The first city in the world with its own domain name is Berlin - Video: New 'Fairy Tail' anime 1st trailer Berlin first city to get its full name as own Internet domain Berlin - According to DPA News, Berlin can use its own Internet suffix. Thisis technically what is known as a generic top-level domain (gTLD). For Berlin to become the first city came about from an agreement between Berlin's local government and ICANN, the US-based organisation that co-ordinates global Internet ... read more ...

New gTLD Domain Registrations Pass The 250000 Mark - According to ntldstats.com, the number of new gTLD domain name registration has now passed the 250,000 mark. .Guru is still leading the pack with almost 45,000 registrations  but  .Photography is closing in passing 28,000 registrations. .Tips and .Today have about the same amount of registrations which are quickly approaching 15,000 each. .Technology and .Director each have just over 10,000 registrations. Of all fully launched new gTLD’s .Tattoo seems to have the least with just over 1,200 ... read more ...

ICANN Considers .sucks - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the folks who are responsible for approving and regulating Internet domains such as .com, .biz and .net, are considering whether or not to add .sucks to the list of approved domains. Over the past year, in response to the explosive growth around the world in Internet users and domain registrations, ICANN has added over 100 generic top-level domain names or gTLD. Some of the new domains which are now available for sale include ... read more ...

Germany: Berlin first city with its own internet domain - 14 March 2014 Last updated at 15:31 By News from Elsewhere... ...as found by BBC Monitoring Berlin is about to become the first city in the world with its own internet domain name, it appears. Companies or individuals based in the German capital will be able to use .berlin at the end of their website addresses from 18 March, the dpa news agency ... read more ...

Proposed online neighbourhood for web addresses ‘sucks’, says US senator -  BlueBox System Info: file: 134 - /var/www/www.witness.co.za/engine/classes/sql_functions.phpcall: bb_debug_backtrace() file: 566 - /var/www/www.witness.co.za/engine/classes/sql_functions.phpcall: databaseInstance-SQLquery() file: 19 - /var/www/www.witness.co.za/engine/classes/filesystem.phpcall: getDatabaseTables() file: 40 - /var/www/www.witness.co.za/engine/classes/classes.phpcall: fileSystem-getAllFiles() file: 113 - /var/www/www.witness.co.za/engine/classes/classes.phpcall: ... read more ...

The case for Web sites ending in ‘.sucks’ - Sen. Jay Rockefeller (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) Should people be banned from registering domain names that end in ".sucks"? It's easy to see how this could get out of hand. A politician might take out his opponent's name and put .sucks at the end. Cyberbullies might use the suffix to torment teens and young children. In the wrong hands, a .sucks domain could do real damage. But maybe clamping down isn't the best move. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) is the latest to claim that .sucks, ... read more ...

Senator Rockefeller Voices His Displeasure Over .Sucks Top Level Domain - Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Senator John (Jay) Rockefeller (D-W.V) on Wednesday urged Internet regulators not to move forward with a proposed online neighborhood for website addresses ending in “.sucks.” The senior senator from West Virginia, who is the great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller and who announced in January that he won’t seek reelection later this year, made it clear that he is no fan of .sucks. In a sharply worded letter the chairman of the ... read more ...

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Senator Thinks Proposed Domain Name .sucks - Making a website to mock something you don't like and calling it "Somethingsucks.com" isn't new, but the opening of new domain names by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers means you could soon make your website "Something.sucks" instead. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) wrote a letter to the ICANN to tell them that that idea .sucks. The generic top-level domain (gTLD) system has been opened up by ICANN, who are accepting applications from corporations, political groups and ... read more ...

Senator Is Unamused with .Sucks Web Site Addresses - Senator Jay Rockefeller came out forcefully against the idea of Internet U.R.L.s ending in “.sucks” in a stern letter to the group tasked with overseeing the creation and maintenance of domain names on the Web. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is aggressively increasing the number of “generic top-level domains” (gTLDs). It has already approved more than 100 new gTLDs, including .vote, .fish, and .mango. If ICANN moves forward and adds .sucks to the Internet, ... read more ...

