Tag Archives: gTLDs

Thu 14th November 2013
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Architelos Publishes Second NameSentry Report, Releasing Data and Key … - LEESBURG, Va.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Architelos, Inc. announced today the publication of the second installment of the NameSentry Namespace Quality Report. The report benchmarks the comparative safety of the Internet and its largest Top Level Domains (TLDs) by measuring by the prevalence of security threats such as malware, phishing, botnets, and spam. The findings indicate a 67% increase of domain names identified and listed as ... read more ...
Tue 12th November 2013
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Fighting for Smaller New gTLD Applicants - Will new gTLDs just be more of the same, or will they bring real diversity and innovation to the Internet's namespace? For Hong Kong based Stable Tone, applicant for two Chinese character IDN TLDs (世界 or "Dot WORLD" and 健康 or "Dot HEALTHY"), it's the smaller applicants that give the new gTLD program its soul. Ahead of ICANN's 48th international meeting happening in Argentina next week (from November 15), Stable Tone's CEO Jason Du has commissioned a position paper on the plight of ... read more ...
 
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Here Are NameJet’s Terms & Conditions on New gTLD Auctions -         Namejet.com announced last week it would be auctioning off some new gTLD domain names in the strings .XYZ and .College, even before either new gTLD has been delegated to the root by ICANN. Some readers have questioned, exactly what they are bidding on since they can’t get the new gTLD domain if they win the auction and may not get the domain name. Namejet.com just updated its Terms Of Service last week in conjunction with the new gTLD domain auction and NameJet.com has specific ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy waves green at gTLD land rush; initiates sale of first batch of domain … - Mittal Mandalia On November 12, 2013 http://www.techienews.co.uk GoDaddy has opened doors to prospects for the first registration of new domains as a part of ICANN’s generic top-level domain (gTLD) plan. The domain dealer has announced that it will be allowing interested parties to pre-register to domains ... read more ...
 
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Die neuen Domainendungen kommen im Frühjahr 2014 - Lang dauert es nicht mehr, dann können die ersten generischen Toplevel Domains verbindlich registriert werden. Nach einer Verschiebung Mitte 2013 wird es nun also im kommenden Frühjahr 2014 endlich so weit sein. Wer sich eine Domain mit einer der neuen Endungen unbedingt sichern will, dem sei geraten, diese schon jetzt vorzubestellen. Wer ein Geschäft in Berlin betreibt, der könnte sich beispielsweise seine Domain mit der Endung .berlin registrieren. Laut dem Domainregistrar United ... read more ...
Fri 8th November 2013
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Verisign Publishes 2nd Part of 4 Parts Series On Why Domain Blocking o New … - Verisign just released the second in a four part series of why ICANN’s effort to fix the potential collision issue caused by the release of new gTLD’s, by blocking domain registrations, isn’t good enough to fix the potential problems Here is the second post of the promised four part series: For several years, DNS-OARC has been collecting DNS query data “from busy and interesting DNS name servers” as part of an annual “Day-in-the-Life” (DITL) effort (an effort originated by CAIDA ... read more ...
 
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Way beyond dot-com: New era begins with orders for .menu, .luxury and other … - Can’t get your favorite dot-com address? GoDaddy announced today that it will start taking pre-registrations for a quartet of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that will become available early next year. GoDaddy says it’s the first domain registrar to offer pre-registration for gTLDs — launching the market for what amounts to new real estate on the Internet. Users will be able to pre-register for domains that end in .build, .uno, .menu and .luxury at GoDaddy’s new TLD site. ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Starts Registering gTLDs - Scottsdale, Arizona-based domain registrar GoDaddy said this morning that it has begun to sell pre-registration on the ICANN's new domain name extensions, the broad extension of global top level domains (gTLDs) that the Internet domain industry has been working on for the last few years. According to GoDaddy, it has started launching pre-registration of .UNO, .MENU, .BUILD and .LUXURY, the first of what GoDaddy says are 700 additional domain name extension expected to be available over the next ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Adds Seven Generic Top-Level Domains To The Internet, Signs 13 … - BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), took major strides this week toward broadening choices in the domain name system (DNS) and will introduce seven gTLDs. Further, Donuts now has received signed Registry-Registrar Agreements (RRAs) from some of the world's largest registrars, dramatically expanding registration availability.  The Internet's addressing ... read more ...
 
