Rich-Phillips: auDA oversight for .melbourne domain space - Victoria’s Minister for Technology, Gordon Rich-Phillips, has told an Australian Internet policy conference that he believes auDA – .au Domain Administration Ltd., the organisation that currently manages the .au top-level domain – should have a role in overseeing new Australian geography-based TLDs including .melbourne.“Once available, .melbourne will be positioned in partnership with the City of Melbourne as a premium domain space that is both sought ... read more ...

Will Uniform Rapid Suspension Be a Substitute for Defensive Domain Name … - Many law firms and Intellectual Property departments in charge of managing brands and domain names for their customers or businesses must have had that same question: "how do I protect a brand online under the ICANN new gTLD program?" The first potential answer that is usually offered up to an enquirer is: "the Trademark Clearinghouse does that". As time goes by, and the rules under which the Trademark Clearinghouse operates are better defined and understood this answer becomes clearly fallacious. The ... read more ...

Buyer Beware: New Alt Root Domain Name Registration Service Launches … - In an apparent attempt to grab a market share with the new gTLD s coming out, “AnyExtension.com launched today according to a press release that promissing the users can “submit any domain name and extension that one wishes and that too for free.” “With the help of this service, one can use domain names like www.power.boat, www.used.machines, www.paris.france or www.amy.smith.” “The project took about two years by the Dutch founder and scientific philosopher Johannes Brugeman and ... read more ...

New Non-Profit Group for the Internet Domain Name Industry: Informational … – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]> The Domain Name Association (DNA), a new global non-profit organization created to educate users about the growing domain name industry, including hundreds of new domains on the horizon, is presenting two free webcasts on October 17. All are invited to learn more about this new group.       ... read more ...

ICANN: Implementing the New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management Plan - On 7 October 2013 the ICANN Board’s New gTLD Program Committee approved resolutions directing staff to implement the New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management Plan (“The Plan”) Tonight ICANN released details on how it will be implementing the New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management Plan. For those Registries that have already signed a Registry Agreement the contract have been notified that there Agreement has  been updated to include the registry operator obligations called for in the ... read more ...

Unintended Consequences As Aus Registry Study Turns Into Story “Domain … - Yesterday Aus Registry release a study showing only 25% of all Australians own a domain name. Aus registry which  runs the .Au registry and also is the back end provider for many new gTLD’s commissioned the study of 10,000 Australians  and used the results to encourage Australians to pay more attension to the domain name spac. “What we as an industry need to focus on now is raising greater awareness and education about the benefits of domain name ownership, particularly for businesses,” ... read more ...

Collision Decision – Updates from ICANN - In early August, ICANN published a commissioned study from Interisle on domain name collision (covered in more detail in this blog entry here) that put into question the timeline to delegation for a number of applications. This week’s report sets up a path forward for those applications and lifts some – but not all – of the uncertainty.In the original proposal accompanying the Interisle report, new gTLD applications were sorted into three categories, with the following mitigations ascribed:“Low ... read more ...

Domain Broker Media Options acquires exclusive MO.co premium domain from … - Web Hosting News – PANAMA CITY, PANAMA – Leading domain broker, Media Options, announced they have struck a deal with .CO Internet, the company that operates the .CO domain registry, to purchase the MO.co domain name. While the terms of the deal are confidential, Media Options intends to launch the two letter domain into a complimentary brokerage business and website dedicated to premium domain names of alternative extensions, both ccTLD’s (like .CO, .TV .ME) and select premium ... read more ...

Uniregistry Beats Back Google’s Objection To .Cars: Different Decisions On The … - Uniregistry, Corp just beat back an objection from Google’s Charleston Road Registry (CRR) Inc. on the new gTLD .cars in a decision handed down by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (“ICDR”) CRR objected to Unregistry application for .cars as on the basis of String Confusion to its own application for .car and wanted the two applications to be placed into the same contention set which would have forced Uniregsitry into an auction with Google. This panel was aware that a previous ... read more ...

1and1.com New gTLD Pre-Registrations Top 3 Million Domain Names - 3 million may look like a lot, but when you factor in that some of the big actors applied for multiple strings: Donut… 307 TLDH… 92 Famous Four…57 UniRegistry… 54 Radix… 31 UnitedTLD … 26 Google. 101 Amazon… 76 Microsoft. .. 11 With more than 900 strings, we are talking roughly 3,333.33 recurring, per string. That’s not enough to satisfy these giants. Like me, most consumers are still stuck on RFC920 with former IANA. When ICANN came in, and ... read more ...

