ICANN Issues Advice to IT Professionals on Name Collision Identification and … - ICANN has today issued comprehensive advice to IT professionals worldwide on how to proactively identify and manage private name space leakage into the public Domain Name System (DNS) and thus, eliminate the causes of name collisions as new Top Level Domains (TLDs) are added to the DNS. In a report titled Name Collision Identification and Mitigation for IT Professionals, ICANN explains the nature and causes of name collision and proposes a range of possible solutions. Domain name collisions ... read more ...

Uniregistry Wants ICANN To Slow Down The Last Resort Auction Schedule - Uniregistry, Corp. (“Uniregistry”), an applicant for 52 top-level domains has gone against many other new gTLD applicants in asking ICANN to slow down the new gTLD Last Resort Auction Schedule. In its comments to ICANN on the new gTLD Last Resort ICANN auction rules Uniregistry says it “is disappointed that ICANN changed the “5-TLD-per-month” cap from its initial proposal.” “On the current draft schedule, Uniregistry has three months in which it will have seven TLD applications ... read more ...

Wake up and smell the sunrise: the new TLD era has arrived - As we previously reported to you (click here to view the 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.    Over 1,900 applications were received by ICANN (the internet's governing body) from entities who ... read more ...

Centralnic Group PLC : An Interview With Ben Crawford, CEO of CentralNic – 4 - CentralNic is one of the world's largest domain registries, currently distributing popular domain names such as .uk.com, .us.com and .cn.com. But their portfolio is rapidly expanding with 60 gTLDs coming soon, including .wiki, .bar and .xyz. To get some insight into this expansion, we reached out to Ben Crawford, CEO of CentralNic and asked a few questions. iwmn: The elephant in the TLD room is obviously .com. As fun and creative as other TLDs are, people ... read more ...

Holy .cow!! - Sponsored ArticleThe deluge of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) has begun! Top level domains are the ones after the dot. Examples:-    .com-    .org-    .travel-    .netAlmost 2000 new applications for TLDs were filed in 2012/13 with ICANN. One of ICANN’s many duties is to ensure healthy competition in the Domain Name System (DNS) for registrars and the adequate meeting of the changing/growing needs of consumers as the internet continues to expand in size and importance. Certainly the huge ... read more ...

First Geographic NewgTLD, .RUHR, Now Delegated - Each week ICANN has been delegating more new generic top-level domains (newgTLDs) and it's been somewhat entertaining to watch the list of delegated strings to see what new TLDs will enter the domain name space starting sometime in early 2014 when they become generally available for people to register new domains under. I haven't written about the new strings as I did in the past largely because this is now getting rather routine and those who really care can just watch that list of designated ... read more ...

ICANN Issues Advice to IT Professionals on Name Collision Identification and … - Home News Article Dec 11 2013 more articles from Middle East - 11 December 2013 - ICANN today issued comprehensive advice to IT professionals worldwide on how to proactively identify and manage private name space leakage into the public Domain Name System (DNS) and thus, eliminate the causes of name collisions as new Top Level Domains (TLDs) are added to the DNS. In a report titled Name Collision Identification and Mitigation for IT Professionals, ICANN ... read more ...

What’s to the Right of Your Dot? Huge Domain Expansion Coming in 2014 - Published Monday, December 9th, 2013, by Sue Saldibar. TweetSharebarTweetThere is a major expansion of top level domains or “TLDs” coming in 2014 and business centers may be able to benefit. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers “ICANN” has been involved in an effort to identify hundreds of new domains. Some are brand associated, such as .Google, some are location sensitive, such as .nyc and .london, and some are even vertical industry-driven, such as .sports. This ... read more ...

ICANN Issues Advice to IT Professionals On Name Collision Identification … - ICANN has issued comprehensive advice to IT professionals worldwide on how to proactively identify and manage private name space leakage into the public Domain Name System (DNS) and thus, eliminate the causes of name collisions as new Top Level Domains (TLDs) are added to the DNS. In a report titled Name Collision Identification and Mitigation for IT Professionals, ICANN explains the nature and causes of name collision and proposes a range of possible solutions. Domain name collisions are not new. ... read more ...

Sedo, TLD Registry partner to launch Chinese character IDNs - Thursday 5 December 2013 | 16:18 CET | News Global domain marketplace and monetisation provider, Sedo has announced a key strategic partnership with TLD Registry, the organisation approved to run the first broadly applicable internationalised domain names (IDNs) in Chinese: Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website. As part of the partnership, Sedo ... read more ...

Sedo Partners With TLD Registry To Help Launch First Broadly Applicable … - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Leading Domain Marketplace Plans Launch Auctions and Premium Sales As a Key Strategic Partner for Introducing Linguistically Correct Chinese Domain Extensions .?? and .???CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced a key strategic partnership with TLD Registry, the organization approved to run the first broadly applicable internationalized domain names (IDNs) in Chinese: Dot Chinese Online ... read more ...

Want a luxurious URL? Try $800 a Year for a .Luxury URL - As new gTLDs start to roll out, we've been following a couple of the latest ones in the first large batch of this year, for next year. Over the course of the next 2-3 years, we will see a lot of new TLDs being created enabling for new online businesses and domains. The truth is that we're starting to run out of domain names and the ICANN knows this, which is the point of the new TLDs (top level domains). We recently have used up all four letter domains ending in .com and will surely ... read more ...

Go-Live Schedule for Dot Chinese Online & Dot Chinese Website TLDs … - Leading fully-Chinese internet domain name TLDs to launch in January 2014; spectacular live auction event to initiate "Landrush" phase of availability. TLD Registry Ltd, the leading internet domain name registry for fully-Chinese domain names, today announced the go-live schedule for its Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website internationalized domain names (IDNs). IDNs in the Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains (TLDs) will be introduced ... read more ...

Sibername.com signs domain names agreement with Donuts - Sibername Canadian Domain name Registration and Website Hosting and Builder With this agreement, Sibername.com is able to take pre-registrations for Donuts domains, and in time provide all TLDs offered by the registry to its customers, giving businesses an opportunity to further develop their online branding. ... read more ...