Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Mon 1st July 2013
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DomainsBot Announces Release of TLD Relevancy Suggestion Engine -

Early adapters of a Engine seem to be Tucows and Enom and Melbourne IT. which were enclosed in a press release

The DomainsBot TLD Recommendation Engine is giveaway to registrars and resellers that now use a DomainsBot Name Suggestion API.

To representation a demo chronicle of a TLD Recommendation Engine, greatfully visit:

Via: thedomains.com

 
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DONUTS EXPANDS SALES AND MARKETING TEAM, OPENS NEW OFFICE AHEAD OF NEW gTLD LAUNCH - Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), has completed a round of hiring that further strengthens its sector-leading team of domain and Internet industry experts. Donuts also announced the opening of its new office in Calabasas, Calif., where sales and marketing efforts are based. In anticipation of new gTLDs becoming available later this year, Donuts has staffed an international team to build channel relationships and prepare for the next phases of the new gTLD program. ... read more ...
Sun 30th June 2013
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After 9 NameJet Auctions We Know The Value Of A Prime Generic .PW Is About $200 - This week namejet.com auctioned off several prime generic .PW domain names thereby setting the value of these types of .PW domains. Some of the domains that sold this week had some of the best prime generic terms like search.pw, internet.pw, blogs.pw and money.pw and creditcards.pw . As new gTLD’s rollout each registry is going to have to consider if they are going to throw much of their “premium” inventory into liquidation type auctions or keep them reserved for higher priced sales to end ... read more ...
Fri 28th June 2013
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90 New gTLD Pass IE: .Apple; .Baidu; .AOL; .CBS; .Republican; .Navy; .CPA - 90 new gTLD’s passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today with 2 applications heading for the dreaded extended evaluation. The 2 applications heading for extended evaluation was the application by Commercial Connect LLC for .Shop and SuperSport International Holdings Limited application for .Supersport Some of the more interesting applications pass IE today were Apple Computers brand application for .Apple, AOL application for .Aol; CBS application for .CBS; Viking River Cruises brand application ... read more ...
 
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Two More gTLD Applications Are Withdrawn; .Movie By Straat & .BWAY - Two more new gTLD application were withdrawn and reflected on the ICANN site tonight. Straat which applied for 13 new gTLD’s withdrew their second application tonight this time for the new gTLD .Movie. There were originally 8 applications filed for .movie and with Radix previous withdrawal of their application for .movie there are now 6 applicant left including Amazon’s application to operate the gTLD as a closed extension which was put on hold tonight by the New gTLD Committee of ICANN. Straat’s ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: New gTLD Program Committee Votes Not To Change Policy on Singulars/Plurals - The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC)  voted tonight to not change the policy on new gTLD applications concerning singular and plural terms. The GAC advised ICANN that it should place singular and plural new gTLD strings into the same contention set. For example there were applications for .Car/.Cars: .Auto/.Autos, .Hotel/.Hotels; .Coupon/.Coupons; .Deal/.Deals; .Game/.Games; .Gift/.Gifts; .Kid/.Kids top name a few. Here is the resolution passed by the NGPC tonight on the issue: “”Whereas, ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: New gTLD Program Committee Puts Closed Generics On Hold - The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC)  has put “Closed Generic” new gTLD applications on Hold by passing a  resolution tonight. Of course by placing closed generic new gTLD applications on hold, those with competing applications for the same strings , even those wanting to operate those strings as open are going to be put on hold as well. After the ICANN Beijing meeting, the GAC issued lengthily advice to ICANN, including telling ICANN it had an major issue with closed generics ... read more ...
Thu 27th June 2013
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Sen. Rockefeller To ICANN: Follow GAC Advice & Allow “Limited 1st Round” Of New gTLD’s - In a bombshell letter to the CEO of ICANN sent today by Senator Jay Rockefeller, head  of the Senate Commerce Committee he told  telling ICANN to “tread carefully” in opening up new gTLD’s follow GAC advice and consider a limited roll out of first round gTLD’s: “ICANN should fully consider and act upon the  GAC safeguard advice. “ICANN should consider a limited first round of new gTLD’s to allow for an effective one year review as required by ICANN’s Affirmation of Commitments ... read more ...
 
