Tag Archives: new tlds

Wed 9th May 2012
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ICANN refunds thought was a reticent move - Offering an additional $5,000 refund just draws more attention to ICANN’s top level domain system failure. ICANN’s offer to refund 100% of applicant fees if new gTLD applicants pull their applications was a dumb move. First, this offer isn’t a big deal. It’s an offer of $5,000 more (just 3%) than the refund schedule previously in place offered if you withdrew your application before names were revealed. Second, will this offer actually prompt people to recall ... read more ...
 
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DNW Interview: Go Daddy relates for .godaddy and dual other TLDs - Warren Adelman discloses new TLD applications and discusses the challenges of offering more domain choices to customers. Go Daddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, has applied for three top level domains, CEO Warren Adelman told Domain Name Wire today. (News of the applications was first reported by Paul Sloan at CNET). The company has applied for its own .brand domain .godaddy, as well as two additional top level domains (TLD). That’s a lot less than ... read more ...
Tue 8th May 2012
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Demand Media invests $18 million in new TLDs - That’s a whole lotta top level domains. [Updated with comment from Demand Media and from investor call] Demand Media, parent company of eNom, announced today that it has invested $18 million into new top level domain names. It’s not clear if this is for application fees only: In April 2012, Demand Media invested $18 million in pursuit of its generic Top Level Domain (“gTLD”) initiative, which it believes represents a complementary strategic growth opportunity ... read more ...
 
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.Nxt discussion heads to London subsequent month - .Nxt moves across the pond. The third .Nxt conference covering issues related to new top level domains takes place June 20-22 at Victoria Park Plaza in London. I caught up with show founder Kieren McCarthy yesterday to discuss his latest show. After holding two conferences in San Francisco, McCarthy said a number of interested attendees asked him to hold a show in Europe. With ICANN holding a meeting in Prague starting June 24, McCarthy felt that a stop of in London ... read more ...
Mon 7th May 2012
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Donuts and Minds + Machines updates on TAS and new TLDs - Interesting posts from the perspective of new TLD applicants. The new TLD delay continues and ICANN just released the total number of applications received so far (over 2,000). So what does this mean for new TLD applicants? Two of the largest recently published blog posts that shed some light on it. First, eNom founder Paul Stahura (now with new TLD applicant Donuts Inc) wrote about the application glitch and how it could affect applications. Donuts saw one other ... read more ...
Thu 3rd May 2012
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Should ICANN can digital archery? - Given the latest data, ICANN should consider changing how it batches new TLDs. With 1,268 registered users for ICANN’s new top level domain application system, it’s clear there will be over 1,000 unique top level domains going through the new TLD process. That means we’ll have “batching“, where approximately 500 domains at a time go through the full evaluation and addition to the root. The current plan for determining which 500 applications go into each ... read more ...
Wed 2nd May 2012
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ICANN: 105 new TLD field might have had information exposed - ICANN releases data about new top level domain application system bug. 105 applicants for new top level domains might have had the filenames of some of their application documents and their username exposed, ICANN revealed today. The non-profit also revealed that 50 applicants might have been able to view these details. Of course, just because filenames or usernames were exposed doesn’t mean that someone actually saw them or knew what they were seeing. And even ... read more ...
Fri 9th December 2011
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8 probable headlines for yesterday’s New TLD hearing - How do you describe an uneventful congressional hearing? Yesterday the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing about the introduction of new top level domains. The session, lightly attended by senators, was a bit bland. But here are 8 possible headlines I could think of after watching yesterday. Cybersquatters: they’re like pedophiles Disney sues Congress over use of Mickey Mouse image in congressional hearing New TLD hearing confused with whois policy discussion ICANN ... read more ...
