.WANG – 15000 Registrations on Day One of General Availability - Zodiac Registry is pleased to announce that 15,000 .wang domain names have been registered during the first 24 hours of its General Availability, which started on 00:00, June 30, Beijing time. Within the first 2 hours, more than 7,000 domain names were taken. "We are very pleased with our day one performance in an unprecedented and over-crowded new gTLD launch space", commented Eugene Li, CEO of Zodiac Registry, "thanks to our team and our partners. It's an impressive debut, considering ... read more ...

.XYZ Becomes 1st New gTLD To Pass 250000 Registrations - .XYZ has become the first new gTLD to pass 250,000 registrations. The official count according to ntldstats.com, 250,731 domain names. Of that amount 217, 752. are registered at Network Solutions representing over 86% of all registrations. As we always note, the vast majority of these .XYZ registrations at Netsol are free and being pushed into customers account without the customers asking for the domains. Disregarding all NetSol registrations .XYZ is still doing pretty well, with over 32,000 registrations ... read more ...

gTLD Sunrise Periods Now Open - As first reported in our December 2013 newsletter, the first generic top-level domains (gTLDs, the group of letters after the "dot" in a domain name) have launched their "Sunrise" registration periods. Please see our December 2013 newsletter for more information as to what the Sunrise Period is, and how to become eligible to register a domain name under one of the new gTLDs during this period.  As of the date of this newsletter, Sunrise periods are open for the following new gTLDs: .services .actor  ... read more ...

Are US Marketers Falling Behind in the Domain Game? - The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) is a talented group of individuals that are good at their job. So good that a campaign they’re running could be causing marketers in the U.S. to fall behind their peers in other countries when it comes to an important component of any comprehensive online marketing strategy – domain names. As I’ve written about before, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which governs the global domain name system, has started ... read more ...

France Should Put A Cork In It About New Wine Web Domains - Wine and governing the Internet do not mix. Last week, France expressed its vehement opposition to the creation of new “.wine” and “.vin” web domains, threatening to derail important Internet policy discussions as well as U.S.-EU trade talks, if it does not get its way. France would be wise to change course before it plays into the hands of Russia, China, Iran, and other countries that seek to cripple the free and open Internet. France directed its diatribe ... read more ...

.BAR Domain Name Celebrates the City of Bar, Montenegro, with $100000 … - MEXICO CITY — In celebration of the launch of new generic top level domain (gTLD) “.BAR,” civic leaders from the nations of Montenegro and Mexico celebrated at an event in the coastal city Bar, Montenegro, last week as Punto 2012 presented the first of an annual $10,000 donation to the Meksiko school that will net $100,000 by 2024.Although the .BAR domain, released also with the .REST domain for restaurants, was released specifically for bars ... read more ...

Which New gTLD Will Reach Its Goal by the Next World Cup? - The soccer bug has bitten FairWinds Partners – how could it not? – and now we’re eagerly watching how the new top-level domain (TLD) applications for .SOCCER, .FOOTBALL, and .FUTBOL will pan out.Several applications each for .SOCCER and .FOOTBALL are currently in contention. .FUTBOL has already been delegated into the root zone and thus has a head start. We’ll have to wait and see which TLD of the three will be the most popular by the time the next World Cup rolls around in 2018. At that ... read more ...

1st Day New gTLD Totals .Tools 1759.Supplies 1143; .Parts 1010; .Supply 864 … - Several new gTLD’s went into its first day of general availability yesterday. For the second week in a row, no new gTLD that launched  had any particularly great results. Matter of fact the total amount of all the new gTLD’s that went into GA yesterday was just over 5,500 domains Here are the total number of registrations after the 1st day of general availability including all Sunrise registrations and domain names taken in the Early Access Program (EAP). .Tools 1,759 .Supplies 1,143 .Parts ... read more ...

NABP Executes Registry Agreement with ICANN for .Pharmacy Domain … - MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill., June 25, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the registry operator of the new .pharmacy domain, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®), under a contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), will soon provide a means for identifying safe online pharmacies and resources. Under ... read more ...

Sci.Technology Suspended in URS “Sci” is not a Generic Term but Rather the … - The new gTLD domain name sci.technology was ordered suspended by a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) examiner. The Complainant SANMINA CORPORATION of San Jose, California filed the URS complaint based on its U.S. Trademark Registration issued June 2, 1992, on the term “SCI” (the “Trademark”). The Trademark is for “manufacturing of electrical, electronic, electromechanical and mechanical products to the order and specification of others”, and “design and development of electrical, electronic, ... read more ...

IP community to take long-term look at online protection mechanisms - As Jan Corstens, worldwide project director of the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), noted at the ICANN meeting, there hasn’t been a ‘big bang’ in terms of brand owner engagement with new gTLD rights protection mechanisms (RPMs). However, with the first round rollout continuing apace, the Intellectual Property Interests Constituency (IPC) is ready to look to the future and consider improvements that can be made to trademark RPMs prior to forthcoming application rounds. In an update provided ... read more ...

