Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Fri 11th May 2012
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CIRA CEO Says Half Of All New gTLD’s Will Fail - In an article published by itbusiness.ca, the CEO of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), Byron Holland said that 50 percent of all new gTLD’s will go out of business in 2-3 years. “It’s going to dramatically impact the Canadian domain space one way or the other” “We assume if you add 500 or 1,000 new TLDs to the Internet landscape, we will definitely be up against a more competitive environment.” “Just like any other private business starting up, all these new TLDs ... read more ...
Thu 10th May 2012
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Publicly Traded NCCGroup Announces It Has Applied For The New gTLD: .Secure - The Nccgroup a publicly traded company on the London Stock Exchange (NCC) has announced it has applied for the new gTLD .Secure. under its subsidiary Artemis Nccgroup currently owns and operates Escrow UK among other services and according to its most recent financial report generated in the first 10 months of the financial year, £72.0m. The NccGroup according to its site provides “business critical IT assurance and protection to over 15,000 organizations worldwide, including 94 out of the 100 ... read more ...
Wed 9th May 2012
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ICANN “Targeting” May 22 As Re-opening Of TAS: Big Reveal Still Unknown But Prague Looks Likely - According to a statement issued overnight, ICANN is “targeting 22 May 2012 as the intended reopening date for the TLD Application System.” “It is anticipated that the system would remain open for five business days and close on 30 May. This takes account of the 28 May Memorial Day holiday in the United States.” “We have met our commitment to provide notice to all users on or before 8 May 2012 by sending out notifications today.””The large majority of users are unaffected by the glitch.” “”Even ... read more ...
Tue 8th May 2012
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Demand Media Reports: Beats Expectations Sends Stock Soaring & Spends $18M On New gTLD’s - Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD)  just reported its earnings for the 1st Q of 2012 beating expectations and sending the stock soaring in aftermarket trading up almost 20% Some interesting stuff in this report including that Demand invested $18 Million in new gTLD’s. Previously Demand reported it was allocating $5 Million for new gTLD’s meaning that they were going to apply for some 25 new gTLD’s but now at $18 Million Demand is going to be one of the biggest players for new gTLD program as this ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Offers Full Refund To Any Applicant For A New gTLD Which Pulls Its App Before The Big Reveal - In an Announcement tonight, ICANN is offering to refund any applicant who has submitted and paid its fee for a new gTLD if they pull their application prior to the Big Reveal. “”In recognition of the inconvenience caused by the temporary suspension of the TLD application system, ICANN will provide a full refund of the application fees paid by any new gTLD applicant that wishes to withdraw its application prior to publication of the list of applied-for new top-level domain names.” “A resolution ... read more ...
Mon 7th May 2012
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Beckstrom: ICANN May Deny New gTLD Applications If They Got An Unfair Advantage In Seeing Others Info - Rod Beckstrom the CEO of ICANN just told theHill.com, that applicants who looks at other applicants info in an attempt  “to gain an unfair edge over their competitors” may have their own application denied. In an interview with The Hill, he noted that ICANN has “ultimate authority” over approving all applications and said the organization will examine whether any groups used a recent system glitch to look at the applications of their rivals. “If we were concerned with any parties’ actions, ... read more ...
Sat 28th April 2012
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ICANN Pushes Off TAS/ New gTLD’s Off For 7 More Business Days, We Predict Big Reveal For May 31st - According to a statement released by ICANN tonight, it appears the TAS system is at a couple of weeks away from being re-opened. Today was the day that ICANN promised a week ago it would give a date for the re-opening of the TAS system and for the Big Reveal Here is what ICANN said a week ago about today April 27th: ““”No later than 27 April 2012 we will provide an update on the reopening of the system and the publication of the applied-for new domain names.”” Yet today the only update ... read more ...
Sun 22nd April 2012
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Lawley Tells Bloomberg There Are 250K .XXX Domains Under Management & Applied For .Sex, .Porn & .Adult To Protect Holders - Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry who operates the .XXX TLD had an interview on Bloomberg TV on Friday to chat not only about .XXX but its  application to run multiple new gTLD’s. (You can watch the interview here) “We have nearly 250,000 .XXX domain names under management, our 5 year forecasts were 125,000-150,000, so in 4 or 5 months of operations we have achieved our 5 year goal, so it has gotten off to a great start.” Lawley told Bloomberg. “Out of the 200,000 and odd number of registrations, ... read more ...
