New Canadian-backed .club web domains getting snapped up by 50 Cent, Demi … - Michael OliveiraTORONTO — Guessing a website address used to be so simple. Stick a .com or .ca at the end of a company or organization’s name and most of the time, that would do it.But there’s a flood of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) hitting the web, which could eventually leave consumers struggling to remember which of more than 1,400 web suffixes to type in.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is in the process of gradually rolling out all ... read more ...

Brands Concerned by Risks Associated With New Domains - Photo by Descrier Images Creative Commons license As generic top-level domains (gTLDs) become more widespread, brands have admitted to feeling concerned about their rollout over the next five years. Research released from brand protection firm Netnames as part ... read more ...

Website Usage Analysis in the New gTLDs - A recent study, by EURid and the Leuven Statistics Research Centre, set out to better understand the most common usage of websites that are linked to domains, and we thought it would be an interesting exercise to extend similar analysis to the new gTLD market. So, we analyzed all second-level domains registered in new gTLDs according to published zone files on June 29, 2014. Verisign utilizes our own proprietary process for classifying websites, which results in similar classifications to those ... read more ...

Verisign: Worldwide domain name registrations up by 19.3M - With an increase of 7.5 percent or 19.3 million in worldwide registrations, the base of registered domain names has grown to 276 million worldwide year-over-year, while .com TLD remains to be most popular extension accounting for 113.2 million domain names, claims Verisign. According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief report, 5 million domain names have been registered just in the first quarter ending as of March 31, 2014, equating to a growth rate of 1.7 percent over Q4 2013. Around ... read more ...

Summer time, sand in our hair, gTLDs in the air - ICANN ended the month of July with a bang, clearing and delegating the following new gTLDs: .lgbt .lacaixa .spiegel .nra .ngo .krd .whoswho .auction .yandex .praxi .ong .williamhill .healthcare .realtor .top Sundown approaches for some gTLDs The sunrise periods are set to close this month for the gTLDs that follow. Once a sunrise period closes for a new gTLD, the gTLD registry will enter into landrush and early access phases before proceeding to General Availability. ... read more ...

Warning: Some Registrars (Godaddy) Are Making The Radix $160 Landrush … - Radix a new gTLD registry,  landrush for three new gTLDs .Host, .Website and .Press opens up on August 26th and runs until September 15th. Applying in landrush for a new gTLD domain gives the applicant early access to domain names ahead of general availability. The wholesale cost to apply for a .Host, .Website and .Press domain in landrush is $160. Radix has been advertising on social media calling their landrush a “no risk landrush” meaning that the $160 landrush fee is fully refundable if ... read more ...

Rightside(TM) Announces Second Quarter 2014 Financial Results - More Related Stories email article print page <![CDATA[ ]]> August 07, 2014 -- Domain Name Services Revenue Increases 13% Year-over-Year 32 gTLD Registry Operator Agreements Signed to DateKIRKLAND, Wash., Aug. 7, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves ... read more ...

Rightside Reports: Revenue up 13% But Aftermarket Revenue Decreases 40% - Rightside Group, Ltd. (NAME), today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014. Rightside became an independent, publicly traded company on August 1, 2014 as a result of the completion of its spin-off from Demand Media, Inc.(R) (DMD) so this is the first earnings report by Rightside as a separate operating public company. Shares of Rightside fell over 3% in trading today closing at $14 a share. Rightside now owns and operates the former domain name services business of ... read more ...

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The impact of the expanding web on charities - The Internet as we know it is currently growing and changing with the release of more than 1,400+ new generic top level domains (gTLDs) including .london, .ngo, and .coke. For charities, this presents a great opportunity to increase their online presence. Whether you’re looking to attract more donors, increase SEO or interact with similar charities from around the globe, Brian Cute, CEO of Public Interest Registry, the non-profit operators of the .org domain name and soon-to-come .ngo domain, ... read more ...

Donuts Launches 18 More New Internet Domains in August - More Related Stories email article print page <![CDATA[ ]]> .CREDIT, .TAX, .CASH, .FITNESS .DENTAL, .CLINIC, .HEALTHCARE, and others released this month August 05, 2014 -- BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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 ...

US Marketers Skeptical of New Website Domain Extensions - Ayaz Nanji is a digital strategy and content consultant. He is also a research writer for MarketingProfs. His experience includes working as a strategist and producer of digital content for Google/YouTube, the Travel Channel, and AOL.LinkedIn: Ayaz NanjiTwitter: @ayaznanji ... read more ...

