.HOST Announces Top Global Players as Pioneer Partners - Radix, Asia’s largest new gTLD applicant, announced top players of the global hosting community as Pioneers of the .host namespace, which rolled in to Landrush on 26th August ‘14. The Pioneer lineup includes big international names like MediaTemple, Bluehost, OVH, Arvixe, and the UK2 Group, in addition to regional leaders such as Natro (Turkey) and UOL (Brazil), HostPapa (Canada), Blacknight (Ireland). Several top global wholesale registrars, such as OpenSRS, ResellerClub and InternetX ... read more ...

Minds + Machines Launching 1st Of Its String in September; Expects 25% Of All … - Minds + Machines (LON:MMX), is going to launch its first new gTLD’s strings into General Availability in September, actually 9 in all. The following new generic top level domains (gTLDs) in which Minds + Machines has an interest will go on general availability (GA) to the public on the following launch dates in September: September 9th .London On September 15th  .Cooking, .Country, .Fishing, .Horse, .Rodeo, .Vodka September 25th .Beer, .Surf September 30th .Bayern. On entering GA, all domain names ... read more ...

Challenging Delegated Top-Level Domains: ICANN’s Trademark Post … - This year, hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are changing the landscape of the Internet. The long-awaited result of ICANN’s new gTLD program, top-level domains such as .NYC, .WINE, and .WTF will now join the familiar ranks of domains such as .COM and .NET. As we’ve written about previously, ICANN provided brand owners, trademark holders, and distinct communities the opportunity to object to proposed gTLDs before they were approved or “delegatedâ€� to ... read more ...

DDB Mudra West wins Infibeam’s dot-triple-O project - <!-- --> Tweet <!-- --> The agency won the account after a multi-agency pitch. The account will be handled by DDB Mudra's Ahmedabad office. DDB Mudra West has bagged the creative mandate of dot-triple-O (.OOO), a project by Infibeam. The agency won the account after a multi-agency pitch. The account will be handled by DDB Mudra's Ahmedabad office. .OOO is one of the first Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) extensions ... read more ...

.Black is Live Today But like The other New gTLD Colors, its on the Wrong Side … - Today is the first day general availability for Afilias’ latest gTLD: .BLACK Its the fourth in a string of colored new gTLD domain names all operated by Afilias (.Red, .Blue, Pink) For us the issue for .Black, like the other colors, is Black is a term that used in normal language and commerce on the left of the term, not on the right. So its Black Cars, Black Card, Black Dress, Black Limo, Black Diamonds, Jet Black, Blackboard. Even the press release makes our point: “You know, when someone says ... read more ...

Landrush Opens for .Website, .Press and .Host - Radix concluded sunrise for the first batch of its extensions — .website, .press and .host last week. .website alone saw more than 600 orders, making it one of the biggest new gTLD sunrises to date. These TLDs enter Landrush today Radix plans to take these a notch above with Landrush 2.0. — an affordable, risk free landrush that offers high-quality names. Landrush 2.0 aims to reduce the price gap between landrush and general availability, with an eye towards increasing participation ... read more ...

DDB Mudra West wins dot-triple-O - Industry Events The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards Photo Features New stills from ‘Mary Kom’ revealed! Industry Events Party Page: Screening of the Hollywood Film The... Industry Events Bollywood lights up Star Sports Pro-Kabaddi League ... read more ...

Meet .BLACK: the first top level domain that represents elegance, authority, and … – Virtual - Global registry services provider Afilias today announced the general availability of its newest generic top level domain (gTLD): .BLACK. When someone says “black tie” or “little black dress,” adjectives like “simple,” “elegant,” and “chic” are implied. It’s the same for the .BLACK domain. A website or email address that ends in .BLACK easily identifies premier products and high-tier, exclusive services; ... read more ...

.Website Gets Over 630 Sunrise Domain Registration; 2nd Highest Of Any New … - .Website may well be the next big new gTLD success story. According to Radix the registry the operates the .Website extension there were 634 domain names registered during the Sunrise period which is opened to trademark holders. With the 634 Sunrise domain registrations.Website has the second highest number of Sunrise applications of all new gTLD’s to date A lot of the big brands grabbed domain names in .Website including Amazon, Apple, BWM, Chanel, Chopard, Dropbox, Escada, Facebook, Fox, Google, ... read more ...

New gTLD Domain Name Registrations Break 2 Million But There Are Lots Of … - According to nTLDstats.com the number of new gTLD registration broke through the 2 million mark today and sits at 2,011,549. However there are plenty of caveats and asterisks to go around. Its interesting to note that there are only 666,394 distinct registrants for the over 2 Million domain names, meaning that the average registrant owns over 3 new gTLD domain names. cnnic.cn the registry of two IDN gTLD extensions registered and reserved over 55,000 of the 2 million domains just this week.  You ... read more ...

