YourBrand.sucks — Unless You Act Now! - As the INTA Annual Meeting winds down, one memory for me that certainly stuck out was an on-site ad campaign revolving around the new “.sucks” top-level domain (“TLD”). Depending on whom you ask, it’s either ingenious or diabolical. Just outside the San Diego Convention Center, the throngs of orange lanyard-wearing conference attendees were greeted by some rather cheery folks holding white signs with the “.sucks” TLD laid over some speech bubbles. That nice lady who graciously ... read more ...

Don’t be .sucker punched by the latest domain extension! - Brand owners!  Have you heard about the .sucks domain names? Sunrise registrations for the TLD opened on 30 March and Instagram, Bank of America and Keven Spacey have already secured their .sucks. Controversial domain extensions like .sucks are nothing new. However, the high fees to secure a .sucks are unprecedented. Canadian company Vox Pupuli, the TLD owner, charges nearly USD$2,500 to register during the sunrise period. This makes it a difficult decision, especially for brand ... read more ...

TLD Podcast #9: Canelo-Kirkland & Mayweather-Pacquiao - In this episode, Diego and I give our Mayweather-Pacquiao postmortem. We dissect the fight itself, talk about how it had impossible hype to live up to and wonder what’s next for both men. Was Manny Pacquiao’s shoulder injury a deciding factor? Is Floyd Mayweather that much better than Pacquiao? We also preview Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-James Kirkland, a fight that promises tremendous action and carries major implications. Here’s a more detailed breakdown of the episode: We know that Manny ... read more ...

ICANN Board Member and Former GAC Chair to Give Evidence in .Africa Case - The controversy over the competing .africa TLD applications has been going on for some time. A recent decision by the International Centre For Dispute Resolution (ICDR) said that ICANN had breached its own by-laws and has questioned why ICANN won't allow a current board member and the former Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Chair to speak to them and provide evidence. A letter that was published on the ICANN site yesterday suggests that ICANN may have changed their tune and will now let ... read more ...

CentralNic Adds NCC Group’s Domain Assured Service - According to a press release, CentralNic, has partnered with global information assurance specialist NCC Group, in order to protect its growing list of clients from domain abuse. NCC Group’s Domain Assured service uses expert threat intelligence to deliver a complete picture of a domain’s threat landscape, which allows registry operators to monitor the overall health of their domain portfolios and major domain abuse types such as spam, typo squatting, hosting of malicious code and phishing. The ... read more ...

IDNauction Launches Free Domain Name Auction Site - FRANKLIN, Tenn., May 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- IDN.auction launched today, offering web professionals a totally free auction site for Internet domains, including all Top-Level Domains (TLDs). The site, which does not charge listing fees, gives web entrepreneurs an economical, easy way to get the right web address for the right price. For domainers, the site offers maximum profitability for sale of URLs. In honor of the launch, the site is waiving all closing fees for a limited time. "Don't you think ... read more ...

It’s all a matter of logistics - At one time, there were companies that just hauled things and companies that mainly just stored things in warehouses. But more and more, companies called third-party logistics (3PL) providers are combining those services and others to give other companies an efficiency advantage. Full story available to subscribers ... read more ...

Consumer Education, Awareness Key to Combating Rogue Online Drug Sellers - MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill., May 1, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Yesterday, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) issued a report that profiles the continued pervasiveness of illegal online drug seller activity and the need for increased awareness about the risks such activity presents to public health. As detailed in the Internet Drug Outlet Identification Program Progress Report for State and Federal Regulators: April 2015, the threat posed by illegal online drug sellers ... read more ...

Record Breaking: .Porn and .Adult Gets Around 4K Sunrise Registrations Each … - ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, and .ADULT top-level domains (TLDs), announces the close of its .PORN and .ADULT Sunrise periods today with record setting numbers for new gTLD’s The Sunrise periods, which allows  trademark owners the first opportunity to secure names in .PORN and .ADULT, resulted in around 4,000 domain name registrations per TLD which is a record for any new gTLD by many times over. According to ICM, the best previous gTLD launches garnered around 750 ... read more ...

