Tag Archives: new tlds

Thu 24th October 2013
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Four some-more new TLD row sets staid in private auctions - Donuts and Radix win auctions to settle four more new TLD contention sets. Innovative Auctions has helped settle four more top level domain name contention sets through its auction service. Donuts, by the far the largest applicant for new top level domains, won three auctions. It is now the sole applicant for .lawyer, .fish, and .discount. It beat Top Level Domain Holdings for .lawyer and beat Whatbox for .discount and .fish. (Interestingly, Whatbox’s application ... read more ...
Wed 23rd October 2013
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At TRAFFIC East, domainers finally incited a corner - Conference chatter changed from looking backward to looking forward. I was rather bummed after both of the major U.S. domain name conferences that took place in the first half of this year. I was bummed because people were just talking about the past. They were talking about the same stuff they’ve been talking about for the past three years. About falling parking revenues. About developing domains. Same old, same old. So that’s why this week at TRAFFIC in Ft. ... read more ...
 
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It’s Official: initial 4 new TLDs have been delegated - Four new top level domain names delegated. It’s October 23, 2013, and a few new top level domain name applicants can finally see the fruits of their many, many years of labor. ICANN announced today that four new top level domain names have been delegated. The four domains are شبكة. (web), .游戏 (games), .сайт (site), and .онлайн (online). The registry operators for these domains will soon put up a second level domain or two, which will be another ... read more ...
Fri 18th October 2013
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CentralNic offers financing for new TLD auctions as good as operative capital - CentralNic will back new TLD applicants at auction and provide working capital. With ICANN’s auctions to settle new TLD contention sets coming soon, and applicants realizing they might need more money to launch their TLDs than previously expected, a number of companies are offering funding. One of those is newly-public CentralNic, which is offering financing for auctions as well as working capital for ongoing operations. CentralNic already has clients that have ... read more ...
Wed 16th October 2013
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Would CatchJeremy.com be opposite with new TLDs? - T-Mobile’s advertising campaign includes a unique domain used just for the campaign. The commercial embedded below has been playing frequently during the National League Championship Series on TBS (Go Cards!). You’ll see that it prominently features the domain name CatchJeremy.com. The domain name is used solely as a tie-in to the advertising campaign about T-Mobile’s international data plans. Some proponents of new top level domain names have suggested that ... read more ...
Mon 14th October 2013
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ICANN publishes new TLD applicant videos - All new TLD applicants invited to participate in recorded videos. As part of ICANN’s global awareness campaign for new top level domain names, the group invited all applicants for new top level domain names to participate in a recorded interview. ICANN hopes these videos will “provide insight into the individual story of a TLD, or portfolio of TLDs, the inspiration behind it and how they see it being used”. The first two videos feature some familiar faces. In ... read more ...
Fri 11th October 2013
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Oh brother, .Shop applicant has unequivocally mislaid it this time - Commercial Connect thinks applicant guidebook states only one TLD should be allocated for the entire “ecommerce namespace”. Commercial Connect LLC wants the .shop top level domain…badly. It also doesn’t want anyone else to be able to offer a top level domain that could in any way take away .shop’s marketshare. That’s why it filed string confusion objections against applications like .buy, .ecom, .services, and .sale. It is (rightfully) losing most of ... read more ...
Thu 10th October 2013
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Google and Amazon.com backpedal on sealed tip turn domain names - Google to make one more domain open, Amazon relents on 25. Google and Amazon.com have changed their minds about operating some of their applied-for generic top level domain names as “closed” domain names. For many domains, the companies had planned to not offer second level domain name registrations, such as myname.blog, to the public. Instead, they planned to only register such domains within the company. Amazon wanted to keep all of its domain names restricted ... read more ...
 
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Signed new TLD registry contracts have a far-reaching operation of priority numbers - Priority numbers helped companies at the beginning of the process but do not correlate closely with signed registry contracts. Yesterday ICANN executed its contract with dotCareer, LLC for the .career top level domain names. The application had a priority draw number of 119. A full week before, on October 2, Donuts executed its contract with ICANN for the .careers top level domain. That application has a priority number of 501. So the contract for priority #501 was ... read more ...
Wed 9th October 2013
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ICANN gives new TLD field a faster trail to market - Top level domain applicants could start registering domains sooner, but there’s a catch. ICANN has changed its plan for mitigating the risk of so-called “name collisions” at the second level of new top level domain names, potentially allowing new top level domain applicants to start selling domains sooner than expected. It’s good news for applicants whose strings fell in the “uncalculated risk” bucket of name collisions. It could also be good news for ... read more ...
Tue 8th October 2013
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56 new TLD contracts signed, Donuts has some-more than half - New top level domain contracts are slowly (but surely) being executed. ICANN’s latest new top level domain name contracting stats show that 56 registry agreements have been signed. 55 of those have been published to ICANN’s registry page. Here’s a look at some of the stats so far: 32: The number of contracts signed by Donuts, which had more applications than any other company. 13: The number of contracts for internationalized domain names, despite all IDNs being ... read more ...
Tue 1st October 2013
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ICANN publishes final Rights Protection Mechanisms for new TLDs - Final RPMs create two types of sunrise periods and leave room open for special treatment of geo domain names. ICANN has published the final Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) added to the new top level domain name program. There are a few notable changes from the draft version of the RPMs. One key difference is that registries will be able to choose either a “start-date sunrise” or “end-date sunrise”. A start-date sunrise allows the registry to allocate domain ... read more ...
Fri 27th September 2013
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Scooby says new TLDs will be full of scams and a options will stink - Ruh roh! Choice will be limited and scam sites will persist in new top level domains. When I come home from work I like to kick my feet up, crack open a beer and watch a couple episodes of the new Scooby Doo*. Last night while watching the gang solve another mystery, I saw the future of new top level domain names according to Scooby Doo. It wasn’t pretty. Fred’s father bought an amusement park attraction on the site “Haunted Attractions For Sale dot Scare”, ... read more ...
Wed 25th September 2013
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Wow, United Domains is all in with New TLDs - Want to register a .com at United Domains? You’ll need to poke around the site a bit. We know that new top level domains are a growth opportunity for domain name registrars. But should domain name registrars forgo current registrations in favor of promoting future registrations of new domains like order.pizza and play.games? That’s what United Domains, part of the same family of companies that runs 11 (which is running TV commercials promoting new TLD “pre-reservations”), ... read more ...
 
