Rightside Partners with BaseKit to Bring Website Builder to Domain Registrars - Website building platform BaseKit announced last week that it has partnered with domain name services provider Rightside Group to provide its website building tool to its domain registrars. The agreement will give customers of eNom, eNom Central, Bulk Register and Name.com access to BaseKit’s website building platform. In a statement, BaseKit said the partnership with Rightside represents its efforts to support the growing trend of new gTLDs. New gTLDs are giving service providers more opportunities ... read more ...

.Club takes 6 out of the top 10 New gTLD Sales on Sedo in 2014 - Sedo reported their top 10 new gTLD sales of 2014 and .club dominated the list with 6 out of 10. Things seem to be on the upswing as the company raised another $3million according to DomainNameWire. Upswing in new gTLDs such as .club and .berlin More than 300 new TLDs have been launched in the market in 2014 and currently there are more than 3.5 million new domains registered.  The trading among new gTLD domains is already in full swing and the development of sales at Sedo’s marketplace has ... read more ...

Take this to the .bank: financial institutions need to prepare for new gTLDs - Hundreds of new generic top-level domains are in the process of being rolled out this year and next, including many that will be of interest to the financial services industry.  One of them that seems likely to attract a high level of interest and buy-in is .bank.  fTLD Registry Services, a joint venture formed by a number of financial services companies and trade associations, applied for and was recently awarded the right to operate the .bank and .insurance gTLDs.  The .bank domain ... read more ...

A New Domain Name Dispute Alternative: The Uniform Rapid Suspension … - The Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) was created as part of ICANN’s new gTLD program. A gTLD (generic top-level domain) is the “suffix” at the end of a domain name, most commonly .com, .org, .info, .biz and .us. Prior to the new gTLD program there were 23 gTLDs in operation.  The new gTLD program is expected to result in the launch of approximately 700 additional gTLDs. More than 400 new gTLDs have already been delegated, with the majority of these in operation. The expansion of ... read more ...

Jeannie McPherson - The Real Facts About New gTLDs Many with financial interests in new gTLDs, such as Donuts, have painted a rosy picture of how new gTLDs create greater availability of meaningful domain name options that the global masses have been waiting for. Their message seems to be: FINALLY, there is an alternative to .com in new domain extensions like .guru, .photography, .blackfriday and .tips. But, the reality is that we have always had options other than .com to choose from when registering a domain ... read more ...

Minds + Machines in 2014 and 2015 - Written by Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Minds + Machines. On January 1, 2014, Minds + Machines was trading at 14p. As of yesterday our share price was 7p. You might conclude from this that our company has declined by a factor of two. But from our perspective, exactly the opposite has happened. Why the disconnect? It's the end of the year and it's time to look back at what's happened, and try to shed a little light on what's to come. Here's how we see our company today vs. one year ... read more ...

ICANN Denies Allegation That New gTLD Have Widespread Phishing … - According to a company blog post out today, by brand protection company CSC, citing Amy Mushahwar, counsel and Chief Information Security Officer at Washington, D.C. law firm ZwillGen PLLC, says: “New domains (new gTLD’s) are being registered as phishing sites and for drive-by downloads of malware.” “Nefarious uses have been very widespread. It’s incumbent upon ICANN to clean up the house for the domains that it currently has before it floods the market with new domains.” She goes on ... read more ...

Guess I Was Wrong There Is A Lot Of Cybersquatting Going On In The New … - Well it seems as the trademark lobby predicted there isa lot of cybersquatting going on in the new gTLD space, a lot more than I thought we would ever see. I was one who thought there would be a negligible amount of trademark infringing domain names registered in the new gTLD space due to the high cost of registration and the small probability of any type in traffic. However just looking at the most recent 400 UDRP/URS cases filed or decided, 69 concerned new gTLD’s domain names (multiple domains ... read more ...

ICANN gears up for second round of gTLD applications even as first round still … - The most significant development in the Internet space in recent years is the ongoing generic top-level domain (gTLD) expansion. (As a reminder, a TLD is what appears to the right of the "dot" in a domain name (i.e., .COM, .ORG, .GOV).) The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) embarked on an aggressive plan to expand the Internet from just 23 gTLDs to more than a thousand gTLDs, culminating in an application process in 2012 that allowed any organization with ... read more ...

