Internet overlords close to opening new online domains - SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - The agency in charge of website addresses passed a major milestone Friday on the path to broadening the world of domain names by the end of this year.The board of US-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) touted freshly-approved benefits and responsibilities for registrars that essentially act as domain name wholesalers.Changes to contractually enforceable rules include requiring registrars to confirm phone numbers or addresses ... read more ...

ICANN maintains line on singular/plural gTLDs, but puts closed generics on hold - ICANN’s Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) has adopted a number of resolutions concerning portions of the GAC's Safeguard Advice for new gTLDs. While maintaining the status quo on singular and plural versions of the same string, its resolution on ‘closed generic’ gTLDs places such applications in a holding pattern. In April, the Government Advisory Committee (GAC) issued a 12-page communiqué which outlined safeguard advice to apply to broad categories of gTLD applications. Earlier ... read more ...

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Breaking: New gTLD Program Committee Votes Not To Change Policy on … - The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC)  voted tonight to not change the policy on new gTLD applications concerning singular and plural terms. The GAC advised ICANN that it should place singular and plural new gTLD strings into the same contention set. For example there were applications for .Car/.Cars: .Auto/.Autos, .Hotel/.Hotels; .Coupon/.Coupons; .Deal/.Deals; .Game/.Games; .Gift/.Gifts; .Kid/.Kids top name a few. Here is the resolution passed by the NGPC tonight on the issue: “”Whereas, ... read more ...

Famous Four Media Receives a Great .REVIEW - Famous Four Media is set to operate the .REVIEW Top Level DomainThursday, 27 June 2013, Gibraltar: Nobody likes a bad review right? Not necessarily! Recent statistics from Reevoo suggest that the presence of bad reviews actually improves sales conversions by 67%. All reviews are valuable, and a mix of positive and negative reviews actually helps to improve consumer trust in the opinions they read. This is why it is so significant that Famous Four Media, a global leader in the provision of generic ... read more ...

Famous Four Media Receives a Great .REVIEW - Famous Four Media is set to operate the .REVIEW Top Level Domain Thursday, 27 June 2013, Gibraltar:nbsp; Nobody likes a bad review right? Not necessarily! Recent statistics from Reevoo suggest that the presence of bad reviews actually improves sales conversions by 67%. All reviews are valuable, and a mix of positive and negative reviews actually helps to improve consumer trust in the opinions they read. This is why it is so significant that Famous Four Media, a global leader in ... read more ...

ICANN puts Whois on end-of-life list - 7 shortcuts to losing your data (and probably your job!) ICANN is proposing a goodbye to Whois, saying that data is often inaccurate and suggesting that some search fields should be restricted to “authenticated requestors”. Its discussion paper, here, says Whois is “broken”. The paper seems to suggest that one of the things that's “broken” the Whois system is the proliferation of new gTLDs, which is making the “Internet ecosystem … more complex”. The report notes that ... read more ...

Revisiting generic top-level domains - As expected, there has been great initial interest in generating the new generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, that are poised to add variety to the conventional .com, .org, and .net domains that have dominated the Internet for decades. ICANN, the agency architecting the domain system, reports that as of June 7, 2013, it had approved 638 of the new gTLDs. Yet, at the same time, some companies are choosing to abandon their gTLD applications rather than pioneer this new area. While some might cite ... read more ...

New generic top level domains and the Trademark Clearinghouse – what you … - As readers of Knowledge Bytes will know from our June 2011 edition, the world is entering into a period of great change in the internet domain name space. Background Approximately 1,400 new generic (and not so generic) top level domains ("gTLDs") will soon be coming online. For trademark owners, this will create potential new opportunities for increasing the scope of their internet presence. However, it will also almost inevitably lead to increased costs and headaches for brand owners in terms ... read more ...

