ICM Registry steps up awareness campaign as new adult string launches - Trevor Little ICM Registry’s ‘.sex’ string has opened for sunrise, with the company stepping up its outreach to trademark counsel and the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) predicting an uptick in trademark submissions. Earlier this year, with the launch of the ‘.adult’ and ‘.porn’ TLDs imminent, we reported on ICM Registry’s plans to ... read more ...

20 Yr Old, 160 Person Agency Rebrands From UpShot.net to Upshot.Agency … - Inc.com just published a post on a Chicago based marketing firm that just re-branded itself from upshot.net to the new gTLD Upshot.Agency saying that once the new gTLD’s catch on everyone will be using them. Upshot is a 160-employee agency which is celebrating its 20th birthday conducted what it describes as a “self-evaluation” and as a result, “it decided to re-position itself in a way that emphasizes its belief in, and expertise in providing, “seamless marketing,” which it defines as ... read more ...

Minds + Machines Group Stock Rating Reaffirmed by N+1 Singer (MMX) - Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX)‘s stock had its “corporate” rating reiterated by investment analysts at N+1 Singer in a note issued to investors on Thursday, MarketBeat reports. Shares of Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) opened at 8.25 on Thursday. Minds + Machines Group has a 52-week low of GBX 6.75 and a 52-week high of GBX 13.75. The stock’s market capitalization is GBX 68.97 million. The stock’s 50 day moving average is GBX 7.81 and its 200 day moving average is ... read more ...

From .COM and .NET to .XYZ and .WTF? - A gTLD is a generic-use top level domain extension (e.g. com, .org, .net, .gov, etc.) available to registrants for use regarding any purpose and overseen by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).  Most people have come to think of “.com” as the most credible gTLD to tie to our business-related website, but recently, buzz has been generated regarding the new gTLD application system, which launched in 2012.  The new gTLD system may allow for the registration ... read more ...

.Online Breaks All New gTLD Records With 28000 Registrations in 1st 30 Minutes - Radix the registry behind .Online entered General Availability earlier today announced that .Online has smashed the record for a new gTLD launch by registering 28,000+ domains in the first 30 minutes itself. After a stellar Sunrise performance, .online closed with 1,130 Early Access Program (EAP) orders, the highest number of EAP registrations recorded by any new gTLD domain extension. “Several customers even paid an additional premium registration fee to grab names like buyit.online, discuss.online, ... read more ...

.ONLINE GA Launches with 28000 Registrations in the First 30 Minutes - Radix's much awaited and probably its biggest TLD, .online entered General Availability earlier today. .online has smashed .club's launch record by registering 28,000+ domains in the first 30 minutes itself. After a stellar Sunrise performance, .online closed with 1130 EAP orders — the highest EAP registrations recorded by any new domain extension. Several customers even paid an additional premium registration fee to grab names like buyit.online, discuss.online, menus.online, seoul.online, ... read more ...

Google’s Rebranding at abc.xyz - MrASulaiman: For Google, which is the largest search engine in the world, to believe in the new gTLD enough to switch to one is a big signal that Daniel Negari definitely knows his onion.This is well within Google's forte - the company that was bidding prime numbers, pi, and other fancy mathematical constants for Nortel's patents and eventually lost to a consortium consisting of Apple, Microsoft, and others. All things considered, the purchase of abc.xyz can be attributed to their general ... read more ...

Vote: .Website or .Online? - Radix announced that its .Website new gTLD extension surpassed the 100,000 registration mark. According to the company, “.website has become one of the top nTLD domain choices of corporations across the world. Consistently in the top 10 fastest growing nTLDs, .website crossed 100k domains to be the 11th largest new gTLD.” Last week, Radix announced that it expected that its .Online extension would see 15,000 registrations in the first day of general availability. The company even targeted ... read more ...

Radix Registry Has High Hopes for .Online – New gTLD Enters General … - With the Sunrise numbers as a benchmark, Radix officials have their eyes on a specific target for new registrations in General Availability. ... read more ...

1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Taxi 2167; .Dog 1589; .Run 1260; .Hockey 441 … - 5 new gTLD’s launched yesterday into General Availability (GA) when domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Including domain names registered in the Sunrise period by Trademark Holders and those who paid an extra fee to register domain names ahead of GA in the Early Access Period (EAP) here are the total after the first day of GA: Taxi 2,167 .Dog 1,589 .Run 1,260 .Hockey 441 .Theater 405 It should be noted that .Taxi completes with .Cab which launched a while back ... read more ...

So What Happens When There Is a .ABC? Disney Applied For It & Its Coming - After announcing it selected the domain name abc.xyz for its holding company Alphabet, Google has been going around buying all sorts of “abc” domain names. Last week we told you that Google bought ABC.Global. Onlinedomain.com spotted 78 new gTLD’s that Google registered using “abc. Last night .Club registry announced on Twitter that Google bought ABC.club. Also last night Onlinedomain.com spotted 8 more new gTLD’s that Google bought or registered starting with “abc” Which bring us ... read more ...

