Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Thu 30th January 2014
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.Brussels & .Vlaanderen Pick Pool For Sunrise, Landrush Auctions - The new gTLD’s .Brussels and .Vaanderen have selected Pool.com for its Sunrise and Landrush Auctions. “Today two more international geographical domains, .brussels and .vlaanderen, announce they have selected Pool.com and its auction services platform to help accelerate their introduction to global markets.” “Auctions are the best way to resolve contending applications during the introduction of new top-level domains,” says Pool.com CEO Richard Schreier. “They offer open access, quickly ... read more ...
 
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Forbes: 7 Things To Consider Before Registering A New gTLD; What The Author Got Right & Wrong - Forbes.com just published a post entitled “Seven Things To Think About Before You Register That New Domain” clearly chatting about new gTLD domain names and I think of the 7 issues the author raises 6 are good points yes there is a counter point to each of the even “Potential buyers should take note of the following seven considerations before jumping in with both feet”: 1. Customer trust: “”Consumers have grown used to the existing set of domains, and with that familiarity comes trust.  ... read more ...
Wed 29th January 2014
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“The .com is a approach to attract trade and make it easier for your assembly to find you.” - Sharon Gaudin wrote an article on Computer World, “Brace Yourself For Flood of New Domain Names” In the article she spoke to James Cole from ICANN about the new gtlds coming to market.  She also spoke to Ezra Gottheil an analyst at Current Analysis. Current Analysis is a leading provider of timely, practical market intelligence and advice that helps global IT and telecom professionals compete, innovate and improve performance. For over 15 years, our independent experts and proprietary services ... read more ...
Tue 28th January 2014
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.Club Sunrise Period Starts Today - .CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), announced today that it has officially begun its Trademark Sunrise Period. .CLUB Domains also announced it has signed agreements  with more than 50 registrars around the world, including Network Solutions, LLC, Register.com MarkMonitor, GoDaddy, Name.com, Melbourne IT, 1and1, United-Domains and many more to begin selling “yourname.club” Web addresses to clubs, membership organizations, ... read more ...
 
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7 New Donuts gTLD’s Available For Registration Tomorrow - According to a press release out today, Tomorrow, Wednesday Donuts Inc., kicks off the general availability period for seven new Internet domain names, (gTLD’s). The gTLD the will be live available for registration are : .BIKE .CLOTHING .GURU .HOLDINGS .PLUMBING .SINGLES .VENTURES. Anyone can register names in these gTLDs on a first come, first-served basis from accredited registrars worldwide. Next Wednesday, February 5, .CAMERA, .EQUIPMENT, .ESTATE, .GALLERY, .GRAPHICS, .LIGHTING and .PHOTOGRAPHY ... read more ...
Mon 27th January 2014
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OMGChrome.com Takes A demeanour during what .chrome competence demeanour like - Omg Chrome did a piece on how Google will use dot chrome. Of course Chrome is ubiquitous all throughout the Google landscape, from  netbooks,  to the most popular web browser  on the planet, to ChromeCast for your tv. There were a couple Chrome related news items today, Google is offering a $2.7 million bounty for cracking ChromeOS  Forbes is out with a story on an add on that turns your browser into a BitCoin wallet. From the OMG Chrome Article: Google hasn’t officially commented on what ... read more ...
 
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Daniel Schindler of Donuts Says gTLDs Better Than .Com But .Com Values Will Go Up - In a blog post appearing in iparkavenue.com,  Daniel Schindler of Donuts is quoted as saying gTLDs Better Than .Com. You might expect that from a co-founder of a company which applied for 3x more new gTLD’s than any company on earth, however in all fairness Dan’s comment that a new gTLD is better than a .com seems to be limited to end users looking for available domain names: Here are the most interest parts of the story: “First, he is firmly convinced that the new gTLDs are better than the ... read more ...
 
