Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Tue 6th August 2013
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Verisign Publishes “New gTLD Security, Stability, Resiliency Update: Exploratory Consumer Impact Analysis” - Consider what might happen if overnight, some networked systems inside a healthcare provider in Japan began to suffer undiagnosed system failures. Would it be a concern if some installations of banking software in the islands of the Caribbean became non-responsive?  Perhaps pause would be warranted when embarking on a visit to a developing nation, and discovering that the hotels in the region have suffered outages of their reservation systems. What if a rash of major enterprises around the world ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s Name Collision Study Could Derail 20% Of All Applied For New gTLD Strings - ICANN released the Name Collision Study it commission, which suggests the the applications for the new gTLD’s .Corp and .Home be indefinitely delayed  and that 20% of all new gTLD applied for strings be delayed for at least 3-6 months as additional studies are conducted. “ICANN commissioned and today releases the results of a study that considers the likelihood and impact of name space collisions between applied-for new gTLD strings and non-delegated TLDs. ICANN contracted with Interisle ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Appoints Jeff DeCillia Chief Financial Officer -   Donuts Inc., the largest applicant for ICANN’s new gTLD program announced that Jeff deCillia has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. deCillia, who brings more than 20 years of financial leadership and public markets experience, will be based in the company’s Bellevue, Wash. office and will report directly to Donuts CEO and co-founder Paul Stahura. Kevin Wilson, the company’s founding CFO and a longtime domain name industry executive, was heavily involved in the selection ... read more ...
 
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Washington Post on New gTLD’s: Com Was The Training Wheels For The Internet: Move aside .com - In a three page Article the Washington Post on the day it was purchased, chats about domain names and the new gTLD’s asking whether .com’s go by the way of horse and buggy, well actually “the party line” (which many of the readers never heard of) “It’s funny, thinking about dot-com,” says Ben Zimmer. Zimmer is a linguist — he’s the executive producer of vocabulary.com — and he thinks a lot about the context and meaning of words. “Even though it still gets used, it’s most often ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Publishes Dotless Domain Name Security and Stability Study Report & Recommends More Studies - ICANN released the  Dotless Domain Name Security and Stability Study Report (pdf) tonight which was prepared by Carve Systems. Dotless Domains are a big topic of conversation ever since Google announced it wanted to operate the new gTLD .search as a “Dotless Domain” The bottom line of the report is that technically Dotless domains are possible, but there are some issues which require additional study.  As for User confusion “it seems inappropriate to simply dismiss the option to foster awareness ... read more ...
Mon 5th August 2013
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First .Now Legal Rights Objection Rejected By WIPO - Another day another losing Legal Rights Objection (LRO) but the first case to be decided on the new gTLD .Now The Objector/Complainant Starbucks (HK) Limited of Hong Kong, China, lost the first of five objections it filed against all other applicants for .Now This case involved the applicant One.com A/S of Copenhagen, Denmark “In the Panel’s view “existing legal rights” means rights that exist at the time that the application for the gTLD under objection is filed. In this case that means ... read more ...
Sat 3rd August 2013
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Boston Globe Is Sold Including Boston.com & New gTLD .Boston For 70 Million To Owner of Red Sox - Boston Red Sox principal owner John Henry is going to buy  The Boston Globe.  The Boston Globe also owns and operates Boston.com and is the sole applicant for the new gTLD .Boston for $70 million in cash. The seller is the Times Co. which operates the New York Times. The Times Co. is taking a huge beating on the transaction as it purchased the Globe for $1.1 billion it paid for the paper in 1993. The Company as I mentioned is also the owner (although not being reported in the mainstream press) ... read more ...
Fri 2nd August 2013
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92 New gTLD’s Pass IE: .Quebec; .Honda; ,Android; .Staples; .Gap; .AARP; .Porn - 92 more new gTLD’s passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today. Highlighting the results today are the Geographic applications for .Quebec; and  .Scot Leading .Brands applications passing today were the applications for .Android; .Honda; .Staples; .Gap; .AARP; .GMO; and .Ram Some generic string passing today included .Organic; .BlackFriday; and .Porn With today’s results ICANN has gone through all applications with a prioritization number of 1,500 with 1,384 getting a disposition.   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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WIPO Panel Rejects Legal Rights Objection To Google’s .Tube Application - Latin American Telecom, LLC of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, represented by ESQwirecom has become the latest Objector to lose a Legal rights Objection. Latin American Telecom objected to Google’s application for .Tube C. The Merits With respect to the applicable standards, Article 20(a) of the Procedure gives the Panel initial guidance: “(a) For each category of Objection identified in Article 2(e) [which includes the ‘Existing Legal Rights Objection’], the Panel shall apply the standards that ... read more ...
Thu 1st August 2013
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Merck & Co Legal Rights Objections Dismissed By WIPO - In two more WIPO decision out today Merck Co., Inc. objection to the applications of Merck KGaA to .Merck and .eMerck were thrown out. Those filing Legal Rights Objections have now lost all 27 decisions that have been issued by WIPO However these case varied from many of the previous cases which dealt with front running trademark application. In these case the objector is the global drug company Merck one of the largest drug companies in the world. Here is the relevant parts of the decision: Objector ... read more ...
Wed 31st July 2013
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Constantinos Roussos Of DotMusic Limited: “The Entire WIPO LRO Process Was Set-up To Fail By ICANN” - Constantinos Roussos Of  DotMusic Limited has responded to our post about the 1st WIPO decision denying the Legal Rights Objections filed against an applicant for  .Music It should be noted as of time of publication of the 25 objections filed with WIPO all 25 have been denied. 0-25 Here is Mr. Roussos statement: “”We are certainly very disappointed with this decision. ” “There are some serious inaccuracies in the decision which we obviously have issues with. For example the Panelist claims: “The ... read more ...
 
