Famous Four Media Selects Sedo to Help Market its Premium Name Portfolio of … – SYS - Applicant for 57 of the most exciting new generic TLDs is partnering with world's largest domain marketplace to bring its most popular names to marketCAMBRIDGE, MA and GIBRALTAR- November 21st, 2013 - Sedo, the world's largest premium domain marketplace and monetization provider, and Famous Four Media (FFM), one of the largest applicants for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), today announced a partnership to bring some of the most exciting new domain names to ... read more ...

Conclusion: SLD Blocking Is Too Risky Without TLD Rollback (Part 4 of 4) - ICANN's second level domain (SLD) blocking proposal includes a provision that a party may demonstrate that an SLD not in the initial sample set could cause "severe harm," and that SLD can potentially be blocked for a certain period of time. The extent to which that provision would need to be exercised remains to be determined. However, given the concerns outlined in Part 2 and Part 3 of this series, it seems likely that there could be many additions (and deletions!) from the blocked list given ... read more ...

Verisign Publishes Last Part Of Series On Possible Domain Collision: “SLD … - Verisign Published its final part of its 4 part series on domain collision and the new gTLD program entitled  “SLD Blocking Is Too Risky Without TLD Rollback”on the final day of the ICANN Meeting in Argentina. Here it is: “ICANN’s second level domain (SLD) blocking proposal includes a provision that a party may demonstrate that an SLD not in the initial sample set could cause “severe harm,” and that SLD can potentially be blocked for a certain period of time. The extent to which ... read more ...

New gTLDs: what you need to know - The Internet landscape is set to face its “biggest change… since inception”1 with the introduction of new generic top level domains.  With more than 1,000 new “strings” likely to go live in the first round, there are new challenges for trade mark owners to ensure that their intellectual property will not be misused online. What is a top level domain? A top level domain (TLD) is that part of a domain name found at the far right, and is either a “generic” TLD (gTLD) (e.g. .com, ... read more ...

Sedo and Donuts Announce Partnership - Sedo just announced a new partnership with Donuts, and the company was selected to help Donuts sell some of its premium new gTLD domain names. This is positive news for the company considering the number of new gTLD registries Donuts will likely operate. According to this morning’s news release, “Sedo will manage contention resolution for competing trademarked domains, and will also assist in auctioning premium names that will be reserved from general registration.” The sunrise auctions ... read more ...

TLDH: Major Expansion of Group’s Activities – Registrar Business and Priority … - BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, November 18, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ --HighlightsTLDH's wholly owned registrar business, Minds + Machines Registrar Limited, launches at ICANN's Buenos Aires meeting; TLDH debuts its Priority Reservation service for five gTLDs: .best, .casa, .ceo, .cooking, and .horse, with others to follow;Internet users now able to pay nominal fee to reserve names on first-come, first-served basis in participating gTLDs ahead of formal launch through TLDH's Priority Reservation ... read more ...

In Praise of ICANN - ICANN comes in for a lot of criticism. That's because people care very deeply about it. The multi-stakeholder model, of which ICANN is the exemplar, is such a radical and revolutionary departure from how global affairs have been managed in the past that many of us are constantly on guard lest ICANN degrade into the command-and-control structure that characterizes other global regulatory bodies. At ICANN, it's the volunteers, those who care (as well as, yes, those who are paid to pretend to care) ... read more ...

True Category Killer Hits The Market, Fashion.com But Why Is Schilling … - We get press releases about domain names for sale almost every day but this one really caught our eye. The domain name is Fashion.com Its a huge vertical, certainly a top 100 generic .com domain name and certainly worth into the eight figures According to the press release the domain is being brokered jointly by DomainNameSales.com and igloo.com. DomainNameSales of course was founded and is owned by Frank Schilling. Frank Schilling also is the founder of Uniregistry a company which applied for ... read more ...

New Internet Domain .BUILD Innovates Construction and All Things “Building” - Related:Press Release, News A new Internet Company founded by Los Angeles based entrepreneurs, .BUILD, has secured the rights to administer one of the most sought after, newly issued generic top level domains (gTLDs), “.BUILD” for global usage on the Internet. .BUILD is creating an entirely new ecosystem moving beyond the traditional domains of .com, .net, .org, etc. and serving as the new Internet destination for anyone who builds anything – with a specific focus on the building and ... read more ...

