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Thu 22nd January 2015
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Why, Even After A Year, There’s Still No Land Grab For New Internet Domains - It’s been nearly a year since a whole set of spanking new Internet domain names first came to market.  These names —which in technical circles are called “generic top-level domains” or gTLDs — were just becoming available in January 2014, when a regulatory change opened the door to these fresh extensions — snazzy end-tags like .apple, .guru, .pizza, .bike, and .singles — which were added to the familiar existing domain suffixes — like .com, .net, .org, and .edu.  At that ... read more ...
 
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Donuts ” after such a long run, it’s about time to hand .COM a gold watch” - Donuts posted a blog post yesterday about looking to the future and that .com is that old stodgy utility that is staid but it is unremarkable. Yet Microsoft had plenty of options for example to register Hololens.newgtld but they still paid to buy the .com and handregister the .us. The article is worth a read, especially for those all in with the new gtlds. The leave a comment link does nothing  and there is no possibility to leave a comment on the post. I believe that .com will lead the future ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Vlaanderen 3880; .Brussels 3742; .Forsale 2197 - Three new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA) yesterday where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Here are the totals after the first day of GA. The totals include all domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise Period and those who paid an extra fee to get early access in a landrush period or in an Early Access Program (EAP). Any domain that received more than one landrush application for the two Geographic extensions (.Vlaanderen; .Brussels) ... read more ...
 
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NABP Reviewing Pharmacy Domain Name Applications for Sunrise Registration … - MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill., Jan. 21, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) is currently reviewing .pharmacy domain name applications received from trademark holders who are registered in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). The Sunrise Application period, which ended January 19, 2015, preceded the TMCH Sunrise Registration Period, which will end March 16, 2015. Only those companies who submitted qualifying ... read more ...
 
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NABP revisa las solicitudes de nombres de dominio .pharmacy de la Solicitud … - MOUNT PROSPECT, Illinois, 21 de enero de 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- La Asociación Nacional de Juntas de Farmacia (National Association of Boards of Pharmacy®, NABP®) está revisando actualmente las solicitudes de nombres de dominio .pharmacy recibidas de titulares de marcas registradas que se encuentran registradas en la Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Trademark ... read more ...
Wed 21st January 2015
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Team TLD’s Ascent to the Top of American Motocross - Supermoto came to America in 2003, as the Red Bull AMA Supermoto Championship. The discipline, a combination of motocross and superbike racing, had gained serious popularity in Europe, and the decision to bring it to America via an AMA championship seemed logical, since Americans love their motorcycle racing. In 2004, Troy Lee and Jeff Ward (a seven-time AMA MX and SX champ) set out on an effort to compete for the newly-formed Supermoto championship, and their success was decisive and immediate. ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Introduces Top Level Domain for Real Estate and Retail - KIRKLAND, Wash., Jan. 21, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rightside (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, today announced the launch of .FORSALE, the third new Top Level Domain (TLD) to join Rightside's portfolio in 2015. Well positioned for real estate and retail, .FORSALE creates an ideal place for companies and sales professionals to build online brands and businesses. Today there are over two ... read more ...
 
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Short Interest of Rightside Group Ltd Drops by -27.8% - Rightside Group Ltd (NASDAQ:NAME) reported a drop of 27.8% or 194,676 shares in its short interest. The short figure came in at 4.8% of the total floats. The average daily volume of 172,533 shares suggests that the days to cover 506,290 short positions, as on December 31,2014, will be 3. On December 15,2014, the short interest was 700,966 shares. Shares of Rightside Group Ltd (NASDAQ:NAME) ended the session in red amid volatile trading. The shares closed down 0.2 points or 2.93% at $6.62 with ... read more ...
Tue 20th January 2015
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Theralase Files US Patent Application for Increased Targeting of Photo Dynamic … - [ACCESSWIRE] Toronto, Ontario / ACCESSWIRE / January 20, 2015 / Theralase Technologies Inc. ("Theralase") (TLT:TSXV) (TLTFF: OTC Pink(R)) announced today that it has filed a provisional US patent application for "Transferrin Enhanced Photo Dynamic Therapy ("PDT") Cancer Destruction" significantly increasing the targeting of its PDT technology; hence, also the efficacy and safety of the treatment." Transferrin is a substance that naturally occurs in the body (iron-binding blood plasma glycoprotein) ... read more ...
Mon 19th January 2015
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gTLD update: gTLD delegation sluggish after holiday season - ICANN has not started the new year off with a bang, delegating a mere four new gTLDs this January and only 11 in total since our last gTLD update. Those newly delegated gTLDs are: .fit .lat .kddi .bank .shriram .zuerich .flowers .ggee .sale .amerstadam .video Similarly, there are only a small number of gTLDs about to enter or in the sunrise phase this month. These gTLDs are on the horizon: Click here to view the table. And these are in sunrise now: Click here to ... read more ...
 
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The best domains in life are free? Freenom partners with ‘.gq’ -

A series of country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries offer domain name registrations giveaway of charge. The many famous instance is ‘.tk’, a ccTLD for Tokelau, a tiny organisation of Pacific islands located off a seashore of New Zealand.

