Tag Archives: TLD

Thu 15th May 2014
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Kurt Pritz - DNA Auction Plan to Reinvest Money Into Industry Love them or hate them, auctions are an unavoidable reality of the new Top-Level Domain (TLD) Program. By their very nature, they create winners and losers. All that is in doubt is where the money goes -- to the losing parties under a private auction model or to ICANN under their auction of last resort. There are pros and cons for both models. But what if there was another way? more» ... read more ...
Wed 14th May 2014
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May 12: 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 ...
 
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New gTLD’s Take 1st Toll On Existing String? .Mobi Falls Below 1 Million … -   According to RegistrarStats.com the Top Level Domain (TLD) .Mobi  fell below 1 Million domain name registrations. .Mobi hit a high of 1.2 Million registrations in January 2014 before the new gTLD were released. .Mobi increased registration from late 2011,  from below 1 Million hitting  1.2 Million on January. We can’t peg the losses of 200,000 domain registrations since January just to the new gTLD’s, but it certainly could be a factor which is why the headline has a question mark. What ... read more ...
Tue 13th May 2014
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TLD Racing ready for hometown Tour debut - Topics:  cycling, tld racing, toowoomba, tour of toowoomba Story Tools var addthis_config = { services_compact: 'favorites, email, facebook, twitter, buzz', services_exclude: 'print' } Tweet TLD Racing rider Sebastian Scott (foreground) along with team managers Dave Silk and Peter Watts ahead of TLD competing in the FKG Tour of Toowoomba. TLD Racing is excited about the chance to put Toowoomba in ... read more ...
 
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TLD Racing ready for hometown Tour debut - Topics:  cycling, tld racing, toowoomba, tour of toowoomba Story Tools var addthis_config = { services_compact: 'favorites, email, facebook, twitter, buzz', services_exclude: 'print' } Tweet TLD Racing rider Sebastian Scott (foreground) along with team managers Dave Silk and Peter Watts ahead of TLD competing in the FKG Tour of Toowoomba. TLD Racing is excited about the chance to put Toowoomba ... read more ...
 
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Is the Future of .BRAND TLDs to Be Registered Just Like a Domain Name? - Will .BRAND Top-Level Domains be made available for registration at Registrars like GoDaddy, just like second level domains are? My guess is that it will and here are the reasons why. Go what? There is no longer a need to introduce GoDaddy. GoDaddy is just the largest Registrar in the world and has no equivalent. According to nTLDStats.com, it has 24.51% market shares in the new domain names market, with 175,313 new domain names registered out of a total of 715,276, 12 million customers ... read more ...
 
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dotAfrica dispute causes more delays - The launch of the .africa TLD by the ZACR has been delayed due to the ongoing Independent Review Process between ICANN and DotConnectAfrica (DCA), Neil Dundas, chief operating officer of the SA-based ZA Central Registry (ZACR) said. The DCA, whose domain name registry operates out of Kenya, initially submitted a separate competing application for .africa, but without government support, Dundas said. As a result of the lack of support and the subsequent Governmental Advisory Committee ... read more ...
 
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Dispute further delays launch of .africa internet name - Dispute further delays launch of .africa internet name A complaint by an organisation competing for the .africa geographic top-level domain (gTLD) has further postponed the launch of the internet name, which was planned to be unveiled early June. This is according to Neil Dundas, the chief operating officer of South Africa’s ZA Central Registry (ZACR), who says the internet name may only be commercially launched in late June or July now. This is the latest ... read more ...
 
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Dot luxury domain names going on general release - New top-level domain name .luxury is now going on general sale. Some 500 brands from Bvlgari to Versace, signed up for their own .luxury top-level domain (TLD) name in the initial 60-day sunrise period in which registrations were only available for trademarked brands. Now the .luxury name is available through internet registrars including CentralNic which has launched a dedicated website, www.domain.luxury through its TRS subsidiary. “.luxury is one of the most successful new TLDs to launch ... read more ...
Mon 12th May 2014
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CentralNic Launches Website For Sale Of .Luxury Domains - LONDON (Alliance News) - CentralNic Group PLC said Monday that it had launched a new website for the sale of new domain names ending in .luxury through its subsidiary TLD Registrar Solutions.Over 500 brands had already signed up for domain names with the .luxury top level domain, including Chanel SA, Société Cartier, Gucci Group and Gianni Versace SpA, during its initial 60 day window for trademark holders only.Following the close of this initial period, where domains were offered at USD1,199 for ... read more ...
 
