Tag Archives: TLD

Wed 5th August 2015
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‘Sunrise Period’ for KRG’s landmark top-level domain - ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has announced a landmark step in the use of ".krd," a top-level domain (TLD) name like those generally reserved for individual countries.  The KRG's Department of Information Technology (DIT) said Wednesday that the mandatory "Sunrise Period" necessary for adopting the TLD had begun and will end on October 4. This test period is when other entities may pre-register names that are the same or similar in order to avoid ... read more ...
 
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Área de Libra da Petrobras terá 1º óleo em 2017, diz afretador de … - A plataforma do Teste de Longa Duração (TLD) de Libra, área petrolífera gigante operada pela Petrobras, deverá entrar em operação apenas no primeiro trimestre de 2017 e não no segundo semestre de 2016, conforme está previsto no Plano de Negócios e Gestão da petroleira 2015-2019.A informação é do diretor financeiro da Odebrecht Óleo e Gás, Rogério Ibrahim, da empresa que integra joint venture com a Teekay Offshore Partners que vai operar a embarcação.O ... read more ...
Tue 4th August 2015
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Área de Libra da Petrobras terá 1º óleo em 2017, diz afretador de … - RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A plataforma do Teste de Longa Duração (TLD) de Libra, área petrolífera gigante operada pela Petrobras, deverá entrar em operação apenas no primeiro trimestre de 2017 e não no segundo semestre de 2016, conforme está previsto no Plano de Negócios e Gestão da petroleira 2015-2019.A informação é do diretor financeiro da Odebrecht Óleo e Gás, Rogério Ibrahim, da empresa que integra joint venture com a Teekay Offshore Partners que vai operar a embarcação. ... read more ...
 
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Primeiro óleo da área de Libra, da Petrobras, deve atrasar, sinaliza … - RIO DE JANEIRO - A plataforma do Teste de Longa Duração (TLD) de Libra, área petrolífera gigante operada pela Petrobras (PETR3; PETR4), deverá entrar em operação apenas no primeiro trimestre de 2017 e não no segundo semestre de 2016, conforme está previsto no Plano de Negócios e Gestão da petroleira 2015-2019. A informação é do diretor financeiro da Odebrecht Óleo e Gás, Rogério Ibrahim, da empresa que integra joint venture com a Teekay Offshore Partners que vai operar ... read more ...
 
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Primeiro óleo da área de Libra, da Petrobras, deve atrasar, sinaliza … - RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A plataforma do Teste de Longa Duração (TLD) de Libra, área petrolífera gigante operada pela Petrobras, deverá entrar em operação apenas no primeiro trimestre de 2017 e não no segundo semestre de 2016, conforme está previsto no Plano de Negócios e Gestão da petroleira 2015-2019.A informação é do diretor financeiro da Odebrecht Óleo e Gás, Rogério Ibrahim, da empresa que integra joint venture com a Teekay Offshore Partners que vai operar a embarcação. ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Wins a Very Weak TLD Lawsuit - Back in the 1990s as the Internet was starting to become visible to the world, several people had the bright idea of setting up their own top level domains and selling names in competition with what was then the monopoly registrar Network Solutions (NSI). For these new TLDs to be usable, either the TLD operators had to persuade people to use their root servers rather than the IANA servers, or else get their TLDs into the IANA root. Attempts to get people to use other roots never were very ... read more ...
 
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From Toad to Princess – New TLDs Are No Magical Wand in the Kingdom of Search … - Co-authored by David Hallam, Business Development Director NCC Group and Hans Seeuws, Managing Director OpenRegistry. Google has posted details on Ranking of new gTLDs (new gTLDs) in search. John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, said that new gTLD's will be treated the same as other gTLD's such as .com. He stated: "Overall, our systems treat new gTLDs like other gTLDs (like .com .org). Keywords in a TLD do not give any advantage or disadvantage in search." The ambiguous use of the word ... read more ...
Mon 3rd August 2015
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.Online Receives 550+ Sunrise Requests, a Fortnight Still to Go - Radix announced their latest generic launch, .online has already received 550+ Sunrise requests, with 15 more days for the phase to end. The versatile nature of the TLD has attracted participation from brands across varied industry verticals. From automobile and technology, to finance, fashion and food, there are requests for .online from across industries and geos. Apple leads the pack with 50+ Sunrise requests, accompanied by esteemed brands like Bank of America, Deutsche Telekom, Dow ... read more ...
 
