Godaddy Opens Up Pre-Registrations on 14 Donuts New gTLD’s With 6 Levels … - Godaddy.com is now taking Pre-registrations for domain names on 14 of  Donuts new gTLD’s The new names are .ESTATE, .PHOTOGRAPHY, .VENTURES, .GURU, .BIKE, .CLOTHING, .GALLERY, .SINGLES, .CAMERA, .LIGHTING, .PLUMBING, .EQUIPMENT, .GRAPHICS and .HOLDINGS. Godaddy is accepting normal Pre-Registrations starting at $24.99 up to $99.99 which varies by the extension, but the real story is Godaddy is offering 5 other levels of Priority pre-reservations for each of the 14 new gTLD strings for up to ... read more ...

Register for Free WHIR Webinar on New gTLDs with LogicBoxes - by Nicole Henderson on December 10, 2013Add Your Comments In a WHIR webinar on Weds., Dec. 11, 2013, Siddharth Taliyan of LogicBoxes will be presenting on how web hosts can grow by leveraging new gTLDs. Riding the New gTLD Wave to Achieve 10x Hosting Growth from 2 – 3 pm ET will give web hosts the opportunity to ask questions about how your business can profit from new gTLDs. During his presentation, Taliyan ... read more ...

The world is your domain - 12 December 2013 | Edwina McDowallAt the end of October the doors opened on the new dawn of 
the internet as our 300 or so current domain name suffixes started to expand. By the end of 2015 they will have increased four-fold. Brand-holders, as well as the likes of you and me, can now become proud owners of our own .camera, .estate and .guru. The internet name space will never look back as each week up to 20 new generic top-level domains (GTLDs) become available for us to own.This is not ... read more ...

Domain Name Event: "The Impact of gTLDs on the Internet" - Check out “The Impact of gTLDs on the Internet” http://t.co/N2GlPa38HC via @eventbrite — Josh Bourne (@joshbourne) December 9, 2013   Fairwinds and The Greater Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society are hosting an event next week called “The Impact of gTLDs on the Internet,” and the event is open to the public. This free panel, moderated by David McAuley of Bloomberg BNA, will be held on Monday, December 16 at Busboys and Poets in Washington DC at noon. Panelists who will ... read more ...

New gTLD guide #1: dot-shabaka - What is the domain and what’s unique about it? Dot-Shabaka شبكة is a domain for Arabic speakers. The four-character domain string can be translated as “web” or “internet”. The domain supports Arabic script and numerals. “It’s about building an Arabic internet, becoming the new .com in Arabic,” says Yasmin Omer, general manager of the domain. “It’s a market that hasn’t been tapped into. The internet speaks in English, ... read more ...

Top-Level Domain Names – Have Brand Owners Done Enough To Protect … - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...

ICANN posts guidelines to avoid gTLD mix-ups - Free Regcast : Managing Multi-Vendor Devices with System Centre 2012 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has issued a set of resources to help administrators avoid potentially costly mix-ups ahead of the generic top-level domain (gTLD) rollout.The company said that its new set of guides will show network admins how to check for, remedy and guard against "name collision" errors related to the changes in the gTLD structure and resulting ... read more ...

gTLD update – WIPO rules on entitlement to gTLDs where ownership of a brand … - WIPO's Arbitration and Mediation Centre has issued a number of rulings which demonstrate the circumstances in which WIPO is or is not likely to uphold an objection to a gTLD application where ownership of a brand is split across territories. In both the ".yellowpages" and ".merck and .emerck" cases, WIPO rejected oppositions to the gTLD applications in situations where both the applicant and opponent owned rights to the corresponding marks and the gTLDs in question had been legitimately ... read more ...

Impact of introducing the new generic top level domain (new gTLD) - About the New gTLD A top level domain refers to an internet domain name at the highest level (the right-most label in the domain name space).  Up until now, a top level domain consisted of 250 national top level domains (“nTLD”), such as “kr” (Korea) and “jp” (Japan) and 23 generic top level domains (“gTLD”) such as “com”, “net” and “info”.  Under the newly introduced new generic top level domains (“new gTLD”), a generic top level domain can ... read more ...

.Uno & .Menu Have Arrived - Move over .com and .org – .uno and .menu have gone live. Since the 1990s, competition over domain names has led the government to experiment with solutions to improve the Internet Domain Name System. The process formally began in 2005 when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began developing policies that would allow third parties to operate sponsored gTLDs outside the twenty-two that were already in existence. On January ... read more ...

Webinar Alert: Riding the New gTLD Wave to Achieve 10x Hosting Growth - New gTLDs are here! And to equip web hosts to plan their future business activities better, LogicBoxes will be running a webinar titled 'Riding the New gTLD wave to achieve 10x hosting growth' on 11th Dec, 2013. With a number of New gTLDs already in their Sunrise period and many more to be launched in the coming months, web hosts domain resellers are best positioned to achieve phenomenal growth by making the right moves in the rapidly evolving New gTLD maze. LogicBoxes aims to help web ... read more ...