Thu 1st September 2011
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Instra Joins New TLD Services Field, Adds Competition to .Brand Services - New TLD consultant won’t charge application consulting fees to .brand owners that use its other services. Instra is the latest company to court potential new top level domain name applicants with a services and registry suite. The company, which owns a domain name registrar that caters to brand holders, is putting continued price pressure on services offered to .brand applicants. Instra will offer free application consulting to .brand applicants that manage their ... read more ...
Tue 2nd August 2011
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9 Reasons Your New TLD Will Fail - Not all TLDs will fail. But here’s why yours will. Are you thinking about applying for a new top level domain name when the application window opens in January? Here are some things to consider — reasons your new TLD might be doomed to fail. 1. You pick a TLD that’s too broad. Here I’m thinking mostly about something like .sport. Yes, there’s a sporting community. But they tend to identify with particular sports or types of sports. .Sport is just too broad. ... read more ...
Wed 27th July 2011
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Top 5 Tips for New Top-Level Domain Applicants - by Michael Twist Michael Twist is a Top-Level Domain specialist with AusRegistry International. You can read more from AusRegistry about new TLDs at www.beyondcom.info. So, you’ve heard about ICANN’s new Top-Level Domain (TLD) Program and you’re thinking about the best way to get involved so you can gain a slice of the of the $5 billion dollar domain name industry. You might be an entrepreneur out to make your next million, a brand looking to make a statement ... read more ...
Mon 18th July 2011
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Former ICANN Chairman Joins Minds + Machines - Peter Dengate Thrush joins publicly traded company poised to profit from new top level domain names. That was quick. Less than a month after pushing through a vote approving the new top level domain name program at his last meeting as ICANN Chairman, Peter Dengate Thrush has joined a company applying for new top level domain names. Dengate Thrush will join Top Level Domain Holdings (parent company of Minds + Machines) as Executive Chairman. His compensation package ... read more ...
Thu 14th July 2011
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Another Day, Another New TLD Trademark Application: .Store - Pair files three trademark applications for .store. More people are trying to trademark potential top level domain names now that ICANN has approved the program. The latest attempt is by Eric Doerr of Delaware and Greg Disler of Pennsylvania. The pair filed applications for three marks; two for .store and one for dotStore. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office won’t issue trademarks for top level domain names, but that hasn’t stopped people from trying to slide ... read more ...
Wed 6th July 2011
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Only $750k To Raise Awareness of New TLDs? Seriously? - Raising awareness about new TLDs on a microscopic budget. If you’re about to usher in what Peter Dengate Thrush calls “the biggest change I think we have seen on the Internet”, how much would you spend to raise awareness of a limited application window to take advantage of that change? Let’s also say applicants have to pay $185,000 and you expect $100 million in application fees. Surely you’d plan to spend a good chunk of change on advertising. Or not. As ... read more ...
Wed 29th June 2011
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Neustar Offers $10k a Year .Brand Domain Names - A dormant .brand domain for $10,000 a year (plus ICANN fees). Domain name registry Neustar has created a new package for companies wishing to get their own .brand top level domain names. Called the “Brand Assurance Package” (pdf), it’s a bare bones solution that seems to be geared to companies that may want to get a .brand but have no idea if they’ll ever do anything with it. For $10,000 a year, Neustar guarantees companies will “meet ICANN specifications ... read more ...
Wed 22nd June 2011
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Two Things that Could Derail a New Top Level Domain Timeline - Government action and lawsuits could slow down new TLD rollout. So ICANN has approved the new top level domain name program and set out the timeline. Full steam ahead? There are two possible forces that could slow this down. One would be some sort of government action. Governments aren’t happy, and there’s that looming IANA contract expiration coming up later this year. The U.S. could use it to force concessions. As I’ve noted before, any delay in new TLDs ... read more ...
Tue 21st June 2011
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Esther Dyson Calls B.S. On New Top Level Domain Names - Founding chair of ICANN’s board says new TLDs are a waste of money. On the way into work this morning I heard yet another report about new top level domain names, this time on NPR. The report interviewed Esther Dyson. Among her many experiences was being the founding chairwoman of ICANN. So what did she have to say about new top level domain names? “I think it’s kind of a useless market,” she says, “and if I had $185,000, I’d spend it on something else.” … ... read more ...