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Guest Post By Dan Warner: New gTLD Registries Cannot Own Their Domains! - This is a Guest Post by Dan Warner.  Dan in a domain industry veteran who has presented and spoken at many industry conferences. Dan is was part of the Exclusive team at Dark Blue Sea Ltd (Fabulous.com) for 8 years, which became the 14th largest in the world, had a domain sales platform (DDN) with penetration into 80% of the worlds registrars by volume; an affiliate marketing network ranked as 5th in the world; a dynamic web development engine which published over 1.2 million websites; and acquired ... read more ...
Wed 26th June 2013
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.BUZZ Goes With Afternic/NameJet - Afternic, the world’s largest premium domain marketplace, and NameJet, a leading domain name auction platform, announced today have been selected by dotStrategy to launch the .BUZZ top level domain (TLD), which has just passed ICANN Initial Evaluation Afternic has been tapped to define and value the .BUZZ reserve auction list, and to provide marketing and sales support for premium domain names. .BUZZ premium domains will be sold through the Afternic marketplace. NameJet will be the exclusive auction ... read more ...
 
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FAIL: DomainIndex.com Releases 8 Million Appraisals For New gTLD’s Domain Names - DomainIndex.com has released 8 Million Appraisals for new gTLD domain names those including trademarks and those with just generic terms and the results are pretty interesting. Mt first observation is that of the new gTLD domain names with the highest valuation, only 1 non-trademarked term has a value in the six figures, Car.Insurance (which may not even be available to be registered depending on which applicant wins the .insurance new gTLD) at $125,000 All other new gTLD domain names are apprised ... read more ...
Tue 25th June 2013
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Do We Have Our 1st New gTLD Application Trade? 4 More Applications Withdrawn - Do we have our first new gTLD application trade? Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) withdrew two applications tonight one for .Review which had a prioritization number of 492 and its application for .Science which had a prioritization number of 924, leaving Famous Four as the sole remaining applicant for each of those extensions. Famous Four withdrew its 1st new gTLD application for .Fit leaving Top Level Domain Holdings as the sole applicant. Was it a trade or just a coincidence? We have reached out ... read more ...
Fri 21st June 2013
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100 New gTLD Pass IE: Moscow, .Wales; .Lol; .NBA; .Target; .HSBC; .Ninja - ICANN released another set of  results from Initial Evaluations (IE) with 100 new gTLD applications passing and 1 getting the dreaded eligible for extended evaluation. Highlighting those applications passing today are: The Geo’s .Moscow, .Wales and .Istanbul. Generic’s include Google’s application for .mom; and .lol; Amazon’s controversial closed application for .Book and my personal favorite of all of Demand Media, inc. applications .Ninja Brand applications passing today include The National ... read more ...
 
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Boston.com; Globe.com .Boston May Soon Be For Sale As Boston Globe Is On The Market - According to post on Boston.com, the domain names/sites Boston.com, BostonGlobe.com and Globe.com may soon be available for sale. The domain names are owned by the Boston Globe newspaper which is for sale and has a June 27th deadline for submitting bids.  Today Robert Kraft the owner of the Patriots dropped out of the bidding. “Even without daily traffic Boston.com gets, the URL alone would almost certainly be valued in the six or seven figures for a patient seller. ” “With their current ... read more ...
Thu 20th June 2013
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Washington Post On New gTLD’s: Brings The Value of Any One Domain Down to Almost Nothing - A very interesting article in the WashingtonPost.com today basically proclaimed the death of the domain investor with a big assist from Sedo. The article cites the growing inventory of domain names from new gTLD;’s  saying the parking and type in traffic will be gone and value of any one domain ” down to almost nothing“. The article was chatting about the new gTLD’s and domain investing which they still refer to as cybersquatting  saying: “It wouldn’t have been too hard to buy up most ... read more ...
Tue 18th June 2013
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Radix Registry Announces Launch of Pre-Registration for .host Domains - According to press release, Radix Registry, operators of the upcoming .host TLD are pleased to announce the launch of pre-registration for .host domain names. .Host is the new TLD created specifically for the hosting industry, and one of three uncontested strings applied by Radix. Radix is the only applicant for the new gTLD .host  but there are three applicants for the new gTLD .Hosting. Once active, .host aims to be the preferred domain extension for web hosts, ASPs, ISVs, cloud service providers, ... read more ...
 