It’s "no" to .polo - We’ve written about the new Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) on more than one occasion. This refers, of course, to the process whereby companies and organisations can register names – generic words, geographical names, brand names - as top level domain names. So, in the same way that there’s long been .com, .net and .info, you can now have .bank, .google and .capetown. Some 1900 applications have already been filed. In a previous article we discussed the Trademark ... read more ...

What Cookies, Hummingbird & gTLDs Mean for Digital Marketers in 2014 - Tweet Buffer As we come to the close of 2013, it's not difficult to see a digital transformation is underway in all facets of our digital world: social, mobile, data, search and domain names. The new gTLDs are launching and will start to have an impact in 2014. What's so interesting about the unique opportunities the gTLDs provide is that it is happening during this time of digital transformation. Unlike the .com boom of the 1990s where ... read more ...

Top 10 trademark stories for November - WTR’s most-read blog in November considered new research suggesting that the launch of branded generic top-level domains (gTLDs) may start a decline in the number of brands relying on external social networks. In a poll of gTLD applicants and industry experts at the recent London-based Digital Marketing and gTLD Strategy Congress, the study found that 83% believe that branded domain names will be more effective in engaging customers online than social networks, with 41% believing that ... read more ...

LogicBoxes Announces Elite Reseller Program for Large Web Hosts and Resellers – PR - LogicBoxes, the premier technology and consulting company for Domain Registries, Registrars and large Web Hosts, today announced the launch of their Elite Reseller Program, a competitive offering designed exclusively for large domain and hosting companies. It features a unique base-cost pricing model for domain names, a comprehensive service offering that includes personalized business consulting, new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) strategy assistance and exclusive support solutions.As part ... read more ...

gTLD legal rights objection decisions signal a tough fight for trade-mark owners - As the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) continues to roll out their gTLD program, a better understanding has developed as to how trade-mark disputes will be handled in the application process.  On September 25, 2013 ICANN made public 63 decisions under their Existing Legal Rights Objection procedure, which was established to provide a framework for challenging gTLD applications based on the complainant’s existing trade-mark rights.  The scales ... read more ...

LogicBoxes Announces Elite Reseller Program for Large Web Hosts and Resellers - Related:Press Release, News LogicBoxes, the premier technology and consulting company for Domain Registries, Registrars and large Web Hosts, today announced the launch of their Elite Reseller Program, a competitive offering designed exclusively for large domain and hosting companies. It features a unique base-cost pricing model for domain names, a comprehensive service offering that includes personalized business consulting, new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) strategy assistance and exclusive ... read more ...

Budgets under scrutiny as the trademark tipping point comes to gTLDs - This week the 60-day sunrise periods for seven new gTLDs officially opened. The strings – ‘.bike’, ‘.holdings’, ‘.plumbing’, ‘.clothing’, ‘.singles’, ‘.guru’ and ‘.ventures’ – represent the first Latin scripts open for registration in the new gTLD programme and, as such, sparked a spike in press coverage of new gTLDs as media outlets turned their attention to the availability of new strings. For trademark counsel who have not yet considered their tactics for ... read more ...

ICANN’s UDRP as a domain name dispute redressal mechanism - The rapid growth of the internet in the past ten years has witnessed a huge range of evolution in technological developments, from windows 98 to windows 8, from ugly html personal pages to colorful blogs, from e-mails to social networking sites to mention a few. But one thing has remained the same, the way from which the websites and web pages are accessed -THE DOMAIN NAMES. DOMAIN NAMES IN GENERAL Domain names can be defined simply as an address of the internet, for e.g. www.google.com ... read more ...

.bike, .clothing, .guru latest additions to domain names - London : Nine new domain names have been reportedly made available as the internet domain names system undergoes a radical change, according to ANI. The new web address suffixes, include .bike, .clothing, .singles and .guru and the new names are expected to be released at a rate of 10-a-week. According to the BBC, the new names, formally known as generic top level domains (gTLDs) are currently open only to those with registered trademarks and will be open to the general public ... read more ...

In Top-Level Domain Expansion, No Easy Answers For Brands - Share us on: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn By Bill Donahue 0 Comments Law360, New York (November 27, 2013, 6:10 PM ET) -- The release of hundreds of new generic top-level domains, which got underway this week, poses many new trademark and cybersquatting risks for brand owners. Whether they opt to buy up the new online real estate or pay to police it, protecting a brand name has now become that much tougher.After decades of just the old .com, .net and a handful of other gTLDs, the ... read more ...

LogicBoxes Announces Elite Reseller Program for Large Web Hosts and Resellers - LogicBoxes, the premier technology and consulting company for Domain Registries, Registrars and large Web Hosts, today announced the launch of their Elite Reseller Program, a competitive offering designed exclusively for large domain and hosting companies. It features a unique base-cost pricing model for domain names, a comprehensive service offering that includes personalized business consulting, new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) strategy assistance and exclusive support solutions. As ... read more ...