Tag Archives: news

Mon 1st December 2014
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Econsultancy Takes A look at whether the new gtlds help you rank higher in search - Marcus Tober wrote an article this morning on Econsultancy.com about whether or not new gtlds help you rank higher in search ? I read econsultancy.com regularly so I as interested to see them covering the new gtlds. Marcus pointed to the fact that Google has categorically denied that there would be any rankings benefit from using the new domain extensions. He also notes the October 2012 EMD algorithm update that downgraded the positive impact that EMD’s had in ranking when the website quality ... read more ...
 
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Will gTLDs help you rank higher in search results? - The range of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) is expanding to include new options such as .Hotel, .RealEstate and .Berlin. Will they help you rank higher in searches? Of course, Google has categorically denied that there would be any rankings benefit from using the new domain extensions. And this seems to align with its strategy of reducing the impact of keywords in domain names which was very clearly demonstrated with the roll out of the EMD algorithm update in October 2012 (this downgraded the ... read more ...
Sun 30th November 2014
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How many new gtlds have you registered in 2014 ? November poll results in - Our November poll question was, How Many New gTLDs Have you registered in 2014 ? We had 200 votes exactly and the most popular answer was zero. 78 out of the 200 responses stated they have registered no new gtlds in 2014. Of course this is not a huge sample size but it was still a bit higher than expected. 1-9 was the next most popular result with 54 people responding that they own 1 to 9 new gtlds. Thank you to everyone who participated. Full results of the poll: How Many New gTLDs Have you registered ... read more ...
 
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Is the ICANN New gTLD Program a Draft for a V2 of the Internet? - A week ago I was discussing the alternative of a European Internet root with an ex-ICANN Board member. The idea that I like to develop in these discussions is to offer end-users a modern and cheaper naming system. Note that it does not mean that the ICANN root is a bad one, it means that a new and upgraded one could cohabit with the existing one. One will wonder what this article has to do with new gTLDs but considering the creation of an Internet "version 2", offers website and brand owners ... read more ...
Sat 29th November 2014
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ICANN New gTLD Auction Proceeds Approaching $30 Million - While the debate continues as to whether most new gTLDs are a sound long-term investment for their registry operators, there's no disputing that the program has been an economic boom for ICANN. The 1,930 first round applications each required an application fee of $185,000, which added up to a tidy $357 million. Even after refunds for withdrawn applications ICANN still cleared about a third of a billion dollars from the first round before a single string was delegated. Now, like the proverbial ... read more ...
 
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SouthStar, Thomas Land & Development Partner on 145-Acre Mixed-Use Ovation - November 29, 2014 By Eliza Theiss, Associate Editor Ovation – western view of main street Ovation, the transformative 145-acre project under development in Nashville’s Cool Springs submarket, is moving along at a dynamic pace. Just one month after breaking ground on the project’s 1.4 million-square-foot office component, SouthStar, LLC has now announced entering into a strategic partnership with Thomas Land Development (TLD) to develop the project’s retail, ... read more ...
 
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After 6 Years, AlJazeera Wins Contorol of Aljazeera.Tv -             AlJazeera Media Network of Doha, Qatar, was awarded the domain name Aljazeera.tv by a one member UDRP panel of Assen Alexiev The domain holder did not respond to the UDRP, nor did the domain seem to be in use in the 6+ years since it was registered. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member: The domain name Aljazeera.tv was registered over 6 years ago on January 22, 2008. The Complainant is the global media corporation broadcasted in Arabic well known as a new ... read more ...
Fri 28th November 2014
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New gTLD’s Pass 3.3 Million; .Club Passed 140K .NYC Tops 60K; .London … - We haven’t done a update of the new gTLD program registrations in a while. According to nTLDStats.com the total number of new gTLD domain registrations just passed 3.3 million. .NYC has now passed 60,000 registrations and .London has now passed 50,000 registrations Rounding out the top 10 of all new gTLD’s .XYZ has the most registrations with  729,999. .Berlin has passed 154,000 registrations .Club which was one of the earliest contention sets settled by private auction has passed 140,000 registrations. .Realtor ... read more ...
 
