Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Tue 10th September 2013
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Endurance Files For $400M IPO: Buys Directi For $110M: Commits Up To $62 Million In New gTLD Auctions - As reported by Domainincite.com, Endurance International Group Holdings Inc,  filed for an IPO  to $400 million in an initial public offering of its common stock and plans on buying Directi for between $100 and $110 million Dollars. In  buying Directi Endurance would also get Radix Registry which has 29 active new gTLD applications of which 26 are in contention. Endurance is also committing an additional $62 Million dollars or over 2 million per contested string for auctions. As for existing business ... read more ...
Mon 9th September 2013
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TechRadar Confuses A Pre-Reservation With An Actual Registration; Telling People new gTLD’s Can Be Registered Today - TechRadar.com covered the new gTLD program telling people that new gTLD are available to be registered now. “New top-level domains now available” “.online, .web, .ltd, .website, and .blog just some of the suffixes available” The publication clearly has confused a pre-registration that many registrars and back order providers are offering with a domain registration. Of course none of the string mentioned by TechRadar; “.online, .web, .ltd, .website, and .blog are available for registration. Matter ... read more ...
Wed 4th September 2013
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WTR: Chats About How Radix Is Planning on Marketing Its New gTLD’s - The WorldTrademarkReview.com, published a story on Radix this morning and applicant for 29 new gTLD’s and spoke to Sandeep Ramchandani, business head of Radix , on how the company would market its offerings. Radix’s marketing strategy is two-fold.” “It plans to leverage its relationships with registrar channels as well as offering extensions directly to specific industries through direct marketing to brand owners.” “On the company’s string selection process, Ramchandani explains: “We ... read more ...
 
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Wow: Check Out Verisign’s Scathing Letter To ICANN - In a scathing letter from Chuck Gomes, Vice President of Verisign to Fadi Cheladeto CEO of ICANN Mr. Gomes lists 6 “examples of ICANN’s Unaccountable Actions as Requested by ICANN CEO Fadi Chelade” The letter itself fills in the back story as it is an outgrowth of a discussion that the two men had during “the GNSO discussion at the recent ICANN meeting in Durban. ” “In that exchange, I indicated that ICANN was not holding itself accountable and that ICANN was elevating risk- avoidance ... read more ...
Mon 2nd September 2013
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PCadvisor.co.uk Open Poll On Whether People Are Aware / Interested In New gTLD’s - PCadvisor.co.uk,  just opened a poll today on what readers think about the new gTLD domain name program. Its one of the first open polls I have seen on the subject in a non-domainer publication. The poll asks: With the launch of new domain names are you: Planning to buy one Already on the pre-registration list Never heard of them Not interested It will be interesting to see what the results look like if they can get thousands of votes. So far only 25 votes are recorded with 20% planning on buying ... read more ...
Fri 30th August 2013
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ICANN Declares Initial Evaluation Of New gTLD’s Over But There Are 29 To Go Including .Search & .ABC - In a press release this afternoon ICANN proudly announced that the “Initial Evaluation (IE) phase of the new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) program is concluded.” “This is an extraordinary landmark which demonstrates the progress in this program,” said Akram Atallah, President of ICANN’s Generic Domains Division. “We are looking forward to the innovations that these new introductions will enable on the Internet.” “Out of the 1,930 new gTLD applications submitted, a total of 1,745 ... read more ...
 
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101 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE; 8 Go To Extended Evaluation; Passing .Sex; .Islam; .Stockholm; .Ford; .Volvo - 101 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation today. 8 applications are heading for extended evaluation. Like last week one of the applicants who filed Legal Rights Objections to all other applicants own application got flagged for extended evaluation this time Defender Security Company  application for .home. Another application heading to extended evaluation is the Lance Armstrong Foundations application for .livestrong The 8 new gTLD applications which were classified as eligible ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Signs Contracts With ICANN on 12 new gTLD’s - Donuts has signed 12 new gTLD  registry contracts with ICANN.   BIKE .CAMERA .CLOTHING .EQUIPMENT .ESTATE .GURU .HOLDINGS .LIGHTING .SINGLES .VENTURES .VOYAGE (.ENTERPRISE, in Simplified Chinese script)   According to a press release; all of Donuts new gTLD applications  have passed ICANN Initial Evolution. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Thu 29th August 2013
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The NewYorker Mag Covers New gTLDs: “The Great Internet Land Grab” & Calls Mr. Schilling A Squatter - The New Yorker Magazine  just did a cover story on the new gTLD program entitled “The Great  Internet Land Grab” “Suddenly reorganizing the way we navigate the web with new strings like .guru, .club, or .google might seem frivolous or strange, but entities like ICANN and its stakeholders insist that they will make the Web more intuitive and user-friendly; an address like AdoptA.dog is slightly more logical than PetAdoptions.com, which is currently occupied by a squatter” For the record ... read more ...
Wed 28th August 2013
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ANA: ICANN is Falling Short of the Mission to Protect Internet Security and Stability - The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) has just weighted in on the Name Collision issue in a in a letter sent to ICANN. The title of the letter is “ICANN is Falling Short of its Mission to Protect Internet Security and Stability” It should be noted that the ANA has not been the greatest fan of the new gTLD program in general. “The Interisle Consulting Group clearly stated in the “Name Collision in the DNS Report” (the “Study”) that nearly all proposed new gTLDs carry some risk ... read more ...
 
