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Sun 23rd November 2014
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.bank is here! - On September 25, 2014, the Internet Corporation for the Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) granted the application of fTLD Registry Services (FRS) to operate a new Top Level Domain (TLD) exclusively for the banking industry: .bank. When general registration for the new TLD opens next year, banks and other members of the banking community will be able to operate through custom websites such as Local.bank, as opposed to the traditional LocalBank.com. To avoid the internet land rush ... read more ...
 
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Whether .Attorney or .Lawyer, What Happens To .Com? -

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IDN ccTLD Request from Armenia Successfully Passes String Evaluation – ag-IP - Home / IDN ccTLD Request from Armenia Successfully Passes String Evaluation / LOS ANGELES - ICANN announced in a press release the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string for Armenia. Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion The IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was approved by the ICANN Board ... read more ...
Sat 22nd November 2014
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SEO-For-Lawyers on the importance of .attorney names for marketing - Luke Ciciliano did a post for Seo-for-lawyers.com on why he thinks .attorney and .lawyer will hold significance for lawyers in their marketing efforts. In the article he references a Dallas related name being used and showing in the search results, he also mentioned some lawyers he spoke with did not see the point of the new law related domains and did not want to bother with them, until they started showing in the search results. Luke has written a series of articles on why these new tlds will help ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name .Africa Faces Hurdles – Q&A with Sophia Bekele - DotConnectAfrica (DCA) Trust and DCA Registry CEO Ms. Sophia Bekele recently participated in a QA with Mr. Gareth Van Zyl of Fin24.com, SouthAfrica, based on some pointed questions presented by the tech journalist to inquire into the current state of affairs regarding the .Africa new gTLD name and the attendant Independent Review Panel proceeding. In addition to explaining the current status of the IRP Process with ICANN, the CEO of DCA Registry also used the opportunity to expound on ... read more ...
Fri 21st November 2014
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Experience and Evidence Point to Strong Renewal Rates for New TLDs - In the tenth month of the revolutionary expansion of generic top-level Internet domains, global registrations in new gTLDs reached more than three million addresses, providing the clearest illustration yet of the strong international appetite for new, relevant addressing options. As we near the first full year of new gTLD availability, focus now shifts to another critical metric — renewals — which we expect to show similar strength based on history and data analysis. If registrations demonstrate ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon: Spotlight on ICANNWiki - This article is part of a series of interviews with NamesCon exhibitors and sponsors. NamesCon 2015 will be held January 11-14, 2015 at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Over 800 people are expected to attend this conference. Today’s interview is with Ray King, of ICANNWiki. Ray is the founder of AboutUs, Director of ICANNWiki, Co-founded SnapNames and is the CEO of Top Level Design, LLC. And it all started with 4 Apple II computers in 1984 which Ray used to teach Visicalc and ... read more ...
 
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The Rise of .pharmacy - In the continuation of new generic top level domains (GTLDs), the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NAPB) is set to start accepting applications for .pharmacy domain names. Applicants must be trademark holders who are registered in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). NAPB’s sunrise application period, which opens on December 19th of this year, precedes the Sunrise TMCH registration ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes Announces Automation Solutions for ccTLD Registries – Virtual - LogicBoxes to hold an informative webinar to share details on the solution and highlight how ccTLDs can further grow their namespace and increase ARPUs. Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 21, 2014 --(PR.com)-- LogicBoxes, the business consulting and automation technology provider for Registries, Registrars and Web Hosts, today announced the launch of its Automation Solution for ccTLDs. This new offering is aimed at helping ccTLD Registries further grow their namespace by giving them ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes Announces Automation Solutions for ccTLD Registries - Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 21, 2014 --(PR.com)-- LogicBoxes, the business consulting and automation technology provider for Registries, Registrars and Web Hosts, today announced the launch of its Automation Solution for ccTLDs. This new offering is aimed at helping ccTLD Registries further grow their namespace by giving them a dedicated retail storefront and a complete end-to-end automation platform to seamlessly run their business.The number of internet users across the world has increased ... read more ...
Thu 20th November 2014
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Top 10298; .Quebec 4902: .ENGINEER 523 - We have numbers for the three new gTLD’s that launched this week. .Top which launched on the November 18th has according to ntldstats.com 10,298 domains registered. The registry for .Top is “Jiangsu Bangning Science Technology Co.,Ltd.” which is also the backend for the extension and is also a  domain name registrar Out of the 10,298 domain names registered, Jiangsu registered 2,521 of the domains. Another China based registrar, Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd. had the ... read more ...
 
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Norid and SIDN consider making ‘.bv’ available to Dutch companies -

Norid and SIDN, respectively a country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry operators for a Norwegian and Dutch domain name spaces, have announced that they are in discussions about a probability of creation a ‘.bv’ domain name prolongation accessible to a Dutch market.

As good as being obliged for a ‘.no’ domain name extension, Norid is also responsible…

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White paper: .bank is here! - A white paper from OBER/KALER describing what you need to know about .bank Sunrise is on the horizon for .bank. A new Internet land rush begins mid-2015 for websites bearing the extension .bank, the financial world’s new .com. A thorough vetting process and heightened security requirements promise to make .bank websites the most secure and trustworthy places to conduct the online banking of the future. But allowing a .bank website bearing your bank’s name to fall into ... read more ...
 
