Leaving .Com Behind: Using TLDs To Better Market An Online Presence - The Internet as we know it is rapidly changing. Since its public introduction in 1991, we’ve grown accustomed to the everyday generic top-level domains (gTLDs) such as .com and .net, .gov and .org, and more recently, .biz and .info. Now hundreds are about to join the domain family as registries roll out new gTLDs and ICANN, the organization that oversees the Internet’s domain name system, also allows brands their own specific domains such as .canon, .ferrari, and .google. Companies and netizens ... read more ...

Donuts Rolls Out 18 More Domain Names in September as Total Registrations … - More Related Stories email article print page <![CDATA[ ]]> .CHURCH, .FINANCE, .LOANS, .DEALS, .RESTAURANT, .PLACE, .GIFTS and others released this month September 03, 2014 -- BELLEVUE, Wash., Sept. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --Donuts Inc., the world's largest registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), continues to expand and diversify the Internet's global addressing system ... read more ...

Generic Top Level Domains – Current Sunrise Periods Open – September… - 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 ...

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Despite Competition from New gTLDs .ORG Continues to Grow with … - Still PIR has reason for optimism. .Org, used by many of the world's most widely known and respected non-profit organizations, is a strong, almost universally ... read more ...

The ANA and Hand-Wringing - The Association of National Advertisers is at it again, this time spelling the death of new gTLDs barely after they emerge from the gate. In 1982, at the dawn of the video age, Motion Picture Association of America President Jack Valenti infamously told Congress, with more than one unfortunate reference to various types of violent crime, that the advent of the VCR would spell immediate and irrevocable doom to the motion picture industry, and that the device should certainly be thrown to the ... read more ...

Continued .org Domain Growth Despite Emergence of gTLDs - Photo by Public Interest Registry Website owners might have more suffix choice than you can shake a stick at nowadays, but .org, one of the internet’s original domains, is still showing itself to be a good option. In the latest of its bi-annual domain name reports, non-for-profit domain operator Public Interest Registry showed ... read more ...

LANDRUSH OPENS FOR .WEBSITE, .PRESS AND .HOST - Radix announces an affordable, risk free Landrush offering high quality names in its 3 extensions FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, August 26, 2014 - Radix concluded sunrise for the first batch of its extensions - .website, .press and .host last week. .website alone saw more than 600 orders, making it one of the biggest new gTLD sunrises to date. These TLDs enter Landrush today Radix plans to take these a notch above with Landrush 2.0. - an affordable, risk free landrush that ... read more ...

Radix Retools Landrush Process for Their New gTLDs With New No Risk Low … - With hundreds of new gTLDs hitting the market this year, some registry operators are re-thinking the roll-out process in an effort to set themselves apart in a huge field of competitors. The Dubai ... read more ...

Hefty Prices for .Attorney and .Lawyer Domains -

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Should You Switch Your Company’s URL to a New Domain Extension? - Q: Should I switch my company's URL to one of the new domain extensions? A: You're referring to the recent decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to open up more than 1,000 generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) to domains outside of the .com, .net and .biz variety. Now, new gTLDs--.florist, .gallery, .repair, .homes, .technology and more--are just as easy to register as .com. This means a small business such as Sunrise Coffee in Las Vegas could switch from its current ... read more ...

A New Way to Value Registry Business - CEY — a new metric and the key to understanding the value of a registry There's a new site on the web — nTLDstats.com — that has a ton of valuable information about the new gTLD program. It shows numbers of registrations by registry, registrar, registry service provides — all the "Rs" in the domain name industry. It has quickly become the place where people go to measure how the industry, and the competitors in it, are doing. There's only one problem — not all domain registrations ... read more ...

DotHIV Launching With A Social Purpose & a $200 Price Tag On Thursday - The .Hiv registry sent us this information on the launch of the new gTLD .Hiv The domain is not being offered by some of the bigger registrars and is priced around between $196 and $230 a year at some of the registrars I checked, although a portion of the price is being given to HIV and AIDS charities. Here are some of the registrars that you can register a .HIV domain name at: NetNames.com Marcaria Safe names Markmonitor Blacknight 101domain Moniker.com Tucows United Domains Epag Key Systems 1 and ... read more ...

