Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Mon 13th January 2014
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Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot.com Partner On Live Auctions Of New gTLD Domains & Contention Auctions - Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot, LLC announced today an exclusive joint partnership to provide live and online auction services for premium domains in new gTLD extensions that are being launched over the next several years. Examples of premium domain names that may potentially be for sale via this new offering could include names like Night.Club, Tour.London, Hotels.NYC, Divorce.Law, Poker.Vegas, Concert.Tickets, and on, across the spectrum of recently created new domain space. The partnership ... read more ...
 
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Domaining.com & TheDomains.com Launch The New gTLD Ticker - Domaining.com and TheDomains.com have a new look this morning as they launched the new gTLD ticker on the top of each site. The new gTLD ticker is an advertising program, the brain child of Francois Carrillo, Founder and C.E.O of Cybertonic which operates Domaining.com who is in charge of making the ticker work Michael Berkens of TheDomains.com is in charge of sales and client relations for the new advertising program. The program is strictly limited to 2o strings in 2014. At the moment we have ... read more ...
Sat 11th January 2014
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Domain Registrar Uses The 2nd Coming Of .Com “Beer.com Sold For $7M” To Sell New gTLD’s - Domain Name Registrar, OnlyDomains.com has started to sell new gTLD’s chatting about the second coming of .Com domain aftermarket saying on the front page of its site: “Remember when the domain name Beer.com sold for $7 million dollars? ” “For the first time since the dawn of the Internet, people everywhere have an opportunity to claim ownership of a whole new range of top level domain web addresses. ” “Domains like .App, .Venture, and even .Sex are coming soon. How much will yours be ... read more ...
Fri 10th January 2014
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.CEO Domains Sunrise Starts Feburary 10th; GA Mar 28th - CEOTLD Pty Ltd, the registry operator of the new dotCEO top level domain, has announced that its Sunrise period will open on February 10th. During Sunrise, “trademark owners can register dotCEO domains, thereby protecting and enhancing their brands and company names”. Specific dotCEO Sunrise details can be found on the ICANN Website. dotCEO is positioned as the only TLD to convey authority and power. dotCEO will be marketed to brand leaders, business leaders (20M CEO’s globally) and ... read more ...
Fri 3rd January 2014
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Fallout From New gTLD’s: What If Everyone Loses? - After years of debating the topic of how successful the new gTLD program will be and what the effect of new gTLD’s will have on the value of existing extensions including .com. Mostly every post has wound up with people arguing whether .com’s will win or the new gTLD’s will win. Other including myself has voiced the opinion that many new gTLD’s can become quite profitable without any hugely negative effect on the value of existing domain extensions. One possible outcome that I haven’t heard ... read more ...
Thu 2nd January 2014
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SeekingAlpha: “New gTLD’s Pose No Threat To Verisign” - Stock site SeekingAlpha.com just published a blog post entitled New gTLD’s Pose No Threat To Verisign. Verisign (VRSN) is the registry for the .com and .net registry The author of the post is stock analyst Zeus Kerravala, is the founder and principal analyst with ZK Research.  Prior to ZK Research, Zeus Kerravala spent 10 years as an analyst at Yankee Group. Here is part of his post which should brighten the new year for all .com investors: “”I’ve seen a number of news stories over the past ... read more ...
Tue 31st December 2013
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Lets Set The Record Straight; My 5+ Year Journey Through New gTLD’s - As the year closes I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at thedomains.com and what we have had to say about it since we started writing about it over 5 years ago. For many, you first heard of the new gTLD program on theDomains.com. Seeing that a monumental change to the naming system was coming we have written about it every step of the way Readers have all kinds of opinions on the new gTLDs. I think its fair to say its the most divisive issue in the domainer community not only in ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Joins Sedo MLS Network - Sedo, today announced that Tucows, one of the leading global provider of domain names and other Internet services, has joined its SedoMLS network. The partnership will enable Tucows to automatically distribute more than 17 million actual existing premium domains and premium domains of more than 400 upcoming new generic top­level domain (gTLD) extensions to the more than 13,000 resellers in Tucows’ OpenSRS reseller channel, and also allows Tucows registered domains to be listed for sale on the ... read more ...
