Tag Archives: new tlds

Mon 14th February 2011
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.nxt – Like an ICANN Meeting With a Pulse - by Kevin Murphy The inaugural .nxt conference on new top-level domains wound up in San Francisco Thursday, with most participants seeming to agree that it was a success. The two-day meeting attracted 196 sign-ups (about 20 of whom apparently paid but did not ultimately show up to collect their badges) and almost 20 sponsors, not a bad showing for a first-of-its-kind event. The purpose of the conference was to provide a venue to discuss the business of new TLDs without ... read more ...
Sat 22nd January 2011
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New Top Level Domain Timeline Takes Another Hit - More delays likely to handle GAC issues. ICANN has released details about its upcoming meeting with the Governmental Advisory Committee regarding new top level domain names. Although the meeting will take place ahead of the ICANN meeting in San Francisco this March, the February 28-March 1 get together does not appear to be the final meeting between the two on the matter. As Kevin Murphy points out, ICANN’s release about the meeting states “This meeting is not ... read more ...
Mon 10th January 2011
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Popular .Music Initiative Files US Trademark Application - .Music backer files application for U.S. trademark. Constantinos Roussos has been aggressive in marketing his initiative for a .music top level domain name. He’s also voice displeasure that latecomers could derail his hopes by also applying for the .music top level domain. At the June 2010 ICANN meeting Roussos voiced his displeasure about latecomers to new TLDs “gaming” the system and asked ICANN for an extra point on community application weightings for ... read more ...
Fri 17th December 2010
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ICANN Extends Public Comment Period for New TLD Guidebook - More time to weigh in on new top level domain name plan. ICANN frequently extends the deadline to submit public comments on both major and minor issues. But this is done prior to the comment period ending to give people more time to consider how they want to weigh in. A number of people requested additional time to comment on the proposed Final Applicant Guidebook for new TLDs but were rebuffed and the comment period ended a week ago. Now it has risen from the ... read more ...
Thu 16th December 2010
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Possible New TLD Application Date: Aug 2011 - Application window for new TLDs could be pushed back to August. ICANN’s board set back the process for new top level domain names last week by agreeing to meet with the Governmental Advisory Committee in February to hash out their differences. How long will the delay be? Kevin Murphy discovered some recently disclosed ICANN staff documents that were used to estimate the previous application starting period of May 2011. Based on the assumptions in the staff documents, ... read more ...
Wed 8th December 2010
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Registry Group Asks ICANN To Remove All Pricing Rules on New TLDs - Registries want to remove all pricing controls on new top level domain names. ICANN’s Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) has submitted comments regarding the Proposed Final Applicant Guidebook for new top level domain names. One proposed change sticks out: requesting no notice requirements for price changes on top level domain names. As it stands in the guidebook right now, a registry for new TLDs must give 30 days notice prior to changing the cost of a new domain ... read more ...
Thu 2nd December 2010
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U.S. Government Calls for Delay to New Top Level Domain Names - Department of Commerce says ICANN board should not approve guidebook next week. In a scathing letter published today on ICANN’s web site, The United States Department of Commerce asked ICANN to not approve the launch of new TLDs during its meeting in Cartagena next week. The letter, signed by Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Lawrence Strickling, says that ICANN is not living up to its agreements in the Affirmation of Commitments. Strickling ... read more ...
Tue 9th November 2010
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Registration Opens for New Top Level Domain Conference - .nxt conference registration now available. If you think you’ve heard a lot about new top level domain names over the past couple years, you haven’t seen anything yet. Next year we may finally see the opening — and perhaps closing — of the application round. Which means it’s crunch time. Anyone interested in new top level domain names should consider attending the .nxt conference. Organized by former ICANN employee and journalist Kieren McCarthy, the ... read more ...
