Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Tue 11th September 2012
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Business Constituency Asks ICANN To Extend Objection Period On New gTLD’s Until June/July 2013 - “ICANN made a commitment in the new gTLD Program to provide robust processes to assure that the community as a whole – with particular opportunities for governments and rights holders – have the opportunity to raise objections that could lead to the rejection of applications.” “This communication to ICANN, and to the full ICANN Board raises an objection to a recent [informal]  statement by ICANN that implies a material change in a process established as part of the final Guidebook.  This ... read more ...
Mon 10th September 2012
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Brand Owners Write To Dept Of Commerce: Want No Cost URS, Loser Pays Model, TM Blocks & More - The United States Brand Owner Summit sent to the United States Department of Commerce asking the Government for new protections in the roll out of the new gTLD’s program. The letter which is called “NEW gTLD RECOMMENDATIONS TO STRENGTHEN SECOND-LEVEL RIGHTS PROTECTION MECHANISMS” was sent to Lawrence E. Strickling the Assistant Secretary for Communications & Information National Telecommunications & Information Administration United States Department of Commerce last week. “”The ... read more ...
Wed 5th September 2012
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Top 50 Most Pre-Registered New gTLD’s Domain Names From UnitedDomains.com - UnitedDomains.com an ICANN accredited registrar has taken almost 850,000 “pre-registrations” of new gTLD’s domain names. The registrar has been publishing a top 10 list of the new gTLD’s by number of “pre-registrations” now has a top 50 list. The numbers are in real time so they are valid as of time of publication. As we always point out there is no charge to pre-register a new gTLD at UnitedDomains.com Here you go: 1.WEB 116,924 2.SHOP 71,264 3.SITE 53,944 4.HOTEL 26,599 5.MUSIC 21,994 6.NYC ... read more ...
Wed 29th August 2012
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Donuts, Inc., Applicant for a New gTLD .City Says Its Not Confusing Similar To .Citi - In a comment posted on ICANN site today Donuts, Inc. which has applied for the new gTLD .City, weighted in on whether the new gTLD’s of .Citi and .City are similarly confusing In  Donuts opinion that they are not. Writing for Donuts, Inc. was Richard Tindal said: “Donuts agrees with Citigroup’s comment that .CITY and .CITI are visually dissimilar. The Citigroup comment correctly states that ICANN has delegated numerous TLDs with common characters and endings in “I” and “Y,” such as ... read more ...
Tue 21st August 2012
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MIT Rips ICANN’s Over New gTLD Program: “ICANN’s Boondoggle” - MIT just published a post ripping ICANN for what it calls ICANN’s Boondoggle referring to the new gTLD program. “ICANN is itself a monopoly. It has the freedom to mint new gTLDs and incorporate them into the “root zone file,” the master list that matches human-readable URLs (such as www.technologyreview.com) with the numeric Internet Protocol addresses that are used to route packets between computers. And it’s employing this freedom to orchestrate the biggest land rush in the history of ... read more ...
Mon 20th August 2012
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Melbourne IT Suggests Special Domain Protections For “High At-Risk Marks” In New gTLD’s - Melbourne IT the registrar/brand protection company published a paper that “makes the case that, despite the current protections ICANN has put in place, there is still a set of High At-Risk Marks (HARM) that remain particularly attractive to unscrupulous persons and organizations who will attempt to register these marks at the second level of new gTLDs”. Basically Melbourne IT proposes to create a new set of rules and rights for holders of these High at Risk Marks. The proposal is pretty in-depth ... read more ...
 
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Directi Looking To Raise $50 Million-$100 Million For New gTLD’s Auctions - According to a story in Vccircle.com, Directi Internet Solutions Pvt Ltd (Directi) is seeking to “secure a hefty sum between US$ 50 – 100 Million to fund its subsidiary Radix FZC“. Directi through its Radix subsidiary has already allocated $30 Million for its 31 new gTLD applications, according to this story they are seeking additional funds to cover the cost of anticipated auctions for some of the new gTLD’s. Many of Directi new gTLD applications have heavy competition including .Web, .Shop, ... read more ...
Sat 18th August 2012
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Orgainzation That Run Thailand’s ccTLD (.Th) Objects To new a gTLD .Thai - “Although, THNIC views ICANN’s new gTLDs program as a mean to open up opportunities for innovations thus drive for further developments for the Internet as a whole, the program should be carried out without causing confusions or disturbances to the users of the Internet.” “THNIC would like to provide the following comments for the panel for consideration:” “(1) The applicant has made a claim to work closely with THNIC in the following statement:” “BLM will closely collaborate with ... read more ...