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Radix Launches .space – "Domains with Personality" - Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 20, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Radix, Asia’s largest portfolio nTLD applicant, launched its latest high potential domain extension, .space into Sunrise on 17th November 2014. The extension is positioned as a much needed platform for individuals, freelancers and professionals alike to present their own unique personality to the world via a short, memorable and meaningful online address..space gives a user a broad namespace to create a website that represents them ... read more ...
Wed 19th November 2014
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LogicBoxes Announces Automation Solutions for ccTLD - LogicBoxes to hold an informative webinar to share details on the solution and highlight how ccTLDs can further grow their namespace and increase ARPUs. LogicBoxes, the business consulting and automation technology provider for Registries, Registrars and Web Hosts, today announced the launch of its Automation Solution for ccTLDs. This new offering is aimed at helping ccTLD Registries further grow their namespace by giving them a dedicated retail storefront and a complete end-to-end ... read more ...
 
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WHITE PAPER: .bank is here! - A white paper from OBER/KALER describing what you need to know about .bank Sunrise is on the horizon for .bank. A new Internet land rush begins mid-2015 for websites bearing the extension .bank, the financial world’s new .com. A thorough vetting process and heightened security requirements promise to make .bank websites the most secure and trustworthy places to conduct the online banking of the future. But allowing a .bank website bearing your bank’s name to fall into the wrong hands could ... read more ...
 
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November 2014 Web Server Survey - In the November 2014 survey we received responses from 947,029,805 sites and 4,994,577 web-facing computers. Despite the dramatic loss of almost 82 million sites since October, the number of web-facing computers increased by over 23 thousand (+0.47%) this month. Automatically generated content and wildcard sites are often used for activities such as domain holding and search-engine results manipulation, where the majority of the sites will not receive human visitors and therefore the resources ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon: Spotlight on RightOfTheDot - This article is part of a series of interviews with NamesCon exhibitors and sponsors. NamesCon is the largest commercial domain name conference and is held every January in Las Vegas. The NamesCon 2015 dates are January 11-14, 2015 at the Tropicana Hotel on the famous Las Vegas strip. Today’s interview is with Monte Cahn, President of RightOfTheDot, LLC. Q. Can you tell us about your company and how long you have been there? RightOfTheDot, LLC is an Internet consulting and advertising firm ... read more ...
 
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November 17: updated status of sunrise periods and trademark claims … - As we previously reported to you (click here to view April 29, 2013 TLD article), the internet is expanding to include hundreds of new top-level-domains (TLDs) (examples of TLDs as we know them today include .com, .net. and .org – i.e., the term that is to the right of the "dot"). While the only certainty at that time was that the launch was inevitable, like it or not, it's finally here (click here to view January 9, 2014 Sunrise article). Frost Brown Todd will be sending out ... read more ...
Tue 18th November 2014
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Breaking down new gTLDs by the numbers - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names continues to be sluggish in delegating new gTLDs this month, delegating no new gTLDs since our last post. But ICANN has made a dent this year in the 1,930 gTLD applications submitted, delegating 432 new gTLDs to date. Of those 1,930 applications, 1,157 are proceeding through the new gTLD program and 341 have been withdrawn. Are new gTLDs selling? More than 3 million second-level domains have been purchased in new TLDs, but ... read more ...
 
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Aruba Becomes Official Registry For .Cloud gTLD - The much anticipated global top level domain .cloud has found itself an official registrar in Aruba. The Italian internet services provider made its name in web hosting and email hosting before it began selling cloud services. Since Aruba’s has begun focusing more cloud, the company has become an immensely popular resource European businesses wanting to streamline their operations. Arubacloud.com is Aruba’s flagship cloud offering and it seems as if the upstart European hosting provider ... read more ...
 
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One and two-character domain names to become available under ‘.fr’ -

AFNIC, a organization obliged for handling a ‘.fr’ country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) for France, has announced that it will make accessible a registration of one and two-character domain names underneath ‘.fr’ from Dec 8 2014 in both numerical and alphabetical characters, or a multiple of a two.

The recover of a one and two-character domain…

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NABP to Begin Sunrise Trademark Registration Period for Pharmacy Websites - More Related Stories email article print page   November 17, 2014 -- MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill., Nov. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) will soon be accepting applications for .pharmacy domain names from trademark holders who are registered in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). The ... read more ...
 
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Aruba Wins Prestigious .cloud Top Level Domain - LONDON, November 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Italian company has been awarded this gTLD instead of six of the most well-known internet companies who also applied. Aruba will set up the Official Registry for .cloud, expanding its already strong European cloud footprint, globally. Aruba S.p.A. (http://www.aruba.it), a leader in web hosting, certified email and domain names services as well as a leading cloud provider in Europe (http://www.arubacloud.com) since 2011, has been awarded the .cloud ... read more ...