DNS Policy Notes for Sept. 18, 2014 (Server Crash Edition) -
Thursday, September 18, 2014
DNS Policy Notes for Sept. 18, 2014 (Server Crash Edition)
by Thomas O'Toole
Collected news and opinion about the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the domain name business, Internet governance, and miscellaneous other cyberlaw topics for September 18, 2014.ICANN Policy Update Call ScheduledThe Pre-ICANN 51 Policy Update ... read more ...
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Thu 18th September 2014
.bayern geht am 30. September online -
Betreiber und Verwalter der Top-Level-Domain .bayer, die Bayern Connect GmbH, wirbt auf ihrer Website für die neue Endung. Screenshot: nic.bayern
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Regensburg. Seit die Netz-Verwaltung Icann sich vor zwei Jahren entschieden hat, neue Endungen für Internet-Adressen zuzulassen, sind immer mehr dieser sogenannten Top Level Domains (TLD) an den Start gegangen. In Deutschland können beispielsweise Webseiten-Betreiber ... read more ...
All your .buy are belong to Amazon -
Via: geek.com
Amazon Spends $4.6 Million To Acquire .Buy -
Amazon Inc. is one of the heavyweights when it comes to online retail and many of its hardware devices are designed in such a way as to draw more traffic to their different Amazon properties. As such, it only makes sense that they would be one of several interested parties in acquiring the top level domain .Buy.
Along with Amazon, one of the other interested groups was Google. There were also at least two other very interested parties. In the end however, it was Amazon that ended up securing ... read more ...
.LONDON Heat Map Shows Most Tech-Savvy Boroughs -
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(Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) – The introduction of the new top-level domains (TLDs) has clearly already made an impact to businesses, consumers, and the IT industry as a whole. Last week marked the newest geographically-specific TLD that was introduced, .LONDON. 11 Internet and Fasthosts, two Web hosting providers that offer these new TLDs, recently released a heat map to identify which boroughs have registered the most number of these new domain names.
So ... read more ...
Amazon Beats Google To Purchase .Buy Domain For $4.6 Million -
Amazon is one of the biggest online retailers in the world and it has forked out some serious money just for exclusive access to the .Buy domain name based website. It was up against Google in an auction which was also interested in purchasing the .Buy top-level domain but ultimately bid $4.6 million to get what it wanted.
Google wasn’t the only one trying to battle Amazon. According to reports ... read more ...
Extensions : plus de 14 millions de dollars pour les .Buy .Tech et .Vip -
L'ICANN vient de dévoiler le résultat des enchères mises en place pour trois extensions de noms de domaine (TLD) : .Buy, .Tech et .Vip. Les enchères ont à chaque fois dépassé les millions d'euros. Si Google était sur les rangs pour les trois extensions, le géant du web n'en remporte finalement aucune.Il y a maintenant plus de deux ans, l'ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) publiait la liste des extensions de noms de domaine ... read more ...
Amazon nabs .buy gTLD for $4.5m while .tech sells for $6.7m -
iPhone 6 recover date, cost and specs
Via: v3.co.uk
Amazon devance Google et s’offre le gTLD .buy - Quelques extensions de noms de domaine génériques viennent de trouver preneur lors d'une mise aux enchères proposée par l'ICANN.
L'ICANN, l'organisation chargée de superviser les suffixes Internet, a ouvert une seconde vague d'enchères pour les gTLD .buy, .tech et .vip. Ces derniers devraient entrer en circulation avant la fin de l'année.
C'est en déboursant quelque 4,6 millions de dollars qu'Amazon a finalement obtenu le contrôle de l'extension .buy. Le cyber-marchand a devancé la société ... read more ...
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Church 4044; .Guide 3387; .Life 2106; .Loans 632 … - Five new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA) on Wednesday.
Including domains registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and by those willing to pay an extra charge to register domain name in the Early Access Program (EAP) prior to GA here are the number of domain name registrations after the first day of GA:
.Church 4,044
.Guide 3,387
.Life 2,106
.Loans 632
.Republican 385
So we have further indication that religion beats politics.
In general the political domains have been a ... read more ...
CentralNic announces launch of .website, .press and .host TLDs -
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Most followed: CentralNIC Group, JD Sports, Smiths Group, DS Smith, Sony - There are now more than one billion web sites out there, according to Internet Live Stats.
If generic top level domains (gTLDs) specialist CentralNIC (LON:CNIC) has its wish, that number will be considerably higher by the end of the year.
The group highlighted the launch today of three gTLDs: website, .press and .host.
The domains have been available to priority candidates, such as trademark owners, for some time but now members of the general public can apply for Internet web addresses within these ... read more ...
Wed 17th September 2014
How New gTLDs Fare in Search Marketing [Research] -
We’re all used to generic top-level domains (gTLD) like .com, .org and .net, but did you know new gTLDs are hitting the market and ICANN states that “over 1,300 new names or ‘strings’ could become available in the next few years”?
How this new wave of gTLDs will affect click-through rate and domain trust is anyone’s guess, but the folks at online marketing agency Globe Runner wanted to figure out if the new gTLDs fare better or worse than -- or the same as -- .coms.
The agency explored ... read more ...