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Google Withdraws New gTLD Application For Contested Application .Goo - Google has withdrawn its first application since ICANN started releasing Initial Evaluations (IE) dropping its application for .Goo. Google’s  application  had a prioritization number of 1,814. There is another application for .Goo which was filed by NTT Resonant Inc.of Japan. NTT has filed a Legal Rights Objection against Google over its .Goo application which is now shown as withdrawn as well on WIPO’s site. Prior to IE Google withdrew three other new gTLD applications for .Are, .Est; .And. With ... read more ...
Mon 17th June 2013
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Demand Media Rolls Out Designs.com For New gTLD’s - According to a press release just out, Demand Media(R) (NYSE: DMD), announced the debut of Designs.com, the latest step in the company’s efforts to facilitate the launch of upcoming generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). “”Today’s move brings a robust platform to create complementary, high-quality web experiences to leading new TLD registries, which are already working to categorize the Internet with more than a thousand new domain extensions. “Designs.com expands the company’s suite of offerings ... read more ...
 
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KeySystems’ DomainDiscount24 Releases Top 15 New gTLD Pre-Orders -   DomainDiscount24 a registrar owned by KeySystems which is a sister company of SnapNames.com and Moniker has released its top 15 new gTLD pre-orders. The registrar is based in German which probably reflects some of the results and as we always point out there is no cost or obligation to place a pre-order or expression of interest. “Please find here the Top 15 of today’s most popular new domain extensions as measured by pre-orders received by us are:” .WEB .SHOP .BERLIN .HAMBURG .KOELN .SITE .STORE .HOTEL .BAYERN .SHOPPING .LOVE .ONE .ONLINE .CAR .FASHION Google+Michael ... read more ...
Sat 15th June 2013
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92 New gTLD Apps Pass ICANN: .Capetown; .Lexus; .Toyota; .Macys; .Calvinklein; .Fedex; .DHL; .Sohu - 92 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) on Friday while 4 went to the dreaded extended evaluation. Some of the bigger gTLD names passing this week was the Geo .Capetown and the .brand applications for the related car makers .Lexus and .Toyota; one of the largest department stores in the US .Macys; .both overnight delivery service, .Fedex and .Dhl; one of the world’s largest drug manufacture., Pfizer; one of the largest insurance company, .Prudential; the clothing giant .Calvinklein; ... read more ...
Fri 14th June 2013
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Fairwinds New Poll Shows Half Of Internet Users Are Willing To Try A New gTLD - According to a public opinion poll of 1,000 Internet users, commissioned in part by Fairwinds Partners, and conducted by InsightsNow! in April, “Internet users are willing to navigate to, use, and trust new gTLD web addresses and brand name websites will carry more weight with Internet users than generic sites. In a CircleId Post Fairwinds outlined the results of the online poll: 57% said they had no preference or would be willing to navigate to a new gTLD media website, while 43% said they would ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft & Yahoo Tells ICANN Not To Allow Google’s Dotless .Search App - 3. There is no evidence that Google’s original .SEARCH Application was in error. Indeed, Google makes no claim that it “erroneously” sought to operate .search as a closed registry or that it “erroneously” excluded the dotless domain functionality in its original .SEARCH Application. 4. Google’s requested amendment materially adversely affects numerous third parties – Internet users, search users, other search providers, the GAC, other gTLD applicants public and private enterprises, ... read more ...
Thu 13th June 2013
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STRAAT/.Co Registry Buys 16,000 Sq Ft Building In Miami For HQ - According to Florida Trend a popular business publication in the State of Florida, CO Internet’s parent company, STRAAT Investments, purchased a 16,000-sq.-ft. building in Miami’s Brickell area to house its growing headquarters which is named Building.Co It expects to move in by the end of this year and will devote part of the building to space for entrepreneurs. STRAAT also applied for 13 new gTLD applications, recently dropping one application for .Book to work with another one of the applicants. Congrats ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Loses 2 More Private Auctions As .Red Becomes 1st New gTLD To Be Withdrawn After IE - According to the ICANN website tonight Donuts has withdrawn two more applications as a result of the private auctions held last week Donuts withdrew both its new gTLD applications for .Red and .Luxury Donuts application for .Red was filed under Steel Keep, LLC had a prioritization number of 332 and had already passed ICANN Initial Evaluation, meaning that Donuts application for .Red is the first to be withdrawn after passing IE and is eligible for only a 35% refund of its application fee. Donuts ... read more ...
Sat 8th June 2013
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Donuts Loses 3rd Private Auction As Their Application For .College Is Withdrawn - It appears that Donuts has lost is 3rd private auction as their application for the new gTLD .College was withdrawn from ICANN site today. Yesterday we reported  that Donuts was one of the losing bidders for the new gTLD .Club which was won by .Club Domains, LLC. The day before we noted that another Donuts Application was withdrawn for .Vote which we figured at the time was the result of a private auction. Yesterday the one of the private auction providers, Innovative Auctions (Crampton) reported ... read more ...