Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Wed 20th June 2012
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Quick Poll: Pound For Pound Whose New gTLD Strings Are The Best - Now that all of the players who applied for multiple new gTLD strings are know and the strings they applied for are on the table I figured you might want to chime in on who you thought had the best set of new gTLD strings, pound for pound, dollar for dollar (brands not included) What I mean by pound for pound is that of the company’s that made application for 10 or more strings who did you think do the best job of putting together the best list for the amount they spent. Its hard to compare someone ... read more ...
Tue 19th June 2012
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Moniker.com/SnapNames.com Is a Lastest New gTLD Landrush/Sunrise Auction Provider - According to a press release just out Moniker® and SnapNames®, announced today they were going to provide Sunrise and Land Rush auction services for new gTLD registries “Leveraging industry expertise and patented technology, auction services are now available for the initial launch phases of a new gTLD – typically known as Sunrise and Landrush phases.” “SnapNames’ Sunrise and Landrush auctions offer registries a reliable and equitable means to allocate a new domain name when multiple ... read more ...
Mon 18th June 2012
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Sedo Releases Its List Of Top 10 Most Valuable New gTLD’s & .Shop Is Number 1 - Sedo.com just released a list of what it considers to be the top 10 new gTLD strings. According to a statistical analysis by Sedo, the top 10 most valuable domains being sought are: “The analysis was calculated by economist, researcher and domain pricing expert, Thies Lindenthal. the creator of IDNX, the first scientific-grade domain price index.” “Many factors make domains unique and difficult to compare side by side, but analyzing hundreds of thousands of domain transactions on Sedo’s marketplace ... read more ...
 
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How You Can Object To A New gTLD Extension & What Its Going To Cost You (Hint It’s Not Cheap) - So what if you want to object to a new gTLD string? The first thing you should know is that not everyone can file an objection. The second thing you should know is that filing an objection is not free, nor is it exactly cheap (pricing is at the end of the piece). The cost to object varies depending on the basis for your objection, of which there are 4, and like the UDRP in some cases,  if you want a hearing, how many panelists you want to decide on your objection, how long the hearing lasts and ... read more ...
Fri 15th June 2012
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Your New Keyboard In The New .Brand gTLD World From Afilias - Thanks to our friends at Afilias who have a new take on the standard keyboard in the new gTLD world. “This infographic of the bulk of major brands applying to ICANN for a new gTLD. (And, yes, this graphic covers all brands, not just ones that Afilias is working with.) “We’ve also included some of the major geographic areas applying for TLDs; those are on the “function” keys.” (you can click on the image to enlarge it)   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Our Chat With Demand Media About Their Apps For: .Airforce, .Navy., Republican, .Democrat, .Kaufen, .Moda, .Moto - We reached out to Demand Media, Inc. to get some more information on some of the new gTLD’s they applied for. Leyla Farah  was nice enough to respond on behalf of Demand. Here is the email interview: Q: There are some applications made by Demand that strike me as quite strange. Can anyone chat about the thoughts and business plan behind the new gTLD’s Demand applied for like: .airforce .navy Are you doing these on behalf of the armed forces or with the consent of them? If not don’t you expect ... read more ...
Thu 14th June 2012
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.Mobi Domains Have Been Around Since 2006 So Why Do We Need A .Mobile & .Mobily - Everyone is the domain name industry is quite aware of the history of the .Mobi TLD and the various stories behind it. The .Mobi Registry started selling domains in 2006 at the TRAFFIC auction even before launching. Now it seems its deja vu all over again, as four applicants are going for very similar new gTLD’s. There are three applications for .Mobile that would be .Mobi +le and one application for .Mobily which is .Mobi + ly. Now beyond the question of how ICANN would ever approve these extensions ... read more ...
 
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Will One Church Be Allowed To Control The Entire .Church Right Of The Dot Space? - USAtoday.com just covered an application for the new gTLD .Church. The applicant is described as “high tech megachurch out of Oklahoma” and currently uses the domain name LifeChurch.tv “”LifeChurch.tv broadcasts Web worship services online to 15 locations in Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee, Florida and New York, set up a free Bible app for mobile devices, and offers resources to 100,000 pastors — “our target market for dot.church.”” Donuts is the other applicant for .Church. Which raises ... read more ...
Wed 13th June 2012
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Extensions In Conflict: .Law, .Lawyer, .Legal, .Attorney, .ESQ + many many More - Earlier today we listed the new gTLD strings which had 4 or more applications. Obviously those are conflicting applications but there is another type of conflicting applications; those that don’t match but cover the same subject, or field or profession. Take the case of the legal profession. There are applications for .Law, .Lawyer., .Legal, .Attorney and .Esq. That means there is a real possibility that not only will some of those new extensions will have to compete against existing extensions ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media On Its New gTLD’s Applications: “We Are Very Pleased” - Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) just released a statement regarding the ICANN Big Reveal and the new gTLD’s they applied for: “Demand Media is the only applicant for 16 of its 26 total applications for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs).” “We are very pleased with today’s results.” “We selected our TLDs based on data-driven algorithms that leveraged our leading registrar and content platforms to determine what domains small businesses and consumers were demanding,” said Taryn Naidu, EVP, Demand ... read more ...
 
