Don’t expect your fancy new top-level domain to give you an SEO boost, says … - With companies now able to apply to use their own brand as a top-level domain (TLD), there have been suggestions that doing this might be an easy way to get a boost in search-engine rankings. For example, that Samsung using something like http://www.phones.samsung might get more hits than the usual samsung.com domain. Not so, says Google …  In its official webmaster blog, the company says that new top-level domains will be treated exactly like conventional ones. Our systems treat ... read more ...

Minds + Machines and ALM Media Announce Strategic Partnership on .law - Exclusive .law domains available Fall 2015Click to Learn MoreMinds + Machines (LSE:MMX), a leading owner and operator of gTLDs, announces a strategic partnership with ALM Media, LLC, one of the world's largest legal media companies, to collaborate on advertising and marketing content for the new top-level domain ".law" across ALM's legal media publications, conferences and digital platforms. In addition, ALM will adopt over 100 .law URL's for its existing legal properties and new product ... read more ...

Where Has the Domain Name Growth Gone? - It is pretty common knowledge now that domain name growth started to drop around two years ago and is falling still. At this rate there is every chance that TLDs that have only ever seen growth will start to see a decline sometime in the next few years. What follows is a theory on where that growth has gone. It is widely stated that the greater choice provided by hundreds of new gTLDs means that demand is dissipating across them and that's where the growth has gone. But the 6.5+ million registrations ... read more ...

Bill Hartzer Releases “Top 20 Best New gTLDs Based on Quality” - Bill Hartzer who frequently write on domain names and SEO issues has published a list of the Top 20 Best New gTLDs Based on Quality. “As a part of Globe Runner’s New gTLD SEO Power Rankings Index, we gathered data from over 20,000 websites that have been actually built–or developed, on New gTLD domain names. From that list of over 20,000 websites, we have studied these websites’ qualities, and pulled a lot of other interested data. We were able to find the best New gTLDs based on quality. Globe ... read more ...

Corporations tackle cybersquatters who overstay their welcome | World Finance - Pop sensation Taylor Swift made headlines earlier this year when she was labelled – we can only assume for the first time – a squatter, as the latest in a long line of trademark disputes took hold. Arguably the best-known example of cybersquatting to date, the case was important insofar as it shed a light on what measures affected parties could take to tackle this new and growing phenomenon. The incident was first thrust ... read more ...

New gTLDs Are Great for Pump-and-Dumps, Phishes and More… - Yesterday, egregious financial truth-tellers (a client of ours at easyDNS) ZeroHedge broke the news that parties unknown, engineered what looks to be a textbook "pump-and-dump" on Twitter's stock by putting up a fake "Bloomberg Financial News" site on the domain bloomberg.market and proceeded to run a story on it about Twitter being acquired. The story spread and shares of Twitter stock promptly spiked on volume, Twitter finishing the day on nearly double the average daily volume. TWTR Stock ... read more ...

New gTLDs Are Great for Pump-and-Dumps, Phishes and More… – CircleID - Yesterday, egregious financial truth-tellers (a client of ours at easyDNS) ZeroHedge broke the news that parties unknown, engineered what looks to be a textbook "pump-and-dump" on Twitter's stock by putting up a fake "Bloomberg Financial News" site on the domain bloomberg.market and proceeded to run a story on it about Twitter being acquired. The story spread and shares of Twitter stock promptly spiked on volume, Twitter finishing the day on nearly double the average daily volume. TWTR Stock ... read more ...

Lululemon obtains suspension of ‘.sale’ domain name under URS – Update … -

In a new domain name brawl brought underneath a Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) before a National Arbitration Forum (NAF), a row has systematic a cessation of a domain name underneath a ‘.sale’ new general top-level domain (gTLD). The preference highlights how a URS offers discerning service for heading holders seeking to tackle infringing domain names.

The…

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Lululemon obtains suspension of ‘.sale’ domain name under URS -

In a new domain name brawl brought underneath a Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) before a National Arbitration Forum (NAF), a row has systematic a cessation of a domain name underneath a ‘.sale’ new general top-level domain (gTLD). The preference highlights how a URS offers discerning service for heading holders seeking to tackle infringing domain names.

The…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

Will Today’s Twitter “News” Help the New gTLDs? - I was watching CNBC this afternoon when I heard the commentators discussing a report about an acquisition bid for Twitter. It was later reported that the article discussing this bid was found on what seems to be a fake Bloomberg website. My first thought was about whether the fake website was operating on a new gTLD domain name to confuse people into believing it was associated with the financial news company. It reminded me of the TMZ.today story. According to an article appearing on Newsweek ... read more ...

CSC Publishes July’s NewgTLD.Report: 3945 New gTLD’s in Alexa Top 1 Million - The brand protection company Corporate Service Company (CSC) published its bi-monthly New gTLD Utilization Report (newgtld.report) yesterday “with expanded metrics and analysis around dot brands” In the July Report CSC saw a significant increase in .Brand new gTLD’s registrations. There are now over 2,050 registrations under .Brand (and closed) top-level domains, up 55% since the May report” According to the report, the number of new gTLDs in the Alexa Top 1 Million is 3,945 up 4% from the ... read more ...

