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Fri 22nd August 2014
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Quebec to get its own distinct internet domain name - MONTREAL – Quebec will soon enjoy distinct status in Canada and across the World Wide Web, thanks to recognition by the global Internet body.This fall, the domain name .quebec will be available to serve as a URL suffix for websites, making the province the only Canadian jurisdiction with its own signature as an alternative to old standards, like .com and .ca. The .quebec suffix is among a wave of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) recently authorized by the Internet Corporation for Assigned ... read more ...
 
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Registry For New gTLD IDN .网络 (Network) Registers & Reserves Over 23K … - A new gTLD IDN .网络 which means network in Chinese (xn--io0a7i) registered and reserved over 23,500 domain names yesterday increasing the overall number of new gTLD registered to 1.96 million according to ntldstats.com. The registry of the IDN new gTLD is Computer Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences （China Internet Network Information Center) You can read more about about their application here. The extension which seems to either be in landrush or  has wrapped up its ... read more ...
Thu 21st August 2014
 
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ANA: “Hard to Imagine That Most of The Already-Launched TLDs Will Be Around … - The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) an opponent of the new gTLD program wrote a post on its corporate blog today asking “Already Launched New gTLD’s : Is Anyone Out There?” The post is a “report” written by their general counsel Reed Smith LLP, and Brad R. Newberg of the firm wrote the piece which gave its rundown of the state of the new gTLD program and is definitely worth a read. Here are the highlights: This post asks the question: Putting aside cybersquatters, domainers (those ... read more ...
 
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How to make a name for yourself in the new era of the internet -   Securing a new and original domain name can be a tricky task – especially when you consider there are 276 million registered domain names already taken. Anyone who has attempted to buy a domain ending in ‘.com’ or ‘co.uk’ recently will likely have experienced a slew of ‘sorry, that domain is not available’ rejections from the registration site. Demand for new domains isn’t slowing down either; in the first quarter of 2014, an additional five million domain names were added to the ... read more ...
 
Wed 20th August 2014
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Shorter .nz domain names to go up for grabs - If you already own a .co.nz, .net.nz or other .nz domain name, you may be eligible to register the shorter version of your domain name ahead of everyone else. The Domain Name Commission Limited has announced the date from when it will be possible to register .nz domain names. From 30 September 2014 it will be possible to register shorter, more concise domain names.  Rather than registering anyname.co.nz, for example, you will be able to register anyname.nz.  Shorter is better There ... read more ...
 
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.Cash & .Tax Launch Today Here Are The Registered Domain Names - We have chatted earlier this week about the new domain names registered in two of the 5 new gTLD’s going live today, .Fund and .Investments and thought we would let you know what domain names were not going to be available when General Registration opens today for .Cash and .Tax. We think .Tax is going to be the weakest of the 4 new Donuts extensions launching today. Although its the cheapest of the four new gTLD’s  extension in terms of registration prices, we think the application for .tax ... read more ...
 
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TRA allows individuals to register Omani domain names - Oman's Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA) has made way for individuals to register a website or a domain name in their name under the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .om and .oman in Arabic. According to Muscat Daily, the authority has amended some provisions of the statute regulating domain names. The change comes into effect from 10 September.  The applicant of a domain name under ccTLD .om and .oman in Arabic must be an Omani citizen, or one of the administrative ... read more ...
 
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276 Million Domains and Counting - On a year-over-year basis, total global TLD registrations grew by 7.5 percent or 19.3 million new domain name registrations. While overall growth is high, the .com and .net TLDs only grew by 4 percent year-over year. VeriSign manages both the .com and .net registries under contract with ICANN and the U.S Department of Commerce. The .net registry contract was renewed in 2011 and gives VeriSign control until 2017. The .com TLD contract was last renewed by VeriSign in 2012. At the end of the first ... read more ...
Tue 19th August 2014
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420K ICANN Collision New gTLD Domains Start The Process of Being Freed As … - There are a ton of new gTLD’s being “registered” today. Many readers have written and commented about the volume of domain “registered” today and that these registrations may screw up the  new gTLD stats when the zone files update tomorrow. However the vast majority are domain names on the ICANN Collision list and appears to be a technical entry, rather than a real domain registration, one of the steps in the domain name being freed. According to Registered.Today over 420,000 new gTLD ... read more ...
 