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Media Company’s CBS, ABC, Fox Apply For New gTLD; NBC, Disney, CNN, ESPN Do Not - Checking out Big Media company’s new gTLD applications clearly not every media company participated in the new gTLD program. Some of the major US TV Networks applied for their matching gTLD including .CBS, .ABC and .Fox Some of the glaring non-applicants were  .Disney .Espn, .CNN, MTV The British Broadcasting Company applied for .BBC Sony applied for .Sony   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Google & Amazon Compete on 21 new gTLD’s - In our continuing review of the list of applicants for new gTLD’s, there are 21 gTLD that both Google and Amazon applied for: .music .play .movie .map .mail .game .free .dev .cloud .book .search .app .shop .store .wow .you .buy .drive .show .spot .talk .kid (Amazon applied for .kids) Of course many of these strings have other applicants as well. Considering that strings with two or more applicants go to auction unless the parties work something out these strings may go for millions of dollars each. Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Domainer Daniel Negari Throws His Hat In The Ring & Applies For 3 New gTLD’s - Domainer Daniel Negari has applied for three new gTLD’s His company, XYZ.com applied for .College, .Now and .XYZ Mr. Negari is going to have serious competitors for .Now Amazon.com, the principal’s of the .Asia registry, and One.com and Global Top Level App which only applied for .Now For .College there is only one other applicant Binky Edge, LLC. which only applied for the .college gTLD. For .XYZ Mr. Negari’s company is the only applicant. CentralNic.com is the back end provider for XYZ.com Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Domain Industry Veteran Jay Westerdal Who Started DomainTools.com Applies For 11 New gTLD’s - Domain industry veteran Jay Westerdal who started DomainTools.com, appears to have applied for 11 new gTLD’s under a couple of company’s Fegistry, LLC, and Top Level Spectrum, Inc. Here are the extensions that Jay applied for:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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.WOW: Demand Media, Google & Amazon All Fighting Over This New gTLD - In what maybe a very interesting auction if it comes to that, three public company’s have made application for .Wow Google, Amazon and Demand Media all applied for .Wow. They are the only three applicants for that particular TLD.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Multiple Application Leaders For New gTLD’s: .App; .Inc; Home; .Art; .Shop; .Blog; .LLC; .Music & More - We are going through the list of all new gTLD’s applications and finding those strings that have the most applications. We will be updating this list for a while so continue to check back in: 13 Apps for .App 11 Apps For .Home and 1 for .Homes 11 Apps for .Inc 10 Apps for .Art 9 Apps for .Shop 9 Apps For .Book 9 Apps for .Blog 9 Apps for .LLC 8 Apps For .Music 8 Apps For .Movie, 3 Apps for .Film 8 Apps For .Design 7 Apps For .Love 7 Apps For .LTD 7 Apps for .Hotel, 1 for HOTELES, 1 for .Hotels 6 ... read more ...
 
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Here Are a 307 New gTLD’s That Donuts Applied For - Here are the 307 new gTLD’s that Donuts, Inc. applied for: academy accountants agency apartments app architect art associates attorney auction audio auto baby band bargains baseball basketball beauty bet bike bingo blog boats book boutique broadway broker builders business buy cab cafe camera camp capital cards care careers cars casa cash casino catering center charity chat cheap church city claims cleaning clinic clothing cloud club coach codes coffee college community company computer condos construction consulting contractors cool corp coupons cpa credit creditcard cricket cruises dating deals degree delivery dental dentist design diamonds diet digital direct directory discount doctor dog domains eco education email energy engineering enterprises equipment estate events exchange expert exposed express fail family fan farm fashion film finance financial fish fitness flights florist flowers food football forsale forum foundation free fund furniture futbol gallery games garden gifts glass global gmbh gold golf graphics gratis gripe group guide guru haus health healthcare help hockey holdings holiday home hospital hosting hot hotel house immo inc industries institute insurance insure international investments jewelry juegos kitchen land law lawyer lease legal life lighting limited limo live living llc loans love ltd luxury mail maison management market marketing mba media medical memorial mobile money mortgage movie music network news now online opinion partners parts pets phone photography photos pictures pizza place plumbing plus poker productions properties property racing radio realestate realty recipes red reisen rent rentals repair report restaurant reviews rocks rugby run sale salon sarl school schule search security services shoes shop shopping show singles site ski soccer software solar solutions spa sports storage store studio data style sucks supplies supply support surgery systems tax taxi team tech technology tennis theater tickets tienda tips tires today tools tours town toys trading training tube university vacations ventures vet viajes video villas vin vip vision vote voyage watch web website wedding wine works world wtf yoga zone Chinese ... read more ...
 
