BIG PICTURE – Top level domain names are not small beer - 8:40 am by John Harrington Do you think Czech brewer Budweiser Budvar will be keen to get its hands on www.budweiser.beer? Top Level Domain Holdings (LON:TLDH) is one of the companies behind the International Rugby Board's (IRB) application to control the .RUGBY top level domain (TLD). On Friday, the IRB saw two competing applications to control the .RUGBY TLD dismissed by the International Chamber of Commerce. What ... read more ...

Protect Your Brand From Cybersquatting - Right now, we are witnessing what an executive at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) called “the biggest change to the Internet since its inception.” As ICANN begins launching new generic top-level domain (TLD) extensions, we’ll no longer be limited to addresses ending with .com, .net, and other already familiar TLDs. We’ll see .clothing, .food, .sport, and many, many more. Some people are hailing the new launches as a huge win for consumers, while others ... read more ...

Chris Baker - Namecoin Decentralized DNS Research The holidays open up a block of time to catch up on "I meant to read that" bookmarks, RSS feeds, and all the favorited and forgotten tweets. I made it through 50 before a NormanShark blog post kicked off a research project. The analysts found a malware sample which was using .bit domains in their communications infrastructure, but .bit ... what is that? .bit is a TLD operating outside of ICANN. Some would say they are TLD squatting, but I leave that opinion ... read more ...

Namecoin Decentralized DNS Research - The holidays open up a block of time to catch up on "I meant to read that" bookmarks, RSS feeds, and all the favorited and forgotten tweets. I made it through 50 before a NormanShark blog post kicked off a research project. The analysts found a malware sample which was using .bit domains in their communications infrastructure, but .bit ... what is that? .bit is a TLD operating outside of ICANN. Some would say they are TLD squatting, but I leave that opinion up to the reader. To catch up ... read more ...

BIG PICTURE – Top level domain names are not small beer - Top Level Domain Holdings (LON:TLDH) is one of the companies behind the International Rugby Board's (IRB) application to control the .RUGBY top level domain (TLD). On Friday, the IRB saw two competing applications to control the .RUGBY TLD dismissed by the International Chamber of Commerce. What this means, in effect, is that if rugby league team Wigan wants to set up a web site called www.wiganwarriors.rugby then, galling though it may for a rugby league team, it will have to go through the world ... read more ...

dotAfrica domain set for May launch - INTERNETBy BiztechAfrica - Feb. 3, 2014, 9:24 a.m.The general availability of the dotAfrica (.africa) Top Level Domain (TLD) is expected to commence in September 2014, following the expiry of the Sunrise and Land Rush periods which are scheduled to commence in May 2014.That's according to Neil Dundas, ZA Central Registry (ZACR) Chief Operating Officer. "dotAfrica (.africa) domains will be available for registration on a first-come-first-served basis from September 2014 once the rights ... read more ...

How the web will change by these new domains? - How the web will change by these new domains? How the web will change by these new domains? Today, new names added Internet TLD. Does that fundamentally change the way we use the web or these new domains out with a whimper? Up until now, the web has been organized using only a handful of generic top-level domains (gTLDs)— a fancy description of the words that come after the dot in a URL, such as .com, .net, .gov. But now, the Internet will face the biggest virtual land ... read more ...

dotAfrica enters world stage of new top-level domains - Tweet TweetA man uses a tablet in Johannesburg, South Africa. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/Getty Images The gradual roll-out of top-level domain (TLD) names that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been allotting over the last year is slowly reaching all corners of the globe. The dotAfrica (.africa) TLD will be one of the next global TLDs available — launching for general registry in September. The TLD will actually launch in May of this year, but process registrations ... read more ...

The Grizzled Prospectors of the Internet Land Rush - Image via State Library of South Australia/Flickr The “biggest internet land grab” is on! The first round of around 1,000 new generic top level domain names—the stuff after the “dot” in .com—are coming onto the open market tomorrow. If you want, say, a “.meme” address (it might be quite lucrative to cybersquat on cats.meme, or sloths.meme, or any animal really), you’ll be buying the space via a registrar like Go Daddy, who themselves will ... read more ...

dotAfrica domain available in September 2014 - '; winimg.document.writeln(doc); winimg.document.close(); } //]] li>ul,.container,#coinslid {background-color:#ffffff} ul#serinfo-nav{border-color:#ffffff !important} .body2,.header_scroll,.headbg,.header_noslide,#footer,#rightsidebar,#navigation{background-color:#404040} #nav li a,.nav>li>a,.nav>li>a{border-color:#404040} #serinfo,#serinfo-nav li.current{background-color:#f9f9f9} .overrating,#sidebar p input[type=submit],span.ribbon,a#triggernav,a#triggernav-sec,a.fromhome,.imgwrap,a.mainbutton,a.itembutton,.page-numbers.current,a.comment-reply-link,#submit,#comments ... read more ...

DotAfrica domains to become available in September 2014 - The dotAfrica (.africa) Top Level Domain (TLD) is expected to become generally available in September, preceded by Sunrise and Land Rush periods, which are scheduled to commence in May. According to Neil Dundas, ZA Central Registry (ZACR) chief operating officer, DotAfrica (.africa) domains will be available for registration on a first-come, first-served basis from September once the rights of trademark holders have been processed during the designated Sunrise period. Dundas ... read more ...

Coping With The New Top Level Domains In 2014 - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...

Will the new generic top-level domains change the way we browse the Internet? - A big name startup called Donuts Inc. is finally getting a chance to test its great theory of the Internet: URLs matter, and if Donuts just happens to get rich along the way, so be it. That’s the sales pitch, as the company rolls out the first seven of potentially hundreds of new top-level domains (TLDs), insisting that the new approach will change the way we use the Internet. The new TLDs (sometimes called generic TLDs or gTLDs), which became available ... read more ...