New gTLD’s Registered With Word “Eco” Are Being Take Back: On ICANN’s … - As we just went to tape this weeks DomainSherpa.com discussion show, a fellow Sherpa, Page Howe, brought it to my attention that new gTLD domain names that have the word Eco on the left of the dot were in the process of  being taken back by the Donuts Registry. Page’s domain names eco.directory and eco.careers are only two of the domains now in the process of being deleted by the registry as the whois records are showing the domains being in pending delete. Even my company Worldwide Media, ... read more ...

Companies, individuals making the most of .guru, .bike, and more - If you’re casting about for an interesting marketing or trends story, here’s one that could be adapted to just about any beat: The new domain names that have become available this year, which allow businesses to shed the run-of-the-mill .com designation in favor of snazzier suffixes like .bank, .guru and even, heaven help us, .Kardashian. It’s all part of the rollout of some 1,400 new “generic top-level domain names” (or gTLD) as the nomenclature ... read more ...

How to register for a .uk domain name, and avoid the squatters and hackers - The fast approaching rollout of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), like .uk and .london, has the potential be either a dream scenario or waking nightmare for organisations of all shapes and sizes. This is because, on the one hand the move could let organisations tailor their online offering to a much more specific set of clients. For example, Groupon may like to take advantage of the ... read more ...

Policy Advisory Board Model Now a Test of Multistakeholder Model - In early November 2013, prior to ICANN's Buenos Aires meeting, I published an article at this forum, Policy Advisory Boards – A Cornerstone PICS (Public Interest Commitment Specification), that extoled the advantages of adopting a Policy Advisory Board (PAB) model as a practical, effective, and least burdensome means of effectively implementing the request of ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) for consumer and competitive safeguards at sensitive new gTLD "strings" — especially ... read more ...

New Web domains expand possibilities - A great variety of gTLDs will add an organizing aspect to search and surfing. Credit: vschlichting Over 160 new gTLDs (generic Top-Level Domains) have joined the traditional .com, .org and .edu’s since October. Among these, many countries such as China, Australia and Switzerland have been granted country-specific domains as Internet access across the globe grows. Berlin and Vienna have registered their own city-specific gTLDs, .berlin and .wien. Even the domains’ languages are being expanded ... read more ...

New top-level domain names are launching – don’t miss out - The release of one thousand new Top-Level-Domains in the coming years will offer a wide array of new addresses. For example, an eatery can use a .restaurant, .pizza, .pub or .coffee domain ending to specify their type of restaurant. Local or location-specific websites and businesses can benefit from the geographical domains including .london, .wales, .nyc, .berlin to name a few. Currently, newly created businesses sometimes find limited options to register their desired name, as many have already ... read more ...

200000+ Generic TLDs Have Been Officially Registered - As of last night, the 200,000 mark has been broken in Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). According to Domain Incite the number hit 201,184 registries to date. The top 10 most registered gTLDs are: While some bigger known companies like GoDaddy have entered the space, the current gTLD registration leader is Donuts who applied for 307 TLDs back in 2012. Of the top 10 gTLDs shown above, all belong to Donuts. This trend  won’t stop anytime soon as Donuts will continue rolling out additional premium ... read more ...

Domains such as .kitchen and .photography popular with Irish businesses since … - The activity for GTLDs in Ireland does not mirror the global trend with niche domains such as .guru, which tops the statistics globally with over 40,000 registrations, having just 7pc take-up in Ireland.

 Meanwhile, domains such as .kitchen and .photography are proving a hit with Irish businesses with 30pc and 22pc take-up respectively, compared to minimal interest in .holdings, .technology, .contractors and .estate, the latter which had a 1pc take-up in Ireland.

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The 2014 SXSW Interactive Festival Begins Friday – Sedo’s Jeremiah Johnston … - The huge SXSW Interactive Festival begins its five-day 2014 run Friday (March 7) at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. Sedo's long time General Counsel Jeremiah Johnston will be in Austin ... read more ...

Easyspace Signs Agreement To Offer .Club Domain Name In UK - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrar to Work with .Club RegistryGlasgow, United Kingdom (PRWEB UK) -Easyspace, one of the UK’s leading ICANN accredited domain name registrar and web hosting companies, will be offering the new .Club domain name extension after signing a Registry-Registrar agreement with .CLUB Domains, LLC. In pre-registrations throughout the world, the.CLUBextension has consistently ranked among the Top 10 of most popular new generic ... read more ...

Which Top-Level Domain Names Are Right For You? - New domain names are launching at a rate of seven per week just this past month alone. As more new domains become available, it may be difficult to figure out which is best for you to purchase. Here’s a look at various industries and available domains that are right for you. 1. If you’re in finance Finance-related domain names that have become available to pre-register include .bank, .loans or .ventures. Any strategy toward domain names that you develop should be primarily search-oriented, ... read more ...