Registry Registers & Reserves over 33500 New gTLD’s For .公司 (Business … - The registry we wrote about the other day which registered and reserved over 23,500 domain names for a new gTLD IDN has done it again with another new gTLD IDN. This time Computer Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China Internet Network Information Center registered and reserved over 33,500 domain names for the extension .公司 which means “business organization” You can read more about this application here The number of reserved and registered domains in .公司 (Business ... read more ...

Quebec to Launch Its Own Internet Domain: dot-Quebec - Montreal, Quebec – It may cause the rest of the nation to roll its eyes and once again mutter in frustration why this eccentric province insists on being non-germane, but the province is nonetheless poised to begin using its own suffix for websites. While the rest of Canada uses the standard .com or .ca suffixes, websites will soon sprout up using .quebec as their suffix. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization managing internet standards, ... read more ...

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With New Vanity Domains Your Website Could End In ".beer," ".cooking," and More - click to enlarge Elina Shatkin Beer sampler at Beer Belly ... read more ...

ANA: “Hard to Imagine That Most of The Already-Launched TLDs Will Be Around … - The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) an opponent of the new gTLD program wrote a post on its corporate blog today asking “Already Launched New gTLD’s : Is Anyone Out There?” The post is a “report” written by their general counsel Reed Smith LLP, and Brad R. Newberg of the firm wrote the piece which gave its rundown of the state of the new gTLD program and is definitely worth a read. Here are the highlights: This post asks the question: Putting aside cybersquatters, domainers (those ... read more ...

How to make a name for yourself in the new era of the internet -   Securing a new and original domain name can be a tricky task – especially when you consider there are 276 million registered domain names already taken. Anyone who has attempted to buy a domain ending in ‘.com’ or ‘co.uk’ recently will likely have experienced a slew of ‘sorry, that domain is not available’ rejections from the registration site. Demand for new domains isn’t slowing down either; in the first quarter of 2014, an additional five million domain names were added to the ... read more ...

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Shorter .nz domain names to go up for grabs - If you already own a .co.nz, .net.nz or other .nz domain name, you may be eligible to register the shorter version of your domain name ahead of everyone else. The Domain Name Commission Limited has announced the date from when it will be possible to register .nz domain names. From 30 September 2014 it will be possible to register shorter, more concise domain names.  Rather than registering anyname.co.nz, for example, you will be able to register anyname.nz.  Shorter is better There ... read more ...

.CHURCH Launching September 17 - The number of premium domain names available to churches and related religious organizations is about to increase significantly. On September 17, 2014, the domain name extension .church – a new alternative to domain name extensions like .com and .org – officially opens to the general public. As explained below, churches and related organizations should consider taking advantage of this new opportunity to expand the reach of their marketing and communication efforts. If your organization ... read more ...

Leading This Weeks New gTLD’s .Fund, Here Are The Taken Domains - According to ntldstats.com,  .Fund is leading the other new gTLD’s that go launch into general availability on Wednesday which includes .investments, .Cash and.Tax in terms of domain registrations through Sunrise and EAP Here are some of the more interesting .Fund registrations taken in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and through the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid an additional fee for early access to the domains. Personally I like .Fund I’m sorry I missed out on the ... read more ...

ntldstats: 80% Of All New gTLD’s Are Parked & Has Stats For Each Extension … - ntldstats.com, has added parking stats to its system, both overall and by each new gTLD extension. Overall ntldstats says that just over 80% of all new gTLD domain names are parked. Last week Verisign announced as of June 29th only 3% of all new gTLD resolved to “business websites”  which I assume by definition excludes personal websites and which may account for the difference. Parked domains are defined on the site as any domains which has a traditional parked page which also seems to include ... read more ...