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Donuts: .Com Is Like A Department Store, We are Building An Entire Shopping … - Clickz.com, , just published an interview with Jon Nevett one of the founders of Donuts and Mason Cole their VP of Communications and I found a few very interesting quotes. Jon Nevett is quoted as saying “At a high level the existing name space is overused and worn out. As new businesses start up, they can’t find what they want in the existing name space so they end up with a crazy mix of consonants and vowels because that’s all that’s available in dot com. So they end up with newyork35avepizza.com ... read more ...
Thu 7th November 2013
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Verisign Rolls Out 4 Part Series On Why Second Level Domain Blocking For … - Verisign just published the 1st of a new 4 part series on the potential collision issue arising from new gTLD’s this one authored by Burt Kaliski. Verisign message is  “the introduction of a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) at the global DNS root could result in name collisions with previously installed systems” and that ICANN  “alternate path” for new gTLD’s to launch of blocking any SLDs associated with the new gTLD in the “Day-in-the-Life of the Internet” (DITL) and other ... read more ...
Wed 6th November 2013
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Donuts bereichert das Internet mit sieben generischen Top-Level-Domains … - ');event.preventDefault();});})();(function(){if(!FN.getData('artikel_data','aufklappen'))return;$(".aufklappen .shape").click(function(){var title;var text=$(this).parents(".inhalte-text");var cont=$(this).parent();if(text.css("width")=="747px"){if($.browser.msieparseInt($.browser.version,10)');$("#ArtikelWertung").mouseover(function(){$("#artikelBewertet").hide();$("#artikelBewertungTitel").hide();$("#artikelBewerten").show();});$("#ArtikelWertung").mouseout(function(){$("#artikelBewerten").hide();$("#artikelBewertungTitel").show();$("#artikelBewertet").show();});$("#artikelBewertung").children().not("select, ... read more ...
 
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Donuts bereichert das Internet mit sieben generischen Top-Level-Domains … - Bellevue, Washington (ots/PRNewswire) - -- Ausweitung der Domainnamen mit Markteintritt des größten Anmelders in vollem Gange; "Vorabregistrierungsfrist" in Sicht Donuts Inc. [http://www.donuts.co/], ein Register für neue generische Top-Level-Domains (gTLDs), hat in dieser Woche bei der Ausweitung der Wahlmöglichkeiten im Domainnamensystem (DNS) enorme Fortschritte gemacht und führt sieben gTLDs ein. Zusätzlich hat Donuts unterschriebene ... read more ...
Tue 5th November 2013
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The Nuts & Bolts of an Effective New gTLD Launch Plan (Webinar) - As a follow-up to the previous webinar on "Integrate Vertically: Realize the Full Potential of Your TLD", which discussed various industry trends and introduced Vertical Integration as a unique distribution solution for new gTLDs, LogicBoxes will be conducting a webinar on "The Nuts Bolts of an Effective New gTLD Launch Plan” for all New gTLD Applicants on 12th Nov, 2013. This time around, LogicBoxes will dig down deeper to each aspect of a comprehensive Vertical Integration strategy. ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media to Spin Off Domain Registration Business into RightSide [Press … - As already predicted by Andrew over at DNW: Company Will Lead Expansion of Generic Top Level Domains under Rightside Brand; Taryn Naidu Selected as Incoming CEO SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD), a leading media and domain services company, today announced that Taryn Naidu, who currently serves as Demand Media’s Executive Vice President of Domain Services, will become the CEO and a Director of the newly formed domain services company that ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Announces Rightside Group Spinoff - Publicly traded Demand Media (DMD) announced some news in a press release this morning that I want to share with you. The company announced that a proposed spin-off of its domain name services companies will be called Rightside Group. Taryn Naidu, who has been an Executive VP at DMD, will be the CEO of this spinoff company. Interestingly, Rightside Group will be using a .CO domain name, which I believe shows the company’s commitment to the new gTLDs and the upcoming right of the dot world. ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four Media und Key-Systems fördern gemeinsam FFM’s Portfolio neuer … - ');event.preventDefault();});})();(function(){if(!FN.getData('artikel_data','aufklappen'))return;$(".aufklappen .shape").click(function(){var title;var text=$(this).parents(".inhalte-text");var cont=$(this).parent();if(text.css("width")=="747px"){if($.browser.msieparseInt($.browser.version,10)');$("#ArtikelWertung").mouseover(function(){$("#artikelBewertet").hide();$("#artikelBewertungTitel").hide();$("#artikelBewerten").show();});$("#ArtikelWertung").mouseout(function(){$("#artikelBewerten").hide();$("#artikelBewertungTitel").show();$("#artikelBewertet").show();});$("#artikelBewertung").children().not("select, ... read more ...
 
