Minds + Machines’ .law domain attracting interest of Legal Marketing Association - No investment advice The Company is a publisher. You understand and agree that no content published on the Site constitutes a recommendation that any particular security, portfolio of securities, transaction, or investment strategy is suitable or advisable for any specific person. You further understand that none of the information providers or their affiliates will advise you personally concerning the nature, potential, advisability, value or suitability of any particular security, portfolio ... read more ...

UK users still don’t trust fancy new Internet top-level domains, study finds - Added on Apr 13, 2015 by John E Dunn Eighteen months into the new era of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) such as .london, .shop and .bank barely one in ten British and US consumers feels comfortable visiting websites using them, according to a large survey by security firm NCC Group. The survey of 10,000 consumers (5,000 from each country) found that 87 percent said that they didn't feel comfortable visiting new domains, presumably an issue connected to unfamiliarity. Roughly ... read more ...

Shocking percentage of consumers do not trust new top-level domains - Security in the Modern World: The ITProPortal Report free to download now: People don’t feel as safe online following the launch of hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). According to a poll from NCC Group, 40 per cent of web users reported feeling less secure online since the introduction of the domains which includes the likes of .shop, .bank and .London. Furthermore, 87 per cent said they do not feel very comfortable ... read more ...

New gTLD’s Registrations Top 5 Million; .Science & .Link Break 100K: We Break … - The number of new gTLD domain name registrations have topped 5 Million for the first time, according to ntldstats.com Here are the top 30 most registered new gTLDs: Domain                Total Reg  % of all Reg Now let’s go behind the numbers. .XYZ as we have spoken about numerous times includes about 375,000 free registrations that were stuffed into Network Solutions customer accounts which represented about 43% of its registrations. The next five top-selling registrars for .XYZ ... read more ...

We Need a Focused, Cooperative Strategy for Marketing New gTLDs - This essay discusses recent findings on the difficulty of overcoming decision bias, and it argues that this factor, when combined with a diverse and fragmented demand for new gTLDs, makes a focused marketing strategy crucial to the success of the program. In addition, success requires cooperation among registries and resellers when it comes to sales and marketing. Impulse buying aside, a product's sales are driven by the product's utility, which is why some professionals believe that the main ... read more ...

New Study Says "Consumers Feel Uncomfortable with the ‘New Internet’ and … - With hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLD) arriving on the Internet – like .shop, .bank and .london – research has revealed that 87 percent of consumers do not feel very comfortable ... read more ...

UK users still don’t trust fancy new Internet top-level domains, study finds - Eighteen months into the new era of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) such as .london, .shop and .bank barely one in ten British and US consumers feels comfortable visiting websites using them, according to a large survey by security firm NCC Group. The survey of 10,000 consumers (5,000 from each country) found that 87 percent said that they didn’t feel comfortable visiting new domains, presumably an issue connected to unfamiliarity. Roughly half claimed that their insecurity would be helped by ... read more ...

Study of 10K People: 49% of Consumers Are Uncomfortable With Vising A Site … - Global information assurance firm, NCC Group released the results of The New Internet Study, today of 10,000 people. NCC Group questioned 10,000 consumers across the US and UK regarding their attitudes to these new gTLDs. 49% of respondents said they felt uncomfortable visiting a web site using a new gTLD domain. 42% of web users reported feeling less secure online since their introduction while 35% feel just as secure. Other finding from the study: · 45% of those we surveyed said they would feel ... read more ...

FastCompany Covers The New gTLD’s: Highlights Coffee.Club - Fast Company just gave some love to the new gTLD program with a using Coffee.club as one of the success stories “Instead of having only a few meaningless TLDs like .com, .net, .biz, and country codes like .ly, the organization agreed to usher in a more freeform system: Why not have more specific options like .dentist and .nyc? The proliferation of new domains opens up a world of new branding opportunities for companies. For a dentist who has long lived on page five of Google’s search results ... read more ...

UC Berkeley, along with other schools, purchases Web addresses in adult … - UC Berkeley and other schools, including Harvard University, have bought web addresses in adult-oriented Internet domains to avoid trademark infringement from third parties. Starting in June, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, will open several new generic Top Level Domains, or gTLDs — a class of Internet domains such as “.com” and “.net” — to the public, including “.porn” “.adult” and “.sucks.” The imminent release by ICANN, the international ... read more ...

.CASINO gTLD Launches Sunrise - You are responsible for reading, understanding and agreeing to the National Law Review's (NLR’s) and the National Law Forum LLC's  Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before using the National Law Review website. The National Law Review is a free to use, no-log in database of legal and business articles. The content and links on www.NatLawReview.com are intended for general information purposes only. Any legal analysis, legislative updates or other content and links should not be construed ... read more ...

