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Thu 31st October 2013
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Info about New Domains for Your Online Success - (Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) - The introduction of the new top-level domains is in full swing! In the near future we will be informing you every month about the latest news and special features when it comes to gTLDs. Of course, once the exact conditions for your chosen domain names are known and they are available to order, we will inform you immediately. .tour, .tours or .vacations – who’s first? During ICANN’s application phase to introduce the new top-level ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four On .Sport Decision “We Will Rigorously Pursue All Legal Avenues … - Famous Four Media issued a statement on the ICC decision granting an objection to Famous Four Applications for .Sport, finding that the other applicant for the gTLD. Sport, SportAccord represented the community of Sports, saying that they intend to “rigorously pursue  all available legal avenues available to it to have the decision independently reviewed by ICANN and/or others as the case may be, and reversed.” We found the decision pretty shocking ourselves; to find the one group which ... read more ...
 
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Be careful while online shopping this Diwali - India has come of age when it comes to online shopping. Many Indians are turning towards this easier mode of purchase which is less time consuming and comes with better bargains. However, it is also turning out to be an easy hunting ground for opportunistic cybercriminals. Scammers and fraudsters are once again doing the rounds with out-of-the-world offers and speedy deliveries to users’ doorstep. According to computer security software corporation Symantec, third-party mailers and spammy ... read more ...
 
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WOW: ICC Upholds Community Objection Of SportsAccord To Famous Four’s … - The ICC has Upheld the Community Objection of SportAccord against the application of Famous Four for the new gTLD .Sport SportAccord is also an applicant for the new gTLD .Sport, actually the only other applicant for .Sport so what this ruling means if it stands, is that Famous Four’s application for .Sport will be rejected and SportAccord will wind up with the new gTLD .Sport. The ICC panel found that SportAccord represented the community of Sports. There is also a new gTLD application .Sports ... read more ...
 
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Technical Viability of Dotless Domain Names - It was never obvious at the outset of this grand Internet experiment that the one aspect of the network's infrastructure that would truly prove to be the most fascinating, intriguing, painful, lucrative and just plain confusing, would be the Internet's Domain Name System. After all, it all seemed so simple to start with: network applications rendezvous with their counterparts using protocol-level addresses, but we users prefer to use "natural" identifiers that act as aliases for these addresses. ... read more ...
 
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Here They Come - Something has shifted. I think it might be the end of the holding pattern we as new gTLD applicants/followers/enthusiasts and generally speaking, the entire community, have been caught up in. We´re all looking forward to ushering in the next generation of the Internet. Someone press start please. Several major milestones have been reached. Multiple new gTLD registries have passed initial technical testing and the first batch of new gTLD contracts have been signed. One might even say that ... read more ...
Wed 30th October 2013
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Release of new gTLDs - Sun about to rise on new gTLDs The release of the first new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) is imminent. Applications to register and operate the new gTLDs opened in the first quarter of 2012. After many months of evaluation by ICANN and public consultations, the first batch of new gTLD registries will soon begin accepting domain name registrations from the public after the initial sunrise period has closed. ICANN received 1930 applications for new gTLDs. The applications cover a mix of generic ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Signs Its First Registry-Registrar Agreement with Dot Latin’s TLD, .UNO - KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Dot Latin LLC announced today that the world’s largest domain registrar, GoDaddy, has signed the Registry-Registrar Agreement for the .UNO domain extension, specifically designed for the Hispanic and Latino communities, worldwide. .UNO is the first global web extension dedicated to Spanish-speaking businesses, consumers and individuals online. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20131030/PH07247LOGO ) .UNO is an excellent choice for Hispanics ... read more ...
 
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Neue Top Level Domains Verdienen mit Heimat und Identität im Netz - Vergangene Woche wurden die ersten vier der neuen Top Level Domains in die Root Zone des Internets integriert: Der arabische Begriff für "Netz", die kyrillischen Wörter für "Online" und "Site" sowie der chinesische Ausdruck für "Spiel". In einigen Wochen werden die ersten Websites mit den neuen Adressendungen im Netz stehen. Rund 1.400 weitere TLDs werden bis vermutlich Ende 2014 folgen - solche mit vorrangig kommerziellem Bezug wie .shop oder .hotel., mit Interessen- und Lifestylebezug wie ... read more ...
 
