Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Sat 5th January 2013
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Barron’s: “The Dot-Com Era Finally Comes to an End” - Barron’s, the weekly publication that has changed the fate of public companies and the direction of markets for over 50 years just covered the new gTLD’s in a story entitled: “The Dot-Com Era Finally Comes to an End” Like many accuse me of, the headline is more provocative than the story. Baron’s is not predicting that .Com will be replaced by the new gTLD’s but rather discusses the new gTLD program the opportunity it will brings to come company’s it mentions like Donuts and Top Level ... read more ...
Tue 1st January 2013
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Bloomberg Asks Online Experts What To Expect From New gTLD’s, ICANN IN 2013 - New gTLDs will either change the nature of the internet or will go the way of all other gTLDs introduced after .com (when was the last time you bought or went to a .biz domain name?). Or maybe a little of both depending on the gTLD. Either way, they are going to exponentially increase the cost of monitoring and enforcement for IP owners. Marc H. Trachtenberg, @winstonadvlaw, Partner, Winston Strawn LLP, Chicago. Expect around 1,200 new gTLDs to be approved for the internet in the next couple of ... read more ...
Sat 22nd December 2012
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New gTLD Applicant Group Blasts ICANN On “Slippage Of Timelines” In Program - New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) blasted ICANN on meeting its deadlines and time frames on various on the new gTLD program. The letter cites 6 major issues involving the new gTLD program and ICANN for extending previously announced deadlines: Release of Contention Sets Release of Background Screening Results Extension of Rights Protection Comment Window Extension of Objection Deadline Extension of Completion of Initial Evaluation Results Clarifying Questions and the number of TLD that ICANN will delegate ... read more ...
Fri 21st December 2012
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Pool Shutting Down Registrar Threads: Refocusing From Drop Catching To New gTLD’s - We just got this email from Pool.com this morning: “The impending launch of new gTLDs has led Pool.com to refocus its business away from an emphasis on the secondary market and to a broader range of on-going services. ” “As a result, we will be shutting down a number of our registrar threads effective January 10, 2013. ” “This will have an effect on some of your domains acquired through Pool.com (a list of names is included below)”. Pool.com of course has been one of the three major dropping ... read more ...
Wed 19th December 2012
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Top Level Domain Holdings: Pleased With ICANN Drawning & Announces Results - In a press release today, The Directors Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) the holding company of  Minds + Machines “are delighted to announce the results of ICANN’s Prioritization Draw that concluded Monday evening in Los Angeles.” The directors are pleased that three of TLDH’s five geographic applications were in the top third of the Prioritization Draw. Antony Van Couvering, CEO of TLDH commented: “ICANN’s evaluation process for the gTLD programme is now making rapid progress. As a ... read more ...
Tue 18th December 2012
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Google Leads Those Applicants Not Pulling Paid Tickets At 24: Here’s The Full List - After ICANN drew all the tickets that were purchased for the new gTLD prioritization draw last night, ICANN drew the rest of the applications, again those not purchasing the $100 draw ticket. ICANN previously stated that those not purchasing tickets would be placed at the end of the cue and ICANN did in fact place them after the last paid ticket 1,776 which was .financial. Interestingly out of the 142 applicants who spent $185,000 to file a new gTLD application but didn’t spend the $100 to acquire ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Contention Sets: Winners .Tickets & .Green Losers .Soccer & Everyone Else - I went through the new gTLD  contention sets, those new gTLD extensions applied for two or more parties, to figure out based on the draw which ones would be done with initial evaluation first and which ones will go later on in the process. Looks like the winner is .tickets which has the earliest draw number of 259 and the last number 528, next up seems to be .Green with the earliest draw number of 159 and the last draw number of 859. On the loser side of the equalization it looks like its .Soccer ... read more ...
 
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The Unofficial Results From The ICANN Priority Numbers Draw for New gTLD’s - After over 13 hours the final ticket of the 1,766 purchased was drawn in the ICANN Priority Numbers Draw for new gTLD’s and the unlucky winner was .finance. Here is the unofficial results of all the 1,766 tickets purchased as drawn by ICANN. The first 108 were IDN strings which we excluded: Priority #     String     Applicant Name 109    PLAY     Amazon EU S.à r.l. 110    dog     Top Level Domain Holdings Limited 111    DNP     Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. 112    delmonte ... read more ...
Mon 17th December 2012
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ICANN New gTLD Draw Through #150 Most Applied For Strings Get No Love - Through the 1st 150 non-IDN strings in the  ICANN Priority Numbers Drawsome of the most applied for new gTLD’s extensions didn’t have one pick. Unofficially I didn’t hear any applications announced for .home, .music, .Inc, .LLC .Shop and .book, . 6 of the  top 8 most applied for new gTLD;s and only one for .App. and .Blog. Others without any presence in the 1st 150 include what many consider to be the most valuable string, .web Brands seemed to do very well in the top 150, while we only spotted ... read more ...
 