Sen. Rockefeller, Adweek & Politico Pick Up On The .Sucks Story We Told You … - I’m not wholly opposed to the new extensions and do see some positive opportunities being introduced — alongside extra costs and problems. But this must be the understatement of the year: “If ICANN allows this extension to exist they are going to severely damage their credibility as well as the credibility of the new gTLD program.” Yes. But at this point, how much credibility is left to bruise? .SUCKS is only the most flagrant example of motives that ... read more ...

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US senator not a fan of ‘.sucks’ Web sites - By Benjamin Pimentel, MarketWatch Getty Images U.S. Sen. John D. Rockefeller (D-WV) testifies during a Senate Water and Wildlife Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill on February 4, 2014 in Washington, DC. SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — A U.S. ... read more ...

It’s Official: Google Is Giving Away Free Domain Names - Since the ICANN Big Reveal where we learned  that Google applied for over 100 new gTLD extension we have been chatting about whether Google would giving away free domains. Well we didn’t have to wait long to find out. Google is offering 5,000 new gTLD’s in its first live new gTLD which is an IDN, .みんな Domainincite.com broke the news that Google is offering a free domain name to the first 5,000 people to submit a .みんな web site idea via a campaign web site ” “The offer expires ... read more ...

New gTLD guide #4: dot-guru - 10 March 2014   |   Alli Pyrah, New York In the fourth instalment in Managing IP’s series on domain names we profile dot-guru, one of the first English language gTLDs to be launched ... read more ...

My Take on What Light Sunrise Numbers Mean - A week ago, Calzone shared some information about  the sunrise registration numbers for new gTLD registries. In the report, Calzone shared that “by any measure, the rolling average of 115 Sunrise domains per TLD falls far short of what many new Registries included in their revenue forecasts.” Although it might be obvious to many people, I want to share why I believe this may make things more challenging for the new gTLD registries and how this may change things a bit. I certainly don’t ... read more ...

ICANN Publishes Its Financials For The Six Months Ending December 2013 - The ICANN change in net assets is $3.3M, or 13.6%, higher than budget during the first six months of FY14 mainly as a result of (i) delays in planned operations ($2.8M, see Operating Expenses below), (ii) timing differences of ccTLD contributions ($1.3M), (iii) Reserve Fund and New gTLD investment income of ($3.7M) and ($1.4M), respectively, offset by (iv) delayed evaluation processing in the New gTLD program resulting in lower revenues recognized for the period (-$8.0M). The Funds under Management ... read more ...

.BUZZ signs RRA with GoDaddy & Frank Schilling New Uniregistrar Is One of … - (Photo: Rich Merdinger of GoDaddy, Pinky Brand of  FocusNUA advisor to .BUZZ and Bill Doshier, Founder and CEO of .BUZZ) .BUZZ signed its RRA with GoDaddy in New York City at  the Momentum 3rd Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress and announced over 40 other  registrars that will be taking .BUZZ registrations. One of the registrars on the list grabbed my eye, Frank Schilling  Uniregistrar Corp  which is the new domain name registrar that is suppose to be rolling out any day. Frank ... read more ...

New domain names leading to new wave of cybersquatting - KEY POINTS ƒƒ New generic domain name extensions such as .clothing and .technology are starting to become available to the general public. ƒƒ We have observed numerous instances of cybersquatting in relation to these new domain names involving prominent brands. ƒƒ Administrative procedures allow trade mark holders to make complaints about infringing domain name registrations. ƒƒ Trade mark holders can also take steps to pre-register domain names corresponding with key ... read more ...

Who Are the Major New gTLD Applicants and… (Part Five: Rightside Registry) - ...what is their approach to bringing new domain names to the market? Rightside is a name you may only have heard of very recently. It is a relative newcomer in the new gTLD industry. It is important to note that there is a difference between "Rightside" and "Rightside Registry". One is the Trademark and also the name of this new group to which eNom (a Registrar), Namejet (a platform to buy/sell domain names and Premium domains) and Name.com (another Registrar) belong. As for "Rightside Registry", ... read more ...