This Weeks New gTLD 1st Day Totals: .Bio 2679; .Haus 1261; .Tax 1135; .Cash … - The zone files for the new gTLD that launched on Wednesday updated later than usual this week but here are the 1st day totals for the new gTLD’s that launched this week. The totals include domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders as well as those registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) or Landrush, as well as during the 1st day of general availability. .Bio 2,679 .Haus 1,261 .Tax 1,135 .Cash 1,026 .Investments 876 .Fund 772 Haus is the German word meaning house. .Investments ... read more ...

Quebec to get its own distinct internet domain name - MONTREAL – Quebec will soon enjoy distinct status in Canada and across the World Wide Web, thanks to recognition by the global Internet body.This fall, the domain name .quebec will be available to serve as a URL suffix for websites, making the province the only Canadian jurisdiction with its own signature as an alternative to old standards, like .com and .ca. The .quebec suffix is among a wave of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) recently authorized by the Internet Corporation for Assigned ... read more ...

Registry For New gTLD IDN .网络 (Network) Registers & Reserves Over 23K … - A new gTLD IDN .网络 which means network in Chinese (xn--io0a7i) registered and reserved over 23,500 domain names yesterday increasing the overall number of new gTLD registered to 1.96 million according to ntldstats.com. The registry of the IDN new gTLD is Computer Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences （China Internet Network Information Center) You can read more about about their application here. The extension which seems to either be in landrush or  has wrapped up its ... read more ...

.Cash & .Tax Launch Today Here Are The Registered Domain Names - We have chatted earlier this week about the new domain names registered in two of the 5 new gTLD’s going live today, .Fund and .Investments and thought we would let you know what domain names were not going to be available when General Registration opens today for .Cash and .Tax. We think .Tax is going to be the weakest of the 4 new Donuts extensions launching today. Although its the cheapest of the four new gTLD’s  extension in terms of registration prices, we think the application for .tax ... read more ...

420K ICANN Collision New gTLD Domains Start The Process of Being Freed As … - There are a ton of new gTLD’s being “registered” today. Many readers have written and commented about the volume of domain “registered” today and that these registrations may screw up the  new gTLD stats when the zone files update tomorrow. However the vast majority are domain names on the ICANN Collision list and appears to be a technical entry, rather than a real domain registration, one of the steps in the domain name being freed. According to Registered.Today over 420,000 new gTLD ... read more ...

Global meet on web domains in India - Around 2,000 applications for new generic top level domains (gTLD – .com or .net extensions in web names) have been received Indian Domain Owners Association (IDOA) will host a first ever international domain conference in India here on August 24. “India is the first venue for World Domain Day (WDD) conference to promote domain name revolution. The new wave of top level domains will create a completely new Internet landscape forever,” Prakhar Bindal, CEO Axsiom.com, said, announcing ... read more ...

.Investments Launches Today Here Are The Domains Taken In Sunrise & EAP - The new gTLD .investments goes into general availability today meaning it can be registered on a first come first serve basis. The registration price is high at a whopping $129.99 registration price at Godaddy.com Here are the more interesting domain names registered in Sunrise for trademark holders and in the Early Access Program for a higher one time fee. Either way these domain names are no longer available: about.investments abudhabi.investments accelerator.investments advisorshares.investments aia.investments allfundsbank.investments alternative.investments amazon.investments amerivest.investments amil.investments anf.investments angel.investments apax.investments aqr.investments bcv.investments berkeley.investments bgc.investments bitcoin.investments bitcoins.investments bitpay.investments blackstone.investments bny.investments bond.investments bonds.investments broker.investments brokers.investments buildingblocks.investments business.investments caixabank.investments cantor.investments ccre.investments cip.investments coin.investments corporatepartners.investments costar.investments costargroup.investments crowd.investments csg.investments csgp.investments danskebank.investments darby.investments dubai.investments eight.investments expat.investments firstcitizens.investments firststate.investments florida.investments foreign.investments franklin.investments franklintempleton.investments fxcm.investments gasnatural.investments glacier.investments global.investments goldmansachs.investments good.investments great.investments hightech.investments homesteadfunds.investments iam.investments icap.investments imx.investments intuit.investments johnhancock.investments jointhenation.investments jti.investments kbc.investments koc.investments lasvegas.investments lazard.investments libertymutual.investments libertymutualinsurance.investments lowrisk.investments macau.investments make.investments makemoney.investments marijuana.investments market.investments mellon.investments miami.investments microsoft.investments mill.investments moodys.investments mortgage.investments mutualfund.investments mytrade.investments nationwidebank.investments naughty.investments nestegg.investments newyork.investments one.investments papermoney.investments park.investments peak.investments pennystock.investments prime.investments putnam.investments rbc.investments reit.investments roofing.investments royal.investments royalbank.investments scotland.investments scout.investments showcase.investments smart.investments southflorida.investments steadfast.investments stock.investments stockmarket.investments stocks.investments tech.investments templeton.investments the.investments thebankofnewyork.investments thehartford.investments thinkmoney.investments titan.investments trustmark.investments veo.investments vpi.investments vtb.investments wallstreet.investments weed.investments worst.investments wrap.investments Google+Michael ... read more ...