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Trademark owners – protect yourselves NOW as the new gTLDs are finally … - The first wave of the new Generic Top Level Domain Names (the “new gTLDs”) were just approved to go live a few days ago, and cybersquatters and speculators may already be pre-registering your brand as one of these new domain names. The remaining 900 or so expected new gTLDs, such as .shop and .online, will go live on a rolling basis with little advance warning. Accordingly, it is time for trademark owners to review their domain name enforcement strategies and scale them appropriately to meet ... read more ...
 
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Wrap Up From OTA’s New gTLD Domain Collisions Workshop: Collision Issue Is … - The Online Trust Alliance‘s (OTA) held a new gTLD Domain Collisions Workshop yesterday in Herndon, VA over what “many stakeholders believe there are significant risks of “domain collisions” occurring with the introduction of the new gTLD’s The workshop ran well over 7 hours and the overriding theme is that the domain collision issue is a lot like Y2K. Domain collisions are the result of a long-standing practice of network administrators setting up intranets (internal networks) using ... read more ...
 
 
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Testes da Petrobras em Sergipe começam até fim de 2015 - O diretor de Exploração e Produção da Petrobras, José Miranda Formigli, afirmou nesta quarta-feira, 30, que a empresa dará início aos testes de longa duração (TLD) na Bacia Sergipe-Alagoas até o final de 2015. A expectativa do diretor é de que a produção tenha início até 2018, com produção inicial de 100 mil barris. "Já estamos modelando o sistema, mas o TLD calibra o sistema definitivamente. Estamos trabalhando para ter uma unidade de 100 mil para 2018. Isso está firme e forte ... read more ...
 
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As new gTLDs near launch, what’s happening and how can you protect yourself? - 30 October 2013 By Bobby Ghajar and Robert B BurlingameWhile much of the world is finally getting a handle on the .com, .net and .org domains, we are on the brink of an explosion of hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). In fact, if things go as planned, we will soon grow from the 22 current gTLDs to nearly 2,000 gTLDs.Although exciting and intriguing, particularly ... read more ...
 
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Bittorrent-Index Isohunt zwei Wochen nach der Schließung wieder da - Der Bittorrent-Index Isohunt ist knapp zwei Wochen nach der Schließung wieder online. Laut einem Bericht des Onlinemagazins Torrentfreak hat ein neues Team den Betrieb unter einer neuen TLD übernommen. Das wiederbelebte Isohunt sieht genauso aus wie die bisherige Version. "Isohunt war seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt ein wichtiger Teil der Torrent-Welt. Die Schließung ist ein großer Verlust für alle, die es im Laufe der Jahre genutzt haben. Medienkonzerne mögen Innovationen und Wettbewerb, und ... read more ...
 
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Neue Top Level Domains: Wie Google seine neuen Namen im DNS nutzen will - Den eigenen Internet-Namensraum fest im Blick: Google Bild: dpa, Friso Gentsch/Archiv Insgesamt 97 neue Top Level Domains (TLDs) hat Google bei der Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) im Rahmen deren Öffnung des Internet-Namensraums beantragt. Darunter befinden sich nicht nur die Namen eigener Dienste, sondern auch eine lange Liste allgemeiner Begriffe. Die Aussicht, ... read more ...
 
