registrars, dramatically expanding registration availability.  The Internet's addressing ... read more ...
 
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Donuts: .Com Is Like A Department Store, We are Building An Entire Shopping … - Clickz.com, , just published an interview with Jon Nevett one of the founders of Donuts and Mason Cole their VP of Communications and I found a few very interesting quotes. Jon Nevett is quoted as saying “At a high level the existing name space is overused and worn out. As new businesses start up, they can’t find what they want in the existing name space so they end up with a crazy mix of consonants and vowels because that’s all that’s available in dot com. So they end up with newyork35avepizza.com ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: No New gTLD’s Last Resort Auctions Until Early March 2014 - In a webinar held by ICANN today on its Last Resort Auction for new gTLD strings in contention,  ICANN stated that no new gTLD ICANN last resort auction will be held in 2013 and most likely not until March 2014. Moreover the ICANN schedule is 10-20 auctions per month, with no applicant being able to participate in more than 5 auctions per month. So a company like Donuts which has over 100 applications in contention, based on the current time frame could be looking at a couple of years to settle ... read more ...
Thu 7th November 2013
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Why The New gTLDs Matter to Me - As someone who runs a website in the domain investing space, the new gTLD domain names will likely lead to advertising revenue opportunities. I don’t have any open banner spots nor do I have plans to add banner space, but at some point in the future, I  assume there will be new gTLD advertising inquiries. That aside, new gTLDs matter to me as a domain investor, and I want to discuss why that’s the case. In the next year or two, we are going to see most major domain registrars marketing ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Program Committe Denies 3 Reconsideration Request But Punts On … - The  New gTLD Program Committee (NPGC) of ICANN denied several requests for reconsideration in its latest meeting of which the minutes published last night, while punting on reconsideration requests Amazon on .Amazon. The NGPC denied the requests for reconsideration of Hotel Top-Level-Domain S.a.r.l’s (“dotHotel”) of the 8 August 2013 Expert Determination from a dispute resolution panel established by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) dismissing dotHotel’s objection ... read more ...
 
 
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1&1 sigla il primo accordo di accreditamento Registry-Registrar con Donuts - 11 Internet, www.1and1.it, leader mondiale nel web hosting, ha siglato oggi l’accordo di accreditamento Registry-Registrar con Donuts. Come maggiore Registry sul mercato per numero di domande di nuovi domini gTLD, ci si attende che Donuts Inc. sia in grado di offrire più di 150 nuove estensioni già a metà gennaio 2014. L'accordo prevede che 11 sia autorizzato a raccogliere le prenotazioni per i domini Donuts ed a fornire ai propri clienti tutti i nuovi gTLD offerti dal Registry non appena saranno ... read more ...
 
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1&1 Signs its First Registry-Registrar Agreement for New TLDs - More Related Stories email article print page <![CDATA[ ]]> November 06, 2013 -- PHILADELPHIA, PA., Nov. 6, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 1 1 Internet, Inc., www.1and1.com, a global leader among Web hosting providers, today signed the Registry-Registrar Agreement with Donuts Inc. As the industry's largest registry by number of new TLD applications, Donuts Inc. is expected to offer more than ... read more ...