Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Sun 10th November 2013
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Quick Poll: How Much Will The Highest .College/.XYZ Sell For On Namejet.com? - This week Namejet.com started an auction fro 40 .college/.XYZ new gTLD domain names. These are the first new gTLD’s to go up for sale anywhere in the world. Today’s quick poll questions is not which domain will sell for the most, but what will be the the highest price that any one of these domain will sell for. Again to be clear, we are not asking what the total amount of the auction will be but what is the highest price that will be paid for one of these domains. Your choices range from under ... read more ...
Fri 8th November 2013
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Verisign Publishes 2nd Part of 4 Part Series On Why Domain Blocking Of New gTLD’s Isn’t Good Enough - Verisign just released the second in a four part series of why ICANN’s effort to fix the potential collision issue caused by the release of new gTLD’s, by blocking domain registrations, isn’t good enough to fix the potential problems Here is the second post of the promised four part series: For several years, DNS-OARC has been collecting DNS query data “from busy and interesting DNS name servers” as part of an annual “Day-in-the-Life” (DITL) effort (an effort originated by CAIDA in ... read more ...
 
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NameJet.com To Auction .XYZ & .College Domain Names Starting This Month - NameJet and XYZ.COM announced they  have partnered  “in a groundbreaking advanced auction format prior to the release of the TLD to the open market in 2014.” “Forty premium .XYZ and .COLLEGE domain names will be offered in this first-of-its-kind advance auction, where  the highest bidder purchases an option to acquire the domain at the winning price, taking possession of the domain when it becomes available at the registry.” “As more gTLDs become available, individuals and organizations ... read more ...
 
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How Your Premium Domain Might Be Sold By Godaddy As People Try To Preregistrations A New gTLD - With Godaddy taking paid preregistrations on four new gTLD’s today, .Luxury, .Build, .Menu and .Uno, your chances of selling your premium domain name may increase if its listed in Godaddy resale channel. As people search to preregister a new gTLD domain,  if that domain isn’t available because its  already preregistered or reserved by the registry (Godaddy doesn’t distinguish) they are showing alternative domain names and all of the alternatives as of now, are either unregistered .org .net ... read more ...
Thu 7th November 2013
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ICANN: No New gTLD’s Last Resort Auctions Until Early Mar 2014 - In a webinar held by ICANN today on its Last Resort Auction for new gTLD strings in contention,  ICANN stated that no new gTLD ICANN last resort auction will be held in 2013 and most likely not until March 2014. Moreover the ICANN schedule is 10-20 auctions per month, with no applicant being able to participate in more than 5 auctions per month. So a company like Donuts which has over 100 applications in contention, based on the current time frame could be looking at a couple of years to settle ... read more ...
Wed 6th November 2013
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Verisign Rolls Out 4 Part Series On Why Second Level Domain Blocking For New gTLD’s Isn’t Good Enough - Verisign just published the 1st of a new 4 part series on the potential collision issue arising from new gTLD’s this one authored by Burt Kaliski. Verisign message is  “the introduction of a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) at the global DNS root could result in name collisions with previously installed systems” and that ICANN  “alternate path” for new gTLD’s to launch of blocking any SLDs associated with the new gTLD in the “Day-in-the-Life of the Internet” (DITL) and other ... read more ...
 
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Donuts: .Com Is Like A Department Store, We are Building An Entire Shopping Mall - Clickz.com, , just published an interview with Jon Nevett one of the founders of Donuts and Mason Cole their VP of Communications and I found a few very interesting quotes. Jon Nevett is quoted as saying “At a high level the existing name space is overused and worn out. As new businesses start up, they can’t find what they want in the existing name space so they end up with a crazy mix of consonants and vowels because that’s all that’s available in dot com. So they end up with newyork35avepizza.com ... read more ...
 
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.Cam Objection Fall Out: Demand Media Compains About Panels Reaching Different Conclusion on Same String - Another day and another applicant is complaining a new gTLD Dispute Resolution panels. Today its Demand Media, Inc, (DMD) complaining to Cherine Chalaby, Chair of  ICANN New gTLD Program Committee over the International Center for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) on the objections filed by VeriSign against the three applicants for .CAM.In two of the cases a ICDR panel rejected the application of Verisign finding that .cam was not confusingly similar to .com but in the third case involving Demand Media, ... read more ...
Tue 5th November 2013
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New gTLD Program Committee Accepts GAC Advice On Cat 1 & 2 Beijing Communiqué Safeguards - In a letter sent to Heather Dryden
, Chair, Governmental Advisory Committee by the New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) ,  they are intending to accept the GAC’s Beijing Communiqué advice concerning Category 1 and Category 2 Safeguards. The result of the NPGC action is that some new gTLD’s in the same vertical will be open to anyone who wants to register a domain name, while others will fall into the highly restricted category and can only be registered by those that are licensed or meet the ... read more ...
 
