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What’s in a Name? The Power to Reach a Global Audience. - I've been asked a number of times recently which new gTLDs are working well. What's popular and where are some examples of them being used. Another question I have been hearing recently is what are some good examples of marketing activities that are working. We have seen a handful of examples of names with websites. Just enter site: favourite gtld in the search bar and you'll get a list of live sites for a given TLD. Registries have understood that without usage and samples of how the name ... read more ...

Phil Corwin’s Wake Up Call to ICANN: Time for the Oversight Body to Clean Up … - their registrar, the company's actions could leave those registrants open to legal action ranging from UDRPs to lawsuits. Why? Because, as Corwin points out, some of the domains NetSol registered ... read more ...

New gTLDs made available by ICANN - gTLDs : generic Top Level Domains Wide array of new gLTDs were made available by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The move will transform cyberspace. Traditional gTLDs like .com, .org, .net, and even country-specific domains like .in (for India) are likely to take a back seat as companies and individuals vie to get new domain names registered. As of 2 June 2014, more than 295 new gTLDs, have been introduced. Registering a domain name could cost a buyer anything ranging ... read more ...

.uk domain registrations exceed 50000 on opening day - .uk has become the fastest selling new general top level domain [gTLD] after seeing registrations surpass 50,000 in opening 24 hours following its launch. Nominet, the UK domain name registry, reports that the likes of Sainsbury’s, Bentley and Burberry have all already snapped up .uk domain names and it represents just a small proportion of the 10 million that are expected to register. "Consumers and ... read more ...

Domain Boom for Restaurants and Bars Begins June 11 with the Release of … - MEXICO CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- An online land grab for restaurants and bars began on June 11th, when new generic top level domains (gTLDs) .REST (dot-rest) and .BAR (dot-bar) were released during the “land rush” period. Punto 2012, the Mexico-based company behind these new gTLDs, is encouraging domain investors, early applicants, bars, nightclubs and restaurants to have a significantly improved chance to reserve desirable, premium and high demand domain names such as ibiza.bar, ... read more ...

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Famous Four Off To Slow Start; .Webcam 3675 Registrations; .Trade 3235; .Bid … - Famous Four Media launched their first new gTLDs yesterday at 10am into general availability and got off to a slow start overall. .Webcam as predicted had the most registrations at 3,675 according to ntldstats.com, placing it as the 70th  most registered new gTLD. .Trade followed close behind with  3,235 while .Bid managed to get just 629 registrations. All three new gTLDs  were priced the same,  from what I saw between $25 and $40 (but i did not check every registrar). Keep in mind unlike Donuts ... read more ...

Dot-UK launch: why do we need new domain names? - In theory, this is an opportunity for brands to tailor their online presence to specific audiences. By registering addresses with suffixes such as .radio, .blog and .hotel, for example, companies will not only make their websites more memorable, but will also be immediately identifiable to both customers and competitors. The launch of new location-based domains also allows organisations in those regions to establish a sense of local identity. According to research conducted ... read more ...

gTLD registrations soar, but many brands are falling behind - The number of new gTLD registrations has broken the million mark, with ‘xyz’ supplanting ‘.club’ as the most popular string. While online discussion centres on just how it achieved this feat, an equally interesting question is how much of the demand has come from big brands. At the end of May, World Trademark Review reported that, with heavyweight endorser 50 Cent throwing his weight behind the string, ‘.club’ had shot to the top of the gTLD registrations table. Over the past ... read more ...

GeekWire “Buying A New gTLD The Process Really .Sucks” - Kevin Lisota is not a domain investor, instead he is CEO Co-Founder of findwell, a Seattle real estate startup. He wrote a very good article for Geekwire that shows the frustation for many when trying to research and purchase new gtlds. From the article: Up until this year, buying a domain name was pretty straightforward. With one or two accounts at registrars like GoDaddy or namecheap, you could buy just about any domain extension. Transferring domain names was also relatively easy. However, ... read more ...

Famous Four’s First New gTLD’s Go Live Monday - Famous Four Media’s first new gTLD extension go live tomorrow Monday June 9th at noon EST. Famous Four which applied for over 60 new gTLD’s first new gTLD’s are .Webcam, .Trade and .Bid. All three new gTLD’s are priced at $39.95 at Godaddy and are of course available at a ton of registrars. I would assume that .Webcam will do the best of the three with a heavy adult influence. According to its site, “”Famous Four Media, (FFM) was set up in 2011 by a small group of recognized domain name ... read more ...

Baverman: Gold in those new Net domains? - Laura Baverman(Photo: The Enquirer/Gary Landers)Laura Baverman is a Raleigh, North Carolina-based business journalist covering startups and entrepreneurship for regional and national publications. She previously covered entrepreneurship for The Enquirer. Email her at lbaverman@gmail.com.Visit GoDaddy for a new Internet domain name and you'll be greeted with an advertisement for one of at least 16 new domains alternative to .com, .gov or .edu and descriptive of whatever it is you're trying to do.Are ... read more ...