Wed 13th October 2010
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Process, Not Technical Limitations, will Throttle New Top Level Domains - 200-1,000 new top level domains could be added in first year. ICANN has released two documents related to the number of new top level domain names that may be added to the web per year. The first document is technical in nature, covering how many gTLDs can be added to the root in any year. I previously wrote that it was determined 1,000 new TLDs could be added to the root in a year without problems. But after reading this report it’s clear that 1,000 was used ... read more ...
Tue 28th September 2010
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Athens Plans .Athens Top Level Domain Name - Municipality wants .athens, but may run into challenges with trademark application. Add Athens to the list of municipalities that want to register their own top level domain names. I haven’t seen anything on the web about the city’s plans, but it filed two trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “.Athens” and “dot .athens” back in February. I hadn’t seen these yet because the original applications didn’t list domain names ... read more ...
Mon 27th September 2010
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ICANN Says It Can Scale Up to 1,000 New Top Level Domains a Year - Technical infrastructure can handle 1,000 new TLDs a year, but there will be other bottlenecks. One of the interesting things to come from ICANN’s closed door board retreat over the weekend is this tidbit: ICANN thinks it can delegate up to 1,000 top level domain names a year without technical root scaling problems. Staff has also developed a model and a rationale for the maximum rate of applications that can be processed over the next few years. Staff is directed ... read more ...
Thu 9th September 2010
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Top 100 Brands Secure .Co Domains Through Special Program - .Co trademark program concludes. .Co announced today that 100% of the world’s top 100 brands have secured their .co domain name through the registry’s Specially Protected Marks Program, or “SPM.” SPM provided a way for companies on the Deloitte Brand List to get their .co domains without the traditional expense and time required. Among the companies securing their .co domain through SPM are Facebook, Ferrari, Blackberry, Siemens, Sanyo, Amazon, Honda, ... read more ...
Wed 1st September 2010
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World Trademark Review Conducting Survey About New TLDs - Survey seeks opinions on new top level domain names. World Trademark Review is currently running a survey to understand attitudes and plans around the launch of new top level domain names. The survey is targeted to three groups: In-house trademark lawyers, private practice trademark lawyers, and marketing, web, and communications professionals. Each group receives slightly different questions on the survey. For example, in-house trademark lawyers are asked about ... read more ...
Thu 26th August 2010
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Will New gTLDs Be Successful? Distribution Will Be Key. - by Ken Hansen, Neustar [A big hurdle for new top level domains is getting attention as potentially hundreds of competitors are launched concurrently in the near future. In this guest post Ken Hansen, Senior Director of Business Development at Neustar, explains that getting good distribution from domain registrars is key. Neustar Registry Services operates the global registry for .biz and .us and provides back-end registry services for .co, .tel and .travel. -Andrew] Will ... read more ...
Tue 17th August 2010
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Company Wants Trademark for .Secure - I am assuming that you are referring to the .MUSIC trademarks and brand equity that we have created and will be expanding upon in the next few months. I think you were comparing apples with oranges here (.secure vs .MUSIC). We have just launched the second installation of our outreach campaign for communicating to the music industry and artists about .MUSIC and how we will help the music industry with our platform and innovations. We will be sponsoring, participating and be actively ... read more ...
Wed 11th August 2010
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Should Domainers Invest In Their Own Top Level Domain? - A new opportunity for domain investors is on the horizon. Domain investing is about to enter whole new era with the launch of new top level domain names. Regardless of if they like the idea of new TLDs or not, a number of domainers are evaluating starting their own top level domain names. Consider it diversification or hedging their bets. I caught up with Antony Van Couvering of Minds + Machines to get a run down of what you need to think about if you want to participate. It ... read more ...
Mon 26th July 2010
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After 3,000 Emails, No Consensus on Registry-Registrar Separation - Still no general consensus on registry-registrar separation for new TLDs. With names such as RACK+, “Free Trade”, and CAM3, you can be excused for confusing proposals for registry-registrar separation on new TLDs with exotic subprime mortgage bonds or off-balance sheet Enron subsidiaries. But these are names of three of the six proposals for integrating the traditionally separate roles of registrars (e.g. Go Daddy, eNom) and registries (e.g. VeriSign, Neustar) ... read more ...