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Web.com Has 50 New gTLD For Pre-Registration - Web.com Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:WWWW), which owns two of the top to 10 domain name registrars now has over 50 new gTLD’s domain extensions available for pre-registration and purchase. The following new domain names are now available for pre-registration or Sunrise registration: .ACADEMY .CLOTHING .EMAIL .INSTITUTE .PHOTOS .TECHNOLOGY .BIKE .COMPANY .ENTERPRISES .KITCHEN .PLUMBING .TIPS .BUILD .COMPUTER .EQUIPMENT .LAND .RECIPES .TODAY .BUILDERS . CONSTRUCTION .ESTATE .LIGHTING .REPAIR .TRAINING .CAB ... read more ...
Sun 26th January 2014
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Has Frank Schilling been a impulse behind one company’s XXX spending debauch ? - Sometimes there is a lot of information that is provided in a long comment thread that goes unnoticed, many may not keep up with string of comments and some miss them entitrely. It was big news this week that Tube.xxx and Tubes.xxx sold for $750,000. The buyer of those names Really Useful out of Turks and Caicos is owned by JT who was one of the founders of You Porn. Really Useful launched the first ever .xxx domain Casting.xxx. That was covered in several non adult publications such as The Register. JT ... read more ...
Sat 25th January 2014
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Go Daddy “thousands and thousands” of people have preregistered 25 new gtlds” - This week we did hear from some companies within the new gtld space and what kind of demand they were seeing. Donuts put out a blog post yesterday where they said they have already received total orders and commitments over $5million. Now some of this number is most likely including the DPML product that Donuts is offering trademark holders. The DPML works like this: (Courtesy of 101Domain.com) How Does DPML Work? Brand owners must submit an exact match of their mark(s) to DPML, or a term that contains ... read more ...
Fri 24th January 2014
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IBM/ Deloitte Goes With Trademark-ClearningHouse.Uno & TMCH.Uno to Promote Spanish Brand Awareness.” - IBM Deloitte which operates the Trademark Clearing House for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) announced they will use the domain names TRADEMARK-CLEARINGHOUSE.UNO and TMCH.UNO to Promote Spanish Brand Awareness.” Dot Latin LLC announced today the delegation of two key domain names to Deloitte IBM to support the Trademark Clearinghouse. Deloitte manages the Trademark Clearinghouse , as part of the brand protection component of the new generic Top Level Domain ... read more ...
 
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Inc and a Los Angeles Times import in on a new gtlds - More and more non domaining publications continue to come out with stories about the new gtlds.  As we get closer to new strings being available to register many want to cover the upcoming release. Inc Magazine came out with an article, Carolyn Cutrone took this approach when it came to Start ups, From the article: Critics argue that the added gTLDs could spur mass confusion, while supporters suggest it could help small businesses stand out without having to wield inanely long Web addresses or ... read more ...
Thu 23rd January 2014
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Why Google Wants to Give You 101 Alternatives to .Com - Leo Mirani is on a roll he wrote an excellent piece yesterday on the new gtlds with co author David Yanofsky He is out today with a piece entitled, “Why Google wants to give you 101 alternatives to .com” Mike has spoken in the past that Google is a big wildcard with regards to what extensions they end up with and how they distribute them. Google giving away domains for free could be something that impacts existing extensions and new gtlds alike. Mirani delves into why Google wants to do this ... read more ...
 
