Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Thu 21st February 2013
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ICANN: Over 22% Of Changes Requests From New gTLD Applicants Not Approved Or Posted Yet - According to ICANN’s site, 143 new gTLD application which changes were requested by the evaluators still have either not been update or the changes have not been accepted by ICANN As of February 19, 2013 there were a total of 631 change requests submitted to applicants and only 488 of the change requests have been approved posted. Percentage wise that means that of all the  change requests submitted to applicants over 22% have still not been either submitted back to ICANN and/or not approved ... read more ...
Wed 20th February 2013
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ICANN Tells POLITICO On Closed Generic gTLD’s: “The Train is Leaving a Station” - Politico has posted about the new gTLD closed generic controversy asking “should a company be allowed to run a generic term such as tire, insurance or book as a domain and wall off its use from competitors?” In response, Akram Atallah, ICANN’s chief operating officer, told POLITICO “The train is leaving the station,” “There are a few instances where stakeholders are feeling this is an issue that could limit competition, and therefore, we should bring it to the forefront.”Philip ... read more ...
Tue 19th February 2013
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Demand Media Considering A Separate Co. For Registrar, Registry & Aftermarket - Demand Media(DMD) today announced that its board of directors has authorized a plan to explore separating its business into two independent, publicly-traded companies: A pure-play media company with a powerful outsourced content creation platform that organically grows its audience, leading web properties that reach over 100 million monthly unique visitors, and an integrated monetization platform that incorporates branded, network and mobile revenue streams; and A pure-play domain services company ... read more ...
 
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GM Withdraws Two More new gTLD Applications: .Cadillac & .Chevrolet - After withdrawing its application for .GMC, General Motors has withdrawn 2 more of its new gTLD applications with ICANN. GM has withdrawn its applications for .Cadillac .Chevrolet which become the 16th and 17th new gTLD application to be withdrawn. Officially General Motors still has a two new gTLD application remaining for .Buick and .Chevy but that seems like only a matter of time until those applications are withdrawn as well and reflected on ICANN.org. In all GM spent close to $1 Million dollars ... read more ...
Sat 16th February 2013
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.GMC Becomes 15th New gTLD Application To Be Withdrawn: General Motors - Add General Motors to the list of companies that have withdrawn their application for a New gTLD with ICANN as .GMC has becomes the 15th withdrawn New gTLD application. The application which had a priority number of 1911 which means General Motors didn’t bother to spend the $100 to pull a ticket in the prioritization draw. General Motors known throughout the world as GM planned on operating the .GMC extension on a closed basis, not allowing members of the public to register a .GMC domain. Although ... read more ...
Thu 14th February 2013
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Forbes Calls New gTLD’s “Rich New Territories For Cybersquatters” & Why Forbes IS Wrong - Forbes just published a story entitled “Cybersquatters Get Rich New Territories With Generic Domains” The Forbes Article of course chats about Donuts which Forbes says  “raised $100 million to take control of as many generic top-level domains as it could.” The story goes on to quote Jeffrey Stoler,  a partner with Holland Knight, who complained that Donuts appeared to have close ties with Demand Media, a domain registry operator with a long history of complaints about cybersquatting, “typosquatting” ... read more ...
Sun 10th February 2013
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.TheHartford Becomes The 14th WIthdrawn New gTLD Application - .TheHartford has become the 14th new gTLD application to be withdrawn by the applicant according to ICANN’s Site. The applicant for the new gTLD was the Hartford Fire Insurance Company who planned to operate the registry on a closed basis to “enhance The Hartford’s web presence by emphasizing The Hartford’s brand, products and services”. Here is how the insurance company described the purpose of the new gTLD: ‘.The Hartford will be used to “provide Hartford-licensed, appointed and⁄or ... read more ...
