Tag Archives: new tlds

Wed 28th November 2012
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Noss: use new TLD auction deduction to move some-more internet to Africa - Elliot Noss argues that auction proceeds should be used to fun wireless internet in Africa. Tucows CEO Elliot Noss, along with “internet in a suitcase” advocate Sascha Meinrath, have penned an op-ed for Slate arguing that new TLD auction proceeds should be used to grow internet access in Africa. In ICANN, Make a Difference, the pair suggests that the auction process for new top level domains might bring in $100 million to ICANN. Since the new TLD program is already ... read more ...
Tue 27th November 2012
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Book review: Domain Names Rewired - New book discusses the potential of more top level domain names. Before reading Domain Names Rewired, a new book by Jennifer Wolfe and Anne Chasser, I knew I was going to have two challenges with the book. First, I knew I’d disagree with many of the supposed benefits of new top level domains that the authors would espouse. Second, since the new TLD program is such a moving target, I couldn’t imagine how a book on the topic could remain relevant through the publishing ... read more ...
Wed 21st November 2012
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Huh? Australia gives 129 GAC early warnings - Whining down under. Yesterday over 200 GAC early warnings to new top level domain applicants were published. The biggest complainer? Australia. The country filed early warnings on 129 top level domain names covering everything from .baby to .weather. ’cause you know, weather is such a controversial thing. One of Australia’s big peeves is that groups want to use generic terms exclusively. That’s its complaint about both .baby and .weather. Johnson Johnson wants ... read more ...
 
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Watch ICANN’s new TLD lottery online - The biggest sweepstakes in the history of ICANN. ICANN will hold its new TLD lottery “prioritization draw” on December 17 in Los Angeles. The results will be used to determine the order in which initial evaluation results are released. This will have some correlation to when you can actually get your TLD live on the web, so it’s a big deal. ICANN is doing four things for the draw that I think are smart: 1. It’s at the Hilton LAX. You can literally fly into ... read more ...
Tue 13th November 2012
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The Domain Venture Partners new TLD representation deck - New TLD applicant hoped to raise up to £100 million, targeted 40%+ annual returns. In August a Florida man filed a lawsuit claiming he invested $123,000 into a business to run the .bim new top level domain that didn’t get off the ground. The suit names Domain Venture Partners PCC Limited, which is an applicant for 60 top level domain names. Domain Venture Partners’ (DVP) applications were all filed in conjunction with Famous Four Media but through various subsidiary ... read more ...
Fri 2nd November 2012
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ICANN publishes 29 change requests to new tip turn domains - VeriSign, DotConnectAfrica among applicants requesting changes. A lot of new top level domain name applicants have requested changes to their new top level domain applications. As of 29 October, ICANN has received 138 change requests and approved and posted 29. You can now see which applications have posted change requests by going to the current application status web page. Scroll to the right and there’s a column labeled “application updates”. Some of the ... read more ...
Fri 26th October 2012
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Man claims he and friends were hoodwinked for $123,000 in new tip turn domain scheme - Man says he and friends invested $123,000 for new top level domain project that never got off the ground. [Update: the lawsuit has been dropped.] A Florida man has filed a lawsuit alleging he was duped by a new top level domain name scheme. David Ways planned to apply for the .bim top level domain name. According to the lawsuit, Ways says he contacted VeriSign about his plans and they referred him to Iain Roache as a potential funding source. Roache is listed as the ... read more ...
Thu 27th September 2012
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Wall Street Journal names new TLD association Donuts to Top 50 Startups - WSJ ranks Donuts #14 on list of top startups. The Wall Street Journal just released its rankings of the top 50 venture-capital-backed companies, and new top level domain name company Donuts made the cut. It actually did better than just make the cut, landing at #14 on the list. It’s also the youngest company on the list. The company has just eight employees but has raised $100 million. It’s the biggest top level domain applicant by far, throwing its hat (and money) ... read more ...