Sun 29th December 2013
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Shocking; ICANN May Make Money Off The New gTLD Program - ICANN released its 1st  quarterly financial statement, as Domainincite.com,  pointed out, ICANN has spent $119.2 million of its original $344.9 million program budget (which comprises application fees net of refunds).” “As of September 30, it still had $225.7 million in cash dedicated to the program, which is accounted for separate to ICANN’s regular operating budget.” ICANN completed the  initial evaluations of  (IE) of the 1930 applications in August. One can argue that ICANN therefore ... read more ...
Tue 24th December 2013
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Porn.XXX Ranks On 1st Page Of Google for Porn; Good News For New gTLD’s - Well its taken a while but the bang on domain name Porn.xxx is has made it to the first page of Google for the search term “porn”. As you might imagine, porn its one of the toughest terms to rank on the first page on, with millions of adult sites all trying to get in that position. Interestingly with all the talk about how Google has lessened the importance of Exact Match Domains, 4 of the top 6 sites  ranking on the first page of Google under the search term porn have the word porn in the ... read more ...
Mon 23rd December 2013
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Is ICANN Going To Hold Registries; The $25K .Sucks One To What They Said In Application?? - Vox Populi Registry Inc. (VOX) was in the news last week when it put up a site taking Priority Registrations for .sucks domain names for $250 per domain, per year, and Trademark Priority Registrations of $2,500 per domain threatening trademark owners to act now because if they wait until the Sunrise Period, the cost would be $25,000. The $25,000 Sunrise fee is a per domain per year fee and of course unprecedented and especially troubling because its being offered to trademark holders in the Sunrise ... read more ...
Sun 22nd December 2013
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Jennifer Wolfe: “Your .Com Won’t Be Worth Much Anymore” - Jennifer Wolfe is a digital strategy advisor and executive leader.  She is nationally accredited in public relations and the  Co-author of Brand Rewired and Domain Names Rewired. She runs a blog at Wolfedomain.com. On Friday Jennifer wrote a post entitled Dot Com Bubble (pt.2). I wanted to first find and read part 1, that post looks to have been written July 16, 2013 under the title of “New gTLDs and the Brand Bubble” In that article this is what stood out: What’s the Value of Your .com Now? A ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Price Wars As United Domains Undercuts Godaddy - United Domains sent out an email making customers aware that they were now taking binding pre-orders on some new gTLD domain names. Interestedly Go Daddy which built its business being the low cost provider on .com, looks like it  may be taking a different path with the new gtlds as there prices are higher on a majority of the extension both are taking pre-orders on. UnitedDomains.com is basically under cutting Godaddy’s price on these new gTLD they are taking pre-orders  by up to  $10 a domain ... read more ...
Sat 21st December 2013
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.BUZZ Rolls Out Gift Cards In Time For The Holidays: “Give a Gift of .Buzz” - We knew that the new gTLD registries would come up with some creative marketing ideas. Today we got an email from the upcoming .buzz registry who is selling .Buzz gift cards “just in time for the holidays”; “JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. GIVE THE GIFT OF .BUZZ” “dotStrategy, the parent company of the .buzz registry, is offering an easy solution for the last minute gift buyer — ‘Give the Gift of .Buzz. “dotStrategy is offering a Create.Buzz gift certificate good toward the registration ... read more ...
 
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Internet is about to knowledge one of the biggest changes: ICANN - The Times of India sat down with Fadi Chehade of ICANN and conducted a small interview. Fadi Chehade is the president and CEO of the International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an organization that allocates web addresses and assigns unique protocol numbers on the internet. In an email interview with Kim Arora, he discussed ICANN’s globalization efforts, digital surveillance and the future of the internet. Chehade discusses DNS security, his efforts to move governance of  ... read more ...
Fri 20th December 2013
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Well Here’s The 1st: KPMG To Replace Its .Com With Its New gTLD - I know a lot of people in the domain industry have put the eventual success on the new gTLD program on whether big brands would actually switch from their .com to their new gTLD. Today we have the first. In an interview with worldipreview.com, Professional services firm KPMG  says they are going to replace KPMG.com with .KPMG the new gTLD they applied for. KPMG is a worldwide company, which operates in more than 155 countries and employs close to 155,000 people according to David Green, ... read more ...
Thu 19th December 2013
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You’ve Got To Be Kidding: $25K For A .Sucks Domain Name Registration - One of the new gTLD applicants for .sucks opened up Priority Registrations for .sucks domain names for $250 per domain and Trademark Priority Registrations of $2,500 per domain. The truly shocking part of today’s announcement is that the registry plans on charging $25,000 PER domain for Sunrise Registrations. Sunrise is reserved for registered trademarks which are registered with the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH). The registry is offering is a $250 priority registration “Reserve the name you ... read more ...