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WSJ: There Real End Users Looks Forward To Moving Their URL To A New gTLD - The Wall Street Journal has become the another major publication to publish a story about the launch of the new gTLD program and has actually talked to some real people, small business owners who are looking forward to registering a new gTLD to replace their longer .com The Story is entitled “Sell Bike’s? There’s a Web Domain For That” “The World Wide Web is about to get a lot wider.  Starting Jan. 29, the first of hundreds of new top-level Web domains—the suffixes that appear at the ... read more ...
Wed 22nd January 2014
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Quartz: “The biggest land rush in a story of a internet starts on Feb 4″ - Leo Mirani and David Yanofsky wrote a very thorough piece for Quartz on the new gtlds. Their article titled, “The biggest land rush in the history of the internet starts on February 4″ The article did a nice job in the set up and background of the program, then they took a look at the existing tlds and their reach on the Internet. They looked at new tld applicants and talked about “Free Money Forever” From the article: Free money, forever For its owner, setting up a generic top-level domain ... read more ...
Tue 21st January 2014
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Booking.com Which Applied For .Booking Rolls Out Campaign Using Booking.Yeah - Booking.com which applied for the new gTLD .Booking announced today a new advertising campaign wrapped around Booking.Yeah Its the “first-ever brand campaign” for Booking.com. Booking.com applied for the .booking new gTLD. No one applied for .Yeah It seems like a horrible move which will only serve to confuse the public on the new gTLD’s We have chatted before about while Brands might led the charge of the use and adoption of new gTLD’s they might also led the confusion. Booking.com is not ... read more ...
Mon 20th January 2014
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Famous Four Open Its First New gTLD .Bid & You Can Bid To Own The Domain - FFM today announced a “reservation program” .Bid called Bid on .Bid The .BID Reservation program is split into two phases: Bid-on-.BID and First-Come-First-Served (FCFS) Bid-on-.BID When?                    From 14:00 UTC on 20th January 2014 until 10:00 UTC on 14th February 2014 Registrants are invited to submit their bids for .BID second level domains through participating ICANN accredited Registrars. The minimum bid will be just $20.00. Reservations at the standard retail ... read more ...
Sun 19th January 2014
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ICANN BC Committee Tells ICANN Not To Allow Singular & Plurals Strings (Again) - Elisa Cooper the Chair of the ICANN Business Constituency has told ICANN (again) not to allow singular and plural’s strings of the same word. The letter dated December 30, 2013 was just  published yesterday on ICANN’ site yesterday. We at TheDomains.com previously stated that allowing singular and plural strings of the same word i.e. .car and .cars was going to be a huge mess and was one of the top policy mistakes ICANN made in the new gTLD program. Of course the problem has gotten worse ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Comments On ICANN Last Resort Auction Rules - Donuts filed a comment with ICANN over the ICANN Last Resort Auction Rules which were up for public comment. Unlike Google which thinks the one year period in which is would take ICANN to hold all Last Resort Auctions is too slow, and Unregistry which think the period is too quick, Donuts thinks the timing is just about right although wants applicants who agree to have a second extension period of 3 months to resolve contention privately. Donuts also suggests allowing other contention sets to jump ... read more ...
Sat 18th January 2014
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Juan Diego Calle of .CO: Want to Control Your Brand Experience? Look to Top-Level Domains - Tech Cocktail did a piece on Juan Diego Calle from .CO Registry. In the video Juan talks about his start in the Internet in 1999, that his first business went bankrupt, he talks about how he got started with .CO in 2009. He talks about building a community and the ROI on getting early adopters with credibility. He also calls .com a wasteland. From the article: With the gradual release of new top-level domains (TLDs), 2014 is going to be a big year for the Internet. It’s all very exciting for Juan ... read more ...
 
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Top 5 Reasons That Domainers Are Resisting The New Gtlds - Slam Strategy is an Internet strategy firm out of Australia that works with businesses and helping them with their online presence. They are out with an article today on the new gtlds and the top 5 reasons why domainers resist new gtlds. In the opening paragraph the author did note he is an avid reader of the domains, he was inspired to write the current article based on comments from right here on thedomains.com. From the article: Top 5 reasons domainers don’t want new Gtlds Invested interest ... read more ...
Thu 16th January 2014
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Google Registry Tells ICANN They Should Finish Off Last Resort Auctions In Six Months - Uniregistry told ICANN in its comment filed on the subject,  that one year was too short of a period. Google Registry also makes a very good point that under the proposed ICANN Last Result Auction rules, there is a  30 days prohibition, once the date of a Last Resort auction is scheduled, from the parties to the auction to communicate. In the case  of applicants that have a many strings in contention like Google, if they are in an auction for March for one string, lets say against Amazon, Donuts, ... read more ...
Wed 15th January 2014
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Jodee Rich Keynote: We Are Not Selling Domain Names, We Are Selling Domain Identities - Jodee Rich just finished off one of the Keynote Speeches from this mornings Namescon session and had some interesting comments. I also had the chance to chat with Jodee last night at dinner for a couple of hours and he is definitely an out of the box thinker. Mr. Rich’s company applied to operate the .CEO and .Best new gTLD. Mr. Rich’s company also operates People Browser, a social network platform that is adaptable to a endless amount of verticals as well as Kred which looks to be a Klout type ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Wants ICANN To Slow Down The Last Resort Auction Schedule - Uniregistry, Corp. (“Uniregistry”), an applicant for 52 top-level domains has gone against many other new gTLD applicants in asking ICANN to slow down the new gTLD Last Resort Auction Schedule. In its comments to ICANN on the new gTLD Last Resort ICANN auction rules Uniregistry says it “is disappointed that ICANN changed the “5-TLD-per-month” cap from its initial proposal.” “On the current draft schedule, Uniregistry has three months in which it will have seven TLD applications go ... read more ...
Mon 13th January 2014
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Go Daddy CEO calls stream domain space soiled and not descriptive - Blake Irving CEO of Go Daddy sat down at the Consumer Electronics Show and gave a talk about the changes taking place in the domain space. Irving calls the current space polluted and talks about the new names being descriptive. He talks about pizza, doctor, dentist and then says LA, of course LA has been available and is a cctld. This inclusion is why some think that the repurposed country codes may get an extra boost as people just include them when talking about the new gtlds. Click to watch the ... read more ...