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Wokingham scooter company fined twice for breaching regulations - A Wokingham business has been fined for the second time after selling potentially dangerous scooters. TLD Marketing and Business Development Limited was handed a £5,288.57 fine at Reading Magistrates' Court on Friday, July 24 for selling scooters which failed safety tests. Tests on one scooter, marked with a manufacturer declaration and labelled as suitable for children age five and over, found a number of breaches including issues with breaks and structural strength. The products, kept at TLD's ... read more ...
Fri 31st July 2015
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Company importing dangerous children’s scooters into Wokingham order to pay … - A COMPANY importing dangerous children's scooters into Wokingham has been fined thousands of pounds. Importer TLD Marketing and Business development Limited was hauled before Reading magistrates on Friday, July 24, for flouting safety laws. The scooters were seized when their brakes were found to be faulty and they catastrophically failed their structural tests, and have areas that could trap a child's finger. The investigation began ... read more ...
 
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Company importing dangerous children’s scooters into Wokingham order to pay … - A COMPANY importing dangerous children's scooters into Wokingham has been fined thousands of pounds. Importer TLD Marketing and Business development Limited was hauled before Reading magistrates on Friday, July 24, for flouting safety laws. The scooters were seized when their brakes were found to be faulty and they catastrophically failed their structural tests, and have areas that could trap a child's finger. The investigation began ... read more ...
Thu 30th July 2015
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Minds + Machines eyes profit next year - ---ADDS MANAGEMENT BROKER COMMENTS AND SHARE PRICE--- Internet domain name specialist Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) is targeting a move into profit next year after a round of cost reductions. M+M has saved US$1.3mln through job cuts in June and this, allied with the development of a direct sales team, “would have a very material direct effect on our bottom-line results over the next 12 months,” said Antony Van Couvering, chief executive. At end-June, M+M had 217,200 domain ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines eyes profit next year - ---ADDS MANAGEMENT BROKER COMMENTS AND SHARE PRICE--- Internet domain name specialist Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) is targeting a move into profit next year after a round of cost reductions. M+M has saved US$1.3mln through job cuts in June and this, allied with the development of a direct sales team, “would have a very material direct effect on our bottom-line results over the next 12 months,” said Antony Van Couvering, chief executive. At end-June, M+M had 217,200 domain ... read more ...
Wed 29th July 2015
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Team TLD aiming to close out QRTS top-10 finish - TEAM TLD will look to cement a top-10 season finish when the Queensland Road Team Series moves into the final round next month. TLD strengthened its position in this year's series with a solid performance last weekend during round four at Gympie. The 2015 QRTS winds up on August 29-30 with the Giro d' Yarrabilba in the Logan region. The Toowoomba-based TLD outfit jumped from ninth to sixth position in the overall team standings during the two days of racing at Gympie. Harry Sweeny ... read more ...
 
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Navigating the .brand Delegation Process - This is the second post in a series from Corey Grant, Senior Industry Consultant at ARI Registry Services, about how .brand TLDs can get started and make the most of their TLDs. Today marks a major milestone for .brand Top-Level Domain applicants, as we pass the deadline set by ICANN for them to sign their Registry Agreement (RA). For those who have knuckled down over the last few weeks and months to meet this deadline, congratulations — for many, this was no mean feat and the effort should ... read more ...
Tue 28th July 2015
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Google explique l’impact des nouvelles extensions (gTLD) dans son … - Google a publié une FAQ qui explique - une fois de plus - que les nouvelles extensions en cours d'appparition sur le Web (.blog, . mail, .shop, .movie ou autre .paris) n'ont actuellement pas d'impact en termes de SEO dans les résultats de recherche... Google a posté sur son blog en français pour les webmasters une FAQ concernant les nouvelles extensions (.web, .shop, .paris, .alsace, .bzh, etc.) et leur impact potentiel sur les résultats de recherche de son moteur. Globalement, ... read more ...
 