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As Comment Period On New gTLD Name Collisions Come To An End, Comments Flood Into ICANN - As the comment period for the Name Collision report comes to an end there were plenty of comments submitted by applicants and others. May of the comments simply endorsed the letter of NTAG to ICANN submitted during the comment period, while others siply asked for the comment period to be extended Here are some of the more interesting submitted comments: The Afnic/CORE consortium, the registry service provider for the .paris TLD. submitted this comment on behalf of the City of Paris, applicant for ... read more ...
Tue 27th August 2013
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ICANN Approves $200 Million Dollar Budget For 2014; 306 Employees & Still No Revenue From New gTLD Auctions - ICANN just approved  its 2014 budget which is coming in at over $200,000,000 in revenue. The budget anticipates ICANN staff growing to over 300 people but the real kicker, in our opinion is that ICANN still has virtually no revenue allocated coming in from the “Last Resort” New gTLD auctions. We have noted in past years that ICANN has not allocated any revenue coming in for auction of new gTLD strings where there is more than one applicant although the Guidebook that ICANN have produced, call ... read more ...
Mon 26th August 2013
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ICANN Corrects Friday’s New gTLD Initial Evaluation Posting: Taipei Is Eligible for Extended Evaluation - On Friday in releasing its Initial Evaluation results ICANN mistakenly showed that the new gTLD application for the Geographic area of  .Taipei failed IE and was not eligible for Extended Evaluation. However today ICANN has correct what was an error on their part and is showing the application for the new gTLD application  .Taipei is in fact eligible for extended evaluation. The application for .Taipei was submitted by the  Taipei City Government. ICANN website has now updated the information ... read more ...
Fri 23rd August 2013
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UPDATED 85 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE, 8 Go To Extended Evaluation; Passing .Rio; .NetFlix; .Ping; .Lamborghini .Tiffany - 85 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation today. In a record setting week where 7 applications were send to extended evaluation and one geographic new gTLD failed the application process and is not eligible for extended evaluation. The 7 New gTLD applications that are heading for extended evaluation are: <![CDATA[]]>UPDATE:  On Friday ICANN’s site incorrect listed  .TAIPEI which was applied for by the Taipei City Government as failed but in fact that was an error on ICANN’s ... read more ...
 
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Russian Registrar Regtime Ltd. Lose Two Legal Rights Objections To PIR’s .OPR & .Verisign’s .KOM - Regtime Ltd. and Legato Ltd of the Russian Federation  just lost two separate Legal Rights Objections at WIPO on the new gTLD strings .OPR and .KOM In The .OPR case the company objected to the Public Interest Registry (PIR) application of .OPR. PIR operates the .Org registry. The second objection was to Verisign’s new gTLD application for .Kom which is the more interesting decision in my opinion. Regtime has functioned as an ICANN-accredited registrar since 2007. Regtime was the original owner ... read more ...
 