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Does gTLD Registration Volume Measure Success? - For some time, the measure of success of a TLD was volume of registrations, or strictly speaking, Domains Under Management (DUMs). Who better than .com to validate the truth of that metric? More recently, this same metric has been applied to new gTLDs, especially those who achieve volume quickly, by whatever means necessary. These gTLDs are fawned over, written about, and effectively set up as the standard for other gTLDs to aspire to. But I'd like to challenge that notion. The quick accumulation ... read more ...

TechCrunch Covers The New Google Domains Registrar & Google Talks About … - TechCrunch.com just covered the new Google Domains name registrar. The only surprise for TechCrunch is that its taken Google so long to get into the business: “The move makes enough sense that it’s actually kind if surprising that it’s taken Google this long. ” “While domains aren’t generally considered a massive-margin business, they’ve always seemed like a glaring omission in Google’s offerings; a missing puzzle piece, almost. Need email for your domain? Google does that. Need ... read more ...

This Is Why France Is Fighting a .Wine Domain Tooth and Nail - These domains could threaten France's desire to "preserve the cultural diversity" built on Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne. Time.com Subscribe Newsletters Feedback Privacy Policy California Privacy Rights Terms of Use Ad Choices Subscribe TAP TIME Tech Tech The Ay commune in France's Champagne region, where grapes are harvested ... read more ...

I Don’t Get Why France Thinks Special Protections Should be Granted To One … - I have been following the .Wine/ .Vin issue for what seems like years now. I get why Wine makers from Napa and France and Italy and Germany are concerned about the .Wine New gTLD and .Vin New gTLD. Like any other business on earth, the new gTLD program has the potential to  verticalize  the internet providing a new gTLD for each business sector, class of products,  professions or services. Having said that the some in the Wine industry  is seeking to make the granting of a .Wine and or .Vin new ... read more ...

What if McDonalds’ WC Gol Ad Used .MCD gTLD? - If you have been watching the 2014 World Cup matches in Brazil, you have likely seen the McDonalds advertisement the company has been running on the pitch sideboards. McDonalds is directing viewers to a special World Cup website found on a subdomain of its website: Gol.mcd.com. When I first saw this campaign, my initial thought was “I wonder if they bought golmcd.com” to avoid losing traffic to this possible typo. They did not, and it appears that someone else bought it on June 2. I was ... read more ...

.Press Domain Names -The Changing Face of Journalism – Virtual - Big names in journalism and media industry can get .press web addresses today(eg. www.mybrand.press),under a special Pioneer Program by Radix. Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 20, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Radix, Asia’s largest new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Registry, has launched the .press gTLD for the global journalism, PR,media and publishing community. A gTLD is the part of your web address that follows the dot, like .com. Radix has been chosen by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned ... read more ...

.Website Debuts Next Week on a New gTLD Battlefield That is Getting Bloodier … - So, for example, if I owned a bar in Sarasota, Florida, as of this writing, I could pre-register Sarasota.pub for $33.00 in my Enom account right now, ... read more ...

LogicBoxes Waives Off Upfront Fees for New gTLD Vertical Integration Solutions - Related: Press Release, News LogicBoxes, the premier technology and consulting company for Domain Registries, Registrars and large Web Hosts, today announced that it has waived off all upfront fees for its Vertical Integration Solution for New gTLDs.New gTLDs have great potential, especially the Geo and Community extensions that provide a unique online namespace for people belonging to that community and region. However, with over 300+ TLDs already launched, these New gTLDs haven't quite achieved ... read more ...

Quiet week for gTLDs but don’t be fooled — the new dot era is still heating up - New gTLD total registrations surpassed 1 million this week with 1,068,354 domain name registrations. In the wake of the .xyz promotional domain name registration scandal, .xyz overcomes .club and .guru on the leaderboard, with 113,242 registrations. The top 10 new gTLDs now are: Click here to view the table. NetSol comprises 96,158 of the total number of new registrations within the .xyz registration, maintaining 84.91% compared with GoDaddy.com’s 5.93%. These statistics still ... read more ...

DNA Asks Apple To Recognize New gTLD’s in It’s Safari Browser, Apple ID … -           The Domain Name Association (DNA) asked Apple yesterday to update its Safari Browser to recognize new gTLD domain names. Writing on behalf of the Association Executive Director Kurt Pritz in a letter sent to Apple, Mr. Pritz wrote: “” On behalf of the Domain Name Association (DNA), the trade association that represents the domain name industry and the interest of companies that provision and sell domain names, I write to inform you of our concern that Apple has not more quickly ... read more ...