.Bharat domain name: Why did it take three years to be made 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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Thu 28th August 2014
India’s new 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 ...
Dot Bharat domain name: Why did it take three years to be made 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 ...
India’s new .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 ...
Wed 27th August 2014
Google Domains shines by being easy to use and privacy focused -
In June 2014, Google quietly rolled out a private, invitation-only beta of Google Domains, the company's new venture into becoming a domain registrar, in direct competition with GoDaddy, Moniker, and others. I received an invite to the closed beta, which I accepted. Here's my review of Google Domains.An example transferTransferring a domain to Google Domains is a straightforward process. The user control panel is fast and responsive, and strikes a good balance between offering features and visual ... read more ...
LANDRUSH OPENS FOR .WEBSITE, .PRESS AND .HOST - Radix announces an affordable, risk free Landrush offering high quality names in its 3 extensions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, August 26, 2014 - Radix concluded sunrise for the first batch of its extensions - .website, .press and .host last week. .website alone saw more than 600 orders, making it one of the biggest new gTLD sunrises to date. These TLDs enter Landrush today Radix plans to take these a notch above with Landrush 2.0. - an affordable, risk free landrush that ... read more ...
DDB Mudra West wins Infibeam’s dot-triple-O project -
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The agency won the account after a multi-agency pitch. The account will be handled by DDB Mudra's Ahmedabad office.
DDB Mudra West has bagged the creative mandate of dot-triple-O (.OOO), a project by Infibeam. The agency won the account after a multi-agency pitch. The account will be handled by DDB Mudra's Ahmedabad office.
.OOO is one of the first Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) extensions ... read more ...
Tue 26th August 2014
Radix Retools Landrush Process for Their New gTLDs With New No Risk Low … -
With
hundreds of new gTLDs
hitting the market this year, some
registry operators are re-thinking
the roll-out process in an effort to
set themselves apart in a huge field
of competitors. The Dubai
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.Black is Live Today But like The other New gTLD Colors, its on the Wrong Side … - Today is the first day general availability for Afilias’ latest gTLD: .BLACK
Its the fourth in a string of colored new gTLD domain names all operated by Afilias (.Red, .Blue, Pink)
For us the issue for .Black, like the other colors, is Black is a term that used in normal language and commerce on the left of the term, not on the right.
So its Black Cars, Black Card, Black Dress, Black Limo, Black Diamonds, Jet Black, Blackboard.
Even the press release makes our point:
“You know, when someone says ... read more ...
Hefty Prices for .Attorney and .Lawyer Domains -
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Filed Under: Internet Law , Domain Names , Intellectual Property , Trademarks
Via: corpcounsel.com
Landrush Opens for .Website, .Press and .Host -
Radix concluded sunrise for the first batch of its extensions — .website, .press and .host last week. .website alone saw more than 600 orders, making it one of the biggest new gTLD sunrises to date. These TLDs enter Landrush today Radix plans to take these a notch above with Landrush 2.0. — an affordable, risk free landrush that offers high-quality names.
Landrush 2.0 aims to reduce the price gap between landrush and general availability, with an eye towards increasing participation ... read more ...
DDB Mudra West wins dot-triple-O -
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Meet .BLACK: the first top level domain that represents elegance, authority, and … – Virtual -
Global registry services provider Afilias
today announced the general availability of its newest generic top level
domain (gTLD): .BLACK.
When someone says “black tie” or “little black dress,” adjectives like
“simple,” “elegant,” and “chic” are implied. It’s the same for the
.BLACK domain. A website or email address that ends in .BLACK easily
identifies premier products and high-tier, exclusive services;
... read more ...
.Website Gets Over 630 Sunrise Domain Registration; 2nd Highest Of Any New … - .Website may well be the next big new gTLD success story.
According to Radix the registry the operates the .Website extension there were 634 domain names registered during the Sunrise period which is opened to trademark holders.
With the 634 Sunrise domain registrations.Website has the second highest number of Sunrise applications of all new gTLD’s to date
A lot of the big brands grabbed domain names in .Website including Amazon, Apple, BWM, Chanel, Chopard, Dropbox, Escada, Facebook, Fox, Google, ... read more ...
Should You Switch Your Company’s URL to a New Domain Extension? -
Q: Should I switch my company's URL to one of the new domain extensions?