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Black Friday and new gTLDs: the opportunity for brands - Trevor Little Amidst the blitz of Black Friday-themed press releases and stories that have been written this week, one blog taking a unique angle has looked at the role new gTLDs are playing in marketing around the holiday season. Happily, it is more a story of ‘opportunity’ than ‘threat’. Over the past week, it is fair to say that World Trademark ... read more ...
Thu 27th November 2014
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How Online Retailers Are Using New gTLDs in their Holiday Marketing - Tucker Johns wrote an article on gtldstrategy.com, A FairWinds Blog about how new gtlds are affecting Black Friday marketing. Tucker gave mention to the new .blackfriday and .Christmas strings from Uniregistry and took a look at how the top 100 online retailers are using new gtlds. From the article: To check how the top 100 online retailers, as ranked by Internet Retailer, have adopted these new strings, FairWinds checked their brand names in both .BLACKFRIDAY and .CHRISTMAS and found some interesting ... read more ...
 
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Symantec Wins .SECURITY Over Donuts and Defender Security - Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ;SYMC) has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Security beating Donuts and Defender Security. You might recall that Defender Security, filed Legal Rights Objections to all other applicants in .Home which was subsequently knocked out by domain collision. .Security was one of 11 new gTLD’s that are scheduled to be auctioned off in the ICANN Last Resort Auction in December. There will also be a new gTLD .Secure. According to its application here is what Symantec Corporation ... read more ...
Wed 26th November 2014
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ICANN, .nyc, and Multistakeholder Innovation (Video) - Earlier in the week ICANN President and CEO, Fadi Chehadé was in NYC and, thanks to ICANN's Veni Markovski and Manhattan Borough President, Gale Brewer, we were able to have a brief meeting. The discussions were partly about NYC's own new TLD and partly about general ICANN issues. One interesting factoid emerged — in the .nyc landrush auctions, the top bidding was for 'marijuana.nyc' which went for circa $60k! Gale promised that we would soon see the promised public hearings on the TLD. Later ... read more ...
 
 
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Generic Top Level Domains – Current Sunrise Periods Open–December 2014 … - You are responsible for reading, understanding and agreeing to the National Law Review's (NLR’s) and the National Law Forum LLC's  Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before using the National Law Review website. The National Law Review is a free to use, no-log in database of legal and business articles. The content and links on www.NatLawReview.com are intended for general information purposes only. Any legal analysis, legislative updates or other content and links should not be construed ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry: .Click new gTLD Generated Over 10000 Registrations In First 24 Hours - In a comment left by Frank Schilling on TheDomains.com, on our post about yesterday Uniregistry’s new gTLD first day totals, more than 10,000 domain names were registered in the first 24 hours. The stats we published earlier today were based on the last zone file update which usually cuts off at midnight,  which showed the first day total of general availability for .Click was some 3,800 domain names At 10,000 registrations .Click would become the 63rd most registered new gTLD domain name extension ... read more ...
 
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Released From Collision Today: 120K .Host; 10k .Website & 5K .Press New … - Radix the registry for the new gTLD .Host, .Website and .Press is releasing 135,000 new gTLD domain names from that were on the ICANN collision  list today at 1400 UTC 20k .Host new gTLD domain names; 10k .Website domain names and 5k .Press domains will be released. All of these domains were held by by the registry Name Collision list will be released today at for registration Here is the entire list of domain names: Name Collision List for website, press and host If you haven’t read through one ... read more ...
 
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1st New gTLD Totals: .Click 3779; .Help 1908; .Property 1490; .Hosting 1197 … -

Five New gTLD of Uniregistry  launched into General Availability yesterday

Here are a initial day sum including Sunrise registrations.