Wed 6th February 2013
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ICANN Opens Comment Period On Closed Generic New gTLD’s - Well ICANN is addressing what has become the hottest topic of the new gTLD program by just opened the comment period on the subject of “closed generic” gTLD applications and whether specific requirements should be adopted corresponding to this type of application. Stakeholder views are invited to help define and consider this issue. In particular, comments would be helpful in regard to proposed objective criteria for: Classifying certain applications as “closed generic” TLDs, i.e., how to ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft Is Latest to Come Out Against Closed Generic New gTLD’s In Letter To ICANN - ICANN just published a letter it received from Microsoft.com which is objecting to closed generic strings. Here is the letter sent from  the Assistant General Counsel , Trademarks Microsoft Corporation, Russell Pangborn: “”Re: Closed Generic Top-Level Domains (TLDs) Dear Dr. Crocker and Messrs. Chehadé and Chalaby: We are writing to express our concern, similar to concerns expressed by Australia and Germany in their respective Early Warnings, regarding private, exclusive ownership of closed ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Opens Up The Comment Period on The New gTLD Registry Agreement - ICANN has just opened up the comment period on The New gTLD Registry Agreement. “The New gTLD Registry Agreement is the contractual document between successful New gTLD Applicants and ICANN, and will govern the rights and obligations of new gTLD registry operators”. “ICANN proposes to revise the New gTLD Registry Agreement in connection with developments since the last posting of the Applicant Guidebook in June 2012 and a general review of the contractual needs of the new gTLD program. Among ... read more ...
Tue 5th February 2013
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NewgTLDSite.com Starts Petition Asking ICANN To Stop Closed Generic New gTLD’s From Being Awarded - Tom Gilles of NewgTLDSite.com just started an online petition to be sent to ICANN to stop closed generic strings from being awarded and is hoping to get 100,000 signatures. The petition is on change.org. Here is how the letter that Mr. Gilles wants to send to ICANN reads: I do so for the following reasons:1.  Closed generic word registries defeat the mission and purpose of ICANN, The New gTLD Program and are not consistent with the Affirmation of Committments with the U.S. Dept of Commerce. 2.  ... read more ...
 
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ICANN New gTLD Committee Not Sure How To Handle Closed Generic Applications - Its seems pretty clear that the New gTLD committee of ICANN doesn’t know what they should do about what is fast becoming one of the biggest issues of the new gTLD program, applications for closed generic strings. The issue generic strings like .App and .Music which were applied for by  companies like Amazon, which would not allow any third party registrations, but rather keep the entire generic string for their own use. The minutes of The Meeting of the New gTLD Program Committee of the ICANN ... read more ...
Mon 4th February 2013
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Now We Know Why Apple Didn’t Apply For .App As They Open AppStore.com For Vanity Domains - When the applicants  for new gTLD’s were announced by ICANN in what was called the “big reveal” one of the biggest surprises we noted was the absence of an Apple application for .App. Now it  seems we know why Apple passed on applying for the new gTLD .App, the are going to let developers use Vanity Domains off of its AppStore.com According to Cnet.com and Techcrunch.com, Apple’s plan was revealed in a Super Bowl for the new Star Trek: “”At the end of the commercial for the upcoming ... read more ...
Fri 1st February 2013
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Fairwinds Chat About What Brands Are Going To Do With Their gTLD’s - There has been a lot of speculation in the domain channel on what exactly big brands are going to do with their new gTLD’s. While many think that brands just applied for their TLD’s as defensive registrations or to point to their .com, according to Phil Lodico, managing partner for FairWinds Partners which handled more than 100 .Brand new gTLD’scompanies such as Calvin Klein, Nike, Staples, Gap, and Walmart say big brands have big plans for their new gTLD’s The quotes first appeared in prweekus.com: “Client ... read more ...
Wed 30th January 2013
Tue 29th January 2013
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If You Get An Objection To Your String, You Have To Pay The Fees Upfront Too - If your are an applicant for a new gTLD and someone files a formal objection to your application, not only does the objector have to pay the fees, but the applicant for the new gTLD has to pay the fees as well. During a webinar held today entitled: New gTLD Objection Dispute Resolution” it was made clear that not only does the party filing an objection have to pay the fees, but since its a loser pays model, the new gTLD applicant has to pay the fees as well once the objection is filed. At some ... read more ...
 
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Enom New gTLD Program Joining Parallels - eNom, a top 5 ICANN accredited registrar, and Parallels, worldwide leader in hosting and cloud service enablement and desktop virtualization, today announced the inclusion of eNom’s new Top Level Domain (TLD) program in the latest version of Parallels Plesk Panel and in Parallels Domain Name Network (DNN). According to the press release out today, additionally, Chris Sheridan, vice president of business development for eNom, will conduct a session on the new TLDs program at Parallels Summit 2013, ... read more ...