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WIPO Rejects Objection Of DotMusic Limited/Constantinos Roussos To Googles App For .Music - A WIPO panel has rejected the Legal Rights Objection filed  by DotMusic Limited/Constantinos Roussos against Google’s application for the new gTLD .Music This was the first decision handed down on objections to the .Music gTLD for which DotMusic  filed objections to all other 7 applicants. DotMusic Limited Legal Rights Objections to the applications of  .tunes and .song has already been rejected but in both opinion the WIPO panel made it clear that they those decisions were not necessarily applicable ... read more ...
 
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Where Will Registrants For New gTLD’s Come From? - Last week Andrew from DomainNameWire asked in a blog post “Whats The Market Size For A Top Level Domain”.  The post basically asked where are the new gTLD’s going to get their registrants from, so I thought I would join the conversation. Here is where I see registrations for new gTLD’s coming from: Domainers  Yes I know existing domainers think all new gTLD’s are crap and will all wind up like  .mobi domains from an investment standpoint and that .com is king and always will be. Having ... read more ...
Tue 30th July 2013
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Donuts Commits 68 New gTLD’s To Private Auction - According to a press release we just received Donuts, has committed 68 of its applied for new gTLD’s to a private auction that will be held  on August 13th. Of course for any auction to take place all applicants for that particular string will have to agree to holding the private auction on the same terms and conditions as Donuts has. It should be noted that for the previous private auction held by Applicant Auction Donuts committed 63 of its applied for new gTLD  strings to the auction that ... read more ...
 
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Three More Legal Rights Objections Thrown Out By WIPO: .Food, .Cam, .Vip - Its looking like filing an Legal Rights Objection with WIPO was a huge waste of time and money as three more decisions are out today all in favor of the new gTLD applicants. Objectors are now 0-23 and if you were hitting like that they would send you back to the minor league. In today decisions AC Webconnecting Holding B.V. objection to Dot Agency Limited application for .Cam was given the swift boot as was Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. who objected to Dot Food, LLC application for .Food. Finally ... read more ...
 