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Global meet on web domains in India - Around 2,000 applications for new generic top level domains (gTLD – .com or .net extensions in web names) have been received Indian Domain Owners Association (IDOA) will host a first ever international domain conference in India here on August 24. “India is the first venue for World Domain Day (WDD) conference to promote domain name revolution. The new wave of top level domains will create a completely new Internet landscape forever,” Prakhar Bindal, CEO Axsiom.com, said, announcing ... read more ...
 
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.Investments Launches Today Here Are The Domains Taken In Sunrise & EAP - The new gTLD .investments goes into general availability today meaning it can be registered on a first come first serve basis. The registration price is high at a whopping $129.99 registration price at Godaddy.com Here are the more interesting domain names registered in Sunrise for trademark holders and in the Early Access Program for a higher one time fee. Either way these domain names are no longer available: about.investments abudhabi.investments accelerator.investments advisorshares.investments aia.investments allfundsbank.investments alternative.investments amazon.investments amerivest.investments amil.investments anf.investments angel.investments apax.investments aqr.investments bcv.investments berkeley.investments bgc.investments bitcoin.investments bitcoins.investments bitpay.investments blackstone.investments bny.investments bond.investments bonds.investments broker.investments brokers.investments buildingblocks.investments business.investments caixabank.investments cantor.investments ccre.investments cip.investments coin.investments corporatepartners.investments costar.investments costargroup.investments crowd.investments csg.investments csgp.investments danskebank.investments darby.investments dubai.investments eight.investments expat.investments firstcitizens.investments firststate.investments florida.investments foreign.investments franklin.investments franklintempleton.investments fxcm.investments gasnatural.investments glacier.investments global.investments goldmansachs.investments good.investments great.investments hightech.investments homesteadfunds.investments iam.investments icap.investments imx.investments intuit.investments johnhancock.investments jointhenation.investments jti.investments kbc.investments koc.investments lasvegas.investments lazard.investments libertymutual.investments libertymutualinsurance.investments lowrisk.investments macau.investments make.investments makemoney.investments marijuana.investments market.investments mellon.investments miami.investments microsoft.investments mill.investments moodys.investments mortgage.investments mutualfund.investments mytrade.investments nationwidebank.investments naughty.investments nestegg.investments newyork.investments one.investments papermoney.investments park.investments peak.investments pennystock.investments prime.investments putnam.investments rbc.investments reit.investments roofing.investments royal.investments royalbank.investments scotland.investments scout.investments showcase.investments smart.investments southflorida.investments steadfast.investments stock.investments stockmarket.investments stocks.investments tech.investments templeton.investments the.investments thebankofnewyork.investments thehartford.investments thinkmoney.investments titan.investments trustmark.investments veo.investments vpi.investments vtb.investments wallstreet.investments weed.investments worst.investments wrap.investments Google+Michael ... read more ...
Mon 18th August 2014
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.CHURCH Launching September 17 - The number of premium domain names available to churches and related religious organizations is about to increase significantly. On September 17, 2014, the domain name extension .church – a new alternative to domain name extensions like .com and .org – officially opens to the general public. As explained below, churches and related organizations should consider taking advantage of this new opportunity to expand the reach of their marketing and communication efforts. If your organization ... read more ...
 
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Leading This Weeks New gTLD’s .Fund, Here Are The Taken Domains - According to ntldstats.com,  .Fund is leading the other new gTLD’s that go launch into general availability on Wednesday which includes .investments, .Cash and.Tax in terms of domain registrations through Sunrise and EAP Here are some of the more interesting .Fund registrations taken in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and through the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid an additional fee for early access to the domains. Personally I like .Fund I’m sorry I missed out on the ... read more ...
 