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CentralNIC looking forward to a life of .luxury - No investment advice The Company is a publisher. You understand and agree that no content published on the Site constitutes a recommendation that any particular security, portfolio of securities, transaction, or investment strategy is suitable or advisable for any specific person. You further understand that none of the information providers or their affiliates will advise you personally concerning the nature, potential, advisability, value or suitability of any particular security, portfolio ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic launches website for .Luxury domains - StockMarketWire.com - CentralNic Group has launched a new website - http://www.DOMAIN.LUXURY - dedicated to selling domain names ending with the new top-level domain .LUXURY, through its wholly owned subsidiary TLD Registrar Solutions. CentralNic chief executive Ben Crawford said: ".LUXURY is one of the most successful new TLDs to launch so far, having already signed over 500 brands in their Sunrise. "Other companies applied for dozens, even hundreds, of top-level domains, and so far few ... read more ...
Fri 9th May 2014
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Dot NYC (.nyc) TLD Enters First Phase of Launch - This week, the City of New York and Neustar launched the first phase of availability for the new .nyc Top-Level Domain (TLD). The "Sunrise” phase gives NYC businesses with trademarks first priority in claiming their .nyc names through June 20. This is the first of three phases prior to general availability opening October 8, 2014. As one of the most anticipated arrivals in the City and the Internet's history, the .nyc address is a unique opportunity for New York City residents, businesses ... read more ...
Thu 8th May 2014
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CentralNIC Group set to pick up the pace - The first set of full-year results since listing in September revealed a rising top-line at CentralNic (LON:CNIC), with plenty of growth in the pipeline. The Internet domain name registry and registry saw billings jump 15% in 2013 to £3.9mln, helping revenues rise 4% to £3.1mln. The company, which wholesales and retails the letters at the end of web addresses (known as generic Top Level Domains, or gTLDs), said the growth stemmed from strong deferred revenues from previous periods, continued growth ... read more ...
Wed 7th May 2014
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".Soy": Google quiere una Internet para hispanos | El Comercio Perú - En junio del 2012 Google presentó una propuesta para registrar 101 dominios de primer nivel en Internet, o TLD como se les conoce en inglés. Se trata de los dominios como .org o .com. La lista incluía nombres esperados como .gmail, .ads, .android, .youtube pero también otros menos comunes como .dad, .dog o .soy. Más de un analista se rascó la cabeza tratando ... read more ...
 
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Still Think .brands Might Be a Waste of Time? Google Doesn’t! - The new Top-Level Domain (TLD) program was designed from the outset to enhance competition and foster innovation. It was a great result for the wider industry to see approximately one-third of the applications received by ICANN submitted by some of the world's largest companies seeking to own and operate their own .brand TLD. Even with organisations such as Apple, Citibank and IBM applying for their respective TLDs, scepticism remained on the potential for .brands to succeed. Where would ... read more ...
 
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".Soy": Google quiere una internet para hispanos - BBC Mundo, @davidcuen En junio de 2012 Google presentó una propuesta para registrar 101 dominios de primer nivel en internet, o TLD como se les conoce en inglés. Se trata de los dominios como .org o .com. Foto: Reuters en español La lista incluía nombres esperados como .gmail, .ads, .android, .youtube pero también otros menos comunes como .dad, .dog o .soy. Más de un analista ... read more ...
 