Tue 25th September 2012
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USPS on Donuts: You’re undercapitalized - USPS fears Donuts won’t deliver on .delivery. Well, this is amusing. The United State Postal Service has just filed a comment on Donuts’ application for the .delivery top level domain name. What’s the USPS concerned about? That Donuts is undercapitalized to run its domain names. Here’s what @thereforeicann has to say about that: The comments were submitted by USPS lawyers Lewis and Roca LLP for the Financial Capability Evaluation Panel. Subject line: “Insufficient ... read more ...
Tue 18th September 2012
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YouGov research: many UK businesses wakeful of new tip turn domains? - Really? .uk registry Nominet recently worked with YouGov to poll businesses in the UK about new top level domain names. The press release headline read “British businesses largely unprepared for new gTLDs”. The headline number: 41% of British businesses surveyed are currently unaware of the new domains. Wait a minute. That means close to 60% of businesses surveyed are aware of new top level domain names coming online. That’s a staggeringly high number to me. ... read more ...
Tue 11th September 2012
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Two things that new TLDs really won’t “solve” - They won’t put a noticeable dent in phishing, nor will they alleviate the scarcity of good (.com) domain names. There are a lot of benefits that new top level domain supporters say the web will realize when new TLDs are released. Let me start by saying that I’m not really opposed to new TLDs at this point. They’re coming. It’s time to embrace it and the opportunities they will create. But I get very frustrated when I see people espousing so-called benefits ... read more ...
Wed 5th September 2012
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4 new TLD applications withdrawn - Google and one .brand applicant withdraw applications. Kudos to Michele Neylon for spotting an option on ICANN’s web site to see which new top level domain name applications have been withdrawn. Thus far four applications have been withdrawn, including three by Google. The three by Google should not come as a huge surprise. ICANN Senior VP Kurt Pritz previously announced that three application had been withdrawn, and you can thank Kevin Murphy for that. Murphy earlier ... read more ...
Mon 27th August 2012
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Four domain name panels on a list for SXSW - Topics range from new TLDs to government interference. SXSW 2013 is more than six months away, but there are just a few days left to vote for which panels you want to see. The SXSW Panel Picker closes August 31. I discovered four domain name related panels in the panel picker. Here they are, along with a link to their full description. New Domains Have Landed – Now What!? Speaker: Jeremiah Johnston, Sedo Jeremiah Johnston gave a “Future 15″ presentation on new ... read more ...
Thu 23rd August 2012
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.Nxt discussion is .gone - New top level domain name conference scheduled for next week is cancelled. A conference can survive one cancellation if there are extenuating circumstances. That may have been the case with the .Nxt conference previously scheduled for June in London. ICANN had postponed the release of the list of new top level domain name applications, which was a big milestone scheduled for ahead of the conference. But a conference will not survive a second cancellation, especially ... read more ...
Sat 18th August 2012
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6 ways to solve new tip turn domain “metering” problem - Six examples of ways to meter top level domains, but many of them are basically the same things. ICANN plans to allow only 1,000 new top level domain names into the root per year, and as evenly as possible over a 12 months time span. Its initial idea for figuring out which domains go first — so called “digital archery” — was scrapped. Now the non-profit has come up with six new alternatives. It hopes to figure out a solution by December. Here are six examples ... read more ...
Wed 1st August 2012
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Demand Media and Donuts respond to lawyer’s accusations about TLD eligibility - Companies respond to allegations about their eligibility to run top level domain names. This morning I (and a handful of other bloggers) received a copy of a letter written by McCarter English partner Jeffrey Stoler calling into question Demand Media’s and Donut’s eligibility for applying for new top level domains. The crux of the issue that Stoler brings up (pdf) is ICANN’s three strikes rule. The rule says that if you’ve been on the losing end of three ... read more ...
