.africa domain remains in limbo - After over two-years two companies continue to fight tooth and nail to become the official registry operator for .africa. You might need to wait another three to six months to gain access to a .africa domain name as the process remains suspended following an ongoing battle over who gets to run the geographic top-level domain (gTLD). The battle for who gets to be the official registry operator for .africa has been going on for more than two years. South Africa's ZA Central Registry (ZACR) ... read more ...

.Brand Domain Names: Does Risk Outweigh Reward? - In a post on Google’s Webmaster Central blog a couple of days ago, there were several questions asked and answered about Google’s treatment of websites that use new gTLD domain name extensions. I had already understood how Google treats new gTLD extensions, but I wasn’t really sure about how Google would treat .brand domain names, such as .Google or .Barclays domain names. In the aforementioned blog post, a question about .brand domain names was posed and answered: Q: Will a .BRAND ... read more ...

ICANN Accountability Deficits Revealed in Panel Ruling on .AFRICA – CircleID - "Fortress ICANN" No Longer Able to Shield Itself from Accountability In an important test of ICANN's primary accountability mechanism, its Independent Review Process (IRP), the organization has been handed a stinging blow over its mishandling of the bid for the new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) .AFRICA. At the crux of the issue are two competing applications for the .AFRICA new gTLD and the decision by ICANN's Board to abdicate its responsibility to ensure that ICANN's evaluation and subsequent ... read more ...

ICANN Accountability Deficits Revealed in Panel Ruling on .AFRICA - "Fortress ICANN" No Longer Able to Shield Itself from Accountability In an important test of ICANN's primary accountability mechanism, its Independent Review Process (IRP), the organization has been handed a stinging blow over its mishandling of the bid for the new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) .AFRICA. At the crux of the issue are two competing applications for the .AFRICA new gTLD and the decision by ICANN's Board to abdicate its responsibility to ensure that ICANN's evaluation and subsequent ... read more ...

ICANN to resume evaluation of DotConnectAfrica Trust application for .AFRICA - INTERNET | July 20, 2015, 12:38 p.m.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced it will resume evaluation of DotConnectAfrica Trust's (DCA's) application for the .AFRICA new generic top-level domain.ICANN's Board of Directors convened a special meeting last week to quickly address an independent review panel's declaration that held in favor of DotConnectAfrica Trust regarding certain claims about its .AFRICA top-level domain application. During the meeting, the ... read more ...

ICANN 53: Accountability, Brand Policy & New Round of New gTLDs - In June, MarkMonitor joined our colleagues once again at the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) 53rd public meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Several high-profile and contentious issues were on the agenda, many of which have significant impact on the interests of intellectual property and brand owners. Among these are the ongoing ICANN Accountability issues and the impending departure of ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé; registrant information (Whois) transparency, accuracy ... read more ...

ICANN to Resume Evaluation of DotConnectAfrica Trust Application for .AFRICA – ag-IP - Home / ICANN to Resume Evaluation of DotConnectAfrica Trust Application for ... / LOS ANGELES - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced in a press release that it will resume evaluation of DotConnectAfrica Trust's (DCA's) application for the .AFRICA new generic top-level domain.  ICANN's Board of Directors convened a special meeting on 16 July 2015 to quickly address an independent review panel's ... read more ...

.Love Winds Up Its 1st Day With 2,956 Domain Registrations – TheDomains.com -     The new gTLD .Love launched into general availability (GA) yesterday, where is could be registered on a first come, first served basis and wound up with a whole lot of .Love ending the day with 2,956 registrations. .Love only had 182 domain names after the Sunrise period, which was opened only to trademark holders and the landrush period where people paid an extra fee to registered a domain name early ahead of GA. Over 51% of all registrations were made through the China based registrar, West263.com ... read more ...

.Love Winds Up Its 1st Day With 2956 Domain Registrations -     The new gTLD .Love launched into general availability (GA) yesterday, where is could be registered on a first come, first served basis and wound up with a whole lot of .Love ending the day with 2,956 registrations. .Love only had 182 domain names after the Sunrise period, which was opened only to trademark holders and the landrush period where people paid an extra fee to registered a domain name early ahead of GA. Over 51% of all registrations were made through the China based registrar, West263.com ... read more ...

Dot London Releases Great Video With Real Life Success Stories Using a … - A great video has been posted by the the Dot London registry that features interviews with real registrants of .London domain names talking about why they generally traded in their .com or .co.uk domain name for a .London domain and how its helped their businesses. Many of the people interviewed chat about how a .London address helped their business get a higher ranking on Google. The Video is entitled Your City.  Your Domain. It’s a video that any Geographic new gTLD registry could use to show ... read more ...