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A New Boom to Come? Re-Evaluating the Success of the New TLD Program - I think it's fair to say that quite a few people — both within the domain name industry and beyond — have an opinion on whether the new TLD program is succeeding or struggling. But are things really all that bad? Are we forecasting doom before it has really had a chance to run? Crunching the numbers Let's consider the (relatively short) history to this point and take a look at some statistics. In 2012, 1,930 applications were received by ICANN for new TLDs — however accounting for ... read more ...
Mon 27th July 2015
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WeddingWire Joins Minds + Machines As New TLD ‘.Wedding’ Pioneer - Minds + Machines (LSE:MMX), the publicly quoted owner and operator of Internet top-level domains, announced today that WeddingWire, the wedding industry's leading global online marketplace, has joined Minds + Machines as the latest '.wedding' pioneer. As the wedding industry's most influential platform with over 5 million unique visits per month, WeddingWire has registered a portfolio of forty '.wedding' domains that will expand their brand and services online. Amongst their portfolio, ... read more ...
 
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Right of the Dot and Heritage Auctions to Auction .Versicherung TLD - Over the weekend, I received an email from Monte Cahn announcing that his company, Right of the Dot, LLC, is teaming up with Heritage Auctions to sell the .Versicherung new gTLD extension. The auction will be held on August 26th at 10am EST, and the auction format will be an online ascending clock auction. Versicherung is the German word for “insurance.” This domain name extension went into General Availability in September of 2014. There are approximately 3,000+/- .Versicherung domain ... read more ...
Sun 26th July 2015
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Nuevos dominios de nivel superior versus Google - Hasta ahora no había ninguna información oficial de Google acerca del tratamiento de las nuevas extensiones de dominio, pero ya trascendió y la respuesta es que NO. Los nuevos dominios de nivel superior (gTLD) no tendrán preferencia sobre otros dominios no geolocalizados y no se considerarán geolocalizados aunque tengan el nombre de una ciudad en la extensión. Eso si hay que destacar que Google avisa que es posible que en los TLD regionales o de ciudad (.bayern o .berlin) puedan crearse excepciones ... read more ...
Fri 24th July 2015
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Verisign: Brands Are Keeping Their .Com: Don’t See Anybody Abandoning .Com for … - In the Verisign earnings call yesterday the following question was asked by Fred Ziegel, Topeka Capital Markets. Fred Ziegel (Analyst – Topeka Capital Markets): But we don’t see them abandoning their .com.” Jim Bidzos (Executive Chairman, President and CEO): Added: “And just to clarify — for example, if we were to employ .verisign, we would never abandon verisign.com. Like most brands, we’ve invested heavily in promoting it. And everybody is familiar with it,  we would probably ... read more ...
 
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Google clarifies TLD issues ahead of registry deadline - Google has been discussing how it deals with the new top-level domains, or TLDs. John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst with Google, took to the Google Webmaster Blog in response to what he said were questions and misconceptions among members of the webmaster community regarding the issue of TLDs. Google’s move to clarify issues pertaining to TLDs comes ahead of the 29th July deadline for .brand TLDs to sign the Registry Agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), ... read more ...
 
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Google clarifies TLD issues ahead of registry deadline | Purecontent Blog - Google has been discussing how it deals with the new top-level domains, or TLDs. John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst with Google, took to the Google Webmaster Blog in response to what he said were questions and misconceptions among members of the webmaster community regarding the issue of TLDs. Google’s move to clarify issues pertaining to TLDs comes ahead of the 29th July deadline for .brand TLDs to sign the Registry Agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), ... read more ...
 
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Internet-Spezialdomains: IETF streitet um .onion, .gnu und andere Technik … - Erst sah es gut aus für die Reservierung der Spezialdomain .onion. Zwar steht die Tor-Domain schon im so genannten Last Call der IETF. Aber bei der Standardisierungsorganisation hat man wenig Lust, sich politischen Streit ins Haus zu holen. Die Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will eine Reservierung von Spezialdomains wie .onion für Tor und andere Dienste (etwa .bit für Namecoin oder das Gnu Name System .gnu) neu überdenken. Beim 93. Treffen der Standardisierungsorganisation ... read more ...
 
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Internet-Spezialdomains: IETF streitet um .onion, .gnu und andere Technik … - Erst sah es gut aus für die Reservierung der Spezialdomain .onion. Zwar steht die Tor-Domain schon im so genannten Last Call der IETF. Aber bei der Standardisierungsorganisation hat man wenig Lust, sich politischen Streit ins Haus zu holen. Die Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will eine Reservierung von Spezialdomains wie .onion für Tor und andere Dienste (etwa .bit für Namecoin oder das Gnu Name System .gnu) neu überdenken. Beim 93. Treffen der Standardisierungsorganisation ... read more ...