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Thu 4th September 2014
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VeriSign’s Top Line Performance To Be Masked By Growth In ccTLDs - VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN) is a provider of registry services for .com and .net domain names, with a market share of approximately 47% in 2013 in the Domain Name System (DNS) market, according to our estimates. The company has a market capitalization of $7.15 billion and reported annual revenues of about $965 million last fiscal year. VeriSign competes with other domain registration service providers such as NeuStar and Afilias. For the six months so far into fiscal year 2014, VeriSign ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Registrations: .Gratis 1010; .Credit 801; .Audio 701; .Juegos … - This week saw 7 new gTLD launch into GA, plus 2 Geographic new gTLD’s for the city of .Cologne which is also spelled .Koeln, whose zone files have not updated. For the 7 new gTLD’s which launched this week, the results an only be described as pretty much a disaster in terms of domain name registration numbers, as only 1 of the 7 barely broke 4 figures and when I say barely I mean by 11 registrations. Here are the number of new gTLD registrations after the 1st day of General Availability (GA) ... read more ...
 
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Going global: geographic gTLDs prepare for take-off - Last week the ‘.hamburg’ string hit general availability and quickly burst into the top-25 list of new gTLDs in terms of registration numbers. In many respects, geographic strings have a competitive edge over generic strings and – with 11 currently in sunrise – we will soon be able to better assess their true impact. As we wrote previously, in terms of their ability to tap into a defined community, and also leverage local political support, ... read more ...
 
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DRS completes critical design review of US Army’s Mojave programme - DRS Technologies has successfully completed critical design review (CDR) for the US Army's target location designation system (TLDS).Carried out at the company's US facility in Dallas, Texas, the review moves TLDS, also known as the Mojave programme, towards contractor and government testing.The Finmeccanica subsidiary is using employees from both Dallas and Melbourne, Australia, to execute the engineering, manufacturing and development process and production for the Mojave ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Rolls Out 18 More Domain Names in September as Total Registrations … - More Related Stories email article print page <![CDATA[ ]]> .CHURCH, .FINANCE, .LOANS, .DEALS, .RESTAURANT, .PLACE, .GIFTS and others released this month September 03, 2014 -- BELLEVUE, Wash., Sept. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --Donuts Inc., the world's largest registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), continues to expand and diversify the Internet's global addressing system ... read more ...
Wed 3rd September 2014
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ICANN TO Chat With GAC At ICANN 51 in LA, Whether 2 Character new gTLD … - In a letter to Heather Dryden Chair of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Stephen D. Crocker, Chair ICANN Board of Directors made it clear that ICANN will be taking up the issue of allowing the registration of 2 character new gTLD domain names: Dear Heather, On behalf of the Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC), I thank you for your letter of 8 August 2014 regarding requests from new gTLD applicants and registries for the release of two- character domain names in the new gTLD namespace. ... read more ...
 
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BRS Media’s dotFM Announces Partnership With Asian Market Domain Retailers – Virtual - BRS Media Inc., a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that helps traditional and interactive media companies build and brand on the power of the Web, today announced that dotFM, the .FM top-level domain registry, newest registrar partnerships include: Chinese based Bizcn.com, Inc., Whois Networks Co., Ltd (dba YesNIC) from Seoul, Korea, and PakNIC (Private) Limited from Lahore, Pakistan. These three ICANN Accredited Registrars ... read more ...
 
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Generic Top Level Domains – Current Sunrise Periods Open – September… - 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 ...
Tue 2nd September 2014
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10 Most Popular New Top-Level Domains - At the beginning of the Internet era, there were just three primary generic top-level domains: .com, .net and .org. Over the years, new ones became operational, bringing the total number of TLDs in 2011 to 22. In June 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a proposal to overhaul the TLD system, introducing the potential for hundreds of new domains to be deployed within several years. According to VeriSign's July 2014 Domain Name Information Brief (DNIB), at ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Landrush Auctions Start Tomorrow - Over the weekend I got notice that the landrush auctions for Minds + Machines for  its first new gTLD’s go live tomorrow. We got notice over the weekend that we are in the landrush auction for the following domain names: spear.fishing going.fishing marlin.fishing pro.rodeo The auctions are being handled by Pool.com Each landrush action is scheduled for 7 days. The four auctions we are in start tomorrow September 3rd and end on September 10th in accordance with Pool.com closing rules. We will let ... read more ...
 
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DotHIV Top Level Domain Generates Funding For HIV Orgs One Click At A Time - dotHIV is the charitable top level domain that wants to generate funding for groups fighting HIV one click at a time. The “Digital Red Ribbon”, as the Berlin-based organization describes it, is designed to draw money from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) based on the number of clicks directed at domain addresses ending in “.hiv.” Every click generates a donation of 0.1¢ drawn directly from the $17/month registry fees that domain administrators pay for the ... read more ...
 
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.Credit; .CreditCard In General Availability Wednesday, Here Are The Taken … - Two new gTLD’s launching this week are pretty closely related, .Credit and .CreditCard and as of publication they have 182 and 130 domains registered respectively, through Sunrise period by trademark holders and through the Early Access Porgram (EAP) which allow registrants to pay a premium for early registrations prior to general availability  (GA). Both of the new gTLD’s go into GA on Wednesday. .Credit is priced at $129,99 for a registration at Godaddy while .CreditCard is priced even higher ... read more ...
Thu 28th August 2014
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Despite Competition from New gTLDs .ORG Continues to Grow with … - Still PIR has reason for optimism. .Org, used by many of the world's most widely known and respected non-profit organizations, is a strong, almost universally ... read more ...
 
