Developments in generic top-level domains - In 2008, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) – the international organization which manages and oversees the internet’s domain name system - adopted 19 specific policy recommendations for implementing new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). gTLDs are unique identifiers visible to internet users as a suffix at the end of a domain name, e.g. .biz or .edu. The recommendations were laid down by the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), ... read more ...

Econsultancy Takes A look at whether the new gtlds help you rank higher in search - Marcus Tober wrote an article this morning on Econsultancy.com about whether or not new gtlds help you rank higher in search ? I read econsultancy.com regularly so I as interested to see them covering the new gtlds. Marcus pointed to the fact that Google has categorically denied that there would be any rankings benefit from using the new domain extensions. He also notes the October 2012 EMD algorithm update that downgraded the positive impact that EMD’s had in ranking when the website quality ... read more ...

Will gTLDs help you rank higher in search results? - The range of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) is expanding to include new options such as .Hotel, .RealEstate and .Berlin. Will they help you rank higher in searches? Of course, Google has categorically denied that there would be any rankings benefit from using the new domain extensions. And this seems to align with its strategy of reducing the impact of keywords in domain names which was very clearly demonstrated with the roll out of the EMD algorithm update in October 2012 (this downgraded the ... read more ...

How many new gtlds have you registered in 2014 ? November poll results in - Our November poll question was, How Many New gTLDs Have you registered in 2014 ? We had 200 votes exactly and the most popular answer was zero. 78 out of the 200 responses stated they have registered no new gtlds in 2014. Of course this is not a huge sample size but it was still a bit higher than expected. 1-9 was the next most popular result with 54 people responding that they own 1 to 9 new gtlds. Thank you to everyone who participated. Full results of the poll: How Many New gTLDs Have you registered ... read more ...

Is the ICANN New gTLD Program a Draft for a V2 of the Internet? - A week ago I was discussing the alternative of a European Internet root with an ex-ICANN Board member. The idea that I like to develop in these discussions is to offer end-users a modern and cheaper naming system. Note that it does not mean that the ICANN root is a bad one, it means that a new and upgraded one could cohabit with the existing one. One will wonder what this article has to do with new gTLDs but considering the creation of an Internet "version 2", offers website and brand owners ... read more ...

ICANN New gTLD Auction Proceeds Approaching $30 Million - While the debate continues as to whether most new gTLDs are a sound long-term investment for their registry operators, there's no disputing that the program has been an economic boom for ICANN. The 1,930 first round applications each required an application fee of $185,000, which added up to a tidy $357 million. Even after refunds for withdrawn applications ICANN still cleared about a third of a billion dollars from the first round before a single string was delegated. Now, like the proverbial ... read more ...

New gTLD’s Pass 3.3 Million; .Club Passed 140K .NYC Tops 60K; .London … - We haven’t done a update of the new gTLD program registrations in a while. According to nTLDStats.com the total number of new gTLD domain registrations just passed 3.3 million. .NYC has now passed 60,000 registrations and .London has now passed 50,000 registrations Rounding out the top 10 of all new gTLD’s .XYZ has the most registrations with  729,999. .Berlin has passed 154,000 registrations .Club which was one of the earliest contention sets settled by private auction has passed 140,000 registrations. .Realtor ... read more ...

Black Friday and new gTLDs: the opportunity for brands - Trevor Little Amidst the blitz of Black Friday-themed press releases and stories that have been written this week, one blog taking a unique angle has looked at the role new gTLDs are playing in marketing around the holiday season. Happily, it is more a story of ‘opportunity’ than ‘threat’. Over the past week, it is fair to say that World Trademark ... read more ...

How Online Retailers Are Using New gTLDs in their Holiday Marketing - Tucker Johns wrote an article on gtldstrategy.com, A FairWinds Blog about how new gtlds are affecting Black Friday marketing. Tucker gave mention to the new .blackfriday and .Christmas strings from Uniregistry and took a look at how the top 100 online retailers are using new gtlds. From the article: To check how the top 100 online retailers, as ranked by Internet Retailer, have adopted these new strings, FairWinds checked their brand names in both .BLACKFRIDAY and .CHRISTMAS and found some interesting ... read more ...

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1st New gTLD Totals: .Click 3779; .Help 1908; .Property 1490; .Hosting 1197 … -

Five New gTLD of Uniregistry  launched into General Availability yesterday

Here are a initial day sum including Sunrise registrations.

None of these extensions had a Early Access Program or Landrush program:

.Click 3,779

.Help 1,908

.Property 1,490

.Hosting 1,197

.Diet 787

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Uniregistry Launches 5 New gTLD’s Today - Uniregistry is launching 5 new gTLD’s today the 25th of November 2014 at 16:00 UTC. .click which will have no reserved domains except for the 100 domains registered by the registry and domain names on the ICANN collision list .Click is priced at $5.99 at Godaddy The other four extensions of  Uniregistry  have quite a few reserved domains after I spent a few hours checking around for domain names yesterday. .hosting is priced at $23.99 at Godaddy.  There is already a .host and it has around ... read more ...