Sat 21st April 2012
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WOW: ICANN Now Pushes UPDATE On TAS & New gTLD Program Off Until Apr 27th - In a release by ICANN tonight they are now giving themselves until April 27th to give update on when the TAS system will even re-open and an a updated for the date of the “Big Reveal” where ICANN will announce who applied for what. Also in tonight’s release is the information that once the TAS system re-opens it will reopen for “at least 5 days”, which is  more than the 3 day period previously announced. Since we may not get an update until April 27th as to when the system may re-open ... read more ...
Fri 20th April 2012
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MarkMonitor To Offer A Free “New gTLD Application Database” - According to a email we just received, the brand protection domain registrar MarkMonitor.com will be releasing a “New gTLD Application Database” which allow users to quickly search all data provided by ICANN (after the Big Reveal) (using wildcards): gTLD String Mission and Purpose Applicant Name Registry Website Primary and Secondary Contact Names and Email Addresses Application Type (Community, Standard, IDN, Geographic) Purpose of Community TLD (if applicable) The database will also provide ... read more ...
 
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Wall Street Journal Incorrectly States That The New gTLD Window Closes Today - Are you confused about what is going on with ICANN, the TAS system and the whole new gTLD process? You’re not the only one. The Wall Street Journal just published a post entitled “7 Friday Must Reads” and number 1 on the list, is on the new gTLD program which WSJ.com says: “”Small businesses are facing a big choice when it comes to their Web presence.” “The application window for brands to bid for the domain name suffix of their choosing (such as .shop) closes today.”” No it’s ... read more ...
 
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60% Of Domain Industry Thinks There Will Be Over 5,000 New gTLD Applications - We have been running a poll at TheDomains.com for 20 days asking “How Many New gTLD Applications Will Be Submitted?” To date there have been almost 470 responses with 60% of the  respondents picking over 5,000 application as their answer. The next most selected answer is 2,500-3,000 which has 15% of the votes. There are 8 other choices in the poll as low as 750-1,000. The poll is unscientific and is opened to anyone to vote, once. The poll will remain opened until the before the Big Reveal” ... read more ...
Sat 14th April 2012
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ICANN Knew About The TAS Problem On Mar 19th - In a statement just issued by Akram Atallah, COO of ICANN it appears ICANN was first notified on the problem with the TAS system that allowed users to see other users files on March 19th. As we know ICANN didn’t shut the system down until April 12th. Here is the statement: “As we have reported, ICANN has learned of a technical issue with the TLD application system software, or TAS, that allowed a limited number of users to view some other users’ file names and user names in certain scenarios. ... read more ...
Fri 13th April 2012
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New gTLD For .Radio Is Filed By Owners of .Fm & .Am - According to a press release this morning, BRS Media Inc. has filed an application for the .RADIO TLD as part of ICANN’s New gTLD program. BRS Media is behind the ccTLD’s of .FM .AM George T. Bundy, Chairman CEO of BRS Media Inc is quoted as saying “We look forward to moving ahead into the next phase of .RADIO. We are ecstatic and thrilled to have the opportunity to establish a new Top-Level-Domain, and envision great possibilities in creativity and innovation in the .RADIO namespace” “Our ... read more ...
 
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ICANN FINALLY Issues A Statement on The New gTLD Application System & “Houston We Have A Problem” - Well finally we have a statement from ICANN as to what happened to the TAS system that is  used to accept applications for the new gTLD “We have learned of a possible glitch in the TLD application system software that has allowed a limited number of users to view some other users’ file names and user names in certain scenarios.” said Akram Atallah Chief Operating Officer of ICANN “Out of an abundance of caution, we took the system offline to protect applicant data. We are examining how this ... read more ...
Thu 12th April 2012
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ICANN Will Start To Accept New gTLD Applications On Tuesday - According to one report ICANN will re-open the TAS system and start accepting new gTLD applications on Tueday. According to the Guardian.co.uk, ICANN will re-open the TAS system to accept applications for new gTLD’s at “23.59 GMT on Tuesday for three days, and finally close on Friday 20 April at 23.59 GMT. ” GMT is the same time as UTC. Although I haven’t read or heard any “official” word on what happened to the TAS system or what the current status is, this report makes sense. The question ... read more ...
 
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TAS Crashes & New gTLD Application Deadline Is Extended Until Apr 20th - ICANN just announced  that the TAS system which is the mechanism by which companies file their application for new gTLD’s crashed and therefore was extending the time to make application from April 12th until April 20th, 2012. The official new closing time to make application is 23:59 UTC on Friday, 20 April 2012. The next big questions to be answered is will be if the “big reveal”, the day on which ICANN will announce who applied for what extension, will be pushed back from its scheduled ... read more ...