ALM Media and ‘law’ Domain Announce Strategic Partnership - SAN FRANCISCO, July 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Collaboration Between Leading Legal Publisher and New Verified Domain Dedicated to the Legal Profession is Major Milestone on Road to Expanded, Reliable Internet Presence For The Law Community .Law Scheduled to Enter 'Sunrise' Period on July 30 and General Availability on October 12 Minds + Machines (LSE:MMX), a leading owner and operator of gTLDs, today announced a strategic partnership with ALM Media, LLC, one of the world's largest legal ... read more ...

Minds + Machines: .law partnership with ALM Media - StockMarketWire.com - Minds + Machines, a leading owner and operator of gTLDs, has announced a strategic partnership with ALM Media, LLC, one of the world's largest legal media companies, to collaborate on advertising and marketing content for the new top-level domain '.law' across ALM's legal media publications, conferences and digital platforms. In addition, ALM will adopt over 100 .law URL's for its existing legal properties and new product rollouts. The announcement was made at Legaltech ... read more ...

Reliance Industries Of India To Move From Its .Com (RIL.com) To Its Own new … - Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries (RIL) has decided to move away from “.com” to the new gTLD .JIO to be used across the Reliance empire. Reliance now uses the three-letter domain name RIL.com Affinity Names Inc, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs,  including the .Jio brand domain. According to the Indiatimes.com, the company plans to use up to 200 second-level domains for its different businesses and departments such as Retail.JIO, Petroleum.JIO, ... read more ...

Reliance Jio: RIL to move from ‘.com’ to ‘.JIO’ as group domain | ET Telecom - MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries has decided to move away from ".com" to ".JIO as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) to be used across the Reliance empire as the billionaire businessman gears up to launch Reliance Jio. It is being touted as the world's largest fourth-generation mobile telephony launch with an investment of Rs 1-lakh crore.Affinity Names Inc, a step-down subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs, according to a recent policy change by ICANN ... read more ...

Reliance Jio: RIL to move from ‘.com’ to ‘.JIO’ as group domain - MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries has decided to move away from ".com" to ".JIO as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) to be used across the Reliance empire as the billionaire businessman gears up to launch Reliance Jio. It is being touted as the world's largest fourth-generation mobile telephony launch with an investment of Rs 1-lakh crore.Affinity Names Inc, a step-down subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs, according to a recent policy change by ICANN ... read more ...

RIL to move from ‘.com’ to ‘.JIO’ as group domain - MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries has decided to move away from ".com" to ".JIO as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) to be used across the Reliance empire as the billionaire businessman gears up to launch Reliance Jio. It is being touted as the world's largest fourth-generation mobile telephony launch with an investment of Rs 1-lakh crore. Affinity Names Inc, a step-down subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs, according to a recent policy change by ... read more ...

Architelos Latest State of Abuse Report Shows .Science leads New G’s when it … - Architelos puts out a State of Abuse report that looks at which domain extensions are being used the most for things like spam and phishing. Their latest report shows data from May, Ten New gTLDs comprised 77% of the 143 new phishing reports in May 2015. This equates to 24 phishing reports per million new gTLD domains under management. The .xyz TLD had the highest number of phishing reports with 42 followed by .science with 22 and .club with 9. When it comes to spam .Science leads the way, not a ... read more ...

.SUCKS: protecting your good name - General Availability Registration Period for Brand Owners Began on June 21 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has the responsibility for the administration of domain names. In 2011, ICANN developed a program for the expansion of new generic top-level domain names (new gTLDs) beyond the standard .com and launched the first of the new gTLD registries in 2013.  The .SUCKS registry, owned and operated by Vox Populi, is one of the most controversial of the new gTLDs. The ... read more ...

‘.brand’ new gTLDs – lessons learned and looking ahead to a second round - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation created in 1998 to assume responsibility for Internet Protocol addresses and the domain name system (DNS). Among other DNS-related matters, ICANN is responsible for introducing new top-level domains (TLDs) into the DNS and overseeing their management. About 34%, or 664, of these... ... read more ...

June 2015 Update – gTLD Sunrise Periods Now Open - You are responsible for reading, understanding and agreeing to the National Law Review's (NLR’s) and the National Law Forum LLC's  Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before using the National Law Review website. The National Law Review is a free to use, no-log in database of legal and business articles. The content and links on www.NatLawReview.com are intended for general information purposes only. Any legal analysis, legislative updates or other content and links should not be construed ... read more ...

VeriSign Inc.: Internet Grows to 294 Million Domain Names in the First Quarter … - Tickers: VRSN MANT YNDX IACI NICE HPQ DELL AKAM  RESTON, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 06/30/15 -- VeriSign, Inc.(NASDAQ: VRSN) , a global leader in domain names and Internet security, today announced six million domain names were added to the Internet in the first quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 294 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of March 31, 2015, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of six ... read more ...