A: You're referring to the recent decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to open up more than 1,000 generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) to domains outside of the .com, .net and .biz variety. Now, new gTLDs--.florist, .gallery, .repair, .homes, .technology and more--are just as easy to register as .com. This means a small business such as Sunrise Coffee in Las Vegas could switch from its current ... read more ...
Domain name dispute resolution: a battle of trademarks vs. domain names -
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center’s domain name dispute resolution services for generic top-level domains (‘gTLD’) and some country code top level domains (‘ccTLD’) resolves disputes concerning domain names through the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (‘UDRP Policy’) issued in 1999.
This policy has been adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which has the role of managing ... read more ...
A New Way to Value Registry Business -
CEY — a new metric and the key to understanding the value of a registry
There's a new site on the web — nTLDstats.com — that has a ton of valuable information about the new gTLD program. It shows numbers of registrations by registry, registrar, registry service provides — all the "Rs" in the domain name industry. It has quickly become the place where people go to measure how the industry, and the competitors in it, are doing.
There's only one problem — not all domain registrations ... read more ...
Mon 25th August 2014
DotHIV Launching With A Social Purpose & a $200 Price Tag On Thursday - The .Hiv registry sent us this information on the launch of the new gTLD .Hiv
The domain is not being offered by some of the bigger registrars and is priced around between $196 and $230 a year at some of the registrars I checked, although a portion of the price is being given to HIV and AIDS charities.
Here are some of the registrars that you can register a .HIV domain name at:
NetNames.com
Marcaria
Safe names
Markmonitor
Blacknight
101domain
Moniker.com
Tucows
United Domains
Epag
Key Systems
1 and ... read more ...
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Monday, August 25, 2014
DNS Policy Notes for August 25, 2014
by Thomas O'Toole
Collected news and opinion about the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the domain name business, Internet governance, and misc other cyberlaw topics for August 25, 2014.Breaking the Silence on Internet GovernanceVia the World Economic Forum:Inspired by the NETmundial meeting ... read more ...
Sun 24th August 2014
New gTLD Domain Name Registrations Break 2 Million But There Are Lots Of … - According to nTLDstats.com the number of new gTLD registration broke through the 2 million mark today and sits at 2,011,549.
However there are plenty of caveats and asterisks to go around.
Its interesting to note that there are only 666,394 distinct registrants for the over 2 Million domain names, meaning that the average registrant owns over 3 new gTLD domain names.
cnnic.cn the registry of two IDN gTLD extensions registered and reserved over 55,000 of the 2 million domains just this week. You ... read more ...
Registry Registers & Reserves over 33500 New gTLD’s For .公司 (Business … - The registry we wrote about the other day which registered and reserved over 23,500 domain names for a new gTLD IDN has done it again with another new gTLD IDN.
This time Computer Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China Internet Network Information Center registered and reserved over 33,500 domain names for the extension .公司 which means “business organization”
You can read more about this application here
The number of reserved and registered domains in .公司 (Business ... read more ...
Quebec to Launch Its Own Internet Domain: dot-Quebec -
Montreal, Quebec – It may cause the rest of the nation to roll its eyes and once again mutter in frustration why this eccentric province insists on being non-germane, but the province is nonetheless poised to begin using its own suffix for websites. While the rest of Canada uses the standard .com or .ca suffixes, websites will soon sprout up using .quebec as their suffix. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization managing internet standards, ... read more ...
Fri 22nd August 2014
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TLD Ace pays OSHA fine, plans expansion -
Posted: Friday, August 22, 2014 12:54 pm
TLD Ace pays OSHA fine, plans expansion
By Howard French
Journal Inquirer
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WINDSOR — TLD Ace Corp. ... read more ...
This Weeks New gTLD 1st Day Totals: .Bio 2679; .Haus 1261; .Tax 1135; .Cash … - The zone files for the new gTLD that launched on Wednesday updated later than usual this week but here are the 1st day totals for the new gTLD’s that launched this week.
The totals include domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders as well as those registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) or Landrush, as well as during the 1st day of general availability.
.Bio 2,679
.Haus 1,261
.Tax 1,135
.Cash 1,026
.Investments 876
.Fund 772
Haus is the German word meaning house.
.Investments ... read more ...