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As Soon As The ICANN New gTLD Draw Starts, The Live Feed Goes Out - Almost on Cue as soon as the  ICANN Priority Numbers Draw for New gTLD Applications was starting the  live Audio/Video stream went out. When it was last working it looked like less than 300 people were tuned in. ICANN has already Tweeted that the draw will not start until the audio/video stream is fixed. Before it went off air, ICANN let the crowd know there were 1,766 tickets sold at $100 each with the proceeds all going to three charities; Kiva, Invenio, and WikiMedia Foundation The good news ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Draw Starts in 2 Hours: What Will We Know Today? - The ICANN Priority Numbers Drawn for New gTLD Applications starts today at 4PM EST, 1PST local time The question is what will we know by the end of today? The draw will be broadcast live but as of now there is no URL for the broadcast. You can check on ICANN site, where we expect to see the draw or be provided a link to it later on. The draw as far as we know at this point will be a draw of numbers which have been assigned to those who have purchased tickets. So watching the draw is likely to be ... read more ...
Fri 14th December 2012
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5 More New gTLD Apps Withdrawn: Including .Swiss, .GMBH,.HILTON - 5  more new gTLD applications have been formerly withdrawn, for a total of 13 withdrawn new gTLD applications Here are the 5 new gTLD application just posted as withdrawn on the ICANN website: .GMBH .Swiss .Hilton .Ansons .Skolkovo Here are more details about each withdrawn application .GMBH This application was submitted by GMBH Registry, LLC of Reston, Virginia and was submitted  by Josh Borne of Fairwinds Partners. The TLD mission was to: “bringing to market a trusted, hierarchical, and intuitive ... read more ...
 
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WellPoint’s New gTLD .CAREMORE Is The 8th Withdrawn Application - Wellpoint.com has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD, .Caremore becoming the 8th new gTLD application to be withdrawn. According to its application, “WellPoint is one of America’s leading health plan providers, the largest within the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, serving members across 14 states and with more commercial membership than any other US health benefits company. It has more than 33 million members in its affiliated health plans, and a total of more than 69 million ... read more ...
Mon 10th December 2012
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ICANN Ombudsman Issues Report Finding No Conflict Of Interest On .Africa By ICANN Board Members - The ICANN Ombudsman Chris LaHatte, issued a report today on a complaint by Sophia Bekele on behalf of DotAfrica, alleging a conflict of interest on 2 members of the ICANN Board, finding no conflict existed. “The essence of the complaint is a complaint about a conflict of interest with members of the ICANN board in considering issues about new gTLDs applications. This was first raised by DotConnectAfrica which sent 2 separate letters dated July 9, 2012 to report a matter of Conflict of Interest ... read more ...
Thu 6th December 2012
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Fairwinds Study: 74% Of Internet Users Are Entirely Unaware of New gTLD Program: 44% Says It Will Cause Confusion - Fairwinds Partners just published a white paper on the new gTLD’s entitled “2013: The Year of the Address Bar” including results from a survey of 2,008 Internet users between the ages of 13 and 64 about their awareness of and attitudes toward new gTLDs “2013 will be the year that Internet users wake up to the world of Internet addresses and start thinking more about what they put into their address bars.” “Starting next year, the top level of domain names, or the space to the right of ... read more ...
 
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.Glean Becomes 7th Officially Withdrawn New gTLD Application - ICANN has just posted a 7th withdrawn application on its website. The application for .Glean filed by Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc. of Knoxville Tn has been formally withdrawn and now reflected on ICANN’s website. The owner of Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc. appears to be Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc still has 12 active new gTLD applications including one’s for .food, .hgtv, home, .living, .travelchannel and .diy According to the application, the  .Glean ... read more ...
Wed 5th December 2012
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If Your In Contention For a New gTLD Your Draw Number Is Only As Good As The Worst Number Picked By A Competing Applicant - As the ICANN draw of December 17th is less than two weeks away, one issue that has been debated on Facebook is the importance of the draw for those new gTLD’s strings in contention. Today ICANN settled one issue giving IDN applications preference, but not giving preference to any other applicant including Geographic applicants which had lobbied ICANN for priority as well. So now with all issues settled all eyes turn towards the Draw where applicants are hopping to get a good number. Certainly for ... read more ...
Tue 4th December 2012
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Which Would You Rather Have, A Left of The Dot .Christmas Sub Domains Or A Right Of The Dot gTLD .Christmas Domain? - Yesterday Left of the Dot, the company that took over management of Christmas.com in October, rolled out free sub-domains called Christmas Family Pages. Christmas Family Pages “are free for families and allow for real-time sharing of photos, recipes, Christmas traditions, wish lists, and memories. “Every family who creates an account gets their own part of Christmas.com (e.g., SmithFamily.Christmas.com) which they can share by inviting the people they care about.” “The functionality of Christmas.com ... read more ...
 