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.Sport Fallout: 12 Applicants Call On ICANN To Add An Appeals Proceess For Community Objection Proceedings - The fallout from the .Sport objection continues as 12 new gTLD applicants sent a letter to ICANN today signed  “expressing our ever-growing concerns relating to the Community Objection process”. A ICC panel upheld the objection of SportAccord to Famous Four application for .Sport finding that SportAccord represented the community of “Sports” The letter was signed by Radix Registry and co-signed by 11 new gTLD applicants, United TLD Holdco Ltd.,  DotClub Domains, LLC, Top Level Design, ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media’s Domain Services Spinoff Is Rightside.co & Names Taryn Naidu As CEO -     Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD),  that it has selected the name Rightside Group, Ltd. (“Rightside”) for the spun off domain services business. The company is going with the domain name Rightside.co. Taryn Naidu, who currently serves as Demand Media’s Executive Vice President of Domain Services, will become the CEO and a Director of the newly formed domain services company that is proposed to be spun off from Demand Media. Rightside will include the domain name registrars eNom, Name.com, ... read more ...
Mon 4th November 2013
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Epik Starts Charging $199 For New gTLD’s Pre-Reservations - Epik is taking pre-reservations for new gTLD’s and are charging for it I just got this email from Epik.com: Hello, “I am contacting you in regards to your domain name VETERINARYDENTIST.COM. As you may be aware, starting this Fall, the world of domain names is undergoing a very significant change. After more than 20 years of .COM, a much larger selection of descriptive domains will become available. More to the point, the new domain .VET will soon be available to interested parties.” “The ... read more ...
Sat 2nd November 2013
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ICANN Issues Rules For Last Resort Auction But Fails To Address Many Of Applicants Concerns - ICANN published rules for its Last Resort auction last night. To bid in an auction each applicant will have to put up 10% of its maximum bid and if they want to bid an unlimited amount or more than $20 Million they have to put up $2 million per string. Under the rules applicants will not be able to ‘”share” the deposit (although once concluded the money can be moved to another auction) theoretically if an applicant for a large number of applications in contention wanted the ability to bid over ... read more ...
Thu 31st October 2013
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Famous Four On .Sport Decision “We Will Rigorously Pursue All Legal Avenues To Have It Reversed” - Famous Four Media issued a statement on the ICC decision granting an objection to Famous Four Applications for .Sport, finding that the other applicant for the gTLD. Sport, SportAccord represented the community of Sports, saying that they intend to “rigorously pursue  all available legal avenues available to it to have the decision independently reviewed by ICANN and/or others as the case may be, and reversed.” We found the decision pretty shocking ourselves; to find the one group which i would ... read more ...
Wed 30th October 2013
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Wrap Up From OTA’s New gTLD Domain Collisions Workshop: Collision Issue Is Like Y2K - The Online Trust Alliance‘s (OTA) held a new gTLD Domain Collisions Workshop yesterday in Herndon, VA over what “many stakeholders believe there are significant risks of “domain collisions” occurring with the introduction of the new gTLD’s The workshop ran well over 7 hours and the overriding theme is that the domain collision issue is a lot like Y2K. Domain collisions are the result of a long-standing practice of network administrators setting up intranets (internal networks) using top ... read more ...
Tue 29th October 2013
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WOW: ICC Upholds Community Objection Of SportsAccord To Famous Four’s App For New gTLD .Sport - The ICC has Upheld the Community Objection of SportAccord against the application of Famous Four for the new gTLD .Sport SportAccord is also an applicant for the new gTLD .Sport, actually the only other applicant for .Sport so what this ruling means if it stands, is that Famous Four’s application for .Sport will be rejected and SportAccord will wind up with the new gTLD .Sport. The ICC panel found that SportAccord represented the community of Sports. There is also a new gTLD application .Sports ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy signs the 1st Registry-Registrar Agreement with New gTLD .UNO: Paid Pre-Registrations Start In Nov -                   According to a press release we just received, Dot Latin LLC announced today that the world’s largest domain registrar, GoDaddy, has signed the Registry-Registrar Agreement for the .UNO domain extension, specifically designed for the Hispanic and Latino communities, worldwide. .UNO is the first global web extension dedicated to Spanish-speaking businesses, consumers and individuals online. GoDaddy will be the first domain registrar to offer .UNO pre-registrations for ... read more ...
 
