Tag Archives: new tlds

Mon 1st April 2013
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Outrageous and foolish numbers about new tip turn domains - Michael spotted an article about new TLDs over at AdWeek today. The article is about how much it will cost brands to protect their brands when new TLDs come online. It liberally quotes Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the Association of National Advertisers, and that shows in the ridiculous numbers the article quotes. Take a look at the infographic and then come back here… OK, you’re back. Let’s blow this infographic apart. 1. The first assumption is how ... read more ...
Fri 29th March 2013
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ICC publishes initial list of new TLD Community Objections - Group posts first 28 objections. International Chamber of Commerce, which is handling new TLD objections for community objections and limited public interest objections, has published a list of pending cases. The list so far includes 28 objections. All of the published limited public interest pbjections were already known as they were filed by the independent objector. But the community objections include some new ones. Community Objections include: The International ... read more ...
Thu 28th March 2013
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A confused accountant in 2015 - Accountant (answering phone): Smith CPA, may I help you? Salesperson: Hi Mr. Smith. Did you know that you can now get a web address that ends in .accountant, rather than your existing .com domain? Accountant: I didn’t. Why would I do that? Salesperson: It will help you get more business online. Visitors will instantly recognize that you’re an accountant. And it’s only $25 a year. Accountant: Interesting. OK, I’ll take smith.accountant. Salesperson: Great! One ... read more ...
 
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Verisign to ICANN: not prepared for new TLDs - Verisign claims insufficient preparation (mostly technical) for new top level domains. Verisign has sent a report to ICANN (and filed it with the Securities and Exchange Commission) that basically says that the internet isn’t prepared new top level domains yet. The report outlines multiple issues, ranging from automated TLD additions to the root (of which Verisign plays a role), lack of emergency backend providers, and lack of final plans for zone file and escrow. From ... read more ...
 
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.Online is only a commencement of new TLD partnership announcements - Partnerships are a key way contention sets will be resolved. Get ready for a number of new TLD partnerships. Yesterday Tucows, NameCheap, and Directi (see disclosure) announced a partnership for the .online top level domain name. The three companies were part of a crowded field of six applicants vying for the domain name. By combining forces, they’ll have more money to get the top level domain (which will likely be awarded in an auction). If they succeed, they’ll ... read more ...
Wed 27th March 2013
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United States Postal Services only squandered your income objecting to .mail tip turn domain - USPS should stick to delivering mail. This morning World Intellectual Property Organization posted that the United States Postal Service has objected to the seven applications to run a .mail top level domain. Really, USPS? First of all, the type of objection filed (legal rights objection) is designed as a vehicle for trademark holders. Last time I checked the USPS didn’t have a trademark on “mail”. Here are the criteria for a legal rights objection: (i) takes ... read more ...
Mon 25th March 2013
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Pinterest objects to Amazon’s skeleton for .Pin domain name - Pinterest sticks a pin in Amazon’s .pin top level domain application. Pinterest has filed a legal rights objection against Amazon.com over its application to run the .pin top level domain. As with Amazon’s other top level domain applications, it plans to operate .pin as a closed registry and will not offer second level domain names to consumers and businesses. While you can understand what Amazon would do with other domain names it has applied for, such as .book ... read more ...
 
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Company objects to Chinese IDNs over contractual and obvious rights - Group that partnered with Chinese government for IDNs claims that new TLDs will infringe contractual and intellectual property rights. A legal rights objection is supposed to be filed based on trademarks, but a Singapore company has filed two objections based on alleged contractual terms and patent rights. i-DNS.net says it has filed objections against Chinese Network Information Center (“CNNIC”) and China Organizational Name Administration Center (“CONAC”) ... read more ...
Fri 22nd March 2013
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Here’s how new TLD objections work - An explanation of new top level domain objections. Yesterday I wrote about a number of objections filed against new top level domain applications. I also explained the four types of objections. So just how do these objections work? In a lot of ways they are modeled after UDRP, except the fees are higher and there’s more flexibility. There’s also no precedent to go on, either, which is no small matter. Similar to UDRP, ICANN has set its own rules for Dispute Resolution ... read more ...
 