The benefits of using new generic top level domains - New top level domains will not necessarily enjoy the same relevance as established ones such as .net and .comGeraint Evans discusses the advantages of considering alternative domains for your web address.  The Dot London internet domain was announced in April this year, to much fanfare. One of the first location-based generic top level domains (gTLDs) available, along with others including .berlin, .vienna and .paris, the move has caused ripples ... read more ...

As The GAC Restricted new gTLD’s Launch Registrants Maybe Unaware They … - For the first time some of the new gTLD’s that fall within the “GAC Category 1 Advice”, which generally are strings that the GAC determined should not be open to be registered by everyone, have started to launch. From what I’m hearing, the vast majority of the general public along with domain investors, have no idea that such rules exist but they have agreed to follow them in the Terms of Service (TOS) for strings they registered domain names under, As a background the Government Advisory ... read more ...

Five key takeaways from ICANN 50 in London - The 50th Meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) took place in London from June 22–26. This marked the first time that an ICANN meeting has been held in London, and also resulted in the largest attendance record for an ICANN meeting, with more than 3,300 individuals registered in attendance. Despite what could be characterized as organized chaos on the ground during the meeting, the following five topics and takeaways began to emerge for brand ... read more ...

The wild west of gTLDs and trademarks - Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are a new and soon-to-be-huge feature of the internet. New websites using a wide variety of newly created domain names will soon be springing up like weeds. Owners of brands and trademarks need to be aware of the threats, and of their options and the tools that are available to protect their intellectual property on the web. This huge expansion of internet real estate also brings a new wave of speculators and cybersquatters. New gTLDs open up a ... read more ...

Sedo Publishes 2014 First Half Domain Market Study: 35.9 Million In Sales - Sedo today announced the results of its First Half 2014 Domain Market Study, revealing domain industry trends and changes based on transactions in its marketplace. An infographic depicting findings from the study is available at http://bit.ly/1rMCO82. During the first six months of 2014, Sedo powered 16,216 transactions worth a total of $35.9 million in sales. Domain values increased year-over-year, with the mean average sales price up 17 percent to $2,214 and the median price rising 7% to $616. The ... read more ...

Top Level Domain Names: A New Frontier - First, think back to October 2013—the federal government had just experienced a 16-day shutdown and the internet only had 22 generic Top-Level Domains ("gTLDs").  Of these 22 gTLDs, there were less than a handful of gTLDs which were unrestricted and available for use for any purpose: namely, .COM, .NET, .ORG and .INFO.  Each of these gTLDs was managed by a domain name registrar who maintained a registry of all of the domain names and who collected periodic fees for each domain name registration. Because ... read more ...

.COM Domains Remain Strong as New gTLDs Command Significant Market … - Since the new gTLDs started to become available in January, Sedo reports that the highest public sale of a new gTLD domain on its marketplace was eat.club, which sold for $20,000. Despite the excitement around new gTLDs, .com still remains the most popular TLD on its marketplace, accounting for more than half (55 percent) of all sales. Sedo released its First Half 2014 Domain Market Study on Thursday, which looks at the trends in its marketplace. During the first half of 2014, Sedo was behind ... read more ...

Verisign Raises Positive Guidance After Expected 2Q Results With Substantial … - Sluggish domain name registration business growth of VeriSign (VRSN, Market Perform) and impacts of new gTLDs on core registry business remained doubtful, drives us to downgrade VeriSign to ‘Market Perform’ from ‘Outperform’ rating with price target of $50. However we see multiple strengths of VeriSign including revenue growth, profit margins expansion, growth in stock price, net income growth and remarkable earnings per share growth. Irrespective of Verisign missed second quarter revenue ... read more ...

1st Day Totals For New gTLD’s: .Reisen 2262; .University 1340; .Toys 1320 … - Several new gTLD’s went into its first day of general availability GA) yesterday and according to ntldstats.com,here are the number of registrations after the first day of GA which include all Sunrise applications and those domains registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) Once again the total for this weeks new gTLD are less than impressive: .Reisen 2,262; .University 1,340 .Toys 1,320 .Town 590 Reisen is the German word for Travel. There are now over 1.75 million new gTLD’s registered with ... read more ...

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