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Name.com Enters The new gTLD Watch Game With TheNewDots.com - Name.com just sent out an email letting all their customers know that they have entered the new gTLD watch game using the domain name TheNewDots.com “In the next few months, a whole bunch of new domain extensions, or new TLDs, will be released. Along with existing TLDs like .COM and .NET, you’ll have new TLDs like .NINJA, .APP, .SHOP, and hundreds more. We like to call ‘em The New Dots. OK, we can see your eyes glazing over already. Here’s what’s important: Thanks to The New Dots, there ... read more ...
Mon 29th July 2013
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L’Oréal Drops 8th New gTLD Application - L’Oréal has withdrawn its 8th new gTLD application for the closed brand application for .Matrix L’Oréal applied for 14 new gTLD’s. one IDN 8 brand applications and five generic’s to be operated on a closed basis .Hair; .Beauty; .Skin; Salon and .Makeup The only .Brand application not still not withdrawn with ICANN by L’Oréal is for .Lancome The application for .Matrix has a prioritization number of 1,498 This marks the 105th new gTLD application to be withdrawn from ICANN.     Google+Michael ... read more ...
Fri 26th July 2013
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104 New gTLD’s Pass ICANN IE: .Sydney; .Wow; .Gmail; .Catholic; Volkswagen; .Walmart; .MIT; .Comcast; .Realtor - 104 new gTLD’s passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today. The highlights for this week include the one of the most beautiful cities in the world .Sydney and some applications filed by Google’s Charleston Road Registry Inc which had been passed over in some previous weeks IE results including .Gmail; .Wow; .FYI; .Shop; .Fun .Fly and .RSVP Other interesting new gTLD applications passing this week were the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for .MIT; Amazon’s application for .Search; Some ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Follows Uniregistry & Withdraws Two gTLD Applications .Media & .Marketing Leaving Donuts The Only Applicant - Three more new gTLD applications were withdrawn with ICANN today and two are very interesting. Tucows, Inc. withdrew two of  its new gTLD applications one for .Media, just one week after another applicant Uniregistry dropped their application for .Media. and .Marketing just a little over a month after Uniregistry dropped their application for .Marketing. Tucows application for .Media had prioritization number of 407 and .Marketing had a prioritization number of 793 and both had passed ICANN Initial ... read more ...
Thu 25th July 2013
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4 More Legal Rights Objections Denied At WIPO: 17 Objections, 17 Thrown out: .Song; .YellowPages; .Cam - Earlier today we wrote about two Legal Right Objections (LRO) that were denied at WIPO one for .GMBH and the 5th objection filed be Defender against an applicant for .Home Since then three more decisions came out all against the objectors on the strings .Song; .YellowPages and .Cam The objection to .Song was brought by DotMusic Limited of Lemesos, Cyprus, which is owned by Mr. Constantine Roussous who is an applicant for .Music. Like DotMusic Limited’s objection to Amazon’s application for .Tunes, ... read more ...
 
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WIPO Rejects 13th & 14th Legal Rights Objections To New gTLD’s on .GMBH & Another The 5th On .Home - WIPO today released two more Legal Rights Objections (LRO) decisions today and for the 13th and 14th time ruled against the Objector. Objectors are now 0-14 at WIPO on Legal Rights Objections A WIPO panel ruled against Defender Security Company for the new gTLD .home for the 5th time.  Defender filed 9 LRO to the other applicants for .Home. In the other WIPO decision today  TLDDOT GmbH, Germany, lost its objection to .GMBH filed against: The objector who is also an applicant for the new gTLD .Home, ... read more ...
 
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Afternic To Provide New gTLD .Kiwi Reserve Lists Of Premium Domains - Afternic, today announced a strategic partnership with Dot Kiwi Ltd, the applicant for the new Top Level Domain (TLD) .KIWI.  Afternic has been selected by Dot Kiwi to  to create reserve lists for their new TLD and “provide definition and valuation services for .KIWI premium domains, expected to launch in late 2013″. The .KIWI registry will offer New Zealand businesses greater branding creativity and the opportunity to differentiate themselves from competitors through the .KIWI TLD. It will ... read more ...
Mon 22nd July 2013
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Juan Calle On Plans For Future Growth Of The .Co Registry: “We’re Doubling Down on Our Target Market” - Juan Diego Calle the CEO of the company that operates the .CO registry, just  published a post on the .Co blog in part laying out plans for future growth of the .CO registry and of its parent company Straat as it moves into the new gTLD program. Here is a portion of the post: We’re Doubling Down on Our Target Market. First, we’re putting more emphasis than ever on our target market of innovators, entrepreneurs and startups. In the past we had taken more of a shot-gun approach to generating awareness ... read more ...
Fri 19th July 2013
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.Christmas Comes Early As 89 New gTLD Pass IE: .Madrid; .Nokia; .Audi; .Xfinity; .Faith; .Brother; .Dupont; .WTF - Christmas came early for Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry whose new gTLD application for .Christmas was one of the 89 to pass ICANN’s Initial Evaluation (IE) today Other application passing IE of note today were: The Gergraphic application by the city of Madrid for .Madrid The Brand applications for .Nokia by the cell phone maker; .Xfinity submitted by Comcast; .Dupont by the global conglomerate of the same name; .Brother filed by the company best known for their printers and .Datsun filed by Nissan ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Withdraws Two More New gTLD Applications: .Media & .Country - Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry withdrew applications for two new gTLD’s today reflected on ICANN’s site. The application were for .Media and .Country Both of these application were due to have Initial Evaluation by ICANN released tomorrow as they had prioritization numbers 1,242 and 1,232 respectively so by withdrawing tonight Uniregistry picks up a 70% refund instead of the 35% it would have been entitled to after tomorrow. The withdrawal of Uniregistry application for .Country is an outgrowth ... read more ...