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SlamStrategy: Risk Vs Reward of Owning A New gTLD - In a blog post written by Lauren Pitman for slamstrategy.com.au, looks at the perception that all new gTLD applicants that they will be profitable, its an very interesting post and though its worth a read: “It’s estimated that you would need about $50,000 a year to cover your costs of running a new gTLD. So as long as the applicants felt that they could cover those costs with a minimum number of registrations based on their business plan, they felt that the upside was well worth the risk. “The ... read more ...
 
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Confirmed: 1and1.com Has Spent Over $50 Million On Television Ads; But Are They Over? - Fairwinds Domain Strategy Blog has confirmed was we have been suspecting, that 1and1.com has spent more than $50 Million dollars on its television advertising campaign promoting pre-registrations for the new gTLD program. “”Web hosting company 11 has spent over $50 million on TV, print, and online marketing for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and has increased its web traffic by 200% because of it. 11 officials disclosed these numbers at the Munich newdomains2013 conference held from October ... read more ...
Mon 28th October 2013
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.Club Selects Sedo For Sunrise & Landrush Auctions & Broker Premium Domains -     .Club Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.Club” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), have announced today that  it has selected Sedo to run the “sunrise” and “landrush” auctions, manage its premium reserve list and broker premium sales of .Club domains. Formed in 2012 and backed by $8.2 million from private investors, .Club Domains will enable clubs, membership organizations or others sharing a common interest to establish memorable “yourname.club” ... read more ...
Fri 25th October 2013
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Community Objections to .Islam and .Halal Denied By ICC - Two separate ICC panels have denied the objections to the new gTLD’s .Islam and .Halal finding that although there “opposition to Respondent’s application to some extent, but such opposition is not substantial”. Although they were two separate opinions both shares a lot of the same finding and drew the same conclusions: Here are the relevant parts of the decision: The Expert observes that only the Objector has filed an objection against Respondent’s application. No other individual, organization ... read more ...
 
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NewDomains.org Conference Kicks Off On Sunday In Munich - The NewDomains.org Conference being held for the second year in Munich, jammed packed of seminars, speakers and social networking events. The show kicks off on Sunday with some networking events and dinner and then goes into full gear on Monday morning with two sessions running all day. Monte Cahn from RightoftheDot.com a company in which I’m a Director in will be speaking in the session about Marketing on Tuesday along with: Tobias Flaitz,  of Sedo Lutz Berneke, eBrand Services Godefroy Jordan, ... read more ...
 
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We Said It Over A Year Ago, The BC Tells ICANN Allowing Singular & Plural New gTLD’s Are A Bad Idea - In a letter sent to ICANN, the Chair, ICANN Business Constituency (BC) told ICANN what we at TheDomains.com said over a year ago, that allowing new gTLD’s of plural and singular of the same term is a bad idea. “As we move towards the launch of the first new gTLDs this year, the Business Constituency is extremely concerned about ICANN’s intention to delegate both singular and plural versions of the same string. “We believe that allowing singular and plural versions of the same TLD string will ... read more ...
 
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Losing Private New gTLD Auctions For .Lawyer & .Website Net Top Level Domain Holdings $4.8 Million - Top Level Domain Holdings (LON:TLDH) said  by losing the  private auctions for .website and .lawyer, which concluded on Oct. 23, it will add £2.97m ($4.81m) to its cash reserves. The 14 previous new gTLD private auctions held by ApplicantAuction.com, totaled $18.9 in winning bids or around $1.33 million per string. This week ApplicantAuction.com declined to furnish a total amount raised in the auction for 4 string auctioned, telling theDomains.com that they would not be furnishing a total this ... read more ...
Thu 24th October 2013
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1and1.com New gTLD’s Pre-Reservations Pass 3.5 Million & Top 30 New gTLD List Is Revealed -                       1and1.com new gTLD pre-registrations just topped the 3.5 million mark and for the first time the domain name registrar is showing the top 30 new gTLD’s with the most pre-registrations. 1and1.com had only been showing the top 20 new gTLD based on pre-registration volume. Here is the top 30 according to 1and1.com in alphabetical  order. Interestingly  only one Geographic new gTLD made the top 30 list, .NYC.  Also only four of the new gTLD’s of the top 30 have ... read more ...