Wed 21st July 2010
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JPNIC Argues Companies Shouldn’t Be Able to Get Corporate Top Level Domain Names - Group says new TLDs aren’t meant for single brands that don’t offer second level domains to the public. One of the understood use cases for new top level domain names is a company creating .brand. Canon has already expressed its intentions to apply for .canon. But in comments by Japan Network Information Center, which provides allocation and registration services of IP addresses and AS numbers in Japan, says this clearly isn’t the purpose of new TLDs: The ... read more ...
Thu 15th July 2010
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dotBerlin Wants Special Status with New gTLDs Because of Its Early Involvement - First .music, now .berlin wants extra credit for being early to the new TLD game. I wrote previously about how one applicant for the .music top level domain name requested favored status since he had been working on the concept for so long. Now another group is asking for similar status. dotBERLIN GmbH Co., which hopes to release a .berlin top level domain name, has submitted a comment to ICANN asking that companies that have been involved in the new top level domain ... read more ...
Tue 22nd June 2010
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7 Steps to a Launch of New TLDs - Kurt Pritz explains what’s left to do in the long march to new top level domain names. During Monday’s New gTLD Program Update session during ICANN’s meeting in Brussels, ICANN Senior Vice President Kurt Pritz spelled out the steps remaining to launch new top level domain names. Here they are in his words. 1. “So we’ll take the public comment in and then make a recommendation for community and board decision whether this should be the last draft version ... read more ...
 
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Will ICANN Insiders Get Leg Up with New TLDs? - I have read the Tim-Berners Lee and his opposition to .mobi and .xxx. I disagree entirely with the notion that .com is the only king and any other TLD are useless and could have no value to their appropriate constituencies and communities. So Tim-Berners should have a little talk with the 1.3+ million that have signed the .music initiative and tell them that they wanting their .music is not in the public interest or in their interest, even though they want it. Also it depends on the ... read more ...
Mon 21st June 2010
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This Week, Another Chance to Act on .XXX and What it Means for New gTLDs - ICANN’s actions on .xxx go well beyond this one top level domain. ICANN’s Board of Directors will once again consider what to do with the .xxx top level domain name during its board meeting at the culmination of the Brussels meeting this week. More than just a decision on a mistake ICANN made long ago, this will act as a bellwether on the new top level domain process. Why? It will show us how much of a stomach ICANN has for controversy when it comes to introducing ... read more ...
Wed 16th June 2010
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New Economic Study: Limit New TLD Rounds To Measure Effects - New ICANN-sanctioned report suggests limiting new TLD application rounds in order to collect more data. ICANN has published its latest hired economic report on the costs and benefits of introducing new top level domain names. Unlike the last report from a different author, this one lays out clear logic rather than just playing to the hands of ICANN. It is a well reasoned report that lays out the truth about the costs and benefits of new TLDs, and comes to a conclusion ... read more ...
Tue 1st June 2010
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No Country Names in New TLD Round - So much for .zimbabwe. The latest version of the draft applicant guidebook for new top level domain names prohibits country names (e.g. .mexico) from being registered. It’s a good thing, really. It eliminates another conflict ICANN would have to deal with: ruthless dictators hoping to spend more of their ill-gotten gains on a new top level domain name might not pass the background check. The background check will cover a number of items, including -Corruption ... read more ...
 
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Warning: This NPR Story About Domain Names Might Enrage You - Story labels domainers cybersquatters, and then some. Don’t click through to this NPR Marketplace story if you’re agitated today. It will only flip you off the edge. In a story today titled “Biz model for domain names to change”, things don’t start off well: Ever wonder why the address for the photo-sharing website Flickr doesn’t have an E in it? It’s because — and this is a true story — the founder liked the name “flicker” — E, R — but ... read more ...