Digital Brand Strategist Jennifer Wolfe Advises Marketers to Consider … - Brand Marketers Should Prepare to Evaluate Soon-to-be-Launched Generics List Cincinnati, OH (PRWEB) June 25, 2013 As the list of hundreds of new generic top level domains (gTLDs) will soon begin rolling out, Jennifer Wolfe, president of leading gTLD digital brand strategy firm Wolfe Domain, is advising marketers to perform a thorough evaluation of the new generics to capture competitive advantage. “Marketers are in the unique position of being ahead of a significant monetization ... read more ...

Protecting your trademarks as ICANN launches new generic top level domains - Last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) received over 1,900 applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), including multiple applications for popular domains like .app, .inc, .art, .shop and .music. More than seven hundred applications have now passed an initial evaluation. If no further issues arise for those applications, ICANN anticipates that some of the new gTLDs could go live in the next few months. Although the new gTLD program will provide ... read more ...

NCC Group passes ICANN’s evaluation process - StockMarketWire.com - NCC Group, the international, independent provider of Escrow and Assurance, said subsidiary Artemis Internet Inc's .secure bid has passed ICANN's evaluation process. "This is a key milestone towards gaining ownership of the .secure generic top level domain (gTLD), following ICANN's decision to extend gTLDs to increase competition and choice in the domain name space," the company said. The evaluation included background screening, technical and financial capability testing ... read more ...

What to Expect When You’re Expecting (New gTLDs) - Some companies sell bags, some sell guitars, some sell phones, some sell shoes, and others sell everything from antiques to zippers. Just about all companies today sell “something” – and themselves — online.As the Internet has grown over the past two decades we’ve seen more and more participation by businesses online to the point of ubiquity. Businesses that started small, perhaps with a simple, one-page website have expanded their online presence to hundreds of sites with many thousands ... read more ...

Benefits of registering your brands with the Trademark Clearinghouse - In our March 2013 IP Focus on Protecting Trade-marks in the New gTLDs, we reported that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had created a centralized trade-mark rights repository to assist trade-mark owners in protecting their marks in the many new gTLDs that will be available beginning later this year. This centralized repository is called the “Trademark Clearinghouse,” and it opened for business ona March 26, 2013. Brand owners must now consider which marks, if ... read more ...

The First Wave of gTLDs Are Coming – Are You Ready? - Tweet Buffer In this continuing series on the launch of the new generic top-level domains (gTLD) for brands, I've covered the many strategies that brands may use to evolve and strengthen the Internet consumer experience. While half of the world's biggest brands applied for a gTLD, many did not and the millions of mid-market and smaller businesses will need a strategy to respond. While most companies are still largely unaware of the coming paradigm ... read more ...

New gTLDs will require skill and strategy to manage - Top-level domains are the suffixes at the end of web addresses that we are all familiar with, such as .com, .co.uk and .org. The Internet Corporation for the Assigning of Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body responsible for operating the generic top-level domain (gTLD) system is now allowing the registration of new gTLDs, which can be any combination of letters and numbers including various characters of local languages such as Arabic and Chinese, provided they ... read more ...

Washington Post On New gTLD’s: Brings The Value of Any One Domain Down to … - Speaking from a personal perspective here, folks know I am a big proponent of the new gTLDs, and I have to say that the reporting on the WP seemed a bit ham-fisted and inaccurate about the value of domain names. Thinking it through, I had a college professor describe user behavior and habit in a real simple manner with the following saying, “22 days to make a habit, 22 days to break it”. That would put many of existing users at 5-15 years of habit in slapping ... read more ...

Our News on your Mobile – ag-IP - By Ibtisam Awadat AMMAN - ag-IP-news Agency conducted an interview with Mr. Akram Atallah, President of the Generic Domains Division, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) raising a number of issues regarding the new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD), ICANN’s role in maintain security during the development of these gTLDs in addition to Arab Center for Dispute Resolution. Excerpts of the interview are as follows: With the expansion to new top level domains, what’s the ... read more ...