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Early Data Suggests New gTLDs Perform Well in Search Environment - Internet addresses registered in new gTLDs are holding their own against — and in some cases outperforming — comparable addresses registered in legacy domains like .COM, according to new data that provides the best window yet into the operational functionality of new gTLD addresses. A question on everyone's mind in the run up to new gTLDs was: how would new domains perform in the wild against legacy domains on the key criteria of search? Even though Donuts bet on the hypothesis that new ... read more ...

Photo Release — Rightside Provides Highlights From Investor & Analyst Day at … - KIRKLAND, Wash., Dec 09, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Rightside Group, Ltd. NAME, -1.34% ... read more ...

Photos & Highlights from Rightside’s Big Day at NASDAQ Friday - the day with Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu ringing the closing bell (Rightside trades in the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol NAME). NASDAQ and Rightside provided some photos from the busy day in ... read more ...

BaseKit Partners with Rightside - December 9th, 2014 By: THN News <!-- GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-1-Rotating");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-2");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-3");--> (The Hosting News) -  BaseKit, the website building platform, has today announced its new partnership with Rightside Group Ltd (Nasdaq: NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online. ... read more ...

Nissan Files 12 Separate URS Cases On New gTLD’s Spending Over 50% The … - Nissan which sold Z.com for $6.8 million dollars a few weeks ago filed 12 separate Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) cases with the National Arbitration Forum over the weekend. For about 3K per brand, or $9K Nissan could have bought a block with Donuts which would have blocked any of new gTLD domain name in these three brands from being registered over all Donuts extensions, which I believe all of these were. Nissan also won a URS on the domain name Nissan.repair today making it a total of 13 URS cases At ... read more ...

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Seven Key Takeaways from ICANN 51 in Los Angeles - The 51st international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) formally concluded on Thursday, October 16, 2014, in Los Angeles. As always, the ICANN community discussed several high-profile topics during the meeting, all of which are relevant to registry operators, new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants and brand owners alike, including: two-character names and geographic names; string confusion objection review, indirect contention, and auctions; ... read more ...

GOOAALLL! Back of the net! ‘Millions of dollars’ score .football gTLD - Adaptable System Recovery (ASR) for Linux virtual machines The top-level domain name .football has been auctioned off for, what's expected to be, millions of dollars to upstart registry Donuts.Domain names using the beautiful game's dot-word will be available some time in the new year, along with names ending in .news, .golf, .school and .latino, all of which were snapped in private auctions. The big winner was Donuts – winning ... read more ...

Auction and Sales Channel Update - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), the publicly quoted owner and operator of Internet top-level domains, has announce that following the recent series of private auctions, the Company will receive in aggregate $4.4 million (approximately £2.8 million) for withdrawing its applications on .latino, .school and a third domain application that at present cannot be named due to the rules governing the private auction process. The cash to the Group is net of auction fees and includes refunds ... read more ...

Total Domains Reach 280 Million Worldwide - The second quarter of 2014 closed with a base of 280 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs) — an increase of four million domain names or 1.4 percent over the first quarter of 2014 — according Verisign in its latest issue of Domain Name Industry Brief. Registrations have grown by 18.6 million, or 7.2 percent, year over year. Additionally, the base of country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) is reported at 129.3 million domain names, a 1.7 percent increase ... read more ...

Internet Grows to 280 Million Domain Names in the Second Quarter of 2014 - RESTON, VA--(Marketwired - Dec 2, 2014) - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and Internet security, today announced four million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 280 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2014, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate ... read more ...

Can Verisign Maintain Its Leadership Moving Forward ? - Trefis is a financial analysis site, they describe themselves as an interactive financial community structured around trends, forecasts and insights related to some of the most popular stocks in the US.  They wrote about Verisign yesterday and whether or not they can maintain their growth. They note that .com has built such a niche that it has been able to stand the test of competition, in their estimation .net is not and they believe the new gtld program has affected .net in a negative way. From ... read more ...

Cybersquatting and the new gTLDs - The introduction by ICAAN of more than 1300 new generic Top-Level domains (gTLD’s) offers a new way for brand owners to communicate with their consumers online. An exciting prospect but there is of course a greater threat of cybersquatting in this new landscape. In this article, we look at the defence mechanisms available to brand owners to deal with this new cybersquatting threat. Trade Mark Clearing House (TMCH) The Trade Mark Clearing House (TMCH) is a database of verified ... read more ...

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