What does 2015 have in retailer for on line companies - By David Fisher on November 4, 2014. Gordon Nixon joins the Board of Directors of BCE Inc. BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE) today announced the appointment of Gordon M. Nixon, CM, O. Ont., as a director of BCE… ... read more ...

Dot-com is dead. Long live dot-com - As you probably know, the internet's domain names are dominated by a single three-letter ending: "com". What you probably don't know is the sheer scale of dot-com's dominance. There are roughly 116.5m domains ending in ".com" - more than all of the 25 next largest registries combined. When the industry draws bar charts of registrations, they let dot-com run off the top of the page, put it on a logarithmic ... read more ...

What does 2015 have in store for online businesses? - 2014 was the year of the domain, with new domain name extensions becoming available for the first time. The new gTLDs (top-level domains, like .com, .net or .org) created new online real estate. Location extensions such as .London and .NYC, and more general names – like .Photography and .Expert – changed the web forever, and made it easier for businesses to find a place online to call home.But what are the key trends set to shape 2015, and what do the next twelve months have in store for those ... read more ...

Why, Even After A Year, There’s Still No Land Grab For New Internet Domains - It’s been nearly a year since a whole set of spanking new Internet domain names first came to market.  These names —which in technical circles are called “generic top-level domains” or gTLDs — were just becoming available in January 2014, when a regulatory change opened the door to these fresh extensions — snazzy end-tags like .apple, .guru, .pizza, .bike, and .singles — which were added to the familiar existing domain suffixes — like .com, .net, .org, and .edu.  At that ... read more ...

Donuts ” after such a long run, it’s about time to hand .COM a gold watch” - Donuts posted a blog post yesterday about looking to the future and that .com is that old stodgy utility that is staid but it is unremarkable. Yet Microsoft had plenty of options for example to register Hololens.newgtld but they still paid to buy the .com and handregister the .us. The article is worth a read, especially for those all in with the new gtlds. The leave a comment link does nothing  and there is no possibility to leave a comment on the post. I believe that .com will lead the future ... read more ...

Short Interest of Rightside Group Ltd Drops by -27.8% - Rightside Group Ltd (NASDAQ:NAME) reported a drop of 27.8% or 194,676 shares in its short interest. The short figure came in at 4.8% of the total floats. The average daily volume of 172,533 shares suggests that the days to cover 506,290 short positions, as on December 31,2014, will be 3. On December 15,2014, the short interest was 700,966 shares. Shares of Rightside Group Ltd (NASDAQ:NAME) ended the session in red amid volatile trading. The shares closed down 0.2 points or 2.93% at $6.62 with ... read more ...

gTLD update: gTLD delegation sluggish after holiday season - ICANN has not started the new year off with a bang, delegating a mere four new gTLDs this January and only 11 in total since our last gTLD update. Those newly delegated gTLDs are: .fit .lat .kddi .bank .shriram .zuerich .flowers .ggee .sale .amerstadam .video Similarly, there are only a small number of gTLDs about to enter or in the sunrise phase this month. These gTLDs are on the horizon: Click here to view the table. And these are in sunrise now: Click here to ... read more ...

Sick of these new dot-words? Join the .club – it’s the only one challenging .com - Round-up Las Vegas loves a show. And so it was earlier this week when domain-name conference NamesCon held an auction for more than 100 high-value names. The auction has been hailed as a success, especially given two headline sales: homecare.com for $350,000 and wine.club for $140,000. But we thought we'd dig into the results to see what it says about the state of the new dot-word domains that have gone live in recent months. ... read more ...

Branding with New gTLDs: The Next Marketing Frontier - New gTLDs can be an efficient way to immediately propel a registrant's online relevance and profitability. Registrants are the companies, organizations and individuals who seek to better utilize the Internet to reach their goals. Marketing Professionals acting on their behalf should understand that protection mechanisms for new gTLDs have been created by ICANN, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers. New gTLDs are powerful and inexpensive marketing tools that have improved measures ... read more ...

Google Domains throws open its doors as gTLD registrations break the 4 million … - Trevor Little The level of new gTLD registrations, which this month broke through the 4 million mark, should receive a boost following Google’s announcement that it has opened its domain registration service to US-based registrants. A year ago we posted a blog titled “Another internet landmark as public registration opens for seven new gTLDs”, ... read more ...

New gTLD Statistics and Business Implications -

Dot TBA and TLD Watch put on a display during NamesCon that took a demeanour behind during 2014 and what insights were gained. The 29 page PDF is filled with stats and graphs and is positively value reading and saving if we have any seductiveness in a new extensions. Download a PDF here

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White papers say arrival of new gTLDs will fragment Internet users into … - The Internet Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), the body in India representing the online and mobile value added services industry, and NetNames, the global leader in online brand protection and corporate domain name management  have published two white papers stating that the current restructuring of the Domain Name System (DNS), and the introduction ... read more ...