.CASINO generic Top Level Domain Launches Sunrise - The new gTLD .casino opens to the public on June 3. Trademark owners may be able to register their trademark as a .casino domain name ahead of the public launch. The “sunrise” early registration period for trademark owners opened March 24 and ends May 23. .casino domain name registrations are available now for trademark owners that have already recorded their marks with the trademark clearinghouse (TMCH). As explained below, there is still time for mark owners that have not yet recorded marks ... read more ...

Coming Soon: Your_Brand.Sucks - Discussion about how something "sucks" is no longer reserved for middle school lunchrooms. Soon the Internet will include a new generic top-level domain ("gTLD") for .SUCKS. The goal of this new gTLD—according to its operator, Vox Populi Registry—is to foster a town square for consumers to voice opinions and criticism.1 On the other hand, many companies are obviously concerned that .SUCKS will adversely impact their brands and open a new avenue for cyber-squatters and other bad actors. Available ... read more ...

Donuts’ marketing offensive tops list of most-read WTR stories in March - Trevor Little The online world features prominently in the top-10 list of most-read WTR blogs last month, with coverage of the marketing campaign launched by Donuts, the largest registry for new generic top-level (gTLD) domain names, taking top spot. The campaign is aimed at spreading the new gTLD gospel to small businesses in the US. While unlikely ... read more ...

CentralNic gets .love (and plenty of other sought-after domain name extensions) - CentralNic (LON:CNIC) has added a clutch of new Internet addresses to its portfolio of top level domain names (gTLDs). The group has picked up a number of the most sought-after new domain extensions including .online, .site, .tech, .love, .forum, .fan, .rent, and .realty, which will be available to potential users exclusively on CentralNic’s platform. The group also recently won the competitive tender to be the exclusive technical platform provider for the .coop TLD. So far, CentralNic has launched ... read more ...

Dubious New Domain Name Extensions Available – Protect Your Brand! - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...

Google Launches Backwards Google Search - There are some people who like to read everything in reverse order and Google has built a search engine for them at http://com.google.Any search you do is reversed or backwards.Google announced this on Google+ as an April Fools joke saying:We’re always thinking about what’s ahead, but sometimes it’s important to look backwards. In that spirit, we’re proud to introduce http://com.google, available today. Made possible by new gTLDs (http://goo.gl/HolXqe), http://com.google gives us an ... read more ...

WIPO sees UDRP increase - Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) complaints increased 2 percent in 2014, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Trademark owners filed 2,634 cases concerning 5,591 domain names through the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. WIPO also speculated that registrations in new gTLDs have triggered UDRP cases. Registrations in new gTLDs represented 3.9 percent of domain names in WIPO’s caseload compared to 65.2 percent in .com in 2013. The US was the ... read more ...

This .Sucks: The Newest New gTLD - Two years ago, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that runs the Internet, launched a controversial program to expand the number of top-level domain names (TLDs).  Until recently, the real estate on the Internet was confined to traditional TLDs like .com, .net and .org; country code TLDs like .fr for France and .es for Spain; and a small number of sponsored TLDs like .xxx for adult entertainment and .aero for the airline industry. Under ICANN’s ... read more ...

IP owners make last-ditch effort to derail “predatory” ‘.sucks’ rollout - Trevor Little ICANN’s IP Constituency has called on ICANN to immediately halt the “‘.sucks’ predatory registration scheme designed to exploit trademark owners”, and questioned the unique registry fees that could see ICANN benefit financially, to the tune of $1 million, from the TLD.  Sent to ICANN late on Friday (and available online courtesy ... read more ...

How Donuts Is Playing a Big Role in the New gTLD Era - With $100 million in VC funding and well over 100 new top-level domain names, Donuts has emerged to become the pre-eminent vendor in the new era of Internet domains. For much of the Internet's history, top-level domains (TLDs) were few in number, but that has changed over the course of the past year as new generic TLDs (gTLDs) have emerged. TLDs are the naming suffix for Internet addresses and include dot-com (as in eWEEK.com), which recently turned 30 years ... read more ...

Another “sweet” Deal Done Right By Sedo - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Boston, Mass. -  Sedo is fresh off a big high from our successful promotion at this year’s SXSW in Austin. Through our free “gTLD-topped” frozen yogurt food truck promotion we were able to connect with tons of both tech-savvy and non-techy savvy professionals while giving out close to 5,000 servings of frozen yogurt and almost 2,000 coffee.club cups of coffee over a five day period. We made huge strides in educating the SXSW audience about domains ... read more ...