Do You Own Any New gTLD Domain Names? - The new gTLD domain name program continues to be one of the most polarizing topics in the domain space. It seems that there are passionate people who feel strongly for or against the new gTLD domain names. There are now over 11 million registered new gTLD domain names. I would imagine that many of these domain names are owned by domain speculators / investors. As we close out the year, I thought I would ask if you bought and still own any new gTLD domain names. I believe my companies own ... read more ...

Radioihead Backs Community-Based Application for the New gTLD ‘.Music’ - Ed O'Brien, guitarist from the band Radiohead, is the latest musician expressing support for DotMusic's community-based application for the new gTLD .music, reports Kevin Murphy from Domain Incite. "In a letter to ICANN today (pdf), O'Brien said that if DotMusic loses its ongoing Community Priority Evaluation, it will 'be setting back the world's chances of a Fair Trade Music Industry by many years'. 'I challenge The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers views that the global ... read more ...

Radix Closes Holiday Sales With Over 35K Paid Registrations - Radix closed the holiday sales with 35,000+ paid registrations across the .online, .site, .website, .space, .tech, .press and .host TLDs. Radix has been actively working behind the scenes to create a splash across the domain name market with aggressive Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. Domainnamewire recently reported that there were sales expected across over 20+ registrars last week. "With customers on the look-out for attractive offers across all products, we wanted to ensure that ... read more ...

Nathaniel W. Edwards, Attorney, Lewis Roca Rothgerber at the Knowledge Group’s … - New York, NY, November 26, 2015 --(PR.com)-- The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced today that Nathaniel W. Edwards, Attorney, Lewis Roca Rothgerber will speak at the Knowledge Group’s webcast entitled: “Emergence of the New Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD): Revolutionizing Trademark Protection Live Webcast.” This event is scheduled for December 15, 2015 @ 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM (ET).For further details, ... read more ...

ICANN to community: we may be sick. We aren’t sure. Do you happen to know? - Oddly, ICANN has requested comments and volunteers to help it develop a gTLD Marketplace Health Index. The request raises more questions than it could possibly answer: Doesn’t ICANN already know whether the industry that it created and regulates is healthy? If it does, then what is the point of this new bit of busywork? If it doesn’t know, why doesn’t it? ICANN is trying to break free from U.S. government oversight, and part of that process is to show that it is competent to run the industry ... read more ...

As WHOIS Transitions to RDAP, How Do We Avoid the Same Mistakes? - In 1905, philosopher George Santayana famously noted, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." When past attempts to resolve a challenge have failed, it makes sense to consider different approaches even if they seem controversial or otherwise at odds with maintaining the status quo. Such is the case with the opportunity to make real progress in addressing the many functional issues associated with WHOIS. We need to think differently. Over the last several years a large ... read more ...

Results Available for 18 November 2015 New gTLD Program Auction – ag-IP - Home / Results Available for 18 November 2015 New gTLD Program Auction / LOS ANGELES - On 18 November 2015, Power Auctions LLC, ICANN's authorized auction service provider, conducted a New gTLD Program Auction to resolve string contention for one new generic top-level domain (gTLD) contention set: .HOTELS/.HOTEIS. The applicants were unable to resolve contention among themselves; thus their contention set proceeded to auction, which ... read more ...

Rightside Group, Ltd. (NAME) Files Form 4 Insider Selling : Wayne M. Maclaurin … - Rightside Group, Ltd. (NAME): Wayne M. Maclaurin , Chief Technology Officer of Rightside Group, Ltd. sold 1,397 shares on Nov 18, 2015. The Insider selling transaction was disclosed on Nov 18, 2015 to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The shares were sold at $7.62 per share for a total value of $10,641.19. The company shares have dropped 18.9% in the past 52 Weeks. On March 27, 2015 The shares registered one year high of $10.38 and one year low was seen on July 27, 2015 at ... read more ...

Candidates for Competition, Consumer Trust and Choice Review Team Announced – ag-IP - Home / Candidates for Competition, Consumer Trust and Choice Review Team Announced / LOS ANGELES - ICANN announced in a press release 71 individuals applied to serve on the team that will review the New gTLD Program in relation to competition, consumer trust and consumer choice (CCT). Candidates hail from Bahrain, China, Kenya, Jamaica, Spain and many other countries. Their collective professional experience spans a variety of industries. ... read more ...

Law firms taking tentative approach to registrations in legal gTLDs - Tim Lince An analysis of take-up within the two most relevant new gTLDs - ‘.law’ and ‘.legal’ - suggests that law firms are taking a tentative approach to their new gTLD registration strategies, with only a quarter of the sample we studied registering the equivalent of their key domain name in either of the strings. One firm that has registered ... read more ...

Uniregistry buys ‘.hiv’ at auction in ‘surprising’ move -

The ‘.hiv’ general top-level domain (gTLD) registry was put adult for auction progressing this year. This was a second new gTLD registry to go to auction with live domain name registrations underneath management. ‘.hiv’ is a free gTLD that had been set adult to lift recognition of HIV and to lift supports to support several initiatives to fight HIV and AIDS with a perspective to…

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Rightside Announces Third Quarter 2015 Financial Results – Virtual - Third Quarter Total Revenue Increases 11% Year-Over-Year KIRKLAND, Wash., Nov. 9, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2015. "In the third quarter, we, delivered record quarterly revenue and margins continue to increase year-over-year due to the impact of the new ... read more ...

Australia cries foul as Food Network owner seeks exclusive use of ‘.food’ gTLD - Jacob Schindler Ever since ICANN issued a resolution last June making clear that ‘closed/exclusive generic’ gTLDs would not be allowed to sign registry contracts, it has looked like the writing is on the wall for companies hoping to operate such strings – at least until the next round of new gTLDs. But one company has defiantly persisted: Lifestyle ... read more ...

BRS Media Files Independent Review Process regarding the .RADIO Top Level Domain - SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--BRS Media, a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that assists traditional and interactive media companies build and brand on the power of the Internet, has filed, in conjunction with two other applicants, an Independent Review Process in accordance with Article IV, section 3 of the ICANN Bylaws re: The .RADIO gTLD and .RADIO Community Priority Evaluation Results. (https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/afilias-brs-tin-llc-v-icann-2015-10-12-en) ... read more ...

‘Our Own Little Kingdom’: Dot-Brands Are Staking a Claim on Their Bit of the Web - Two years ago, the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) were introduced into the internet root zone. It marked a transition to expand from the dot-com suffix to dot-everything-else. Since the new program launched, we’ve seen gTLDs like .london and .guru added to the list, not to mention more controversial strings such as .sucks.But it’s not just about hoarding .sexy URLs. ICANN, the non-profit that oversees domain names, looks forward to the new gTLDs leading to further innovation. ... read more ...

How the new gTLD regime affects brand owners - When the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) programme became a reality in 2011 after an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting in Singapore, a significant number of brand owners expressed concern over the lack of attention paid to the protection of their digital assets. Cybersquatting was a growing problem for organisations within the 300 or so existing gTLDs at the time, and there was a general feeling that the domain name industry as a whole was not doing enough to ... read more ...

.Club Registry Reports “Record Month” - .Club domain names are one of the best selling new gTLD extensions. The registry is currently the 6th best selling new gTLD extension, with over 300,000 domain names sold, according to nTLDStats.com. The Registry is reporting that its aftermarket sales are also selling well. Yesterday, the .Club Registry published a blog post announcing that October was a “record month” in terms of the value of domain names it sold in the aftermarket. According to the .Club Registry, the “(t)otal premium ... read more ...