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27 new TLDs have upheld their initial evaluation - First batch of new TLDs have passed initial evaluation. Today was a big milestone in the new top level domain name process. ICANN’s new top level domain application status page is now showing the first top level domain names to pass Initial Evaluation. As of the time of writing, 27 domains have passed initial evaluation. Because they were given precedence in the new TLD prioritization draw, all 27 are internationalized domain names. Of the first 28 prioritization ... read more ...
Thu 21st March 2013
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Objection! What objections opposite Donuts’ TLDs uncover us about a subsequent proviso of a new TLD game - An early look at new TLD objections shows some questionable claims. The deadline to file objections against new top level domain applications was March 13. Dispute resolution providers are slowly posting the objections, but it looks like what has been posted so far is just the tip of the iceberg. Donuts, the largest TLD applicant with 307 applications, has informed Domain Name Wire that it received around 40 objections. Donuts provided details on a limited number ... read more ...
Wed 20th March 2013
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Demand Media sets adult Dublin bureau for domain services - Company makes formal announcement about operations in Ireland. Demand Media announced today that it is opening its international headquarters for the company’s domain services business in Dublin, Ireland. Demand Media is serving as the backend registry provider for its own top level domains (applied for under United TLD Holdco Ltd.) as well as Donuts’. United TLD has applied for 26 top level domains and Donuts has applied for 307. Of course, many of these domains ... read more ...
Tue 19th March 2013
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FairSearch files grave objections opposite Google’s .search, .fly and .map TLD applications - Group claims three TLDs would give Google an unfair competitive advantage. A consortium that promotes competition in search has filed objections against three of Google’s top level domain bids. Robin Wauters with The Next Web was the first to write about the objections this morning. FairSearch filed objections with International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) over .search, .fly, and .map. ICC is one of three dispute resolutions providers hearing new TLD objections. ICC ... read more ...
 