Fri 17th August 2012
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WSJ: Banks Looking To New gTLD’s To Stop Phishing - The WallStretJournal published a story on how banks are looking to using their applied for new gTLD’s to cut down on phishing of bank sites on the net. “Financial-services companies are snatching up new, exclusive Internet addresses in an effort to crack down on cybercrime, which one analyst said cost the industry an estimated $2.5 billion last year.” “The companies buying up addresses include some of the biggest players in the industry: American Express Co., Capital One Financial Corp.,  ... read more ...
Thu 16th August 2012
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Objection To .Earth: We Already Own It & ICANN Awarding It To Any Applicant “Would be Larceny” - In interesting objection was just filed with ICANN on the new gTLD .Earth, by John Palmer of American Webmasters, Inc who claims to already own the TLD since 1995 having been granted the TLD by none other than Dr. Jon Postel. “The TLD “.EARTH” is an existing TLD which is the property of American Webmasters, Inc / dba AGN Domain Name Service, Inc, a Delaware Corporation.” “We have been operating this TLD since 1995 when we claimed it from IANA (Dr. Jon Postel). ” “This is documented ... read more ...
Mon 13th August 2012
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Communication & Information Technology Commission of Saudi Arabia Objects To .Baby, Thinks Its Like .XXX - An interesting objection appeared today in the new ICANN  comment section from the  Communication and Information Technology Commission, Kindom of Saudi Arabia, who is objecting to the new gTLD application for .Baby “”We consider there is a risk that this string is used in the same way as .XXX to host pornographic websites. “Many individuals and societies may find this string offensive on religious and/or cultural grounds. We oppose the introduction of this gTLD string on both of these grounds, ... read more ...
Fri 10th August 2012
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ICANN Extends Comment Period For New gTLD’s 45 Days Until Sep 26th - After requests of many groups, ICANN has officially extended the comment period on the new gTLD’s for an additional 45 days. The new end date is now 26 September 2012. Its a good move by ICANN, which by eliminating digital archery and going with a one batch application processing system, is basically out to at least June before much else happens. Many trade groups including the Business Constituency (BC) to ICANN requested an extended comment period and granting this extension allows more comments ... read more ...
Thu 26th July 2012
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Maybe Justin Should Have Applied For .Music Instead Of Myspace.com - A BusinessInsider.com article today reminded me its been one year since Justin Timberlake’s invested into MySpace.com At the time I thought Justin would have been better served if he simply applied for the new gTLD of .Music. I can’t exactly tell you how, but through representatives very close to Justin I made him aware of the opportunity that a .Music application would have provided, especially since his investment in MySpace.com was really all about music. He passed. The article goes on to ... read more ...
Wed 25th July 2012
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Name.com Asks “What New gTLD’s Are You Waiting For” - Unlike some other registrars that are taking “pre-orders” or expressions of interest in domain name registrations for certain hand selected new gTLD’s, Name.com is going from it at a whole different angle asking users: “What new gTLDs are you waiting for?” Name.com is asking users to tell then what new gTLD’s they are most interest in. The page put up by Name.com starts with an important question: “”What the heck is a gTLD?” “”TLDs are the endings that follow the string in a ... read more ...
Tue 24th July 2012
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The Top Policy Mistakes ICANN Made In The New gTLD Program - Now that everyone has had time to fully digest the big reveal of the new gTLD applicants and the strings applied for, its time to look at the biggest issues ICANN has created for the domain name system. We are not going to look at mistakes ICANN made in the implementation of the program (such as the TAS debacle) just the fundamental policy mistakes ICANN made in our opinion which are have potential to cause a lot of problems, for the program, for ICANN and ultimately the applicants. 1.  Allowing ... read more ...