Level of gTLD notices issued to trademark holders revealed - In its bulletin updated on February 28, the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) has revealed that almost 17,500 notifications had been sent to trademark holders to date, while brand owners themselves had submitted 26,802 marks to the TMCH. The previous statistical update supplied by the TMCH came on January 21 2014, a week before the first seven of Donuts’ gTLDs opened for public registration. Speaking on the day that the Donuts TLDs opened for business, Vicky Folens, TMCH project manager and ... read more ...

ICANN’s Uniform Rapid Suspension: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - With so many new gTLDs moving into their respective general availability periods, and incidents of cybersquatting beginning to appear, many companies are now looking towards the URS (Uniform Rapid Suspension) as a possible solution for quickly remediating abuse. As a reminder, domains that are the subject of a successful URS ruling are suspended for the remainder of the registration term, or can be renewed for an additional year at the current registrar. While the URS provides a number of ... read more ...

URS Filed On Branson.Guru This Could Be A Game Changer For The New gTLD’s - @ Michael Berkens, you are consistently fair to call udrps as you see them, sometimes in favor of the trademark holder, often in favor of the registrant, when the domain is generic, but I beg to differ and wonder if you won’t change your mind, when I reason with you . . . Branson, the town, I didn’t know about. Thanx for info, @BigNewEngland. If the extension were a different generic, so that the domain was: Branson.Ozarks Branson.Missouri Branson.TouristDestination there ... read more ...

Cybersquatters Rush To Claim Brands In The New GTLD Territories - On Jan. 29, Donuts Inc. launched the first seven of what will be some 1,000 new generic top-level domains or GTLDs, rivals to the familiar .com, .com and .edu endings that now populate most of the known Internet. Six days later, at 2:04 a.m., Venura de Zoysa of Kingston in New South Wales, Australia, used GoDaddy.com to register the domain name Adidas Adidas.clothing. The following day Erwin Strobel of nearby Wagga Wagga registered Burberry.clothing. The next day in ... read more ...

How Are New TLDs Being Adopted? - (Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) – With new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) changing the familiar landscape of the domain namespace, users are increasingly taking advantage of new Web addresses. Every week, new domain extensions such as .photography, .clothing, .today, and many more are becoming available for immediate registration. Each new gTLD provides a potential opportunity for firms in the tech and business industries to redefine their online presence. With the .com ... read more ...

Easyspace accepts registrations for new gTLDs -

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ICANN seeks to tackle DNS namespace collision risks - As the number of top-level domains undergoes explosive growth, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is studying ways to reduce the risk of traffic intended for internal network destinations ending up on the Internet via the Domain Name System.The draft of a report (PDF) commissioned by ICANN and carried out by JAS Global Advisors includes a series of recommendations — ranging from alerting network operators ... read more ...

Uncontrolled Interruption? Dozens of "Blocked" Domains in New gTLDs Actually … - The Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions report, just published by JAS Global Advisors, under contract to ICANN, centers on the technique of "controlled interruption," initially described in a public preview shared by Jeff Schmidt last month. With that technique, domain names that are currently on one of ICANN's second-level domain (SLD) block lists can be registered and delegated for regular use, provided that they first go through a trial period where they're mapped to a designated ... read more ...

Who Are the Major New gTLD Applicants and… (Part Four: Donuts) - ...what is their approach to bringing new domain names to market? Donuts is an applicant that threw the entire domain name industry into uproar due to the number of applications it submitted: 307 in total. Recent figures about Donuts are available here. It is hardly surprising that whenever new gTLDs are mentioned in the media that Donuts are mentioned alongside due to shear number of applications that they have submitted. There are dozens of articles in the media mixing information and ... read more ...

Demand Media’s Parking Revenue/Domain Sales Down 33% In 2013 & They … - In the earnings call yesterday Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) had some interesting details about the financials they released for the 4th quarter of 2013 and for the full year 2013 and some interesting statements which demonstrate they are somewhat confused by the new gTLD numbers. First for the results: “In aftermarket services revenue, which represents premium domain sales and advertising revenue from our Owned Operated third-party park domains of approximately $8 million and decreased 33% year-over-year ... read more ...

First URS Decision Published on New gTLD’s - The first Uniform Rapid Suspension decision has been issued. The case was decided 9 days ago, which was 6 days after the 1st URS was filed on the domain names; ibm.guru and ibm.ventures. So while the decision was known 9 days ago, the actual decision was just published today so this is the first time we are seeing at how these URS decisions will look: DOMAIN NAME ibm.guru ibm.ventures PARTIES Complainant: International Business Machines Corporation of Armonk, NY, United States of America Complainant ... read more ...

Apple secures new “.Technology,” “Applestore.berlin” domain names - by Kaled Ali on February 21, 2014 at 8:15 am Sections: Apple Business ... read more ...