DCA Trust, ICANN dispute over .africa going to international review panel - The dispute between the DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA Trust) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) over the former’s application to manage the .africa generic top-level domain (gTLD) will be decided by the Independent Review Process (IRP) panel. DCA Trust, one of two organisations which applied to ICANN to manage to the new domain, has complained over decisions made by the body in charge of the internet with regard to its application. The organisation ... read more ...

Asia Pac Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress - From what I understand, the domain market in Asia, particularly in China, is booming. If you are a domain investor located in Asia, or if you have an interest in visiting Hong Kong for a domain conference, I want to share some news about a new conference I just learned about: Asia Pac Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress. The primary focus of this new domain conference is the new gTLD domain names. According to the press release distributed by Momentum events, “This new event which ... read more ...

Monash university wins own domain name, claiming a world internet first - Monash university’s websites will begin to operate under its own .monash domain name, a world first, the university said on Tuesday. The university revealed it was the first “globally recognised organisation” to be delegated a generic top-level domain (gTLD), an alternative to .com, .org and other web address suffixes. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the global internet governing body, drew the lottery for top-level domain application approvals ... read more ...

Bid-on-.BID: Famous Four Media announces .BID reservation program - Bid-on-.BID: Famous Four Media announces .BID reservation program Details WhaTech Channel: Marketing Published: Tuesday, 21 January 2014 02:53 Submitted by Jonathan Dolby Press Release from: Famous Four Media Read: 18 times In December 2013, Famous Four Media signed its first Registry Agreement for its .BID generic Top Level Domain ... read more ...

Islamic TLDs and the Challenge of Good Governance - As governments ask themselves whether they should not be the only ones in charge, and everyone else is more determined than ever to stay involved, Internet governance is now a front-page topic. But away from the theoretical debates about which model is best, one real-life situation may end up looking strangely like a vindication of the multi-stakeholder model by governmental organisations. The situation in question is that of Islam and Halal. Two applications that look like they are caught ... read more ...

New .CLUB Domain Delegated by ICANN - Historic Event Brings One of the Most Popular New Domain Extensions To The Internet and One Step Closer to General Availability FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – January 20, 2014 – .CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), announced today that its new “.CLUB” domain has been delegated by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and entered into the Internet’s Root Zone. As required ... read more ...

Famous Four Open Its First New gTLD .Bid & You Can Bid To Own The Domain - FFM today announced a “reservation program” .Bid called Bid on .Bid The .BID Reservation program is split into two phases: Bid-on-.BID and First-Come-First-Served (FCFS) Bid-on-.BID When?                    From 14:00 UTC on 20th January 2014 until 10:00 UTC on 14th February 2014 Registrants are invited to submit their bids for .BID second level domains through participating ICANN accredited Registrars. The minimum bid will be just $20.00. Reservations at the standard retail ... read more ...

‘.brands’ become reality as first branded gTLD delegations take place - This weekend ‘.brands’ became a reality with Monash University making a little bit of history, becoming the first such application to be delegated to the DNS root. In October, WTR reported on the delegation of the first new gTLD applications to the root zone. These related to IDN applications, and subsequent delegations (and sunrises) have centred on generic strings. The announcement that Monash University’s branded TLD is now live, then, is notable for making ‘.brands’  a reality. In ... read more ...

Organic growth drives revenue rise at NCC Group - IT security business NCC Group has reported one of its strongest first half performances for "a number of years" with revenue rising beyond the £50m mark. The Manchester-based company's sales were £54m for the six months to 30 November 2013, up from £48.1m for the same period a year earlier. Organic growth during the period was 11 per cent. Meanwhile, NCC posted a rise in pre-tax profit from £7.5m in 2012 to £11.1m. The company said Artemis, ... read more ...

Top Level Domain Hldg Ltd : gTLD Portfolio Update – 4 - gTLD Portfolio Update January 14, 2014 The Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) are pleased to provide an update on the progress of its uncontested gTLD applications, Minds + Machines' OPEN Priority Reservation programme and the private auction process. Progress of uncontested TLDH and client applications Of the 24 uncontested applications in which TLDH has an interest, the Company is delighted ... read more ...

Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot Partner on Live Auctions of New gTLD … - Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot, LLC announced today an exclusive joint partnership to provide live and online auction services for premium domains in new gTLD extensions that are being launched over the next several years. Examples of premium domain names that may potentially be for sale via this new offering could include names like Night.Club, Tour.London, Hotels.NYC, Divorce.Law, Poker.Vegas, Concert.Tickets, and on, across the spectrum of recently created new domain space. The ... read more ...

Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot.com Partner On Live Auctions Of New … - Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot, LLC announced today an exclusive joint partnership to provide live and online auction services for premium domains in new gTLD extensions that are being launched over the next several years. Examples of premium domain names that may potentially be for sale via this new offering could include names like Night.Club, Tour.London, Hotels.NYC, Divorce.Law, Poker.Vegas, Concert.Tickets, and on, across the spectrum of recently created new domain space. The partnership ... read more ...

Domaining.com & TheDomains.com Launch The New gTLD Ticker - Domaining.com and TheDomains.com have a new look this morning as they launched the new gTLD ticker on the top of each site. The new gTLD ticker is an advertising program, the brain child of Francois Carrillo, Founder and C.E.O of Cybertonic which operates Domaining.com who is in charge of making the ticker work Michael Berkens of TheDomains.com is in charge of sales and client relations for the new advertising program. The program is strictly limited to 2o strings in 2014. At the moment we ... read more ...

GoDaddy Signs Registry-Registrar Agreement with .CLUB - January 10th, 2014 By: THN News <!-- GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-1-Rotating");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-2");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-3");--> (The Hosting News) –   .CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), announced today that GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar, will be offering “yourname.club” Web addresses to clubs, ... read more ...

Are Domainers Concerned by New gTLDs? - OHHHHHHHHH yes they are.I recently spoke on the phone to a French domainer about new gTLDs. There are not so many of them in France that can make decent money from reselling domain names. His story was pretty straightforward: “my list is ready and I have not used any pre-registration platform. I will register when new domains extensions are open to all”. No mention of any Landrush or Sunrise period. Of course, no word about the domain names he plans to register. This is a very conservative ... read more ...

Top Level Domain Hldg Ltd : Sibername Launches Preregistration Service for … – 4 - Ottawa, ON (PRWEB) January 09, 2014 Sibername (http://www.sibername.com), one of the most trusted Canadian resources for domain registration and web hosting, has launched a new self-registration and reservation system for organizations seeking to claim new Web domain names that take advantage of the new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) extensions. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a global Internet non-profit group based in Los Angeles, manages all TLDs, including domain ... read more ...

Washington Post’s 2014 In and Out List: .Com’s are Out, .EverythingElse is in - Xavier, I’ve been gathering some info/stats on all of the Fortune 500 company names the domain names they use. I know the list changes but IIRC, maybe a couple used .net and ALL of the rest used .com when I went through it. These companies are not going to gamble on switching to a .gtld They don’t need to. They can’t all have their own .brand either. Its bad enough that some of their names are close sounding; using the same keywords. ‘YourCompanyName’.com ... read more ...

Think ICANN Will End Up Rolling in New gTLD Cash? Think Again! - January 2014. The first registry contracts have been signed. The first Sunrise priority registration periods have been opened. The new gTLD program is well on the way. So maybe now, at last, we can start to find out the real costs of opening up the Internet root? And how much revenue doing so has brought ICANN! Short answer: ICANN has taken in USD 344.958 million from the first round of new gTLD applications. The figure comes from the first of ICANN's quarterly financial statements, covering ... read more ...