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Google Applies For 101 New gTLD’s; Amazon 77; Microsoft 11; Apple 1 - We are digesting the new gTLD list right now and have found that Google Has applied for 101 new gTLD strings, Amazon 76, Microsoft 11 Apple only applied for .Apple Here are the new gTLD’s that Microsoft applied for:   Here are the new gTLD’s that Amazon Applied for: Here are the new gTLD’s that Google applied for under the name Charleston Road Registry Inc. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Here Are The 54 New gTLD’s That Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Applied For - Here is the list of the 54 new gTLD’s that Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Applied for: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Here Are All 1,930 Applications For New gTLD’s - Well here they are all 1,930 applications for new gTLD’s   String [1] Applicant AAA American Automobile Association, Inc. AARP AARP ABARTH Fiat S.p.A. (“società per azioni”) ABB ABB Ltd ABBOTT Abbott Laboratories ABBVIE Abbott Laboratories ABC American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. ABLE Able Inc. ABOGADO Top Level Domain Holdings Limited ABUDHABI Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre ACADEMY Half Oaks, LLC ACCENTURE Accenture Global Services Limited ACCOUNTANT dot Accountant Limited ACCOUNTANTS Knob ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD’s By The Numbers: 1930 Apps, 751 Apps In Conflict; Max Number of New gTLD’s 1,409 - ICANN just published  some information about the new gTLD applications it received. Here is the new gTLD by the numbers: Number of Apps for a new gTLD: 1930 84 are designated as “community-based”.66 have designated themselves as geographic name applications. 116 applications are Internationalized Domain Names, or IDNs, using non-Latin scripts.   Applications were received from 60 countries: 911 applications came from North America. 675 from Europe. 303 applications ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Is The Back End Provider 60 New gTLD’s - CentralNic.com announced today that are the back-end provider for 60 TLD applications. Applicants include Generics, Community and .Brands applications from three continents. Some of the new gTLD’s CentralNic’s clients have applied for  are .XYZ, .College, .Now and .Africa. Ben Crawford is the CEO of CentralNic.com and has appeared on many television new programs about new gTLD’s and has been quoted in numerous articles on the new gTLD program. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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So Will Manwin (YouPorn.com) Apply For a New gTLD For .Sex, .Porn or .Adult - When ICANN makes it “Big Reveal” of the new gTLD applicants tomorrow, one of the more interesting and lingering questions is will Manwin, the owner of YouPorn.com, who filed a lawsuit against ICM Registry, the operator of the .XXX extension and ICANN itself,  file an application for a new gTLD like .Sex or .Porn or .Adult? Frankly IMHO Manwin,  is in between the proverbial rock and the hard place. If Manwin doesn’t apply for a new adult TLD like .Porn or .Sex or .Adult when ICM registry ... read more ...
Tue 12th June 2012
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Afilias Backend Provider for 305 Applications Including 175 .Brand TLD’s - Afilias Limited, the operator of the .INFO, .MOBI and .PRO top level domains (TLD) announced that it will be the back end provider for 305 new generic TLD applications to ICANN. “The applications span a range of new TLD ideas, and include 18 Internationalized TLDs (for example, Chinese and Cyrillic), four community domains, four geographic domains and more than 170 “dot Brand” names.” “The remaining applications represent a wide variety of generic domain strings that are designed to simplify ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling Invests $60 Million Dollars & Applies For 54 new gTLD’s - A few days ago we wrote about Frank Schilling, one of the world’s largest private domain name investor, getting into the new gTLD space under the new domain Uniregistry.com Today comes word through Cnet.com that Uniregistry has applied for 54 new gTLD’s making Frank one of the largest applicants for new gTLD’s. The article written by Paul Sloan entitled “Here Comes the Greatest Internet Landgrab in History“, goes on the say that Frank invested $60 Million dollars of his own money into the ... read more ...