Tag Archives: news

Tue 3rd March 2015
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Choose a gTLD for Love or for Added Value? - The decision to bid for a new gTLD can be driven by reason or by love. Either the applicant practices strategic and financial valuation, or the applicant falls for an idea implicit in the gTLD. The second group had better be very lucky or have some motivation besides profit. They enjoy little chance of economic viability. Worse, they follow up their poor initial selection with similar bad calls about their marketing message. They listen to their hearts, and their hearts keep making things worse. ... read more ...
 
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The DNS Still Isn’t a Directory - Back in the mid 1990s, before ICANN was invented, a lot of people assumed that the way you would find stuff on the Internet would be through the Domain Name System. It wasn't a ridiculous idea at the time. The most popular way to look for stuff was through manually managed directories like Yahoo's, but they couldn't keep up with the rapidly growing World Wide Web. Search engines had been around since 1994, but they were either underpowered and missed a lot of stuff, or else produced a blizzard ... read more ...
 
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Google buys .app domain for $25m - Google has bought the .app domain name for $25m, using it as “a domain space for application developers”. The deal means that Google will be able to create web addresses like “google.app” or “android.app.”  Google has its own domain registry where users can buy their own web addresses. The .app TLD may become available through that route, though Google hasn’t confirmed those plans. Google beat competition from 12 other bidders including Amazon for control of the domain name, meaning ... read more ...
 
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ICANN shuts two new Generic Top-Level Domain (g-TLD) after vulnerability risks -

Q1: What is a inlet of this issue?

A1: An emanate was reported that could potentially impact users of a New gTLD Applicant and GDD (Global Domains Division) portals. Under certain circumstances, an real portal user could potentially perspective information of, or associated to, other users. Access to, and information in, these portals is singular to New gTLD Program field and New gTLD registry operators.

Via: techworm.net

 
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PORN Comes To The Internet - PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., March 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) announces today .PORN and .ADULT are now available for the next thirty days to trademark holders who are registered in the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). Domain Names are available on a first come, first serve basis to those with validated marks in the TMCH. During this period the cost of registrations will be standard registration fees, and there will be no additional ... read more ...
 
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ICANN switches off dot-word admin portal amid security leak scare - Global domain-name overlord ICANN has found another security hole in its systems. This time, confidential data on companies vying for new dot-word domains may have been snooped on by rivals logged into ICANN's catch-all portal – meaning commercially sensitive information as well as important technical details on the internet's expansion were at risk. The org has since taken the vulnerable web apps offline. ... read more ...
 
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Radix Assumes Full Ownership of .online - Radix, one of the leading registries in the new gTLD space, has reached an agreement with auction partners Tucows and Namecheap to assume full ownership and operation of the .online TLD. Radix has already launched some of the most recognizable new gTLDs with .website, .host, .press and .space. With .online, they now own the first truly generic, truly global, viable alternative to .com. “Online” is the most commonly used word to end domain names, with over 550K .com domain ... read more ...
Mon 2nd March 2015
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The Dot Green gTLD and the Domain Name Delusion That Foretells General … - I admire Annalisa Roger. I know from my single email interaction with her that she means well. Nonetheless, dot Green apparently ranks below 330 in the list of operational new gTLDs with an apparent total of 117 domains, give or take a few. Why is this the case? It seems to me that dot Green is one the few new gTLDs that actually deserves support. Annalisa states the following in her CircleID item on February 27 that "With [Dave Maddocks'] analogy, it's easy to understand that a brand name ... read more ...
 
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Google wins $25 million-worth .app Top Level Domain Name - Google Inc., is now the official owner of the .app Top Level Domain (TLD). The search giant company headquartered in Mountain View, California — Google Inc. — bought the .app Top Level Domain (TLD) for a whopping $25 million. Google’s massive acquisition of the .app domain name is the most that any company has ever paid for a domain name. The domains are auctioned off by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) as new names are created. The current round of ... read more ...
 
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Radix Assumes Full Ownership of .online - TORONTO, March 2, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Radix, one of the leading registries in the new gTLD space, has reached an agreement with auction partners Tucows (Nasdaq:TCX) (TSX:TC) and Namecheap to assume full ownership and operation of the .online TLD. Radix has already launched some of the most recognizable new gTLDs with .website, .host, .press and .space. With .online, they now own the first truly generic, truly global, viable alternative to .com. "Online" is the most commonly used word to ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Richemont To the New gTLD .Jewelry To Go With .Diamonds - Donuts has won the new gTLD .Jewelry to go with its .Diamonds new gTLD beating Richemont Richemont DNS Inc. is the wholly owned subsidiary of Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A, the prominent Swiss luxury goods holding company, submitted 14 applications for new gTLD’s of which they now have now withdrawn 4 including .Love For those not familiar with Richemont, they are a public company that own some of the largest luxury brands in the world including Cartier, Van Cleef Arpels, Piaget, Vacheron ... read more ...
 
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Google acquires .app web domain for $25 mn – domain - Google hads acquired the website domain .app in an auction held by the organisation that oversees the running of the net, BBC reported. The search giant bid $25,001,000 which is said to be its highest so far. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) will roll out new customised web names and auction them off. Several other web address endings had also been sold including .baby, .tech, .salon and .VIP. The suffixes are called 'generic Top Level Domains' (gTLD). Charleston ... read more ...
 
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Google bids $25 million for .app top level domain - At a recent auction held by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for top-level domains (TLDs), tech major Google bid a whopping $25 million to but rights to .app TLD. The amount bid by Google marks the highest purchase price to be paid till now for a TLD in an ICANN auction. Google's bid for the .app TLD was three-fold higher than the previous record-holder --- Dot Tech LLC's $6.8 million bid in September 2014, for rights ... read more ...
 