Experience and Evidence Point to Strong Renewal Rates for New TLDs - In the tenth month of the revolutionary expansion of generic top-level Internet domains, global registrations in new gTLDs reached more than three million addresses, providing the clearest illustration yet of the strong international appetite for new, relevant addressing options. As we near the first full year of new gTLD availability, focus now shifts to another critical metric — renewals — which we expect to show similar strength based on history and data analysis. If registrations demonstrate ... read more ...

The Rise of .pharmacy - In the continuation of new generic top level domains (GTLDs), the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NAPB) is set to start accepting applications for .pharmacy domain names. Applicants must be trademark holders who are registered in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). NAPB’s sunrise application period, which opens on December 19th of this year, precedes the Sunrise TMCH registration ... read more ...

Breaking down new gTLDs by the numbers - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names continues to be sluggish in delegating new gTLDs this month, delegating no new gTLDs since our last post. But ICANN has made a dent this year in the 1,930 gTLD applications submitted, delegating 432 new gTLDs to date. Of those 1,930 applications, 1,157 are proceeding through the new gTLD program and 341 have been withdrawn. Are new gTLDs selling? More than 3 million second-level domains have been purchased in new TLDs, but ... read more ...

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Marketing Matters: TLD Registry Honored for Efforts to Spread the News About … -   TLD Registry's China GM Jin Wang (left) and CMO Simon Cousins (center) receive their Best Marketing Award from Brandma CEO and ICANN board member ... read more ...

Anti-Cybersquatting Lessons from IP Strategy - The post reconsiders a cooperative solution to cybersquatting that I proposed in 2007. I also draw on examples of success and failure of legal actions to protect intellectual property (IP) licensing. Cybersquatting has gone unabated with the new gTLDs despite the introduction of new protection instruments such as the Trademark Cleaning House (TMCH) database and the availability of Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) services, as well as declarations by registries of their intentions to block unauthorized ... read more ...

Radix, Tucows And Namecheap Win .online Auction - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Domain industry veterans form a "global supply chain supergroup," secure the first viable alternative to .comTORONTO, /PRNewswire/ - A newly formed entity owned by Radix, Tucows and Namecheap won the auction to operate the .online registry for an undisclosed amount. In the past year, dozens of new generic top level domains (gTLDs) from .actor to .wtf have brought meaning to the letters after the dot for niche constituencies and content. Soon, domain ... read more ...

Following Macaulay Culkin hoax, research examines media gTLD registration … - Tim Lince A brand-hijacked website using the new gTLD string ‘.website’ went viral last week with a hoax news report about the ‘death of Macaulay Culkin’. The hoax spread, in part, because of the authentic-looking ‘msnbc.website’ domain, which convinced over 6 million users to share the fake article across a seven-day span. This issue highlights ... read more ...

PIR Operator Of .Org Reveals Its OnGood Campaign For The New gTLD’s .NGO … - Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org extension, today unveiled “OnGood” – the new brand identity for the upcoming  .ngo .ong domain extensions along with their accompanying suite of services. Set to launch in early 2015, OnGood is an online community designed with and for NGOs and nonprofits worldwide, providing them with a suite of online services to help raise funds, build awareness and support for their missions. After conducting extensive research and in-person ... read more ...

Symantec Withdraws their Uncontested Application for New gTLD .AntiVirus - Symantec Corporation has withdrawn their uncontested application for the new gTLD .Antivirus after saying it would become one of their “core assets” in their application. From its application it appears Symantic wanted to operate the extension on a closed basis. The Government Advisory Counsel (GAC) to ICANN objected to generic strings from being operated on a closed basis forcing most who had applied to operate on a closed basis to open them up to outside registrations. Here is part of the application: “Symantec ... read more ...

ICANN Clears the Way for Two-character New gTLD Domain Names - ICANN reported last night that it has Cleared the way for Two Character New gTLD domain names, domain names like NN.whatever, NL.whatever or LN.whatever. The jury is still out of two letter new gTLD’s “After reviewing the summary and analysis of the first batch of Public Comments, the ICANN Board passed Resolution 2014.10.16.14 on 7 November 2014 directing ICANN staff to “develop and implement an efficient procedure for the release of two-character domains currently required to be reserved ... read more ...

Dish Networks Beats Out Minds + Machines For The New gTLD .Latino - Another new gTLD that was schuduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction next week had been settled privately. Minds + Machines has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .Latino leaving Dish Network as the sole applicant. Minds + Machines put out a press release last week about how they made over 8.4 Million dollars losing 5 new gTLD auctions; book, .cloud, .dog, .site, and .style. However it looks like M + M just made a little more. .Latino will join .Uno and Googles’ .Soy which specially ... read more ...