Bring Your .Brand to Life - A preview of my upcoming presentation for the Digital Marketing and gTLD Strategy Congress on why your Top-Level Domain (TLD) strategy is paramount to making or breaking your .brand. "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." —Benjamin Franklin With the first new TLDs slated to be delegated in only a matter of weeks, effective development of your TLD strategy is your most important asset to guide you on the path to the successful implementation of your .brand. Your strategy ... read more ...

Want To Win An Apple TV: Famous Four Starts Suggest A Cool .Bid New gTLD … - Famous Four Media is running a competition to find the coolest web address you can think of for the new .Bid generic Top Level Domain (TLD). The competition is open now and will close at 11:59 UTC +2 on 4th October 2013, at which time the best suggestions will be entered into a random draw and the winner will receive a brand new Apple TV. To stand a chance of winning all we need is for you to send your suggestions along with your email address to coolnames@famousfourmedia.com. Alternatively ... read more ...

Donuts expands on trademark protection offerings across its gTLDs - Donuts, the largest investor applicant in new gTLDs, has expanded on its plans to operate a domain protected marks list (DPML) in the new gTLD strings it runs. The list is designed to enable mark owners to block their trademarks across multiple strings for one fee, but cost and budget considerations will dictate the strategic approach taken to protection. Speaking at the MARQUES conference in Monte Carlo, Jonathon Nevett, co-founder of Donuts, explained that the company's strategy is to ... read more ...

Breaking: Afternic.com Acquired By Godaddy - In a email that just went out to customers of Afternic.com, the online domain name marketplace owned by Name Media, Godaddy has acquired Afternic. According to the email, Name Media which owns Afternic.com, is just selling Afternic.com the marketplace and not BuyDomains.com another company owned by NameMedia which owns and operates reportedly some 1 million domain names. It will be interesting to see how this will effect some new gTLD registries. Afternic.com has been offering an aftermarket ... read more ...

Businesses Face Many Challenges From New Internet -  News    Images Businesses Face Many Challenges From New Internet The release of over 1000 new domain extensions will change the way businesses market their business online. Expert guidance and quick and confident decision making will be necessary to help businesses build grow and protect their business online. WEST PALM BEACH, FL, September 18, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- A massive shift in the way consumers access and surf the internet is about to take place. ... read more ...

Businesses Face Many Challenges From New Internet - The release of over 1000 new domain extensions will change the way businesses market their business online. Expert guidance and quick and confident decision making will be necessary to help businesses build grow and protect their business online. WEST PALM BEACH, FL, September 18, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- A massive shift in the way consumers access and surf the internet is about to take place. Thousands of new dotcom like extensions like .web, .hotel, ... read more ...

Top 5 nTLD Pre Reservations at 1&1 - Domain registrar 11 has been advertising the new gTLD domain names somewhat extensively in the US during NFL games. The company may be advertising at other times as well, but I have primarily seen these commercials while watching football. I find these commercials most interesting because 1 1 is advertising a product that is not yet available and the company doesn’t know exactly when the new gTLDs will become available. They are also advertising pre-reservations, which are non-binding. That ... read more ...

CPA Global Takes a Lead in Helping Clients Protect and Develop Their Brands … - Download image ... read more ...

Efforts to heighten public awareness of gTLDs gear up - This week sees the launch of a month-long education campaign about new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). Coming hot on the heels of the television advertising promoting ‘pre-reservations’ to the general public, is the tipping point of wider awareness? While WTR has reported extensively on ICANN’s new gTLDs expansion, with the trademark community an active voice in the programme’s development, general awareness of new gTLDs remains relatively low. However, according to a public opinion ... read more ...

‘.limited’ and ‘.express’ not awarded to fashion retailers - <![CDATA[ ]]> Please complete the form below to receive a free trial of WTR magazine and daily email updates. The personal details provided by you will be held on a database and may be shared with Globe Business Publishing Ltd's associated companies. The details provided will not be passed to any other company. Please view our Terms Conditions. ... read more ...