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.Porn & .Adult new gTLD Sunrise Period Opened Today: Live Registrations Set … - ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) announces today .PORN and .ADULT are now available for the next thirty days to trademark holders who are registered in the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). Domain Names are available on a first come, first serve basis to those with validated marks in the TMCH. During this period the cost of registrations will be standard registration fees, and there will be no additional sunrise application fees; moreover, ICM Registry and the ... read more ...
 
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Google Pays $25 Million for .App Top-Level Web Domain - What’s $25 million to Google (GOOG)? Apparently it’s not too much to pay to buy a top-level web domain, which the search conglomerate just did to snap up the exclusive rights to the .app appellation in an ICANN auction. Google bested 12 competitors, mostly notably Amazon (AMZN), for .app. Technically speaking, Google’s Charleston Road domain registry won the rights to the top-level .app domain for $25,001,000. ... read more ...
Sun 1st March 2015
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Google Buys Rights to .App Top-Level Domain for $25M - Twenty-five million dollars seems cheap for a top-level domain—bet you didn't think you'd ever see someone say that. Still, when the top-level domain is dot app (.app), and just about every big player in technology has some vested interest in apps, one would have assumed that the ICANN auction for said top-level domain would have gone through the roof. Google prevailed in ICANN's public auction for the top-level domain, paying just a hair over $25M for the rights to .app. It's reportedly the highest ... read more ...
 
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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has just paid $25 million to buy .app Top-Level Domain - Now the .app top-level domain is completely bought and owned by Google Inc., the search engine giant bid for $25 million to buy the whole rights for the .app top-level domain. The top level domains are similar to .com, .org and .net, they will be at the part of each and every URL under that TLD. Nowadays, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is creating a host of new set of top-level domains and auctioning those domains for a bigger sum. Previously, Amazon has bought .buy ... read more ...
Sat 28th February 2015
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Google Paid $25M to Buy the .app Web Domain - Image Source: Whereverwriter Google has paid $25 million for buying the .app top-level web domain. The company hasn’t announced specific plans for .app, but the purchase could provide a creative way to the company to promote apps. As per BusinessInsider report, Google won an ICANN (the organization that controls internet domains) auction for the top level domain (TLD). The company currently owns ‘.how’, ‘.soy’, ‘.minna’, and ‘.foo’, and allows people register for its own ICANN-accredited ... read more ...
Fri 27th February 2015
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CMO Offers Fresh View on New gTLDs: "They’re a Channel, Not Just a Label" - Several years ago, I had a very interesting conversation with a talented marketing executive from Portland, Oregon who joined the DotGreen Community, Inc. Board of Directors. When I told him about the new gTLD program, which was then under development at ICANN, Dave Maddocks immediately understood the value of what new gTLDs would mean to all businesses that have an online location. While so many of us in the domain or Internet industry think of website addresses as locations, or as real-estate, ... read more ...
 
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Google buys .app internet domain for $25m - Google has procured the web site domain .application in an auction held by the organisation which oversees the jogging of the net. The business's profitable bid for $25,001,000 (£16,234,000) is believed to be the maximum so far. The Net Company for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) is rolling out new customised internet names and auctioning them off. Other web deal with endings offered so considerably consist of .newborn, .tech, .salon and .VIP. ... read more ...
 
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Google purchases .app domain for £16 million - Google has bought the .app domain from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organisation tasked with overseeing the internet. It is part of a new move by ICANN to create new generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) for specific types of websites, like .app, .baby and .tech, all sold at the recent auction. Unsurprisingly, .app was the most valuable in the auction, due to its innate appeal to developers. Having an .app domain could come in handy in the few years, ... read more ...
Thu 26th February 2015
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More Evidence Why Doing Good Pays Off and Love Doesn’t - The new gTLDs program can't succeed unless two things happen. The approved registries must do good, and ICANN must weed out applicants who are in love. This is to say that registries should put users' good first, and applicants shouldn't get the nod unless their motive is economic and/or social viability. A recent study reveals that leading companies have enjoyed healthy profits because they made doing good their strategic foundation. The authors analyzed the core values of 34 companies from ... read more ...
 
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Google Wins The new gTLD .APP For $25 Million - The new gTLD .APP sold for $25 Million to Google today in a ICANN Last Resort Auction which I think is very good news for the new gTLD program in general. This is the highest price paid in an ICANN Last Resort Auction. It looks like Google was willing to pay over $30 Million based on the info published by ICANN today The previously high price paid for a new gTLD in an ICANN Last Resort Auction was $6,760,000 which was paid by Radix for .Tech. Radix was also a bidder for .APP .APP had the largest ... read more ...
 
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Brands urged to do more to stop ‘predatory pricing’ in next gTLD round - Tim Lince Elisa Cooper, vice president of domain product marketing for MarkMonitor, has urged brands to do more to encourage ICANN to tackle predatory pricing during new gTLD sunrise periods. Failure to do so may mean that trademark owners are further held to ransom during the second wave of new gTLDs. She told World Trademark Review that it’s “not ... read more ...
 
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Here Is Our Run Down As New gTLD’s Top 4.5 Million Registrations - .Science added another 14K+ domain names registrations yesterday in its second day of general availability, putting the number of new gTLD registrations over the 4.5 million mark. New gTLD registrations still have a large percentage of free, almost free, very low cost and related party registrations. .Science domain names which just launched two days ago, are still being registered for free at Alpnames.com AlpNames.com now has registered 26,656 of the 27,500 .Science domain names or over 96% of ... read more ...