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Melbourne IT sees growth in web names like .sydney - Martin Mercer: “There’s a lot of top-line momentum to be had in gTLDs – .kiwi went much better than we expected over in New Zealand, but it’s very hard to predict.” James Hutchinson Related Quotes MELB IT FPO (MLB) $ $ (%) View Full Quote » ASX Announcements 27/05/14 Results ... read more ...

New dots - The internet domain name system is currently going through a major growth spurt. What does this mean for your business? Previously the Domain Name System was defined by only 22 net address extensions or generic top-level domain names (“gTLDs”), including the most popular ‘.com’, ‘.net’ and ‘.org)’ and approximately 250 country code top level domains (such as ‘.ae’ or ‘.qa’).  A dramatic expansion of gTLDs is currently taking place. Since late October 2013, ... read more ...

New gTLDs revive the internet’s wild west tendencies… - No one is safe In light of Memorial Day weekend, the new gTLD .democrat entered general availability earlier this week. Registrants have been acquiring second-level .democrat domain names since the gTLD’s landrush period began April 17. Rightside, the registry offering the gTLD, does not have any protection mechanisms designed to protect the names of politicians at this time. One of the most interesting second-level domains acquired during landrush was clinton.democrat, which ... read more ...

USA Today Covers New gTLDs: “Start-ups See Gold Mine in Burst of Net Domains” - USA Today just covered new gTLD’s in a story entitled “Start-ups see gold mine in burst of Net Domains” “Visit GoDaddy for a new Internet domain name and you’ll be greeted with an advertisement for one of at least 16 new domain alternatives to .com, .gov or .edu, descriptive of whatever it is you’re trying to do”. “Are you an expert? There’s .guru. Starting an organization? Try .club. Opening a restaurant in New York City? Consider .nyc. Running a daily news site? How about .today?” “After ... read more ...

NameStat.org Offers New gTLD Info - .Link gains 6,710 registrations in 2 days #newgtlds #newdomains — namestats (@NameStats) May 23, 2014   Jean Guillon retweeted the above tweet, which made me aware of NameStat.org this morning. I spent some time looking around the website, and it looks like they offer some interesting information about new gTLD domain name registrations. On the home page, you can quickly reference the “Top 10″ in categories including fastest growing gTLDs, best selling gTLDs, fastest growing IDNs, ... read more ...

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Internet Registry Operator, Famous Four Media Signs Its 100th Accredited … – Virtual - Massive Distribution Channel Represents 90% of the Domain Name MarketWednesday, May 21st 2014, Gibraltar Famous Four Media, the registry operator for .BID, .TRADE, .WEBCAM and some 54 other Top Level Domains, has signed its 100th ICANN accredited registrar. Registrars are the only way through which end-users of domain names can purchase the domains, and Famous Four Media believes that these 100 registrars provide the largest distribution channel currently held by any new gTLD Registry operator, ... read more ...

The internet can be a ridiculous place - The 2014 INTA Annual Meeting has come and gone, and now is a good time to think over all the meetings with colleagues and things learned over the past week. Several particularly interesting discussions have been about the new gTLDs. Though most have centred on protection strategies in this new environment, one tidbit that stuck out was a list of some of the most amusing domain names that have actually been registered under the new gTLDs. Some samples ... read more ...

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SLAM Strategy’s New gTLD Domains Show Good Results in the Domain Market - Glenelg, Australia, May 17, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Latest reports on the new gTLD programme by SLAM Strategy, Adelaide’s leading Internet marketing company, reveal introduction of new gTLD domains into the domain name space. SLAM Strategy’s focused and specialised efforts in assisting brands develop their dotBrand TLDs has led many businesses to achieve comprehensive return of investments.The company shared that the initiative will enable both ASCII and IDN gTLD domains in the domain space. This ... read more ...

New gTLDs Will Work Way Better Than Vanity Domains Did - There are updates in the domain name business that I have never been able to understand: one of them is called "vanity domain names". A vanity domain name is a domain that keeps on using the first and the second level domain, to form a keyword; the third level domain is sometimes used too. Good examples of these would be: webc.am or marmala.de, aud.it or del.icio.us. Trends that work ... Another trend that I do not understand is the use of specific country code top-Level Domains (two letter ... read more ...

.CLUB Continues to Separate Themselves From the Marketing Pack – Will 50 … - about how little money is being spent on publicity in general for the new GTLDs. One audience member remarked that they must  be spending everything on running auctions." This ... read more ...

New gTLDs: Is Internationalism the Solution? - "academy, academic, accumulator, adieu, alphabet, alpha, ampere, apostrophe, atlas, atmosphere, atom , baby, bacillus, balcony, banana, banjo, barbarism, baritone, bayonet, benzyl, bicycle, billiards, blonde, blouse, bonbon, boss, bouquet, boulevard, bourgeois, brave, bridge, buffet, bulletin, bull-dog, cable, cafeteria, cadet, calico, camouflage, caravan, card, carnival, catastrophe, caviar, center, chaos, civilization, cocoa, communist, condenser, contralto, cosmopolitan, crepe, cricket, crochet, ... read more ...

Verizon counsel slams gTLD opportunists - “We have seen lots of cybersquatting but not a lot of innovation, which was one of the arguments for the new gTLDs programme”. So stated Sarah B Deutsch, vice president and associate general counsel for Verizon Communications, speaking at the INTA Annual Meeting earlier today, where she added: “We are seeing a steady flow of cybersquatters jumping in as new gTLDs roll out”. She therefore called on trademark counsel to record instances of abuse to inform later reviews of the gTLD programme. Drawing ... read more ...

.Club Jumps Into 3rd Place Of The Most Registered New Domain Extensions … - Just days after launching, .Club passed .Photography into third place of the new domain extensions, (gTLD’s) with the most registrations. .Club now has according to ntldstats.com over 36,700 registrations with only .Berlin and .Guru having more. .Photography has broken through 35,000 registrations. There are now 9 new gTLD’s with over 20,000 registrations. 21 with more than 10,000 registrations. 40 with more than 5,000 registrations. The only new gTLD’s that have launched into general availability ... read more ...

Trademark Hysteria On New gTLD’s Unfounded? 725K Domains/ 53 URS/17 … - Since the new gTLD’s launched there are approximately 725,000 new gTLD registrations. By my count, URS have been filed against 53 domain names and UDRP’s have been filed against 17 domain names (counts by domain names not cases) So basically 70 domain names out of 725,000 or a 1,000th of 1% of all new gTLD domain names registered have been hit with a URS or UDRP. It should be pointed out that not all of the filed cases went in the favor of the complainant and decisions are still pending. Of course ... read more ...

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The New gTLD Top Ten Club Gets a New Member in Record Tying Time … - As more and more new gTLDs enter General Availability it gets harder and harder to stand out in a crowd that has now reached triple digits. For better or worse, one metric ... read more ...

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A Donut for everyone, just in time for swimsuit season - The new gTLD giant, Donuts, Inc., is the world’s largest registry for new generic top level domains, applying for more than 300 new gTLDs during ICANN’s application phase. (Read the full list of Donuts, Inc.’s applications.) According to the company’s schedule, more than 100 new gTLDs will have launched by the end of May. Registrations in all new gTLDs total 600,000 so far, and Donuts makes up nearly 80% of that total with approximately 500,000 registrations. Here’s a ... read more ...

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