 
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UK Bans 1and1.com New gTLD Commercials As Being “Misleading” -   The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)  which is the independent regulator of advertising across all media the United Kingdom has just banned 1and1.com new gTLD television commercials as being misleading. A television commercial similar to the one 1and1.com was running in the United States, was also running in the UK. The ASA applies the Advertising Codes, which are written by the Committees of Advertising Practice. Our work includes acting on complaints and proactively checking the media ... read more ...
 
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.Fail! ChicagoGrid.com Says Berryhill Runs a Domains & .Chicago, .Jeans & .XXX Are Coming - An Epic fail by a business publication covering the new gTLD’s, the Chicago Grid posted a story entitled “Will the switch from .com to .Chicago benefit businesses? Never mind the entire publication is wrapped with advertising from Dunkin’ Donuts and made my eye’s bleed. As Taylor Swift said “I knew you were trouble then” Of course there wasn’t even a new gTLD application submitted for .Chicago. The subtitle of the article: “Customers will have to embrace the 1,000 new domains opening ... read more ...
Wed 18th December 2013
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12 Registrar Signup With TLDH; 7 With Minds + Machines; 25 New gTLD To Launch 1Q - The Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) announced the company has  Registry-Registrar Agreements (“RRA’s”) with an initial twelve ICANN-accredited registrars in the US, Europe and Asia. The Company plans to expand its registrar network in 2014 to complement its own direct sales channel to market through its wholly-owned registrar, Minds + Machines Registrar Limited. Of the initial 12 registrars that have signed RRAs, 7 have signed up with Minds + Machines OPEN Priority Reservation ... read more ...
Tue 17th December 2013
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ICANN Opens Comment Period On Last Resort Auctions - ICANN has opened a comment period on its Last Resort Auctions “To gather community input regarding the detailed rules and processes for Auctions to resolve string contention sets in the New gTLD Program.” “The Auction Rules have been updated since the initial release of the Preliminary Auction Rules on 1 Nov 2013 based on feedback received including during the Auctions Webinar on 7 November 2013 and the ICANN 48 Meeting in Buenos Aires. The documents being published for comment are: Auction ... read more ...
Wed 11th December 2013
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dotShabaka Chooses Pool.com For Sunrise & Landrush Aucitons - The newest of the new gTLDs, ‘شبكة.’ (translates to .web in English) announced today that they have selected Pool.com for its Sunrise and Land Rush auction More recently Pool.com’s auction platform has helped support .sx (the country code of St. Maarten) and CoInternet’s re-launch of .co, which, according to Mr. Schreier, allows businesses and individuals to brand themselves online with memorable domain names even shorter than .com. “As the world’s first borderless Arabic new Top-Level ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Opens Up Pre-Registrations on 14 Donuts New gTLD’s With 6 Levels Up to $12,569.99 Per Domain - Godaddy.com is now taking Pre-registrations for domain names on 14 of  Donuts new gTLD’s The new names are .ESTATE, .PHOTOGRAPHY, .VENTURES, .GURU, .BIKE, .CLOTHING, .GALLERY, .SINGLES, .CAMERA, .LIGHTING, .PLUMBING, .EQUIPMENT, .GRAPHICS and .HOLDINGS. Godaddy is accepting normal Pre-Registrations starting at $24.99 up to $99.99 which varies by the extension, but the real story is Godaddy is offering 5 other levels of Priority pre-reservations for each of the 14 new gTLD strings for up to $12,569.99 ... read more ...
Tue 10th December 2013
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Demands Media’s Rightside Releases Introductory Video - Demand Media, Inc.,  proposed spinoff of its new gTLD registry, and registrar business Rightside.co just released an introductory video on its business and the new gTLD’s program. The video highlights many of Demand Media, Inc. own gTLD’s it applied for including .Ninja   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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.Uno Starts Sunrise Period, Runs Until Feb 6, 2014 - Dot Latin LLC, the .UNO Domain Registry, announces today that their 60-Day Sunrise Period starts and runs until February 6, 2014. The Sunrise Period is when trademark owners are eligible to register a domain name containing their owned mark. In order for Trademark Holders to apply for a domain during Sunrise, they must submit an application and obtain validation approval from ICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse (http://trademark-clearinghouse.com/). Sunrise applications will only be accepted through ... read more ...