Wed 11th April 2012
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Minds + Machines Gets .London - According to a press release out this morning Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM:TLDH.L), a wholly-owned subsidiary Minds and Machines Limited,  which in turn is a wholly-owned subsidiary of London Partners Limited (“London Partners”), been exclusively appointed by Dot London Domains Limited (“DLDL”),  to (i) assist with DLDL’s application to the Internet’s governing body, ICANN, for DLDL to be appointed registry operator of a new gTLD for London (“dot London”) and, (ii) if ... read more ...
Tue 10th April 2012
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On The Day AT&T Sells Its Interest In The Yellow Pages For $950 Million, An Application For .Yellow Is Announced - On the same day that ATT sold a majority stake in the Yellow Pages for $950 Million dollars, Techworld.com.au, is reporting that a Melbourne based company is going to apply for the new gTLD of .yellow. “The startup plans to offer brand oriented listing pages for small to medium businesses (SMBs) who may not have an online presence.” “It aims to target SMBs who are dissatisfied with traditional directory style listings and provides the transition to an online presence. The service is to go live ... read more ...
Mon 2nd April 2012
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Why Can’t ICANN Operate Like Mega Millions & Give Us A Date & TIME For The Big Reveal - In teasing us with a date for the big reveal for new gTLD applicants ICANN has left off something pretty important. The time. While announcing the April 30th as the date for the big reveal, they didn’t announce at time or even which time zone they would be using. ICANN typically works off of UTC time zone which at this time of the year is 4 hours ahead of EST so midnight April 30th is really 8 PM EST April 29th. For those attending the informal Vegas meetup (in full disclosure as part of RightoftheDot.com ... read more ...
Fri 30th March 2012
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UPDATED: Quick Poll: How Many New gTLD Applications Will Be Submitted? 44,100 is Possible - Now that ICANN updated the number of paid users to the TAS system to 839, with several days remaining its probably fair to say there will be at least 900 users by the time final figures are remaining. We know that each user can submit 49 applications, making it possible if the final number of users is 900, there could be 44,100 applications if each registered user put in the max number of applications. However we know that’s not going to happen. So we have now updated the poll that we have been ... read more ...
Fri 23rd March 2012
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Minds+Machines Gets .Miami & Applies For .Music - According to a press release issued today, Minds + Machines which is owned by Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM:TLDH.L),  has been chosen by the City of Miami to apply for the .MIAMI top-level domain. “On 7 March  2012, the Commissioners of the City of Miami voted 4-0 to accept the proposal from Minds + Machines and requested Minds + Machines to begin work on the application for .MIAMI immediately. The Minds + Machines’ proposal was chosen following a competitive bid process.  Minds + ... read more ...
Wed 21st March 2012
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New York Said To Be Guaranteed $3.6 Million For .NYC TLD - According to an article in the New York Times, the city of New York is on the verge of making a deal with a “Virgina based company” that would apply for and operate the gTLD .NYC. According to the story the city would be guaranteed a to received $3.6 Million over the first 5 years. “The Virgina based company would pay all costs of the application and the operation of the registry.” The .NYC registry for the city of New York would be in my opinion a very popular extension and should depending ... read more ...
Sun 18th March 2012
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Quick Poll: How Many New gTLD Applications Will Be Submitted? - We are now less than one month from April 12th, the last day an application for a new gTLD can be submitted. We now know that 294 people have paid $5K to put in an App of course each registered user can file 49 apps so the number of actually apps submitted to ICANN is higher but ICANN for some reason refuses to release the number of apps received just the number of registered users. With the App period coming to a close we thought we should run a poll. To be clear applications will be submitted for ... read more ...
Thu 15th March 2012
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New Study: Almost Half of Major Consumer Brands Set to Apply for a Dot Brand Top-Level Domain (gTLD) - According to a study commission by Afilias, almost Half of Major Consumer Brands Set to Apply for a dot Brand Top-Level Domains. The USA / UK survey, was conducted by Vanson Bourne, and found that 82% of major brands are aware of the opportunity to apply for a dot Brand TLD, and that of those “aware” 54% of those companies intend to apply for a dot Brand TLD. The survey of 200 consumer-facing businesses with 3,000-10,000+ employees, was conducted in February 2012 The survey captured the attitudes ... read more ...