The Mission Has Already Crept - My speech given at the 15th ICANN Studienkreis in Amsterdam on 14 August. ICANN's mission, and the avoidance of "mission creep", is currently the subject of intense debate in the Internet community. Multiple cross-community working groups are dealing with the proposal by an agency of the United States government, NTIA, to give up the last vestiges of its control of the IANA function. Many of the new organizational structures under consideration purport to deal with ICANN's expanding mission. Even ... read more ...

Radix Predicts 15000+ .Online Registrations at Launch - Radix sent out a press release touting its .Online new gTLD domain extension. The company reported that there were 775 registrations during the Sunrise period. It’s email stated that this figure is strong, and it ranks as #6 behind .Porn, .Adult, .Sucks, .Brussels, and .Melbourne. The email also made a pretty bold prediction. According to the accompanying press release I was sent, Sandeep Ramchandani, Business Head at Radix stated, “We expect to start off with at least 15,000 registrations ... read more ...

DotConnectAfrica Trust Response to John Jeffrey’s ICANN Legal Blog Posting - Posted here on behalf of DotConnectAfrica Trust in response to ICANN's General Counsel Secretary, John Jeffrey's recent article. The attention of DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA Trust) has been drawn to a recent blog posting by John Jeffrey, the ICANN General Counsel and Company Secretary, who wrote to clarify what he termed as "misinformation and erroneous reporting that have framed parts of the discussion" regarding the recent DCA vs. ICANN IRP Final Declaration. As we can't see a way of ... read more ...

Centralnic passes Donuts as Backend Provider For New gTLD Domain Names - According to ntldsstats.com, CentralNic has passed Donuts in the number of domain names it is providing backend registry services for new gTLD domains. ntldstats.com is showing CentralNic having 1,426,647 new gTLD’s under its backend management while Donuts is sitting at 1,425,466 domain names, each representing about 20% of all new gTLD’s. However CentralNic is the backend provider for just 24 new gTLD’s at the moment while Donuts has 189 active new gTLD’s using its backend system. In layman’s ... read more ...

Breaking: 8.xyz Hits the DOMAINfest .asia Auction at No Reserve -     The domain name 8.XYZ will be in the auction as part of the DOMAINfest.asia conference that will be held in Macau China from September 4th- 7th. RightoftheDot.com in conjunction with 4.CN will be holding an online domain name auction of around 150+ domains from September 2nd-September 9th. The auction will be in English and Chinese and bids will be show in US dollars and Chinese Yuan. All transactions will be cleared through DN.Cn which is the leading escrow service in China. The number 8 ... read more ...

Microsoft .xbox Domains Have Been Possible for a While Now - With the growth in top-level domain suffixes available on the internet many companies look to obtain ones that have a connection to them. This appears to be what Microsoft has done with .xbox. As noticed, Microsoft now have control of this domain suffix, which in theory means that they can create sites such as home.xbox. As they now own the so called gTLD (generic top-level domain) only they can create domains using this suffix. While this doesn’t mean much to gamers as such, it does offer ... read more ...

New gTLD .LOL Has Just 772 Domain Registrations After its 1st Day: Trump.lol … - .LOL launched into general availability yesterday by Uniregistry and wound with just 772 registrations including some 70 domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders. Uniregistry is charging $6.88 for a .LOL registration. Uniregistry beat out Google for rights to operate .LOL in a private auction. There are several domain names registered of people running for President of the United States as well as President Obama. Some comedians domains in .lol were registered as well, pretty ... read more ...

ICANN wants TMCH assessed - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has invited providers to pitch for an independent review of the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), in an attempt to address protection issues ahead of future new gTLD programme application rounds. Providers will complete a study to create a report of quantitative and qualitative data based on an assessment of TMCH guidelines and verification processes, the sunrise period, and trademark claims service. ICANN said in a statement: “It ... read more ...

Meet Google New Parent’s Company Alphabet Whose Domain Name is ABC.XYZ - Google announced today on its company’s blog,  its forming a new parent company to see all of its businesses calling it Alphabet. The domain name of the holding company is not going to be Alphabet.com but the new gTLD abc.xyz. “What is Alphabet? Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google” “Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity and all shares of Google will automatically convert into the same number of shares of ... read more ...

DeBlasio.Fail is Launched - Only 875 days left until Mayor de Blasio's term comes to an end. Count down with us! http://t.co/i5lmI83wXa pic.twitter.com/0hAF6zngTi — New York Post Metro (@nypmetro) August 10, 2015 I was checking out the NY Post this afternoon, when I scrolled to the bottom of the homepage and saw a creative use of a new gTLD domain name. As you can see below, the NY Post has a banner with a link to the website DeBlasio.Fail. Bill De Blasio is the sitting Mayor of New York City. When you visit DeBlasio.Fail, ... read more ...