New gTLD’s Hit The Big Screen As The Official Site For The New Ryan Reynolds … - The new gTLD’s have made it to the big screen. Big Screen, as in a Movie trailer that a reader of  TheDomains.com was nice enough to send me. The movie is Self/Less is opening July 10th and stars Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kinsley. It looks like a pretty good movie by the way. Here is the official trailer The domain name used to promote the movie is Outlive.Life which is being forward to the trailer. This is the 1st time I have seen a new gTLD used to promote a movie. .Life is owned by Donuts and ... read more ...

$59M and Counting: ICANN Board Downgrades Community Say on Use of Last … - ICANN's new gTLD program provides for last resort auctions to settle contention sets where the competing applicants are unable to reach agreement by negotiation or private auction, with the proceeds going to a segregated ICANN account. With the recent $25 million bid of Google to secure control of the .App registry the total proceeds of those ICANN auctions has swelled to $58.8 million. The final sum by the end of the first round could go higher, perhaps to more than $100 million. That's serious ... read more ...

Minds + Machines: Premium Names Are 3%.of Registrations; 25% of Revenue - Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), released some interesting information in a press release we received overnight. Premium Names accounts for approximately 3%. of Minds + Machines new gTLD registrations,  but accounts for 25% of its revenue. Minds + Machines also announced that they “hold a significant inventory of Premium Names across its gTLD portfolio and sees significant opportunities for recurring annual revenues in this area”. It is not clear from the PR whether the owned and operated ... read more ...

ECOM-LAC Chooses Sedo As Its Strategic Partner To Launch .LAT - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Creating an Internet Presence with a Latin Identity for Latinos WorldwideBoston, MA and Montevideo, Uruguay – Sedo, a global leader in the domain name space with the largest domain marketplace and monetization capabilities,  has partnered with eCOM-LAC to participate in the launch of the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) .LAT to provide Internet Presence with Latin Identity. eCOM-LAC selected the domain industry leader Sedo to conduct sunrise auctions, ... read more ...

Effective brand enforcement in new gTLDs - 24 April 2015 More than 1,000 new gTLDs are set to go live within the next few years, with many already launched. Trade mark owners need to reevaluate enforcement in this new internet ecosystem, argue Brian Winterfeldt and ... read more ...

Sorry Kids There Will Be No .Unicorn In The Domain Space But There Will Be A … - .Unicorn will remain a mythical creature when its comes to new domain names. You will not be able to register a .Unicorn domain as two domain name extension that were put into the same contention group by ICANN .Unicorn and .UNICOM have resolved with unicorn.eu withdrawing their application for .Unicorn Instead of .Unicorn we now have the less sexy .Unicom which was applied for by China United Network Communications Corporation Limited whose website is chinaunicom.com To be fair both .Unicorn and ... read more ...

.Science Still Getting Over 3K registrations A Day: Is This a Revolution or … - .Science which launched at the end of February is still adding more domain registrations a day than any other new gTLD extension by far on a daily basis Yesterday .Science added another 3K+ domain registrations as it did the day before and the day before that. Around 85% of all registrations are coming from Alpnames.com which gave away about 50K domain names for free and are currently selling .Science domain for $.49. I’ve seen other registrars selling .Science domains for a dollar. Of course ... read more ...

Having Some .Fun? Oriental.com Beats Google & .Buzz to The New gTLD .Fun - .Fun which was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month has been resolved with Oriental Trading Company, Inc who owns the domain Oriental.com prevailing in a private auction beating Google and the company that owns and operates .Buzz .Fun will be the only new gTLD that Oriental Trading Company, Inc. will operate.  The company applied for .Party but did not prevail (Famous Four Media won) According to its application, the Oriental Trading Company, Inc. (OTC) plans to operate ... read more ...

Suckstobeyou.com - Trademark owners will be thrilled to know that for a short time (until June 1) they have a priority right to register their brands with the generic top-level domain (gTLD) “.sucks.” Top level domains are the suffixes added to a domain name/address.  Generic gTLDs  were intended to be available for general registration by any person or organization within a particular group (“restricted”) and included the very well-known gTLDs “.com,” “.org,” “.net,” etc.  As the qualification ... read more ...