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ntldstats: 80% Of All New gTLD’s Are Parked & Has Stats For Each Extension … - ntldstats.com, has added parking stats to its system, both overall and by each new gTLD extension. Overall ntldstats says that just over 80% of all new gTLD domain names are parked. Last week Verisign announced as of June 29th only 3% of all new gTLD resolved to “business websites”  which I assume by definition excludes personal websites and which may account for the difference. Parked domains are defined on the site as any domains which has a traditional parked page which also seems to include ... read more ...
Sun 17th August 2014
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The Next Shot Fired - Sunday, August 17, 2014, 3:00am Since 2011, the banking and insurance industries have been advocating for industry control over the generic top level domain (gTLD) names .bank and .insurance, to assure the integrity of the naming process as the number of available domain names is expected to expand ... read more ...
Sat 16th August 2014
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How people are using the web’s newest corners - It’s been half a year since the web’s first new top-level domains (gTLDs) went live, a moment Quartz called “the biggest land rush in history.” The web is in the process of moving from fewer than two dozen TLDs (such as the .com in qz.com) to over a thousand. Nearly 200 have already gone live. Now that the dust has settled, it is possible to look back over the past few months and see what effect these new TLDs are really having on the web. Verisign, the company that administers ... read more ...
Fri 15th August 2014
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ICANN offers fix for domain name collisions - I recently got a call from a friend whose business was having problems with an internal network whose web server had a URL that included .guru. One day, their staff had trouble reaching it. They'd made no changes and you could still reach the server using its IPv4 address; it was a mystery. It took me hours — and you still owe me guys! —but I finally discovered that there was a public internet website with a .guru top-level domain name that was conflicting with their private ... read more ...
 
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Certificate Authority Security Council backs SSL server rules taking effect Nov. 1 - Trending: Bill Gates ALS Ice Bucket Challenge video Cisco cutting 6,000 jobs Androids gain in enterprise Security nightmares Resources/White Papers Rows network world Securitynavigateright ... read more ...
 
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Call for ICANN to Educate and Not Mislead GAC - I read with interest the recent blog written by Theresa Swinehart a Sr. Advisor to the President on Strategy. She wrote: "The most critical element of this [ICANN Transition] process is trust and alignment. To ensure success on this accountability track, we must as a community work closely together to make sure that the final process is meaningful. There is plenty of work to be done in an ambitious period of time." Post the completion of the ICANN 50 London meeting, I wrote a Commentary on ... read more ...
Thu 14th August 2014
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New Canadian-backed .club web domains getting snapped up by 50 Cent, Demi … - Michael OliveiraTORONTO — Guessing a website address used to be so simple. Stick a .com or .ca at the end of a company or organization’s name and most of the time, that would do it.But there’s a flood of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) hitting the web, which could eventually leave consumers struggling to remember which of more than 1,400 web suffixes to type in.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is in the process of gradually rolling out all ... read more ...
 
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Last Lap of .WEBSITE, .PRESS and .HOST Sunrise - The Sunrise of Radix's first three TLDs .website, .press and .host is receiving great acceptance. Brands registered with the TMCH have the last 10 days left to take advantage of this Sunrise opportunity. Only 10 days are left before Radix's first three TLDs, .website, .host and .press exit Sunrise on 22nd August '14. The three extensions were launched on 26th June '14 with more than 75 Accredited Registrars on board including Sunrise focused Registrars like MarkMonitor, 101Domain, Com ... read more ...
 
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Sued Yesterday As Part of BestRegistrar, Jeff Smith Is Also Applicant For New … - Yesterday we reported that Simon Property Group (SPG) sued domain name registrar BestRegistrar along with a few alleged resellers and its principals individually including a Jeff Smith to “recover control of approximately 5,000 Internet domain names rightfully owned by SPG, and to recover damages both compensatory and statutory in nature arising out of: (i) Defendants’ wrongful exercise of control over the 5,000 domain names and (ii) unlawful attempts to exact a “ransom” from SPG for the ... read more ...
 
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Brands Concerned by Risks Associated With New Domains - Photo by Descrier Images Creative Commons license As generic top-level domains (gTLDs) become more widespread, brands have admitted to feeling concerned about their rollout over the next five years. Research released from brand protection firm Netnames as part ... read more ...