dotCapeTown e-mail addresses causing headaches - Owners of new .capetown top-level domains may have some trouble using e-mail addresses from their new space on the Internet. This is because a number of online services still check to see that the top-level domain (TLD) portion of an e-mail address (such as .com, .net, or .za) is only a certain number of characters long. Even well-established, widely used open source Internet software checks for TLD lengths as short as 6 or 7 characters, despite an old Internet Engineering Task ... read more ...

CentralNic banks US$2.5mln from premiun domain sale - ---ADDS MORE DETAIL, BROKER COMMENT AND SHARE PRICE--- Internet platform business CentralNic (LON:CNIC) is set to meet full-year expectations and is progressing well with the diversification of its business. The company, which listed on AIM just over a year ago, has been busy ploughing the money it raised in the flotation into diversifying its business. The company came to the market as a player primarily focused on the sale of Internet domain names (i.e. a registry service provider), but it now ... read more ...

Bulk Sunrise Period for Special Collision List Starts Next Week - The first 12 domain registries have been scheduled for the first special Sunrise Period mandated by ICANN for trademarks on the blocked collision lists (see TLD list at end of article). A total of 328 new domain extensions have launched so far in 2014. Each one of these has its own unique collision list of names that were found to be already in use on private computer networks. Some of these lists have over 100,000 names. All of these registries were required to block these names from being ... read more ...

"Chinese Domaining Masterclass" to be Presented at NamesCon Las Vegas in … - The second annual NamesCon domain name conference, to be held in Las Vegas in January 2015, is proud to announce a major lecture series presented by TLD Registry, the world's leading Chinese domain name registry. TLD Registry is the exclusive owner/operator of the Dot Chinese Online (.在线 ) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网 ) top level domains. TLD Registry's Chinese Domaining Masterclass will run over all four days of NamesCon, and will be taught by TLD Registry's Simon Cousins and ... read more ...

December 1: updated status of sunrise periods and trademark claims notification … - 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 ...

TLD Registry to Present World’s First Masterclass on Booming Chinese Domain … - NamesCon co-producer Jothan Frakes said “We believe that the Chinese Domaining Masterclass will be a huge asset for NamesCon, in terms of delivering something unique, educational, and ... read more ...

TLD Registry to Offer “Chinese Domaining Masterclass” - I want to share some news I just received via press release that might interest NamesCon attendees. TLD Registry, the company that operates the ChineseLandrush.com website that you see advertised here and on other domain industry websites, will be hosting a “Chinese Domaining Masterclass” during NamesCon. According to Mitch Watkins from TLD Registry, “Four unique Masterclass sessions will be held all throughout the week of NamesCon, and repeat sessions will be given so everyone can ... read more ...

SouthStar, Thomas Land & Development Partner on 145-Acre Mixed-Use Ovation - November 29, 2014 By Eliza Theiss, Associate Editor Ovation – western view of main street Ovation, the transformative 145-acre project under development in Nashville’s Cool Springs submarket, is moving along at a dynamic pace. Just one month after breaking ground on the project’s 1.4 million-square-foot office component, SouthStar, LLC has now announced entering into a strategic partnership with Thomas Land Development (TLD) to develop the project’s retail, ... read more ...

ICANN, .nyc, and Multistakeholder Innovation (Video) - Earlier in the week ICANN President and CEO, Fadi Chehadé was in NYC and, thanks to ICANN's Veni Markovski and Manhattan Borough President, Gale Brewer, we were able to have a brief meeting. The discussions were partly about NYC's own new TLD and partly about general ICANN issues. One interesting factoid emerged — in the .nyc landrush auctions, the top bidding was for 'marijuana.nyc' which went for circa $60k! Gale promised that we would soon see the promised public hearings on the TLD. Later ... read more ...

Google turns on shiny new .google top-level domain – but WHY? - Adaptable System Recovery (ASR) for Linux virtual machines Google has turned on its namesake top-level domain (TLD) with the creation of 'nic.google' representing the internet giant's entry into the domain name market.Currently the domain redirects to Google's registry page where it outlines the other internet extensions it has already won the rights to, including: .ads, .dad, .fly, .how, .new, .mov, .new, .rsvp and .zip. In ... read more ...

DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION UPDATES ANNOUNCED FOR WADE PARK … - Frisco, Texas – November 25, 2014 – (RealEstateRama) — Work is progressing forward for Wade Park, the massive 175-acre, $1.6 billion, mixed-use destination project that broke ground this summer at the North Dallas Tollway and Lebanon Road – ideally located at the heart of Frisco’s “$5 Billion Mile.” With site grading in the works and vertical construction beginning in the spring, Atlanta-based developer Thomas Land Development (TLD) is unveiling new project designs, construction ... read more ...

TheDirectory.com Completes Rebranding of Its Industry Leading Podiatric … - TheDirectory.com Completes Rebranding of Its Industry Leading Podiatric Directory, Podiatrist.net TAMPA, FL--(Marketwired - Nov 24, 2014) - TheDirectory.com, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: SEEK), an emerging leader in vertical and local search, today announced that it has completed the rebranding of its industry leading podiatric directory under the recently acquired generic, category specific TLD www.Podiatrist.net. Company founder and CEO Scott Gallagher commented on the ... read more ...

.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 ...

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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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 ...