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Vipspace Enterprises LLC Withdraws Application For new gTLD .VIP: Now 118 Withdrawn New gTLD Apps - Vipspace Enterprises LLC of Munich Germany has become the latest company to withdraw its application for the new gTLD .VIP. The application had a prioritization number of 1,804 meaning that after next week’s Initial Evaluation release by ICANN the maximum refund would have only been 35% but now the applicant gets a 70% refund. Vipspace becomes the 1st applicant for the .VIP new gTLD to withdraw their application. There are still 5 more applicants for .VIP including Google, Donuts and Top Level ... read more ...
Thu 22nd August 2013
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Napa Wine Association Letter to ICANN Makes It Clear They Should Have Applied For .Napa/.Wine Instead Of Just Whining - After reading the letter sent by Bruce Cakebread telling ICANN  how the 500 members of the Napa Valley Vintners need protection from the new proposed gTLD’s of .Wine and .Vin,   I walked away thinking that the wine producers of Napa simply missed their chance to apply for .Napa and/or .Wine and now just want to whine about it. In his letter representing the association Mr. Cakebread told ICANN in part: If the applications for .wine and .vin are allowed to move forward, our 5o0 winery members ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Denies Booking.com Request To Reconsider String Similarity Panel Ruling; Bad News On Cam Vs Com? - In turning down Booking.com request for reconsideration the ICANN Board appears to also have bad news for those that think the Board will step into settle the .Com Vs .Cam split decisions. As for Booking.com ton July 7th 2013, they submitted a  the ICANN Board to reconsider the ICANN staff action of 26 February 26th 2013, when the String Similarity Panel placed the applications for .hotels and .hoteis into a string similarity contention set. The Board in denying the reconsideration request of Booking.com ... read more ...
Tue 20th August 2013
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ICANN Screwed Up By Not Requiring Joining All Objections By One Objector Against a Same String Into 1 Proceeding - Last nights news that a International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) panelist ruled (pdf) that .cam and .com are too confusingly similar to coexist after two different panels ruled days earlier that the strings  were not similar confusing, shouldn’t be a huge surprise to anyone in the domain space. After all anyone that follows UDRP’s on a regular basis knows there is little consistency  between “close” UDRP cases, those not involving slam dunks like a parked domains like Faceboook.com We ... read more ...
Mon 19th August 2013
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According To Alexa There Is No Traffic Leakage From Beat.La To BeatLa.com - For those that think that branding a site on any non-.com is going to automatically lead to traffic bleed over to the matching .com I present the case of Beat.La. The domain name was purchased just a couple of weeks ago by the Phoenix Suns on Sedo for $5,300 The purchase of the domain and subsequent launched received a lot of publicity from the mainstream media and sports from  the LaTimes.com to  the Bleacherreport.com. According to Alexa the domain name Beat.La has an Worldwide rank of  1,463,068  ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Back Academy Sports Legal Rights Objection To new gTLD .Academy - Academy, LTD., d/b/a Academy Sports + Outdoors lost is Legal Rights Objection filed against Half Oaks, LLC (a Donuts compny) application for the new gTLD .Academy finding that “the common generic use of the term “academy”, as well as the lack of clear evidence showing widespread public recognition of the Objector’s ACADEMY marks, standing alone, weigh heavily in the Applicant’s favor. In this case, the Panel finds that such considerations must result in rejection of the Objector’s Objection.” The ... read more ...
 
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Biotechnology Industry Organization Loses WIPO Legal Rights Objection On New gTLD .Bio - Biotechnology Industry Organization of Washington, lost its Legal Rights Objection filed against Starting Dot applied for new gTLD .bio. Here are the relevance findings by the one member WIPO panel: A fundamental issue in this proceeding is the appropriate recognition of the word “bio” by different sectors of the public, founded on differences in the basic meaning of the word, and on differences in uses in different parts of the world. From the Objector’s perspective, the word “bio” has ... read more ...
 
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Blue Cross Loses Legal Rights Objection To Block a New gTLD .Blue - Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association just lost a Legal Rights Objection to Afilias Limited new gTLD application for .Blue Here are the relevant findings by the three member WIPO panel: “”The Applicant has not denied that it was aware of the Objector when it lodged the Application. However, on the evidence which has been produced, the Panel has no reason to doubt the Applicant’s assertion that it applied for the .blue gTLD for the purpose of establishing a new registry which would provide ... read more ...
Sun 18th August 2013
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So Now What Will Google Do With Its New gTLD Application For .Search - Of the over new gTLD 1,900 applications received by ICANN, Google’s application for .Search has gotten arguably the most attention of the mainstream media (neck and neck with Amazon’s .Amazon TLD) Google originally filed its  application for .Search to operate on a closed basis, meaning that the registry generally would not be open to registrations by third parties, but amended its application back in April of this year to operate it as a open string using Dotless Domains, just days after the ... read more ...
Sat 17th August 2013
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NY Times Covers New gTLD’s: “Like Derivatives on Wall Street, They Have No Value” - The New Tork Times just covered the coming new gTLD’s and quotes a number of sources which give some juicy quotes like the one in the title which came from  Esther Dyson Some of the new gTLD’s getting a mention in the article were: .bible, .blog, .family, .game, .gay and .pizza. The article quotes  Akram Atallah, from  ICANN who says: “With .com and .net, if you wanted a nice name, it’s all taken,” “The idea of new gTLD’s is to provide real-estate availability in the market.” “The ... read more ...