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Authentic Web wants to make .brand domains easier for corporations - Company will act as domain name registrar and offer the workflows necessary for a corporate environment. Most large companies have a process in place for registering new domain names. This may get more complex when brands secure their own top level domains, such as .ford and .deloitte. Enter Authentic Web. The new company wants to help businesses running closed registries manage the process, including corporate controls, IT, and overall workflow. When employees want ... read more ...
 
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Block your heading on 200+ tip turn domains for $600 a year - Donuts’ service is not cheap, but it’s much easier and cheaper than the alternative. Donuts, applicant for over 300 top level domain names, has launched its “Domains Protected Marks List” offering to trademark holders. The service allows trademark holders to block the registration of second level domains that contain their mark across all of Donuts’ domains. In order to qualify, the trademark must be registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse. Companies ... read more ...
Tue 24th September 2013
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.Axis TLD appears passed after WIPO decision - WIPO decides not to accept late response to objection. World Intellectual Property Organization has made a determination that it will not accept a late response to a Legal Rights Objection against .axis, thereby effectively killing off Saudi Telecom Company’s bid for the top level domain. Axis Communications AB filed the objection against the .axis application. Saudi Telecom then submitted its response to the objection too late. This resulted in ICANN Ombudsman ... read more ...
 
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With .Sex, some-more explanation a ICDR doesn’t have the act together - Despite what the official list says, SX Registry lost its objection against .sex. So I’m going through the updated list of string confusion objection decisions when I think I’ve hit a great story: SX Registry SA has prevailed in its string confusion objection against the .sex domain name! This is a goldmine story for me. There are so many great headlines I could write about this one. So I start to write my story and do some research on the .sx country code as ... read more ...
Mon 23rd September 2013
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Comparing private vs. final review new TLD auctions - In private auctions, applicants bid less than the valuation they place on the string. There have been two rounds of private auctions (that we know about) to settle top level domain contention sets. The first one included six TLDs and totaled $9.01 million. The second included 8 strings and totaled $9.65 million. That’s an average of $1.5 million per string in the first auction and $1.2 million in the second. So are the applicants in these auctions valuing the typical ... read more ...
 
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Domain name registry OpenRegistry picks adult 2M EUR financing - OpenRegistry, which operates .sx and is the registry provider for a number of new TLDs, has raised a round of funding. Domain name registry OpenRegistry announced today that it is raising 2M euro. The registry already provides technical services to run Saint Martin’s .sx domain name. 21 applicants for new top level domain names selected OpenRegistry to provide registry services, although a couple have withdrawn. Some of the bigger names selecting OpenRegistry include ... read more ...
Fri 20th September 2013
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ICANN admits new TLD auctions are delayed - The first ICANN auctions to settle new top level domain contention sets could take place in the middle of November. In a new top level domain applicant update webinar yesterday, ICANN VP of gTLD Operations Christine Willett admitted that new TLD auctions won’t start in October as previously planned. The start date has been pushed to the middle of November. This shouldn’t come as any surprise to applicants, especially given the number of outstanding issues that ... read more ...
Thu 19th September 2013
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Donuts loses another conflict to .Pets domain name - Another panelist finds that .pet and .pets are too similar to both be delegated as top level domain names How many pets are there?Apparently two panelists agree: .Pets and .Pet should be in a contention set because they’ll cause confusion amongst internet users. International Centre for Dispute Resolution just posted a decision (pdf) by panelist Richard Page for Google’s objection to Donuts’ application for .pets. Google argued that having both .pet and .pets ... read more ...
Mon 16th September 2013
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Interisle cashes in as new TLD hopefuls compensate for some-more data - New TLD applicants turn to Interisle for more data in effort to avoid more delays. Interisle Consulting Group dropped a bombshell on new top level domain name applicants when it submitted its 197 page report to ICANN about name collisions and new top level domain names. As a result of the report, about 20% of applied-for strings were grouped into an “uncalculated risk” pool, which means that they could face three to six months of delays as ICANN further studies ... read more ...
 
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How most will good keyword domain names sell for in new TLDs? - Supply and demand will push prices for good keyword second level domains down in alternate TLDs. Sales of premium domain names have been a revenue driver for top level domain registries as they’ve launched new domains in recent years. Will this be the case with new top level domain names that come out in the next year or two? I doubt it. It’s a simple supply and demand equation, and it’s the same reason that existing second level domain names in “second tier” ... read more ...
Fri 13th September 2013
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9 String Confusion Objections dismissed, Commercial Connect loses 8 - .Shop applicant Commercial Connect is the big loser in the latest batch of String Confusion Objections. After a long drought, International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) has posted an updated list of String Confusion Objection decisions. Today’s list includes nine more determinations, all found in favor of the applicant for the domains. First, Verisign lost its objection to Donuts’ application for .network. Verisign argued that it was too similar to .net. The ... read more ...