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OTS: Key-Systems GmbH / Famous Four Media und Key-Systems fördern … - Famous Four Media und Key-Systems fördern gemeinsam FFM's Portfolio neuer TLDs St. Ingbert (ots) - Famous Four Media (FFM) und Key-Systems haben heute eine strategische Partnerschaft angekündigt, um gemeinsam FFM's Portfolio generischer Top Level Domains (gTLDs) zu gestalten, zu vermarkten und zu vertreiben. Famous Four Media ist zuständig für einige der bedeutungsvollsten Endungen der Domainbranche, wie z.B. .accountant, .bid, .date oder .download; bei 12 der insgesamt 57 beantragten Endungen ... read more ...
Mon 4th November 2013
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With New gTLD’s Coming To Market .TO Rebrands Itself To Represent Toronto -           .To has become the second country code (ccTLD) to rebrand itself to represent a city. Following on the succesful rebranding of .La which is the ccTLD for Laos for Los Angeles , .TO which is the ccTLD for Tonga send out a press release today announcing the re-launch .TO for Toronto “Comparatively  speaking, .TO is wide open”, observed Eric Lyons, of Tonic – the .TO registry operator. “There are thousands of generic keywords and highly brandable names available for registration ... read more ...
 
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Pre-Delegation Testing for Dot Chinese Online (.在线) & Dot Chinese Website … - TLD Registry Ltd is thrilled to announce that today the Pre-Delegation Testing (PDT) for Dot Chinese Online (.在线) Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) will begin. This marks a substantive step towards our go-live plans, which we estimate will take place early next year. PDT, an ICANN requirement for all New gTLDS, is a series of technical tests to ensure a gTLD is fully operational before it goes live. Passing the PDT means our revolutionary Chinese gTLDs met the technical and operational ... read more ...
 
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The internet just got bigger: further developments in the gTLD space - New domain name spaces are in the process of being introduced. Businesses and brand owners should take care to make sure that their trade marks are not registered as domain names in these new spaces by unscrupulous operators or by competitors. There are protection mechanisms for brand owners that can be used to assist in blocking others from registering your trade mark as a domain name. Background The new domain name spaces are called generic top-level domains (gTLDs). Examples include .book, ... read more ...
Fri 1st November 2013
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gTLD updates for brand owners: first new gTLDs delegated, non-latin gTLDs, a … - HIGHLIGHTS Brand owners should prepare for the impending release of numerous new gTLDs – the first few of which will be open for registration soon, and even sooner during the sunrise periods for brand-owners who have registered their trademarks in the Trademark Clearinghouse. A product to block registered trademarks from being registered as domain names in 200+ new gTLDs has been unveiled. Brand owners must consider whether this new product should be part of their overall domain name enforcement ... read more ...
 
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The internet just got bigger: further developments in the gTLD space - 1 November 2013 New domain-name spaces are in the process of being introduced. Businesses and brand owners should take care to make sure that their trademarks are not registered as domain names in these new spaces by unscrupulous operators or by competitors. There are protection mechanisms for brand owners that can be used to assist in blocking others from registering your ... read more ...
 
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TMCH update: roll-out of new gTLDs - Donuts, a domain name registry that applied for more than 300 generic top level domains (gTLDs), has just announced the start of the Sunrise Period for 9 new gTLDs, commencing on 29 October 2013. The following new gTLDs will be rolled out by Donuts: Click here to view the table. With so many new gTLDs being created, the problem of cyber-squatting is ever-present.  ICANN’s answer to this was to establish a global trade mark clearing system, known as the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), ... read more ...
Thu 31st October 2013
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Part One of Rousing Schwartz vs. Schilling New gTLD Debate Video is Here … - Their press released added, "The Domain Name Association will educate Internet users around the world about the benefits of domain names, with a specific focus on the imminent introduction of new Top-Level Domains," The DNA ... read more ...