101domain.com joins Famous Four Media Registrar Ecosystem to promote its … - RealWire2013-11-14 November 2013 - Famous Four Media announced a collaborative approach with 101domain.com to promote and jointly develop and market the new FFM generic Top Level Domain (TLD) portfolio. The suffixes represented by FFM include some of the most relevant in the domain name industry, such as .accountant, .bid, .date or .download, 12 of the 57 applied for strings are uncontested. The first uncontested new FFM generic TLD will be .BID, with Sunrise expected to start in early 2014. With ... read more ...

.CLUB Signs Registry Agreement with ICANN – PR - .CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new .CLUB generic top-level domain name (gTLD), announced today it has signed its Registry Agreement with ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the international organization responsible for managing and coordinating the Domain Name System (DNS). This has been a long, stressful, and emotional process for myself and the team at .CLUB, said Colin Campbell, CEO and founder of .CLUB. We are so excited to have ... read more ...

.Club Domains Signs ICANN Registry Agreement - .CLUB Domains, the operator of new gTLD .CLUB, announced on Monday that it has signed its registry agreement with ICANN .Club Domains, the operator of new gTLD .CLUB, announced on Monday that it has signed its registry agreement with ICANN. As one of multiple applicants for the .CLUB gTLD, .Club Domains had to beat out other companies including Donuts and Merchant Law Group in a private auction in order to secure the new gTLD. Donuts announced seven of its new gTLDs last week, including ... read more ...

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GoDaddy kicks off gTLD land rush with first domain sales - Free Regcast : Managing Multi-Vendor Devices with System Centre 2012 Domain dealer GoDaddy has begun the first registrations of domains under the ICANN generic top-level domain (gTLD) programme.The company said that it will be allowing customers to pre-register sites in the .build, .luxury, .uno and .menu domains. The release marks the first registration for the new domains since the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) formally approved the ... read more ...

Domain Name Experts Discuss Policy, Future Of New Internet Top-level Domains - Representatives of ICANN, MarkMonitor and Donuts discuss the future of the new gTLD program at a Donuts-sponsored panel WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), yesterday hosted a panel discussion aimed at bringing Washington policymakers, journalists and influencers up to speed on the status and future of the Internet Corporation ... read more ...

Verisign Publishes 2nd Part of 4 Part Series On Why Domain Blocking Of New … - Verisign just released the second in a four part series of why ICANN’s effort to fix the potential collision issue caused by the release of new gTLD’s, by blocking domain registrations, isn’t good enough to fix the potential problems Here is the second post of the promised four part series: For several years, DNS-OARC has been collecting DNS query data “from busy and interesting DNS name servers” as part of an annual “Day-in-the-Life” (DITL) effort (an effort originated by CAIDA ... read more ...

How Your Premium Domain Might Be Sold By Godaddy As People Try To … - Here we go, boys and girls. What is the explanation for the variation in renewal fees on the so-called, Premium, domains: PurelyPurses.com $14.99 LeatherPurses.net $16.99 vs. $9.99 on a newly-registered dot com, and $8.99 for dot net? “Premium Domain Names are more valuable than other domains because they are based on common words or phrases people often use in their online searches. While GoDaddy does not own these domains names, we are one of a select group ... read more ...

NameJet to Offer New .XYZ and .COLLEGE Generic Top Level Domain Names … – Virtual - NameJet and the XYZ.COM LLC Registry are offering 40 never before released domain names under the new generic top level domains (gTLDs) .XYZ and .COLLEGE in a group of advance auctions. Kirkland, WA (PRWEB) November 08, 2013 As leaders in innovating the domain name space, NameJet and XYZ.COM have partnered to offer some of the very first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to the public this month. These never before released domain names are being offered by the new Top Level Domain Registry ... read more ...

ICANN: No New gTLD’s Last Resort Auctions Until Early March 2014 - In a webinar held by ICANN today on its Last Resort Auction for new gTLD strings in contention,  ICANN stated that no new gTLD ICANN last resort auction will be held in 2013 and most likely not until March 2014. Moreover the ICANN schedule is 10-20 auctions per month, with no applicant being able to participate in more than 5 auctions per month. So a company like Donuts which has over 100 applications in contention, based on the current time frame could be looking at a couple of years to settle ... read more ...

Why The New gTLDs Matter to Me - As someone who runs a website in the domain investing space, the new gTLD domain names will likely lead to advertising revenue opportunities. I don’t have any open banner spots nor do I have plans to add banner space, but at some point in the future, I  assume there will be new gTLD advertising inquiries. That aside, new gTLDs matter to me as a domain investor, and I want to discuss why that’s the case. In the next year or two, we are going to see most major domain registrars marketing ... read more ...