Wed 18th July 2012
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BuyDomains Launches BuyDomainsCentral.com Powered By Enom To Take New gTLD Domain Pre-orders - Buydomains.com, which is owned by Name Media, is teaming up with Enom.com, which is owned by Demand Media, to start to take pre-orders or a create a watch list for new gTLD’s domain name registration when they become available. The new site set up by BuyDomains.com for the new gTLD program is BuyDomainsCentral.com, which is powered by Enom. Its an interesting move by two company’s that are expected to compete with each other for a share of the premium domain name aftermarket for new gTLD’s. These ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD’s All Explained in an 8 Minute Video Which You Will .LOL At - For those still confused by the new gTLD’s and all the possibilities they bring to the domain space, video should explain it all to you. The new gTLD’s naysayers will have a blast. For the believers you got to still have a sense of humor. I have no idea who is responsible for the video but hats off to someone who has a a lot of time on their hands and created a worse case scenario for the new gTLD’s. On the other hand, as I have mentioned before a wise man once told me out of great confusion ... read more ...
Thu 12th July 2012
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With The Domain Space Only Growing By 17 Million A Year, Where Will All The Registrations For New gTLD’s Come From? - We know that .com/.net registrations as of the last report sits at 116 million registrations is growing at the rate 8 million new registrations a year. We also know including the 116 million .com/.net registrations, there are 225 million domains name registered as of March 31, 2012 with 10% or some 20 million new registrations coming since 4th quarter of 2,010. So basically your looking at growth in the total domain name space of 17 million or so for the last year including all ccTLD’s and half ... read more ...
Mon 2nd July 2012
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RBC Report On New gTLD’s “Could Be A Game-Changer For The Domain Registry & Registrar Businesses” - The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)  published a fascinating report (pdf) today on the gTLD business. The report is entitled: “Say .anything – Opening Up the gTLD Landscape” and subtitled: “Examining the potential value the new gTLD initiative creates for Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) and Web.com (WWWW)” Its a 17 page report which you of course should check out in its entirety since it is a very interesting look into the business of domain name registrar and registries and offers some huge estimates ... read more ...
Thu 28th June 2012
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ICANN On Excess Funds From Fees & Auctions: “We’re Not Going To Give You The Money Back” - In the public forum at the ICANN Meeting, Chairman of ICANN Steve Crocker told the crowd that when it comes to excess funds coming from application fees and auction proceeds, they don’t know what they are going to do with the money, only that the excess money will will not be coming back to the applicants that paid the money. “On the subject of application funds received, we heard it’s not ICANN’s money.” “We have been asked “when will applicants get their money back? What will happen ... read more ...
Sat 23rd June 2012
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Cnet Asks Will Google Change The Domain Industry By Giving Away Domains Like .Web & .Shop For Free - In yet another story from Paul Sloan on the new gTLD space, writing for Cnet.com, Mr. Sloan looked at the 101 new gTLD applications that Google filed for under the registry it set up,  Charleston Road Registry and asks will Google change the domain name industry by giving domains ending in .Home or .Web or .Shop for free. “The question is how Google would sell domain names to the public.” “Google has long been an ICANN accredited registrar, which gives it the license to sell names to the consumers. ... read more ...
 
Fri 22nd June 2012
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WSJ.com: “Domain Wheeling and Dealing Applicants for New Web Extensions Head to ICANN Meeting - The Wall Street Journal just covered a story about the anticipated wheeling and dealing expecting to occur at the ICANN meeting this week. The story is entitled “Domain Wheeling and Dealing, Applicants for New Web Extensions Head to ICANN Meeting” WSJ.com “Entrepreneurs and big companies are battling one another for the rights to manage hot new Web address endings, including .app, .home and .book. Some are gathering in Prague this weekend, where they may decide to team up and pursue a contested ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: Kurt Pritz Appointed to Take On Direct Oversight of a Entire new gTLD Program - ICANN just announced that “Kurt Pritz has been appointed to take on direct oversight of the entire New gTLD program in an interim capacity”. “He will assume the responsibilities of New gTLD Program Director Michael Salazar, who has resigned, in addition to his responsibilities as Senior Vice President for Stakeholder Relations.” “Kurt will remain in this interim role, building on the significant work done to date, until a new Program Director is appointed. He is authorized to bring the ... read more ...
Thu 21st June 2012
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Paul Sloan Writes For Cnet On Amazon’s 76 New gTLD Applications: “We Want To Own Them All” - Paul Sloan just wrote a piece for Cnet.com about Amazon’s 76 new gTLD applications of which all Amazon plans to run as a closed registries,  meaning that no one will be able to register any domain names under any string other than Amazon that Amazon wins. “Whether it’s .you, .book, .shop, or .news — and you’ll find similar language. Not just that “All domains in the .YOU registry will remain the property of Amazon,” for example, but that “Amazon and its subsidiaries will be the only ... read more ...