You Just Signed a Registry Contract With ICANN. What Are Your Plans? - Back on February 4, 2013, I wrote a CircleID post entitled, 'How the registrar Cash Flow Model Could Collapse with New ICANN gTLDs.' My key point back then was this: new gTLD applicants need to be mindful of how the cash flow policies of their registry (and of their back-end service provider) could impact whether their TLD is actively promoted by ICANN registrars. When ICANN registrars were first established, all of the business risk of domain name registrations was placed on Registrars. ... read more ...

2.5 Million New Followers Of Twitter Accounts In Last 30 Days Can’t Be Wrong … - TheDomains.com has maintained a Twitter account for just about as long I we have been publishing the blog which is coming up to 6 years. In the last 30 days I have noticed a huge spike in new followers to @thedomains that have a huge amount of followers themselves. These are business oriented accounts, publications, money making guru’s and people from outside the domain name space. Obviously its a judgement call where  all these Twitter Whale accounts (yes I just made up that term) are coming ... read more ...

Impact of new gTLD launch expands to U.S. Patent & Trademark Office - With the impending launch of up to 1,400 new generic top level domains (gTLDs) in the coming months, trademark owners are scrambling to decide how to protect their brands from online infringement, and, on the other hand, how to leverage their intellectual property assets in this new online space. Many major companies like Nike and McDonald’s Corporation have applied to operate new gTLDs based on their brand names (i.e., .NIKE and .MCDONALDS). Unlike registering a domain name, creating a new gTLD ... read more ...

Valideus Asks ICANN To Clarify Details On Its Last Resort gTLD Auctions, All 16 … - Valideus which is private company “currently managing 5% of all new gTLD applications”, including Amazon’s sent a letter to ICANN asking for a lot of details on ICANN’s “Last Resort Auctions” which are scheduled to begin in mid-October. Included in the requests are many valid concerns about the amount of the deposits that will be required to participate in the auction, who will hold the funds, when the winning bidders funds are have to be paid to ICANN and even when there will be ... read more ...

Know Your Net: CADNA and BBB Launch Public Awareness, Education Campaign - We’re honored to have Rep. Marino address the launch of our campaign on the importance of Internet safety in general but specifically because of the expansion in top-level domain names. Washington, DC (PRWEB) September 12, 2013 Rep. Tom Marino, R-PA., Vice Chairman of the House subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, will address the kickoff ... read more ...

Demand Media Welcomes Wayne MacLaurin as Senior Vice President of … - Demand Media Welcomes Wayne MacLaurin as Senior Vice President of Technology for United TLD World-Class Registry Strengthens Technology Resources to Focus on New gTLDs KIRKLAND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Demand Media (NYS: DMD) , a leading media and domain services company, today is pleased to announce its recent hire of Wayne MacLaurin, who joins the company as Senior Vice President of Technology for United TLD, a Demand Media subsidiary. United TLD is investing in infrastructure to become a world-class ... read more ...

What’s the Impact of gTLDs on Social Media? - Tweet Buffer As 1,400 new gTLDs launch in 2014, digital marketers should pay attention to how gTLDs will impact consumer use of the Internet, particularly in social media. Big digital companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft made bold moves in the gTLD space with numerous applications, but social media titans like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Pandora, eBay, and others did not apply. Apple was on the gTLD applicant list, but only with its ... read more ...

Icann’s Amazon Problem - Domain name issues continue to make the news. We recently wrote an article about the new Generic Top Level Domain Names (gTLDs) that people have been speaking about for some time, and that are likely to start making an appearance later this year. This new system, of course, allows for the registration of generic words, geographic names and brand names as top level names, so you can expect to see just about anything in months to come - .lawyer, .africa, .zulu, .google. But competition for registration ... read more ...

Shweta Sahjwani - Name Collision: Why ICANN Is Looking at It the Wrong Way (Part 1) ICANN has, once again opened up a veritable can of worms, with their latest decision on the 'horrors' of Name Collision. While we are sure that ICANN and the Interisle Consulting Group have very good reason to make the decision that they have - delaying the delegation of several TLDs - we believe that the findings contained in Interisle's report do not give sufficient cause to delay the new gTLD program in the manner proposed ... read more ...

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