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Domény s diakritikou tvoří 2 % světově zaregistrovaných TLD - Většina, ne-li všechny případy zavádění IDN, mají horší výsledky, a to údajně v důsledku nízké informovanosti a malé zkušenosti uživatelů, což vede k nízké úrovni využívání.Kde jsou však IDNs používána, tam má docházet k k 99% korelaci mezi jazykem či písmem doménového jména a jazykem souvisejícího webového obsahu, což je jasným znamením toho, že IDNs mají zásadní roli v rozvoji mnohojazyčného internetu.„Jazyky jsou tím, kým ... read more ...
Tue 29th October 2013
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GoDaddy Signs its First Registry-Registrar Agreement with Dot Latin’s TLD, .UNO – Virtual - UNO will hold a launch party in Buenos Aires, Argentina to officially kick-start pre-registrations which will serve and support the Internet´s fastest growing market. Kansas City (PRWEB) October 29, 2013 Dot Latin LLC announced today that the world’s largest domain registrar, GoDaddy, has signed the Registry-Registrar Agreement for the .UNO domain extension, specifically designed for the Hispanic and Latino communities, worldwide. .UNO is the first global web extension dedicated to Spanish-speaking ... read more ...
 
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Calzone, the Free Cloud-Based Calendar for the Domain Name Industry … - BOSTON, Oct. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Calzone (www.Calzone.org ), a free cloud-based calendar for the domain name industry, announced today that it is enrolling TLD applicants for its Beta test period.  The Internet is about to undergo a sea change as new top-level domain (TLDs) extensions start rolling out. ICANN, the group responsible for approving these new extensions, has a backlog of over 1,200 new extensions ready to introduce ... read more ...
 
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TLD ".wien": Vergabe ab März 2014 - Die neue Domainendlung .wien kommt, ein diesbezüglicher Vertrag wurde im Rahmen einer europäischen Konferenz unterzeichnet. Die Vergabe von .wien soll ab März 2014 erfolgen. Das berichtete kürzlich der Verwalter und Vermarkter der Domain, die punkt.wien GmbH. Die Vergabe soll ab März 2014 erfolgen. Geplant, aber noch nicht vertraglich bestätigt ist die Domain .tirol, hieß es auf Anfrage.Da auch für den Eigenbetrieb ... read more ...
 
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Google a dépensé plus de 10,5 millions de dollars pour acquérir les nouvelles … - Google a dépensé plus de 10,5 millions de dollars pour acquérir les nouvelles gTLDs Ajouter un commentaire » Nom de domaine Selon le site américain Ad Age Digital, citant une source proche de la direction de l'ICANN, la societé Google aurait déposé au total plus de 50 demandes pour l'acquisitions des extensions de noms de domaine génériques de premier niveau.A 185.000 dollars le coût du depos d'un seul dossier, plus 25.000 dollars de frais de renouvellement ... read more ...
 
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Handlungsbedarf für die Registrierung der neuen Top-Level-Domains - Die ICANN hat am 26 Juni 2008 beschlossen, eine Lockerung der Regeln für neue gesponserte Domains, sogenannte generische Top-Level-Domains (gTLDs), zuzulassen.Sachverhalt: Die ICANN hat am 26 Juni 2008 beschlossen, eine Lockerung der Regeln für neue gesponserte Domains, sogenannte generische Top-Level-Domains (gTLDs), zuzulassen. In der Zeit von Januar bis Mai 2012 hatten Interessenten die Möglichkeit, sich als Inhaber dieser Top-Level-Domains zu bewerben. Seitens der ICANN ist eine weitere schrittweise ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Registrar Namecheap Now Offers .IO Top Level Domain - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 29, 2013 - Namecheap, a leading domain name registrar, is now offering the .IO top level domain. .IO is one of the most popular domains for entrepreneurs and startups especially, and requests have been pouring in for Namecheap to support .IO. "It is with much excitement that we now support the .IO TLD," said Richard Kirkendall, CEO of Namecheap. ".IO is one of the most popular domains for sites that support innovation ... read more ...
 
 
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SlamStrategy: Risk Vs Reward of Owning A New gTLD - In a blog post written by Lauren Pitman for slamstrategy.com.au, looks at the perception that all new gTLD applicants that they will be profitable, its an very interesting post and though its worth a read: “It’s estimated that you would need about $50,000 a year to cover your costs of running a new gTLD. So as long as the applicants felt that they could cover those costs with a minimum number of registrations based on their business plan, they felt that the upside was well worth the risk. “The ... read more ...