New gTLDs and Universal Acceptance - Universal Acceptance is the topic of the moment, explained in one simple sentence: in the new gTLD world, it means that various groups (the DNS, ICANN and a few others) are working hard to make new domain names better accepted by the existing technical Internet infrastructure. A video extracted from the "ICANN 52" meeting explains it in 50 slides but I suggest a pause on slide 17, because it shows where the issues are and what remains to be fixed to give the ultimate answer to that question: ... read more ...

87% of consumers uncomfortable with ‘new internet’ - 09/04/2015 By Daniel Hunter With hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLD) arriving on the internet — like .shop, .bank and .london — research has revealed that 87% of consumers do not feel very comfortable visiting them.The New Internet Study by global information assurance firm NCC Group questioned 10,000 consumers across the US and UK regarding their attitudes to these new gTLDs.With more domains going live, 40% of web users also reported ... read more ...

What to Know About an ICANN Compliance Audit, and How to Handle One if … - Now that new gTLD registries have been operating for more than a year, a few registries have already experienced going through an audit and a few more are now receiving notifications that they are next in line. For all, the process of going through an ICANN audit is a first. Once you receive the Request for Information (RFI), you will have 15 days to respond, or seek an extension of time. Extensions may be available on a case by case basis. Origins ICANN's ability to request an audit comes ... read more ...

Premium Generics, the Domain Industry’s Luxury Goods - Categories. The mere mention of the word risks eliciting groans from any domain industry specialist. In the run up to the new gTLD program, this concept was oft discussed. It seemed obvious to most that TLDs were not a homogenous ensemble but instead, could exist in many different shapes and sizes. Except to ICANN staff. They systematically refused to entertain the notion of categories. Even when ICANN Board members suggested some kind of recognition for different TLD types should be hardwired ... read more ...

UC Berkeley, along with other schools, purchases web addresses in adult … - UC Berkeley and other schools, including Harvard University, have bought web addresses in adult-oriented Internet domains to avoid trademark infringement from third parties. Starting in June, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, will open several new generic Top Level Domains, or gTLDs — a class of Internet domains such as “.com” and “.net” — to the public, including “.porn” “.adult” and “.sucks.” The imminent release by ICANN, the international ... read more ...

Q&A on “dot.bank” registration - Many bankers have heard from their trade associations that there will be a new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) released by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) for institutions to use on the internet called ".bank."fTLD Registry Services, LLC, (fTLD) a coalition of banks and insurance companies, is managing the registration process. (A “.insurance” domain also recently debuted.) We have been asked by many clients about obtaining a .bank domain name.Here are some of ... read more ...

$7500 For Easter.Sucks + 3K A Year, Or EasterSucks.com For $8 A Year? - The new gTLD program was supposed to in part  index the domain name by verticals, interests   and geographical areas. They jury is still out on whether a photographer named John Smith would be better off with John Smith.Photography or JohnSmith.com or JohnSmithPhotographer.com However when it comes to some extensions like .sucks where the selling point is the expression of free speech it gets a little more complicated. Consider someone who hates the once a year holiday of Easter. So if you have ... read more ...

Launch Of gTLD .sucks - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...

Launch of gTLD .sucks - Brand owners should take note of the newly launched Top Level Domain (TLD). As of 30 March 2015, the .sucks domain names may be purchased for the purpose of creating an online platform where consumers can create a forum to criticise businesses. If you are concerned about the use of your trade mark with the .sucks domain names, it is recommended that you apply for the registration of the corresponding .sucks domain names to protect your core trade mark(s). There is a sunrise period ... read more ...

New WTR podcast available: assessing the gTLD rollout - Trevor Little For the latest World Trademark Review podcast, we sat down with Susan Payne, head of legal policy at Valideus, and Jon Nevett, co-founder and executive vice president for corporate affairs at Donuts, to talk gTLDs – the discussion presenting an assessment of the gTLD rollout to date and considering efforts to increase public awareness ... read more ...

April fools joke: Thepiratebay is about to own .pirate domain registry - According to torrentfreak, Thepiratebay’s parent company, Reservella Ltd has started trying to register a new aTLD with a .pirate extension.Thepiratebay’s winston told torrentfreak:“We can no longer trust third party services and registries, who are under immense pressure from the copyright lobby. So we decided to apply for our very own gTLD and be a true Pirate registry,”So basically this move can be a solution to the problem of copyright material hosted websites for registering domain ... read more ...