None of these extensions had a Early Access Program or Landrush program:

.Click 3,779

.Help 1,908

.Property 1,490

.Hosting 1,197

.Diet 787

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Google turns on shiny new .google top-level domain – but WHY? - Adaptable System Recovery (ASR) for Linux virtual machines Google has turned on its namesake top-level domain (TLD) with the creation of 'nic.google' representing the internet giant's entry into the domain name market.Currently the domain redirects to Google's registry page where it outlines the other internet extensions it has already won the rights to, including: .ads, .dad, .fly, .how, .new, .mov, .new, .rsvp and .zip. In ... read more ...
Tue 25th November 2014
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Everyone Can Participate in ICANN Decisions ? Come On… - I participated in the French RINDD last week in Paris: RINDD stands for "Rencontres Internationales des Noms de Domaine". The translation would be "The International Domain Name Conference". This event is organized once a year by SafeBrands, a French Registrar. Many participants were there: the ICANN, Law Firms, Donuts, other new gTLD applicants, back-end Registries and many experts. Round Tables and debates There were round tables on several subjects and it was particularly appreciated ... read more ...
 
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DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION UPDATES ANNOUNCED FOR WADE PARK … - Frisco, Texas – November 25, 2014 – (RealEstateRama) — Work is progressing forward for Wade Park, the massive 175-acre, $1.6 billion, mixed-use destination project that broke ground this summer at the North Dallas Tollway and Lebanon Road – ideally located at the heart of Frisco’s “$5 Billion Mile.” With site grading in the works and vertical construction beginning in the spring, Atlanta-based developer Thomas Land Development (TLD) is unveiling new project designs, construction ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Launches 5 New gTLD’s Today - Uniregistry is launching 5 new gTLD’s today the 25th of November 2014 at 16:00 UTC. .click which will have no reserved domains except for the 100 domains registered by the registry and domain names on the ICANN collision list .Click is priced at $5.99 at Godaddy The other four extensions of  Uniregistry  have quite a few reserved domains after I spent a few hours checking around for domain names yesterday. .hosting is priced at $23.99 at Godaddy.  There is already a .host and it has around ... read more ...
 
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Lexsynergy’s Webinar Series Shifts Focus to Geographic Domain Name … - Global domain name management and online brand protection specialists Lexsynergy Limited today announced the second installment in their monthly webinar series designed to inform and update brand owners on new domain name extensions.The webinar, "Geographic Extensions and the Relevance of City TLDs," will explore the impact and relevance of geographically oriented domain name extensions as well as their prospects in the evolving domain name marketplace."Since our first webinar on 3 November to ... read more ...
 
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Utility to Small Business of New Top Level Domain Names Questioned - This spring,  ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the  non-profit private organization charged with coordinating internet addresses, released 600 new generic top level domain (gTLD) names, including .technology and  .nyc.  Until this year, organizations were restricted to a couple of dozen top level domains, such as .com, .org, .net, or country code domains such as .CO.UK. In 2011, ICANN decided to permit the creation of completely new gTLDs.  From 2012 until ... read more ...
Mon 24th November 2014
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LogicBoxes Schedules Webinar to Unveil Automated System that Helps ccTLD … - While new gTLDs are getting the lion's share of attention since they started going live earlier this year, LogicBoxes believes there is also a great growth opportunity for ccTLD ... read more ...
 
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TheDirectory.com Completes Rebranding of Its Industry Leading Podiatric … - TheDirectory.com Completes Rebranding of Its Industry Leading Podiatric Directory, Podiatrist.net TAMPA, FL--(Marketwired - Nov 24, 2014) - TheDirectory.com, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: SEEK), an emerging leader in vertical and local search, today announced that it has completed the rebranding of its industry leading podiatric directory under the recently acquired generic, category specific TLD www.Podiatrist.net. Company founder and CEO Scott Gallagher commented on the ... read more ...