 
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One chairman submits 467 comments on new tip turn domain applications - That’s a whole lot of work. If you visit the new top level domain comments site today, you’re going to be doing quite a big of pagination before you see any unique comments. That’s because one person — a trademark manager at Sunkist Growers, Inc. — has submitted a whopping 467 comments on individual applications. They’re all the same comment. But this must have taken some serious time given how cumbersome it apparently is to submit comments. The comments ... read more ...
Tue 31st July 2012
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GmbH applicant files U.S. heading application - Company wants to trademark GMBH. TLDDOT GmbH, an applicant for the top level domain .GmbH, has filed an intent-to-use trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the mark “GMBH”. Seriously. GmbH is basically the equivalent of an LLC (Limited Liability Company) in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and other Central European nations. The application lists three goods and services: 1. Advertising and commercial information services, via the ... read more ...
Sun 29th July 2012
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ICANN deliberation singular collection for evaluation, though not for recover of new TLDs - New TLDs will still be metered even if evaluated in one batch. ICANN is seeking community input on its latest ideas for how to batch new top level domain names. In its call for comments, it states that it still plans to limit the addition of new top level domains to the root to 1,000 per year. It also wants to spread the additions to the root out over time rather than adding 1,000 at once. The group says that it has the capabilities to evaluate all 1,930 applications ... read more ...
Wed 25th July 2012
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.Tickets applicant files heading applications for new tip turn domain - Company files trademark applications for .tickets and dottickets. .Tickets is up there on the list of most contested top level domain applications. Five companies have applied for the name. Applicant Shubert Internet last week filed two intent-to-use trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The applications are for “.tickets” and “dottickets”. In addition to goods and services related to event ticketing, the company says the names ... read more ...
Wed 11th July 2012
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Would giveaway domains invert a sell domain market? - There will be plenty of free and low cost domain registration options, but don’t expect them to have a big impact on the domain registration market. I’ve had a number of conversations with people over the past month about the idea of free (as in no cost) domain names. Will some new top level domain applicants give their domains away for free? Will this upend the market for domain registrations? In short, I think the answers are “yes” to the former and “no” ... read more ...
Wed 27th June 2012
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.Nxt discussion rescheduled for August - London top level domain conference moved due to program delays. Kieren McCarthy’s .Nxt conference about new top level domain names has been rescheduled for August 29-31. The event was originally scheduled for last week, but became of a victim of ICANN’s delayed announcement of new top level domain applicants. Canceling or moving the dates of a conference can be a death knell, but given the circumstances this was probably a smart move by McCarthy. Now that the ... read more ...
Tue 26th June 2012
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If we play a ICANN game, design to get burned - More wasted money and resources. Get used to it. It’s never pretty seeing the sausage get made. It hasn’t been pretty seeing the new TLD program launch. A handful of companies invested a lot of money early on as they worked to help form ICANN’s new top level domain program. As the program creation process dragged on they spent money on salaries, office space, etc. As it became clear that the process was going to take longer than expected they ended up laying ... read more ...
Mon 25th June 2012
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.Art and .Church heading a competition for open comments on tip turn domain applications - Public comments on new TLD applications range from boring to misinformed. Anyone with an email address (and I do mean anyone) can comment on any one of the nearly 2,000 top level domain applications. As of right now there are 161 submitted comments, mostly covering just a handful of proposed top level domains. Many of the comments are predictable. As we saw with .xxx, religious folk do a good job with email blast campaigns. So there’s plenty of “support” for ... read more ...
Wed 20th June 2012
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Early .Green devotee fights 3 other field for domain name - The green domain space gets crowded. Competition to run the top level domain .green is heating up (and heating up is not a word revered by the green community). Four companies have submitted applications to ICANN to run the domain name: DotGreen Community, Inc., Demand Media, Top Level Domain Holdings, and Afilias. DotGreen Community was the first company to announce a bid for the domain. It was founded in 2007 and started touting its plans for a .green domain name ... read more ...