Sun 27th January 2013
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Kevin.Murphy Looks Like A New gTLD Brand - I was at an opening of a hair salon the other night and saw a bunch of new products that look to be branded like new gTLD’s. All of the products carried the name of Kevin.Murphy. Of course inside the domain world Kevin Murphy is the publisher of the blog over at Domainincite.com whom I immediately thought of when I saw that these products that were titled in a very new gTLD type of way Then I was  told there is another Kevin Murphy who has a hair product line over at KevinMurphy.com.au (although ... read more ...
Mon 21st January 2013
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SeekingAlpha: “Get Ready To Profit From The ‘Dot-Com Boom 2.0′” - SeekingAlpha.com a publication that goes out to stock investors.  In a post entitled “Get Ready To Profit From The ‘Dot-Com Boom 2.0″ The article starts out with the subtitle: “”Dot-com is so 1990s” “Starting March 23, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will increase the availability of Web addresses by assigning some 1,900 domain suffixes, the part of a website address that ends in .com, .org or .net. The project has been five years in the making, but ... read more ...
Sat 19th January 2013
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Top 50 Most Requested New gTLD’s Domain Names: The One With The Most Apps Is 49th - United Domains announced this week that it has pre-registered over 1,000,000 new gTLD’s domain names. Below are the top 50 new gTLD’s extensions and the number of pre-registrations for each new gTLD. As we always do we point out that there is no cost to pre-register a new gTLD, no obligation to actually register it even if you do pre-register it and pre-registering obviously doesn’t guarantee in anyway you will get the domain. Interestingly the new gTLD with the most number of applications ... read more ...
Wed 16th January 2013
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Alexander Schubert Of .Gay “The Only Good Domainer Is A Dead Domainer” -                   If you have attended any TRAFFIC conferences or Domainfest conferences you have probably have run into Alexander Schubert who was a self admitted domainer from 1997-2004. Alexander was one of the first who went to ICANN and asked for what has become the new gTLD program to be opened when he was petitioning for a .Berlin TLD. Fast forward a few years and Alexander is out of .Berlin, but heavily involved as one of the applicants for .Gay, DotGay LLC, which has a community ... read more ...
Tue 15th January 2013
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DotGreen Suggests How ICANN Should Use Funds From Contention Auctions - In a letter sent to ICANN by Annalisa Roger the Founder and CEO of DotGreen Community which has applied for  the .GREEN TLD, suggested that  ICANN use the proceeds of an auction of a contention string to go back to the “communities of users” for that particular string. As a backdrop, according to the ICANN Guidebook for new gTLD’s , if applicants for a particular TLD or one found by ICANN to be similarly confusing and placed by ICANN into a contention set, cannot resolve the dispute ... read more ...
Mon 14th January 2013
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Architelos Marks Successful 2nd Year, Hits $2 Million in Sales & Launches NameSentry™ - “Architelos also expanded its footprint internationally by opening up a Canadian office in Toronto, which houses its software development efforts. “Our financial performance and revenue growth is significant, given the fact that the company is self-funded, carries no debt, and was still able to make substantial investments in software development” “In August of 2012, Architelos launched the patent-pending NameSentry domain abuse detection and mitigation service. Within two months, deals ... read more ...
Wed 9th January 2013
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Citing New gTLD’s Forbes Asks: Did MLB Overpay For Rockies.com? - Forbes.com just published an article asking “Did MLB Overpay By Spending $1.2 Million For Rockies.com?” “All it took was $1.2 million dollars for Major League Baseball (MLB) to purchase the domain name Rockies.com, a URL that was formerly owned by the Canadian tourism portal Tourism Canadian Rockies.  ” “The ownership of a professional sports franchise’s name as a URL is a very valuable commodity that is often squandered.  For instance, the Brooklyn Nets does not own the website Nets.com ... read more ...
Tue 8th January 2013
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Guest Post: Promoting The New Top Level Domains – No Time For Napping - This is a guest post by Jennie-Marie Larsen, Chief Executive Officer of DomainDiction.com Jennie-Marie has an extensive marketing, PR business development background in web-based products and services with years of experience launching new businesses through digital marketing and channel management. She entered the domain name industry 12 years ago as Head of Europe for NeuStar´s registry business and managed the commercial market introduction and development of their business for .BIZ, .US, and ... read more ...