New gTLD Domain Name Registrations Top 1 Million (With some Caveats) - New gTLD Domain Name Registrations has just passed the 1 Million domain name mark according to ntldstats.com. The official ntldstats count is 1,001,461. Of course thedomains as well and other blogs have pointed out there should be some caveats to the numbers. For one North Sound Names owned by Frank Schilling who also owns several live new gTLD’s has over 43,000 registrations of the Million + registrations, in his own extensions. The most registered domain extension is .XYZ which is sitting at ... read more ...

Comparing Johnny Football to the New gTLDs - On the drive down to New York City for a daddy / daughter weekend, I listened to Boston sports radio. During one segment, the radio hosts were talking about Johnny Manziel (aka Johnny Football) since the Red Sox recently played in Cleveland, and he was drafted by the Cleveland Browns. Apparently, Johnny Football has been a main topic of discussion for the Cleveland sports writers since being drafted. The Browns and their fans are hoping he becomes a top tier player, but for now, he’s a ... read more ...

Beastie Boys’ copyright win, Hatch calls for USPTO director, Hershey’s sues pot … - Below is a selection of intellectual property stories attracting attention on the internet in the past week that were not covered on www.managingip.com (see the bottom of this blog post for the top stories published by Managing IP this week). Beasties win fight for their copyright The Beastie Boys this week won a lawsuit against Monster Beverage and were awarded $1.7 million. A federal jury in Manhattan ruled in favour of the ... read more ...

4 Steps To Good Trademark Strategy In A New GTLD World - Share us on: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn   0 Comments Law360, New York (June 05, 2014, 10:20 AM ET) -- On April 26 every year, we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day in order to promote discussion of the role of intellectual property in encouraging innovation.One of the hot topics for discussion this year involved the hundreds of new generic top-level domains that are surfacing on the Internet. IP lawyers, brand managers and companies are all asking the same questions:How ... read more ...

Donuts Launches 32 More Top-Level Domain Names in June - Related: Press Release, News BELLEVUE, Wash., June 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ Donuts Inc., the world's largest registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), continues its expansion of the Internet's global addressing system in June by making 16 new gTLDs available to the general public. In addition to the 16 gTLDs slated for general availability, Donuts will open another 16 gTLDs for "Sunrise" availability to trademark holders. Donuts, now eclipsing the six-month mark of its new gTLD general ... read more ...

NameCoin Wants You To Forget About The New gTLDs and get Decentralized -

Namecoin is a crypto banking that acts as a decentralized domain name system. They expelled a video yesterday that does a good pursuit giving a discerning contribution behind a ideology. NameCoins finish in .bit.

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The New Domain Extension For Every Website, Everywhere, .xyz Is Now Open … - VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 06/02/14 -- Webnames.ca, Canada's original domain registrar and a leading provider of web solutions in Canada, is pleased to announce that it is now offering its customers one of the most flexible and affordable new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), .xyz. As the last three letters ... read more ...

Summer is heating up, and everyone is heading out to the .club — are you in the … - Everyone is talking about the new gTLD .club, which surpassed .guru this week as the most popular new gTLD in the world. It now has the most domain name registrations of all new gTLDs with more than 60,000 registrations. Marketing of the new gTLD has been impeccable; .club hosted a launch party in New York City last week featuring 50 Cent — maximizing the hype and providing a clear example of how important it is for trademark owners to be proactive in monitoring new gTLDs. It’s ... read more ...

Easyspace Unleashes .Ninja Domain Name - If you do something better than anyone else, then there’s your reason for becoming a .ninja on the internet. Glasgow, United Kingdom (PRWEB UK) 30 May 2014 ICANN accredited UK domain name provider Easyspace has unleashed the new generic Top-Level Domain Name (gTLD) .Ninja. .Ninja is the new domain name for people who want ... read more ...

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Any interest in .financial? - Brand protection is a key issue for many businesses and is of particular significance for consumer-facing brands. We look at the importance of brand protection in domain names, the launch of the .financial generic top level domain (gTLD) and the steps businesses can take to protect their brand. What’s changed? Until recently, only a limited number of gTLDs were available, such as .com, .org and .info. The launch of new gTLDs including names such as .academy, .clothing, .properties ... read more ...

Registrants join the ‘.club’, but are brand owners outside looking in? - With heavyweight endorser 50 Cent throwing his weight behind the ‘.club’ gTLD, the string has shot to the top of the gTLD registrations table. However, new research from Domain Incite’s Kevin Murphy suggests that brand owners are shying away from making wholesale defensive registrations. At time of writing, ntldstats.com’s list of the top 10 gTLDs consists of:  ‘.club’ (61,713   domains registered)  ‘.guru’ (59,928)  ‘.berlin’ (48,163)  ‘.photography’ ... read more ...