1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Site 9788; .News 9122; .Cafe 1727; .Express 916 - Four new gTLD’s had their first day of general availability (GA) yesterday, where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis, and as expected both .Site and .News had big days. Including the domain name registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders, those that paid additional fees to register domain names ahead of GA in the Early Access Period, here are the total number of domain names registered after day 1 of GA: .Site 9,788 .News 9,122 .Cafe 1,727 .Express 916 In ... read more ...

Rightside Publishes Post On Taking Down The Bloomberg.Market Website - Rightside (NAME) just published a post about the new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Market which as we wrote earlier today which led to a huge rally in shares of Twitter and more than 50 million shares being traded today which is more than double its average three-month volume. Within a few hours of our post Rightside shut the domain name down. Rightside,  which is the registry for the new gTLD .Market, issued a statement on its company blog about the events of today: “”Earlier today, we learned ... read more ...

Fake Story on New gTLD Domain, Bloomberg.Market Sends Twitter Shares Up … -   According to several sources, a fake news story appearing on a new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Market sent shares of Twitter up over 5% today when they reported Twitter was going to be bought for $31 Billion dollars to over $38 a share. The domain is  Bloomberg.market, not Bloomberg.com but its made to look like Bloomberg.com   We have chatted on many occasions that trademark holders haveonly lightly  participated in the Sunrise periods for each new gTLD rollout with the exception of .porn, ... read more ...

.PRESS Domains by Radix Announces Partnership With Clippings.me to Offer … – SYS - SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 07/14/15 -- Radix, a leading new gTLD registry, today announced its partnership with Clippings.me, one of the largest journalism portfolio hosting services. With the growth of digital journalism, web portfolios have become the primary tool for journalists to exhibit their work and gain an engaged follower base. Through this partnership, users of Clippings.me will be able to use .press domains ... read more ...

.PRESS Domains by Radix Announces Partnership With Clippings.me to Offer … - SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Jul 14, 2015) - Radix, a leading new gTLD registry, today announced its partnership with Clippings.me, one of the largest journalism portfolio hosting services. With the growth of digital journalism, web portfolios have become the primary tool for journalists to exhibit their work and gain an engaged follower base. Through this partnership, users of Clippings.me will be able to use .press domains for their portfolios at special prices. In turn, registrants ... read more ...

You Can Buy .Love, But It’s Going To Cost You Up To $15K Per Year, Per Domain - .Love which launches Thursday,  is the first offering of Merchant Law Group which applied for 8 new gTLD’s. Despite a report yesterday, the best domain names for the new gTLD .Love have huge premium registrations/renewal prices,  actually the highest we have seen other than some Rightside new gTLD domain names up to $15,000 a year. There are other top .Love domain names that are reserved and not available. One and two character domains are also not available at this time. The normal registration ... read more ...

Independent Review Panel Favored DotConnectAfrica Trust Against ICANN … - In a landmark decision, an Independent Review Process (IRP), at the International Center for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) has ruled that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has violated its Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation following an expert determination of an IRP suit that was filed by DotConnectAfrica Trust in October 2013 to challenge an ICANN Board decision at the American Arbitration Association (AAA), New York, USA. The DCA vs. ICANN IRP decision was ... read more ...

.News Sets Record With Of Over 400 Registrations on Day 5 of EAP; Now Over … - The new gTLD .News has set what WE believe is a record number of domain name registrations in Day 5 of AN Early Access Program (EAP) and now has over 1,000 registration. In the Early Access Program registrants pay an extra fee to register a domain name ahead of general availability (GA) where domain names become available to be registered on a first come, first served basis. On day 5 the whole price of the EAP fee is $100. This means that Rightside (NAME) just made over $40,000 in just EAP fees in ... read more ...

Reliance Industries to shift to ‘.JIO’ domain name from ‘.COM’ -

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.News Gets At Least 45 Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP At $10K+ - Looks like the new gTLD .News is going to be a big winner for Rightside (NAME). The 1st day of the Early Access Program is about to close at 1pm EST today where people could get first shot at registering domain names at a wholesale cost of $10,000 per (retail price varies by registrar, plus any premium registration cost, if any). As of the last zone file update we found 45 domain names that were registered yesterday July 8th, the 1st day of EAP. Interestedly almost all the domain name registered ... read more ...

NetNames has a pop at Vox Populi | IPPro The Internet news | ipprotheinternet … - A third competition regulator has been brought into the dispute over Vox Populi Registry’s pricing strategy for the .sucks gTLD. Online brand protection company NetNames has filed a complaint with the European Commission, arguing that charging brand owners $1,999 per year while others pay just $10 is unfair. Vox Populi demanded $1,999 from brands during sunrise, with yearly renewals charged at the same rate. But during general availability, which opened in late June, consumers only had to part ... read more ...