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After Over 1 Million Submissions, Enom Releases The 5 Most Requested new gTLD Extensions & Categories - eNom, Inc., a top 5 ICANN accredited registrar, has been taking “expressions of interest” in new gTLD domain names from consumers since June. eNom has received over one million submissions worldwide. The top five new gTLD domain extensions people are most interested in are: There are 9 applicants for .Shop, 7 applicants for  .Web and .Hotel, 6 for .Tech while .Family only has 3 applicants, Google, Donuts and Frank Schillings Uniregstry. In addition to tracking registration interest for each ... read more ...
Sat 1st December 2012
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ICANN Opens Up Comment Period On “Strawman” Rights Protections For New gTLD’s - ICANN just opened up the comment period on a the IPC/BC proposal for Improvements and Enhancements to the RPMs for new gTLDs [PDF, 68 KB]. Out of discussions evaluating the merits of these recommendations, the group produced at a strawman solution to address the concerns of affected stakeholders. This strawman solution is being posted for public comment. Here are the points of the proposal: Business Constituency and Intellectual Property Constituency Presented: October 16, 2012 Extend Sunrise ... read more ...
Mon 26th November 2012
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DotFood Starts Its Own Pre-Registration Site For .Food: FoodDomainia.com - According to a press release we received, Dot Food, LLC an applicant for the new gTLD .Food, launched “FoodDomainia.com, a pre- registration and awareness solution for the new .FOOD gTLD”. “By pre-registering for a .FOOD domain name on FoodDomainia, food retailers and service providers can secure a better, more professional domain name for their business, product, or service. Registrants will be instantly identified as relevant and valuable members of the food industry, will stand out among ... read more ...
Sat 24th November 2012
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Just Because Your gTLD Application Escaped GAC Early Warning, It Doesn’t Mean The GAC Won’t Object To It - This week the Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) issued 242 early warnings on new gTLD applications. There seems to be a belief held in the domainer community that if an application didn’t receive a GAC early warning, the GAC will can’t or won’t object to a string or an application. Wrong. This is what the latest ICANN Applicant Guidebook (dated June 4, 2012)  has to say about GAC early warnings: “”1.1.2.4 GAC Early Warning Concurrent with the 60-day comment period, ICANN’s Governmental ... read more ...
Fri 23rd November 2012
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How many new gTLDs Applications Will Not Be Approved? Dirk Krischenowski of DotBerlin Says More Than 700 - In a story posted by Netnames.com, DotBerlin promoter Dirk Krischenowski gave his analysis on how many gTLD applications might not make it. As we know there are over 1,900 applications still alive after several have been withdrawn for around 1,400 different strings. Mr. Krischenowski concluded that that 521 would drop out because they are in direct contention sets and another 80 would be in indirect contention with another string (strings that are similar enough to risk causing Internet user confusion, ... read more ...
Wed 21st November 2012
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ICANN Issues Details On New gTLD Prioritization Draw For Dec 17th -                 ICANN just released details on the Prioritization Draw (“Draw”) that will be held on 17 December 2012 in Los Angeles to assign priority numbers to all new gTLD applications including the place that the draw will take place. Each application will be assigned a randomly-drawn priority number. These priority numbers will be used to determine the order in which initial evaluation results are released. Only those Applicants who purchase a ticket will be able to participate ... read more ...
 
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Biggest Winners & Losers From GAC Early Warnings: .Gay, .Sex, .DotGreen, Uniregistry, Generic & Professional TLD’s - Reviewing the GAC early warnings issued last night some winners really stick out. New gTLD applications that were generally thought would get a GAC early warning, but did not include .gay, .sex, .adult, and .porn. Another clear winner out of the GAC early warnings was Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry that applied for 54 new gTLD’s and did not receive even one early warning. The DotGreen came out a double winner as their application did not get a early warning, but all other applications for the ... read more ...