Radix Registry Announces Launch of Pre-Registration for .host Domains - AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Radix Registry, operators of the upcoming .host TLD are pleased to announce the launch of pre-registration for .host domain names. .host is the new TLD created specifically for the hosting industry, and one of three uncontested strings applied by Radix. Once active, .host aims to be the preferred domain extension for web hosts, ASPs, ISVs, cloud service providers, data centers and other entities within ... read more ...

Trade-mark Clearinghouse: Rare chance for advance protection online should … - The Trade-mark Clearinghouse, which launched on March 26, 2013, is an important IP rights protection mechanism that all trade-mark owners should consider in view of the rollout in the coming months of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), which will significantly expand the scope of domain names available for websites on the Internet. As has been widely reported, ICANN received over 1,900 applications for new gTLDs during last year’s open gTLD application process covering strings for many ... read more ...

eco Publishes the Largest International Study of the Domain Industry - ... read more ...

Demand Media’s Designs.com Debuts To Power New gTLDs - Santa Monica-based Demand Media announced the launch of a new service, Designs.com, which it says wil lhelp generic Top Level Domain registrants create new websites. Demand Media explained athat Designs.com will help users create their own websites on the new gTLDs, offering up professional templates and online sites tied with the new gTLDs, such as .ARCHITECT, .DENTIST, .SOCIAL, and .FAN. The different templates will be tied to those different gTLDs. Demand Media said the new site will be working ... read more ...

NGPC Adopts Resolution Accepting Nine Items of GAC Beijing Advice on New … – ag-IP - MARINA DEL REY, CA - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) met on June 4, 2013 and adopted a resolution accepting nine items of the GAC's Beijing advice with respect to New gTLD applications. According to ICANN, the Resolution addresses most though not all of the GAC's non-Safeguard Advice and does not address any of the Safeguard Advice in Annex 1 of the GAC Beijing Communiqué. As such, this Resolution represents only the first of ... read more ...

Microsoft & Yahoo Tells ICANN Not To Allow Google’s Dotless .Search App - 3. There is no evidence that Google’s original .SEARCH Application was in error. Indeed, Google makes no claim that it “erroneously” sought to operate .search as a closed registry or that it “erroneously” excluded the dotless domain functionality in its original .SEARCH Application. 4. Google’s requested amendment materially adversely affects numerous third parties – Internet users, search users, other search providers, the GAC, other gTLD applicants public and private enterprises, ... read more ...

FairWinds Partners: Internet Users Willing to Try New Equivalents to .COMs - Poll on new top-level domains shows value of brand loyalty. Washington, DC (PRWEB) June 13, 2013 Internet users are willing to navigate, to use, and trust new web addresses that will flood the Internet later this year. And brand name websites will carry more weight among Internet users than generic sites, according to a consumer market research survey commissioned by FairWinds Partners – an Internet consultancy that specializes in domain name strategy. The poll also found that ... read more ...

The Next Big .THING - As the final stages of ICANN’s New gTLD Program evaluation period approaches, everyone should be preparing themselves for the fact that the Internet is about to change in dramatic ways.Anyone who uses the Internet will be affected by a tsunami of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) – the space to the right of the dot – perhaps as many as 1,400 within the next two years. This will mark one of the biggest changes to the Internet since it came into common use.To gauge the impact of this change ... read more ...

Predicting gTLD take-up: survey provides clues - As gTLDs move ever closer to launch, the one unknowable for applicants and non-applicants alike is the likely uptake in terms of internet user behaviour. Once live, will non-applicants rue their decision to not apply as they watch internet users migrate to ‘.brands’? Will consumers prove sceptical of the introduction of hundreds of new TLDs and continue to default to ‘.com’ when searching for goods, services and information? Or will the reality be somewhere in the middle, with ‘.brands’ ... read more ...

‘Governance Council’ Announced for .Health Top-Level Domain - ‘Governance Council’ Announced for .Health Top-Level Domain Details WhaTech Channel: Domain Names Published: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 23:51 Submitted by Jonathan Dolby Press Release from: Famous Four Media Read: 8 times Stakeholders in the Health Industry Invited to Advise on Internet Best Practices 11 June 2013 –Dot Health Limited, ... read more ...

Brand owners should consider registering with the Trademark Clearinghouse - The generic top-level domain (gTLD) initiative of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is well under way. This initiative will soon unleash hundreds of new domain name extensions on the Internet, including .tech, .music, .app, .news and many more. Brand owners should consider registering their marks with the Trademark Clearinghouse, which is collecting information to be used for sunrise periods and the trademark claims service. These programs aim to help brand owners ... read more ...

Insane in the do-main: the new gTLDs and the Trademark Clearinghouse - ICANN (the entity that essentially controls the worldwide domain name system) is in the final stages of processing approximately 1,900 applications for new gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains – like ".com") many of which are expected to come online in 2013. Some of these applications are private brands, like .ford and .audi, while some generic gTLDs will likely only be used only by the owner – e.g. Safeway and Walmart have both applied to own .grocery. Many are also non-english names, and/or in ... read more ...

113 New gTLD Pass IE: .London; .Windows; .Bloomberg; .Broadway; .Ferrari … - 113 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today. The winner of the day might be Uniregistry which had 12 applications pass IE today which had been previously passed over. Today also saw the most number of previous passed over applications passing IE, by my count 28,  thereby making 113 applications passing IE with only 100 new gTLD application being evaluated Other notable new gTLD extensions passing IE today was the Geo domain .London, the .brand application by Microsoft ... read more ...

Dotjoburg Domain Names Available Soon – AllAfrica.com - .joburg (dotJoburg) domain names will soon be a reality, offering an opportunity to create more awareness of Johannesburg-based businesses and organisations and locations, venues, tourism products and services, from a destination marketing perspective.The ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA) welcomes the success of .joburg in the initial evaluation stage of ICANN's new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) project. The ZA Central Registry (ZACR) submitted the application alongside the dotAfrica (.africa) ... read more ...

Insane In The Do-Main: The New gTLDs And The Trademark Clearinghouse - ICANN (the entity that essentially controls the worldwide domain name system) is in the final stages of processing approximately 1,900 applications for new gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains like ".com") many of which are expected to come online in 2013. Some of these applications are private brands, like .ford and .audi, while some generic gTLDs will likely only be used only by the owner e.g. Safeway and Walmart have both applied to own .grocery. Many are also non-english names, and/or in non-western script, ... read more ...