Google Backs Off On Closed Generic Strings Including .Search So Does L’Oréal - It looks like Google has given up operating new gTLD generic stings as a close registry,  even for  .Search which at one point it wanted to operate as a Dotless Domain. According to an ICANN’s announcement tonight Google d/b/a Charleston Road Registry has backed off the close generic string application for: .MOVE; .MUSIC; .MAIL; .MAP; .STORE; .SHOP; .BABY; .SHOW; .BOOK; .GAME; .CPA; APP; CLOUD; SEARCH, .MOVIE L’Oréal which applied for top operates generics like .Beauty, .Skin; .Hair; ... read more ...

Brazilian Senate Formally Opposes Amazon’s Application For .Amazon - In a letter sent from the BRAZILIAN EMBASSY in Washington today to ICANN, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and National Defense of the Brazilian Senate formally opposed the application of Amazon to the new gTLD .Amazon I would love to know the number of domain holders, brand holders and Internet based company that are located in the Amazon forest in Brazil. I can’t image that the Amazon region is a hot bed of active internet businesses, but it appears Brazil is going to hold Amazon’s feet ... read more ...

ICANN Releases New gTLD Name Collision Proposal - New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) approved an updated proposal for dealing with the consequences of name collisions ICANN’s New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) approved an updated proposal for dealing with the consequences of name collisions on Monday. The proposal is titled “New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management Plan,” and is the product of the NGPC’s previous “Name Collision in the DNS” study and 75 comments submitted during the public comment period. The plan calls for another ... read more ...

.UNO to Help Marketers and Companies Directly Reach the Hispanic Consumer … - ".UNO will be the first new gTLD to launch that will globally connect and unite Hispanic and Latino communities, businesses, individuals and consumers in support of a bicultural and bilingual Internet,” states Shaul Jolles, CEO of Dot Latin. Kansas City, MO (PRWEB) October 09, 2013 Latinos, both in the U.S. and abroad, can ... read more ...

Key Systems Publishes Graph Showing Time Line For Each New gTLD Roll Out - Key-Systems GmbH which operates domain name registrars,  domaindiscount24.com, rrpproxy.net,  and brand protection company, BrandShelter.com released a graph today on new the date that each new gTLD is expected to launch. Of course with each new gTLD there will be a Sunrise period for Trademark holders followed in most cases by a Land Rush period then the Go Live date where domain names can be registered. For each new gTLD string Key Systems estimates the Estimated Start of Sunrise Period Estimated ... read more ...

Brand gTLD Subdomain Strategy: Navigating the New Technology Platform - Tweet Buffer Brand gTLD applicants like Apple, Microsoft, McDonalds and Johnson Johnson, to name just a few, are planning how they will use their brand gTLD(s) in 2014. While most brands agree that simply migrating the home page from .com isn’t the solution, they’re still looking for innovative strategies to deploy their roll out. Many are concerned about how consumers will adapt to this new way of navigating the web and don’t want to lose ... read more ...

Coming soon - Since the '90s, "dot-com" has been synonymous with "web site." However, the ".com" extension on the end of an Internet address—also known as the address' generic top-level domain, or gTLD—may soon be just one of many ways merchants set up shop on the web. For the first time since 2004, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) this summer began approving new gTLDs for use in Internet addresses, with the first ones likely ... read more ...

gTLDs: new USPTO trade mark examination guidelines - The United States Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) has updated its current policy and procedures for examining trade mark applications comprising generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs). The draft was open to public comment until 8 September 2013. Last year, the organisation responsible for overseeing the domain name system, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), began to allow applications for domain names following the “dot” in a web address. As an example, consider ... read more ...

NameJet Selected by Daniel Negari for New gTLD .COLLEGE Auctions - Web Hosting News – Kirkland, WA – NameJet.com, the leading aftermarket domain auction company, has partnered with the XYZ.COM Registry to help launch the new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) .COLLEGE. The .COLLEGE gTLD will be free of restrictions, and unlike .EDU, open to any organization, individual or group interested in an online presence. Groups that will benefit from the new online domain include universities and their departments, college preparation services, online learning ... read more ...

Schilling’s Uniregistry Is Positioned To Become The Most Successful New gTLD … - We think the Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry is uniquely positioned to become, pound for pound, the most successful new gTLD operator. So first a disclaimer, we don’t own any part of Uniregistry (unfortunately) and Uniregistry doesn’t and hasn’t even advertised on TheDomains.com.  Finally this is obviously an opinion piece as opposed to a news post. With that out of the way, Uniregistry has applied for just over 50 strings. Uniregistry is one of the largest applicants for new gTLD’s.  ... read more ...