This business indication of giveaway domain name registrations has enabled ‘.tk’ to turn a largest ccTLD in terms of series of…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

Sat 17th January 2015
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GAC Geographic Protections Would Lead To Uncertainty, Inconsistent with … - GAC Geographic Protections Would Lead To Uncertainty, Inconsistent with Current Law By Joseph WrightJan. 6 — Increased protections for geographic names would create too much uncertainty for future generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants, according to multiple comments received on a Governmental Advisory Committee subgroup proposal.The proposed protection of a broader swath of geographic names also contravenes established international ... read more ...
Fri 16th January 2015
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New Gtld Resource Site Registered.Today is For Sale - Gtld.Link is a new forum that focuses strictly on the new gtlds, I just joined a couple nights ago. While I was going through the names for sale listings, I came across a listing for Registered.Today. I have no affiliation with Registered.today, no advertising relationships etc… I just thought it worth a mention for someone active in the new gtld field to check it out, I have found the website useful. ... read more ...
 
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Day 3 Photos & Highlights from NamesCon – Live Domain Auctions Live Again … - Above: The Tuesday (Jan. 13) schedule began with a trio of simultaneous sessions at 9:55am including the one above covering Data Science for the Domain Name Industry that ... read more ...
 
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Google Domains Now Available for Businesses - Credit: Oleksiy Mark/Shutterstock Starting a website? Google's new domain registry service can help. Previously launched last summer as an invite-only service, Google Domains is now available to all Web users in the United States. The service lets users purchase domains, create ... read more ...
 
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Sick of these new dot-words? Join the .club – it’s the only one challenging .com - Round-up Las Vegas loves a show. And so it was earlier this week when domain-name conference NamesCon held an auction for more than 100 high-value names. The auction has been hailed as a success, especially given two headline sales: homecare.com for $350,000 and wine.club for $140,000. But we thought we'd dig into the results to see what it says about the state of the new dot-word domains that have gone live in recent months. ... read more ...
Thu 15th January 2015
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Branding with New gTLDs: The Next Marketing Frontier - New gTLDs can be an efficient way to immediately propel a registrant's online relevance and profitability. Registrants are the companies, organizations and individuals who seek to better utilize the Internet to reach their goals. Marketing Professionals acting on their behalf should understand that protection mechanisms for new gTLDs have been created by ICANN, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers. New gTLDs are powerful and inexpensive marketing tools that have improved measures ... read more ...
 
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Top Trends That Impacted VeriSign’s Performance in 2014 - VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN) is the authoritative registry service provider for all .com and .net gTLDs (Generic Top-Level Domains), as well as the sole registry service provider for gTLDs like .cc, .tv, .gov, .jobs, .edu and .name. It is the leader in the Domain Name market with a 47% market share. Though the company registered a ~5% increase in sales to $754 million in the first nine months of 2014, the growth rate has declined considerably. VeriSign’s sales grew by ~12% in the first ... read more ...
 
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Google Domains throws open its doors as gTLD registrations break the 4 million … - Trevor Little The level of new gTLD registrations, which this month broke through the 4 million mark, should receive a boost following Google’s announcement that it has opened its domain registration service to US-based registrants. A year ago we posted a blog titled “Another internet landmark as public registration opens for seven new gTLDs”, ... read more ...
 
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Theralase (V.TLT) names lead photo dynamic compound for human clinical … - Theralase Technologies (TSX: V.TLT, Stock Forum) continued its journey toward bringing its ground-breaking cancer treatment to market when the company announced today that it had identified the lead Photo Dynamic Compound (“PDC”) for human clinical trials.   According to the news release, the lead PDC has been identified as TLD-1433, a Ruthenium-based PDC. The company plans to enter this PDC into a Health Canada Clinical Trial Application (“CTA”) / Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) ... read more ...
 
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Google launches domain registration service - Google has publicly opened its Domains (Beta) service, which allows top-level domains (TLDs) to be rented for a year at a time or alternatively for a fixed amount of years. The Domains service was announced by the company last June, and has been an invitation-only affair until now. Some of the TLDs available for rent include ‘.cc’, ‘.co’, ‘.company’, ‘.enterprises’, ‘.haus’, ‘.net’ and ‘.org’. Online shopping giant Amazon hit headlines last September ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Google, Amazon, Dish Network, Radix, Famous Four To .Movie … - Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Movie beating out 7 other applicants including publicly traded Google, Amazon, and  Dish Network. .Movie was the last new gTLD scheduled to go to the ICANN last resort auction in January and was apparently settled by private auction. The other applicants that have now withdrawn their applications for .Movie were Radix, Famous Four, ARI Registry Services, and NU Dot Co LLC,  the company that sold the .Co registry to Neustar for $109 million dollars. As ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Statistics and Business Implications -

Dot TBA and TLD Watch put on a display during NamesCon that took a demeanour behind during 2014 and what insights were gained. The 29 page PDF is filled with stats and graphs and is positively value reading and saving if we have any seductiveness in a new extensions. Download a PDF here

Via: thedomains.com

 
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White papers say arrival of new gTLDs will fragment Internet users into … - The Internet Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), the body in India representing the online and mobile value added services industry, and NetNames, the global leader in online brand protection and corporate domain name management  have published two white papers stating that the current restructuring of the Domain Name System (DNS), and the introduction ... read more ...
 
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NIRA Urges Politicians to Adopt .ng Domain Name for Campaigns -  President of NIRA, Mrs. Mary Uduma By Emma Okonji Following the commencement of political campaigns across the country, the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), the body responsible for populating and managing Nigeria's country code Top Level Domain name (ccTLD), the .ng domain name, which is Nigeria's identity in cyberspace, has advised politicians to adopt the country's domain name for their political campaigns. President of NIRA, Mrs. Mary Uduma, who gave the charge in ... read more ...