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The ANA and Hand-Wringing - The Association of National Advertisers is at it again, this time spelling the death of new gTLDs barely after they emerge from the gate. In 1982, at the dawn of the video age, Motion Picture Association of America President Jack Valenti infamously told Congress, with more than one unfortunate reference to various types of violent crime, that the advent of the VCR would spell immediate and irrevocable doom to the motion picture industry, and that the device should certainly be thrown to the ... read more ...
 
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.HOST Announces Top Global Players as Pioneer Partners - Radix, Asia’s largest new gTLD applicant, announced top players of the global hosting community as Pioneers of the .host namespace, which rolled in to Landrush on 26th August ‘14. The Pioneer lineup includes big international names like MediaTemple, Bluehost, OVH, Arvixe, and the UK2 Group, in addition to regional leaders such as Natro (Turkey) and UOL (Brazil), HostPapa (Canada), Blacknight (Ireland). Several top global wholesale registrars, such as OpenSRS, ResellerClub and InternetX ... read more ...
 
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New Domain Registry, dotHIV, Collects Clicks to Combat HIV/AIDS - Carolin Silbernagl, co-founder of dotHIV and CEO of the TLD dotHIV RegistryWe all know that HIV is a virus. But now, it's also a top level domain (TLD) on the Internet -- a technological and fundraising innovation that its sponsors hope will generate new resources and interest in the fight against HIV/AIDS. For years, a small and finite list of TLDs has been the most familiar: suffixes like .com, .org and .gov have been used for every website and email address. Over 300 new TLDs -- from .associates ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Launching 1st Of Its String in September; Expects 25% Of All … - Minds + Machines (LON:MMX), is going to launch its first new gTLD’s strings into General Availability in September, actually 9 in all. The following new generic top level domains (gTLDs) in which Minds + Machines has an interest will go on general availability (GA) to the public on the following launch dates in September: September 9th .London On September 15th  .Cooking, .Country, .Fishing, .Horse, .Rodeo, .Vodka September 25th .Beer, .Surf September 30th .Bayern. On entering GA, all domain names ... read more ...
 
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Challenging Delegated Top-Level Domains: ICANN’s Trademark Post … - This year, hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are changing the landscape of the Internet. The long-awaited result of ICANN’s new gTLD program, top-level domains such as .NYC, .WINE, and .WTF will now join the familiar ranks of domains such as .COM and .NET. As we’ve written about previously, ICANN provided brand owners, trademark holders, and distinct communities the opportunity to object to proposed gTLDs before they were approved or “delegatedâ€� to ... read more ...
 
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GoI Launches .भारत (.Bharat) Country Code Top-Level Domain; Availability In 3 … - 5000000Indian Government launched the .भारत (.Bharat) Country Code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) today in Devanagari script, which also includes eight languages including Hindi, Dogri, Bodo, Maithili, Konkani, Marathi, Nepali and Sindhi. The announcement was made by National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), and the domain was launched at the hands of Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who stated that in future more Indian language domains shall be accommodated ... read more ...
 
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Continued .org Domain Growth Despite Emergence of gTLDs - Photo by Public Interest Registry Website owners might have more suffix choice than you can shake a stick at nowadays, but .org, one of the internet’s original domains, is still showing itself to be a good option. In the latest of its bi-annual domain name reports, non-for-profit domain operator Public Interest Registry showed ... read more ...
 
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A2IM backs .music TLD bid - Thursday 28 August 2014, 11:27 | By Chris Cooke Business News Digital Labels Publishers Top Stories The trade body for indie labels in the US, A2IM, has added its support to one of the bids to control the .music domain, while also questioning the motives of some of the corporate bidders. The Internet Corporation For Assigned Names And Numbers has, of course, been busy introducing a whole barrage of new ‘top level domains’, so that people and companies bored with tedious old .com ... read more ...
 
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.भारत (.Bharat) top-level domain launched - New Delhi: India, with its existing 243 million Internet users, has now got its own .भारत (.Bharat) country code top-level domain (ccTLD) name. The launch of the .भारत ccTLD will help bridge the digital divide and accelerate e-governance. This was announced by the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI). रजिस्ट्री.भारत is one of the first such domains.NIXI has been spearheading the goal of multilingual Internet and to this end NIXI has ... read more ...
 
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Dot Bharat domain name: What took it three years to go public? - by Peter Griffin   For the absolute beginner, some background first. Please note that these are simplified, and in some cases, simplistic explanations, meant to give you an overview, not a deep technical understanding.   Every computer connected to the Internet—in fact every device connected to the Internet, including your smartphone, or your smart refrigerator—has a unique address, an IP or Internet Protocol address. This is a number, something like this: 1234.5.67.890 ... read more ...
 
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"Digital Red Ribbon" Launches dotHIV Creates the First Domain Ending with a … - "Digital Red Ribbon" Launches dotHIV Creates the First Domain Ending with a Social Purpose PRWEB.COM Newswire PRWEB.COM NewswireNew York, NY; Berlin, Germany (PRWEB) August 28, 2014 Contact: Cathy Renna, cathy(at)targetcue(dot)com, 917-757-6123 "Digital Red Ribbon launch dotHIV creates the first domain ending with a social purpose. Every click will help raise funds to support AIDs related projects across the globe. dotHIV, the new initiative that combines digital innovation ... read more ...