Bridgestone Launches 2015 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge Website - Tokyo (October 2, 2015) - Bridgestone Corporation today announced that it has launched a new website dedicated to 2015 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. The site is designed to offer an additional element of enjoyment to the numerous fans of the solar car race for which Bridgestone is the primary sponsor. On this website, the Company will post updates regarding the teams to which it is supplying tires, as well as information about its tire technologies. During ... read more ...

Generic Top Level Domain Insights for Q3 2015 - Participants in the recently released Global Consumer described new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) as being "innovative", "trustworthy", "interesting", "informative", and "cutting edge". With such impressive descriptions, it appears that the industry has made significant progress in reaching the tipping point. Although Q3 reflects growth, it also highlights the varying degrees of performance and need for further advancement in developing consumer awareness and in turn, the health of the industry. September ... read more ...

.WINE New gTLD is Here, Thanks to Politicians - It is no news that the .WINE and .VIN new gTLDs are to be announced soon by Donuts and if the month of November is the very month everybody has been waiting for, at the beginning of the Sunrise Periods, many questions arise regarding the protection of wine geographical indications. Axelle Lemaire There is a lot to say regarding the length of time it took to launch .wine and .vin new gTLDs and, most of all, how difficult it has been to protect its wine Geographical Indications (also called ... read more ...

A mixed week for consumers in ICANNland - ICANN was busy this week. In the same week, ICANN both strengthened the position of consumers through one action while weakening it with another. The action that strengthens the position of consumers was allowing the inclusion of the Uniform Rapid Suspension to be added to the renewal contracts of several “legacy” (non-new-gTLDs), such as .travel. ICANN was busy this week. In the same week, ICANN both strengthened the position of consumers through one action while weakening it with another. ... read more ...

ICANN will approve extension of URS to legacy TLDs, but only in particular … - Trevor Little This week the ICANN board approved the proposed renewal of the registry agreements for the .travel’, ‘.pro’ and ‘.cat’ legacy TLDs, giving the green light for use of the Uniform Rapid Suspension system (URS) to be extended to the strings. However, addressing previous opposition to such a move, it stated that extension of the ... read more ...

ICANN Releases Phase One Registrant Survey on the Domain Name Landscape – ag-IP - Home / ICANN Releases Phase One Registrant Survey on the Domain Name Landscape / LOS ANGELES - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings of its first Global Registrant Survey, which was conducted on its behalf by Nielsen. According to ICANN, the study demonstrates, among other things, that domain name registrants are more familiar with new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) than general Internet ... read more ...

How Is Your Brand Handling the New gTLDs? - The following is a guest post by Mark Skoultchi, Principal, Catchword Branding The past two years have seen a dramatic expansion of domain-name alternatives. Before the rollout of hundreds of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that began in 2014, new businesses looking to secure a web address typically faced the gold-standard (but often expensive or unavailable) choice of .com or a country code TLD (ccTLD) co-opted to have meaning beyond its country of origin—like .ly, .me, .io or .tv. The ... read more ...

Blog: Maintaining Control of Your Brand Among 1200 New gTLDs - The authors of every successful business strategy know that a company must protect its trade marks and its brand from the outset.  The primary means of doing so is to register trade marks in each of the territories in which the company does or intends to do business, but the ubiquitous nature of the Internet and its minimal barriers to entry make protecting a mark online seem like a much more difficult task.  And while ICANN’s introduction of 1,200 new top-level domains (the string to the ... read more ...

Maintaining control of your brand among 1200 new gTLDs - The authors of every successful business strategy know that a company must protect its trade marks and its brand from the outset.  The primary means of doing so is to register trade marks in each of the territories in which the company does or intends to do business, but the ubiquitous nature of the Internet and its minimal barriers to entry make protecting a mark online seem like a much more difficult task.  And while ICANN’s introduction of 1,200 new top-level domains (the string to the right ... read more ...

Trademark protection patterns in the new gTLDs environment: an infographic - Tim Lince The ongoing gTLD rollout has had a significant impact on online trademark protection strategies, with trademark counsel grappling with new rights protection mechanisms and the question of how to stretch budgets to ensure that brand integrity is maintained. Therefore, to mark the release of ICANN’s revised Rights Protection Mechanism Review report, ... read more ...

Minds + Machines set for strong second half - ---ADDS MANAGEMENT COMMENTS--- Half-year results from Internet domain name specialist Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) reveal a company that is changing gear. The company has been laying the groundwork for some time, applying for the rights to generic top level domains (gTLDs) – the part of an Internet address after the final dot - in the land grab that followed the relaxation of restrictions on the range of gTLDs that are available. It is still in the running for some more domains ... read more ...

Protecting Your Domain – What’s In a Name Anyway? - The start of 2015 has seen a large number of new generic top level domain names (gTLDs) created, in numbers previously unprecedented in the history of the internet. A gTLD is the suffix used in web addresses (for example .com or .co.uk). These had previously been restricted to 22 versions and the number of gTLDs is set to rise from 22 to 617 by the end of 2015.Shortly after the meteoric rise of the internet in the early nineties, domain name squatting became a serious issue. Opportunistic individuals ... read more ...

Global Domain Registrations Edge Closer to 300M: Verisign - The number of domain names registered around the world grew by 2.2 million, or 0.8 percent, to 296 million at the end of June according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief from Verisign. With similar growth, the 300 million mark should be reached around the end of 2015. Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.4 million, or 5.9 percent, year over year. The growth, the envy of many industries, was a marked slowdown from the first quarter when six million domains were added to the ... read more ...

Dot dot dot… Observations from the first two years of ICANN’s new gTLD programme - It's been about two years since the first of hundreds of new gTLDs began trickling out. New Sunrise Periods continue to open, and new registries are still being delegated by The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). To date, more than 300 alternatives to .com have launched. It's fair to say new gTLDs have not displaced .com as the top-level domain of choice. Uptake has been patchy, especially for some of the more 'niche' extensions like .tattoo and .coupons. Many registries ... read more ...

ICANN Announces Results of New gTLD Universal Acceptance Analysis - ICANN, in conjunction with the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) announced this week the availability of a new report: An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance. The study focuses on the concept of removing all technical barriers that might hinder a user from accessing any name in any top-level domain (TLD) from any web browser, email client, or other Internet application on any computer or electronic device. "These results were in-line with our expectations," said ICANN's ... read more ...

The NEW DomainersMagazine.com - .sexy may be blocked in Iran Continue reading » September 16, 2015 Kevin Murphy apnic, Domain Tech, universal acceptance ... read more ...

ICANN and UASG Announce Results of Universal Acceptance Study for New gTLDs – ag-IP - Home / ICANN and UASG Announce Results of Universal Acceptance Study for New gTLDs / LOS ANGELES – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), in conjunction with the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) announced the availability of a new report: An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance, a press release by the Corporation stated. Universal Acceptance (UA) is the concept of removing all technical barriers ... read more ...

Sedo to Promote New gTLDs at Giant DMEXCO Conference in Germany This Week - offerings to leading digital marketers. As a global domain sales platform, Sedo wants to build awareness for its premium domain inventory, ... read more ...

An optimistic view on China’s tough new domain name regulations, and more from … - Jacob Schindler Today marked the final day of DOMAINfest Asia, a first-of-its-kind international conference aimed at balancing Eastern and Western perspectives on issues including gTLDs, IDNs and the regulatory challenges unique to the Chinese Internet. World Trademark Review ferried across the Pearl River Estuary for a look at day two of the event ... read more ...