Busy Release Week for New gTLDs Crests With 8 More Arriving Today … -
We've
gotten used to seeing
Donuts,
the largest operator of new gTLD
registries, open general availability
for multiple extensions every
Wednesday and today is no exception
... read more ...
The gTLD Message is Getting Out -
When I was a junior in college, I had a marketing internship at a local business. Had I not decided to attend graduate school right away, I would have considered working for this company because I enjoyed working there, and I got along well with the CEO.
Since my internship days 10+ years ago, I have stayed in touch with the CEO, and we exchange emails a couple of times per year give or take. I’ve given him some advice about domain names, and I guided him through the domain name acquisition ... read more ...
Grab your passport; geographic gTLDs are jetsetting this month -
Twenty-three new gTLDs have been delegated since our last post. The following gTLDs have been cleared for takeoff:
.network
.企业 (Chinese for “enterprise”)
.business
.otsuka
.gbiz
.gmail
.pizza
.immo
.esq
.prod
.here
.youtube
.meme
.eat
.rsvp
.mov
.new
.ing
.frl
.day
.dad
.boo
.gmx
.pharmacy
.wme
Delegation is the green light for new gTLDs to launch into their respective mandatory sunrise period before moving on to landrush, early access and their ... read more ...
CentralNic Group Launches New Domain Names - LONDON (Alliance News) - CentralNic Group PLC has Wednesday launched the new Top-Level Domains .website, .press and .host, via domain retailers worldwide.The internet platform business said the new domain names are from Radix Registry FZC, one of the leading applicants for new TLDs, which uses the CentralNic platform under an exclusive agreement.The domain names have been launched following a research process and each target a specific consumer group, said CentralNic..website has been launched as ... read more ...
CentralNic announces launch of new top-level domains -
StockMarketWire.com - CentralNic Group - the internet platform business which earns revenues from the worldwide sales of domain names - has announced the general availability launch today of the new top-level domains .website, .press and .host, via domain retailers worldwide.
These TLDs from Radix Registry FZC, one of the leading applicants for new Top-Level Domains, use the CentralNic platform under an exclusive agreement, with CentralNic.
Each of the TLDs was selected by Radix in a rigorous ... read more ...
Globe Runner Releases Results of Google AdWords .Com Vs. New gTLD Test -
Addison, TX (PRWEB) September 17, 2014 Globe Runner, an interactive marketing firm based in Dallas, Texas, has released the results of their search engine marketing test involving .Com and gTLD domain names. The goal of the testing was to determine if a .Com or a gTLD domain name is better for search engine marketing purposes.
Starting in January 2014, there are hundreds of new Generic Top Level Domain ... read more ...
Tue 16th September 2014
Introducing Troy Lee Designs/Lucas Oil/Red Bull/KTM Team - Troy Lee Designs Announces New Multi-Year Deal with KTM Motorsports
Jessy Nelson
Troy Lee Designs (TLD) announces a multi-year deal with KTM Motorsports which will see the Troy Lee Designs / Lucas Oil / Red Bull / KTM team riders compete in both the 2015 AMA Supercross Series as well as the 2015 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship aboard Red Bull / KTM supported motorcycles.
Structured as a multi-year alliance, the cooperative effort will include both the factory supported Troy Lee Designs / Lucas ... read more ...
Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website Featured in EURid’s World Report … -
The TLD Registry team is excited and flattered that our Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) TLDs have been featured as the current most successful IDN new gTLDs by the European Registries for Internet Domains (EURid), in their comprehensive World Report on Internationalized Domain Names 2014.
The August 2014 volume of the report is supported by the United Nations' UNESCO, Verisign, the Council for European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR), the ... read more ...
Adams & Adams | TRADE MARK PROTECTION AND ENFORCEMENT IN … -
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Via: ca.linexlegal.com
2nd Round gTLDs: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -
This post outlines the advantages (good) and threats (bad) that can make or break a gTLD, and the eternal fact that some applications will doom themselves to failure (ugly).
The Good
Waiting until the second round to apply for a gTLD may end up being a virtue for the following reasons:
Better decision making. More public information about demand and prices would be available.
Existing registries can leverage their position due to:Economies of scale and scope from owning a portfolio of gTLDs
Experience ... read more ...
.Guide Going Live Wed Has More Registrations Than 4 M + M gTLD’s Have After … - .Guide which goes into general availability tomorrow, Wednesday September 17th already has more registrations than four strings of Minds + Machines after their first day of GA yesterday.
.Guide is sitting at 403 domain name all registered in Sunrise by trademark holders and in the Early Access Program (EAP), while .fishing after its first day of GA is sitting at 387, .Horse is sitting at 327, Country (owned jointly with Uniregistry) is sitting at 220 and .Rodeo is at 107.
At 403 registrations .Guide ... read more ...
.green – The Top Level Domain For The Global Green Economy – SYS -
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]]>LARKSPUR, Calif., Sept. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- DotGreen Community, Inc. and Afilias are pleased to announce the partnerships supporting the .green Top Level Domain (TLD), the world's first TLD for the growing green economy, businesses, social and environmental initiatives.DotGreen Community is a San Francisco Bay Area startup that provides Internet users the ability to promote green causes. Like the social ... read more ...