Mon 20th June 2011
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Coming Soon: a Web of a Haves and Have Nots - If .brand TLDs work, the incumbents will win. I don’t think opening the floodgates to new top level domain names will have a monumental impact on the web, especially for brands that want to register a .brand domain name. But let’s assume for a moment that it does. Let’s also assume that companies are able to leverage their .brand domain names in a way that gives them a competitive advantage; whether it be against cybersquatting, in search engines, or for marketing. That’s ... read more ...
Tue 31st May 2011
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Latest New TLD Applicant Guidebook Still Disses Go Daddy, Demand Media - Companies still fall victim to anti-cybersquatting rule for new TLD applicants. The latest (but certainly not final) version of the new top level domain name guidebook still includes a provision that, at least by the spirit of the clause, would prevent Go Daddy and Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) from applying for new top level domain names. Section 1.2.1 of the May 20 release (large pdf) includes a laundry list of reasons why an applicant would be barred from registering ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Deletes Parked Domain Question from New TLD Guidebook - Applicants no longer asked to explain restrictions on domain name parking. A controversial and intriguing addition to the previous applicant guidebook for new top level domain names has been deleted. The April version included a new clause that applicants would have to explain “Will you impose any constraints on parked sites, or sites that offer only advertising?” That clause has been struck from the May 30 version of the guidebook. The question about domain parking ... read more ...
 
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New TLD Guidebook Won’t Be Approved in Singapore - The guidebook itself won’t be done — but ICANN will approve something in June. I’ve gone through the latest version of the new top level domain name applicant guidebook and read ICANN’s explanation of what it is. I’d call it version 0.7 (beta). And I’d argue that there will be no approval of the guidebook at June’s ICANN meeting in Singapore. Instead, ICANN hopes to loosely “approve the new gTLD program”. It’s right there in ICANN’s introduction ... read more ...
Thu 12th May 2011
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Tucows Handicaps a Chances of New TLDs Kicking Off In Singapore - Will the new TLD application process finally get approved next month? For a while it looked assured that the new top level domain name applicant guidebook would get the green light at ICANN’s meeting in Singapore this June. But then Lawrence Strickling, head of the NTIA, said he didn’t think this was possible unless ICANN got on board with government demands. So what does Tucows CEO Elliot Noss think the chances are? BMO Capital Markets analyst Thanos Moschopoulos ... read more ...
Tue 29th March 2011
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New TLD Watch: .Now - Company files to protect .Now. A Denmark company has filed two trademark applications with the United States Patent and Trademark office for a .now top level domain name. A company called Global Top Level Aps filed applications for .Now and DOTNOW on March 24. It also filed for European Community protection last December. Global Top Level Aps is not the first applicant for a .now service mark, although previous applicants didn’t have top level domain names in mind. St. ... read more ...
Mon 21st February 2011
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Here Come a .Brand Top Level Domain Names - .Brand domain names are on their way, but how they’re used is still an open question. One of the specific uses of new top level domain names that has always confused me is the .brand domain name, such as .nike. I’ve often asked how someone would actually visit .nike and received very loose answers. So when I saw that CentralNic launched a new service called DotBrand Solutions, I jumped on the opportunity to talk to CEO Ben Crawford. So just how will people visit ... read more ...
Tue 15th February 2011
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Go Daddy Devises “Pay for Placement” Idea for New gTLD Operators - Patent describes system where new top level domain operators can bid for preferred placement registrar sites. Want to get your new top level domain name positioned well on GoDaddy? Prepare to pay. That’s the idea behind a pay-for-placement approach for TLD placement on registrar web sites that Go Daddy has devised. Oh, and it has a patent on it. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. patent 7,890,602 (pdf) to Go Daddy today for “Tools enabling preferred ... read more ...