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Why a DOJ retard on new TLD auctions doesn’t make sense - I have a hard time understanding how a private auction would be illegal in the case of new TLD allocation. A couple weeks ago a new TLD applicant told me they weren’t participating in private TLD auctions because they thought the auctions would ran afoul of U.S. laws. Now we have some confirmation that there are at least legitimate concerns, as Uniregistry announced that the Department of Justice declined to issue a business review on the topic. (It was an oral ... read more ...
Wed 13th March 2013
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Here’s a biggest emanate confronting a domain marketplace in 2013 - How new TLDs will affect domain market is a top concern. Ask people in the domain industry what the “biggest issue facing the domain name market in 2013″ is, and a lot of them will tell you its new top level domain names. 30% of people who responded to the question on this year’s Domain Name Wire survey cited new TLDs as the biggest issue facing the market this year. With some of the new domains hitting market in 2013, we’ll start to see what impact these ... read more ...
Wed 6th March 2013
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Breaking: Go Daddy to repel applications for .Home and .Casa tip turn domains - Domain registrar abandons plans for its own top level domains. Go Daddy is abandoning its applications for the .home and .casa top level domains, the company announced today. Go Daddy CEO Blake Irving announced the news at its Registry Days conference in Phoenix today. The event is designed to start a dialogue with new top level domain applicants that may wish to sell their domains through Go Daddy — including applicants that have rival bids for the .home and .casa ... read more ...
Thu 21st February 2013
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A elementary doubt each .brand applicant should ask their consultant today - With deadline looming for partial refund, now is the time for TLD applicants to do a gut check. They aren’t quite dropping like flies, but .brand top level domain applicants are starting to pull out. GM is withdrawing all of its bids. Hasbro is gone. Eli Lilly pulled one of its drug names. Suddenly, I suspect a lot of brand owners will rethink their decision to apply for a new top level domain — especially those beyond their core brand. Although GM gave a general ... read more ...
Wed 20th February 2013
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ICANN vouchsafing registrar negotiations reason new TLDs hostage - No new agreement, no new TLDs. Last week I wrote about how ICANN’s latest proposed registry agreement for new TLD operators. The agreement mandates that new TLD operators use only domain registrars that have signed the new Registrar Accreditation Agreement with ICANN. The problem is that the RAA doesn’t exist yet. As far as we know, it’s still be negotiated. And negotiations are contentious. Michele Neylon of Irish registrar Blacknight submitted comments to ... read more ...
Fri 15th February 2013
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April 23 for a new TLD approval? Will anyone be means to sell them? - ICANN CEO sets a surprising date for the first new TLD approval. ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé has disclosed a target date of April 23 to recommend for delegation the first new top level domain. [Note: I originally misheard Chehadé in the video to say April 23 would be the date of delegation, not to recommend for delegation. That takes some pressure off.] Although he admits the timeline might slip, he suggests it will be a slippage of days or weeks, not months. That sounds ... read more ...
Wed 13th February 2013
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Why I’m not worried by sealed general tip turn domain names - As a domain investor, I find it difficult to oppose the idea of closed generic top level domains. There’s been a lot of talk in the domain industry about “closed generic” top level domain names. A closed generic is a generic term (non brand) such as .baby, .kid, .cloud, in which the applicant wants to keep all of the second level domains for themselves. If the applicant wants to run a closed registry on .cloud, that means no one other than the applicant would ... read more ...
Thu 31st January 2013
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Kieren McCarthy to turn Executive Director of IFFOR - McCarthy takes bigger role in IFFOR and group offers policy making services. Former ICANN General Manager of Public Participation Kieren McCarthy will become Executive Director of IFFOR this April. McCarthy has been IFFOR’s manager of public participation since 2011. He will replace outgoing executive director Joan Irvine. IFFOR, which stands for International Foundation for Online Responsibility, was set up as part of the .xxx domain name launch. IFFOR gets $10 ... read more ...
Fri 25th January 2013
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New TLD applicant that misspelled fibre finally fixes it - Kerry Trading Co. finally fixes a typo in its top level domain application. ICANN has posted 369 updated new top level domain applications, but most of the updates so far have been changes to directors, addresses, etc. But one of the recent changes is bigger. Kerry Trading Co. Limited has finally fixed a huge typo in one of its top level domain applications. The company meant to apply for .KerryLogistics, but accidentally typed kerrylogisitics. into the string field ... read more ...
Wed 2nd January 2013
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L’Oreal Chief Digital Officer to keynote new TLD conference - L’Oreal to discuss its new TLD plans at conference. L’Oreal Chief Digital Officer Georges-Edouard Dias will be a keynote speaker at the Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress in March. The even takes place March 11-12 at the Dream Downtown Hotel in New York City. This will be one of the first “end user” applicants to speak about new top level domains at a conference and it should be interesting to learn more about the company’s plans. L’Oreal has applied ... read more ...
Fri 28th December 2012
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2012 Domain Dunce: TAS and Digital Archery - “Glitch” filled system gets Domain Dunce honors in 2012. ICANN’s new top level domain program is the most watched initiative in the non-profit’s entire history. So you’d think ICANN would have double and triple checked all of the technology supporting it, including the TLD Application System (TAS). Alas, TAS failed. Big time. In April ICANN had to take the system offline due to a technical “glitch”. The glitch made it possible for some applicants to ... read more ...
Wed 28th November 2012
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Announcement on daub about that new TLDs will get priority diagnosis in ICANN’s Powerball - Which new TLDs will get to skip to the front of the queue? We’ll find out soon. Fortunately for new top level domain applicants, the chances of getting a top spot in December’s top level domain “prioritization draw” are much better than winning tonight’s $550 million Powerball lottery. Unfortunately, tickets to the draw cost quite a bit more (and I’m not talking about the $100 ticket fee.) But many applicants still have questions about whether certain ... read more ...