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".Soy": Google quiere una internet para hispanos - En junio de 2012 Google presentó una propuesta para registrar 101 dominios de primer nivel en internet, o TLD como se les conoce en inglés. Se trata de los dominios como .org o .com.La lista incluía nombres esperados como .gmail, .ads, .android, .youtube pero también otros menos comunes como .dad, .dog o .soy.Más de un analista se rascó la cabeza tratando de descifrar el por qué el buscador estaba dispuesto a pagar US$185.000 por el dominio .soy (o soja, en español traducido literalmente).Ahora ... read more ...
 
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.Gent gaat van start als eerste Belgische ‘geographic-TLD’ - Niet .Vlaanderen of .Brussels gaat van start als eerste  Belgische regionale of 'city-TLD'. De primeur gaat naar .Gent. De .Gent-domeinnamen zullen voor het grote publiek beschikbaar worden vanaf 24/11/2014, voorafgaand aan een lanceringsfase die start op 01/09/2014.  De lancering van .Gent gaat vooraf aan enkele fases die aan bepaalde doelgroepen het recht geeft om al eerder hun domeinnaam vast te leggen, namelijk inwoners, bedrijven en non-profit organisaties in Gent en omstreken (de zogenaamde ... read more ...
Mon 5th May 2014
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ARI Registry Services Facilitates Delegation of Another .brand TLD - ARI Registry Services facilitated the delegation of its second .brand Top-Level Domain (TLD) client to the web when the World Trade Center's .wtc TLD was switched on live during the week. Following technical testing to meet ICANN's stringent requirements, .wtc joined the likes of, شبكة. .menu, .build, .luxury and .monash when ARI Registry Services added the namespace to the Internet's authoritative root zone servers. More than 250 TLDs have already been delegated out of the almost ... read more ...
 
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Strategies: New domain expansion is already causing second thoughts - David Schachter A new Internet policy introduced by ICANN, the entity that controls and assigns all global Internet domain rights, now allows private parties to acquire ownership of top-level domains ... read more ...
Sat 3rd May 2014
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Guest Post: An Insider’s Guide to .Wiki Landrush - This is a Guest Post written by Andrew Merriam who is the Business Development Coordinator for Top Level Design LLC, the new TLD registry for .wiki, .ink, and an applicant for an additional 7 TLDs. Andrew has been involved in Top Level Design’s applications from their start and has a background working with CEO Raymond King on a separate project, ICANNWiki, where he first entered the world of domain names, TLD expansion, and wikis. Here is the post which appears unedited: There are a LOT of names ... read more ...
 
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The Snapchat of web addresses: Meet the domains that aren’t meant to last - Your marriage may last forever, but the website you register to announce it to the world won’t. A new top-level domain (TLD)—the last bit of a web address, like the .com in qz.com—is bringing a Snapchat mentality to the fusty world of domain names. By making it very expensive for users to hold on to their websites after a certain period of time, these sites are effectively built to self-destruct—or at least move on. Domain names are usually sold on the assumption that owners ... read more ...
 
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Fear of commitment The Snapchat of web addresses: Meet the domains that … - Your marriage may last forever, but the website you register to announce it to the world won’t. A new top-level domain (TLD)—the last bit of a web address, like the .com in qz.com—is bringing a Snapchat mentality to the fusty world of domain names. By making it very expensive for users to hold on to their websites after a certain period of time, these sites are effectively built to self-destruct—or at least move on. Domain names are usually sold on the assumption that owners ... read more ...
Fri 2nd May 2014
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Rules for Choosing a Domain Name - Printer,Publisher Editor In Chief : Syed Rafi-u-Din Bukhari Editor: Shujaat Bukhari Feedback: editor@risingkashmir.com Managing Editor: Hafiz Ayaz Gani ( ayaz@risingkashmir.com ) Manager (Administration Marketing): Umar Khan(advt@risingkashmir.com, ) Phone No: 91-9858985812, 91-7298729808 RNI No: JKENG/2007/20786 Published from : KASHMIR:Flat No. 7, Press Enclave Residency Road Srinagar - 190001 JAMMU:3rd Floor Auqaf Building, Residency Road Jammu 180001 DELHI-NCR : PPA-163.DLF Park Place DLF Phase ... read more ...