Checkmate, GoDaddy – Google starts flogging dot-word domain names - Google has finally launched a domain-name shop, providing a clean and simple management interface that will put it in direct competition with market leader GoDaddy. Called Google Domains, the service emerged from testing today – and allows anyone in the United States (international expansion coming soon) to register domain names under 80 or so gTLDs from dot-academy to dot-ventures. Domains cost between $12 to $30 to register, and $12 a year to ... read more ...

2015 will be the Year of Linux on the, no wait, of the dot-word domain EXPLOSION - Poll With the domain-name industry abuzz thanks the introduction of hundreds of new generic top-level domains – everything from dot-art to dot-zulu – it came as a dose of cold water to find out what the rest of the world really thinks about them. Not much, it seems. Giving a keynote at NamesCon here in Las Vegas on Monday, marketinpreneur Jennifer Wolfe, a big advocate of the new gTLDs, gave a ... read more ...

Dot-word domains ‘a shakedown, designed to get money out of people’ - People don't like you – and it's up to you to fix it. That was the unusual message to the domain-name industry during the keynote speeches at NamesCon 2015 in Las Vegas on Monday morning. The domain-name industry conference, in its second year, is an opportunity for a wealth of organizations and businesses to get together and discuss web addresses. And this year it's seen a sudden increase in interest due to the introduction of nearly 500 new generic ... read more ...

Real Madrid obtains transfer of domain name under ‘.tienda’ gTLD -

In a new box underneath a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before a World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), obvious sports group Real Madrid Club de Futbol has performed a send of a domain name equally reproducing a heading underneath a new general top-level domain (gTLD) ‘.tienda’, that means ‘store’ in Spanish.

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NCC Group’s new ‘.trust’ domain promises Internet security overhaul - With a flood of new general top-level domains (gTLDs) reaching Internet users in 2014, security UK firm NCC Group and a clutch of large Internet brands have announced a new secure domain they hope will turn out to be the most significant of them all. Called ‘.Trust’, at first it’s not clear that this is anything cleverer than a bit of security engineering for businesses that want to stick .trust on the end of their e-commerce websites and emails.  Does the world need yet another gTLD, even ... read more ...

What’s in a top-level domain name? - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is currently in the process of evaluating 1,930 applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), in the hope of ushering in a new era for the Internet and enabling organisations to register domains such as .shop or .bank alongside existing gTLDs like .com and .org. Why would anyone care about their Web address? I hear you ask. Surely, in the age of search engines and social networks, a URL carries about as much weight as a telephone ... read more ...

Welcome to Fabulous 2015! 2014 Was Good and We Believe the New Year … - Not sure where 2014 went but ready or not, here comes a New Year! The last one has been a whirlwind with the pace of change in the domain industry - which has always been quick - accelerating ... read more ...

What Is Going On With The Huge Increase In Registrars In The Color New … - There has been a sudden and huge boost in domain registrations for all the color new gTLD’s extensions in the past few days, .Red, .Blue, .Pink each increasing around 25% from its previous totals Each new domain extension that are operated by Afilias, have added thousands of registrations in the 2-3 days. .Blue has added over 2,000 registrations in the last 2 days going from less than 7,000 registrations to just under 9,000. .Red has added over 2,000 registrations going from under 18,000 to over ... read more ...

NamesCon: Spotlight on Donuts - In advance of NamesCon, I have been interviewing exhibitors and sponsors to share more information about their companies. NamesCon will be held January 11-14, 2015 at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. There are over 600 registered conference attendees so far, and we are expecting over 800 people to attend this conference. Today’s interview is with Mason Cole, Vice President of Communications and Industry Relations at Donuts, whose company is one of the largest new gTLD applicants. If ... read more ...

New gTLDs Registered but Serving Phishing and Other Malicious Purposes -

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Survey Of Brand Strategies in the New gTLD Era Published By Largest Law Firm … - Fidal, the largest lawfirm in France,  put out the results of a very detailed survey on new gtlds and how brands are using them. They conducted a survey that delved into a lot of topics that brands face when dealing with the new namespace. I read the whole report and I think it is well worth your time to take a look at and bookmark to refer back to. From the report: A large majority of the surveyed companies (64.9%) say they are informed about the launch of several hundred new top-level domain ... read more ...

Brand Strategies in the New gTLD Era - Fidal, the largest lawfirm in France,  put out the results of a very detailed survey on new gtlds and how brands are using them. They conducted a survey that delved into a lot of topics that brands face when dealing with the new namespace. I read the whole report and I think it is well worth your time to take a look at and bookmark to refer back to. From the report: A large majority of the surveyed companies (64.9%) say they are informed about the launch of several hundred new top-level domain ... read more ...

Verisign Asks What’s Really New in the New gTLD Space? 16% Of New gTLD’s … - Verisign published a post on its blog yesterday entitled “What’s Really New in the New gTLD Space” which was written by Andy Simpson The piece has some interesting stats and other information that are worth a look in the continuing .Com Vs. New gTLD debate that has been raging on CircleId in the past couple of weeks. Like all stats you can interpret them many ways. I think the most interesting stats contained in the post is that 16% (a little less than 500K domains names) of domain names registered ... read more ...