Let the good times roll - Let the good times rollAnthony Beltran of 101domain examines the progress made in rolling out domain names endings, and what to expect in the futureIt seems like a lot longer than a year ago that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, known better as ICANN, finally kicked off the new gTLD programme. It was only February 2014 when we saw the launch of the first new gTLD name—a full string internationalised domain name (using non-Latin characters) meaning ‘web’ in Arabic. Hopes ... read more ...

TLD Podcast #8: Mayweather-Pacquiao - In this special episode, Diego and I dissect every angle of Mayweather-Pacquiao. We talk about the pre-fight hype (or lack thereof, in some respects), the reality of Floyd Mayweather being pegged as the “villain”, the duelling HBO and Showtime documentaries and what to expect from fight week. We also debate about who has the edge in key areas like speed, power, stamina, defence, chin and footwork. On a more sobering note, we discuss Mayweather’s disturbing history of domestic violence ... read more ...

Happy Birthday dotLondon – brand - Happy Birthday dotLondon RSSS Tweet Email April 29, 2015 in -e.online Today, the city of London will celebrate the first birthday of its digital offspring, the dotLondon domain. Since London and Partners launched the new Top Level Domain there have been over 60,000 registrations, making it the 13th most popular new generic TLD. Whilst London lags behind some of its global counterparts – dotBerlin (156,000 registrations so far) ... read more ...

Lessons from .Build One Year After Launch: Q&A with CEO and Founder George … - The .build domain namespace opened in General Availability in April 2014, as a domain name designed specifically for the online needs of the building industry and beyond. As the appointed technical provider for .build, ARI Registry Services powered the launch and continued technical operations for this global domain name. A year into the life of the namespace, ARI Registry Services' Head of Global Consulting Tony Kirsch caught up with George Minardos, CEO of .build to talk about his insights ... read more ...

New .vote TLD Used for Arizona Voters - Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan and the .VOTE registry are pleased to announce two new and simple web addresses have been launched for Arizona voters — www.arizona.vote and www.arizona.voto. These two new online destinations make it easier for people to locate information related to voter registration and election information. The new domains of .VOTE and its Spanish/Italian/Portuguese counterpart .VOTO were designed to help elected officials, governments, candidates and organizations ... read more ...

Costa Rica: The New Home for Controversial Torrent Websites - Screenshot of KAT.cr A website that has often come under fire for allegedly facilitating online piracy of copyrighted content is currently hosted in Costa Rica. After trying their luck at retaining a Top Level Domain (TLD) in the Federal Republic of Somalia and the Isle of Man, a self-governing dependency of the British Crown, the administrators of the polemic website Kickass Torrents (KAT) have settled for the relative safety of Costa Rica. According to TorrentFreak.com, a website dedicated to covering ... read more ...

KickassTorrents New Domain Goes Down Within 24 Hours, Shifts To .CR Domain - KickassTorrents is the next target for anti-piracy authorities as the website has become bigger than the Pirate Bay. Yesterday, the KAT team shifted its website to Isle of Man .im domain but the domain was seized after few hours, forcing the team to look for another domain. The KAT team is now looking to get their website hosted at Costa Rican .cr TLD. “We have been seized by the Isle of Man domain registry. The ... read more ...

TLD’s McElrath set for first Supercross on live TV on Fox Sports (Saturday, 3 pm … - April 24, 2015 Filed under News, Top Stories, Uncategorized News release On Saturday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Troy Lee Designs/Lucas Oil/Red Bull/KTM’s Shane McElrath will make not only his debut aboard the KTM 450 SX-F but also will do so in front of the largest TV audience to date as the race will be broadcast on live network television on FOX (3pm EST / Noon PST) for the first time ever. McElrath just completed the ... read more ...