tom embrescia - tom embrescia Meet Tom Embrescia, founder of Second Generation, Ltd., a family-owned investment firm focused on investing in well-managed companies and uncovering unique business opportunities. One of the businesses Second Generation owns is .JOBS, one of 22 currently existing Top Level Domains (TLD) in the world. Others are .com, .net, or .org. The company has tens of ... read more ...

DotHealth, LLC Passes ICANN’s Initial Evaluation for the .HEALTH New Top … – Virtual - DotHealth reaches a milestone in the gTLD approval process Ridgewood, NJ (PRWEB) June 13, 2013 Reaching a critical milestone in the generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) approval process, the DotHealth, LLC (“DotHealth”) application to operate the .HEALTH new top level domain registry has passed the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) initial evaluation. DotHealth plans to enable a safer online namespace for global health and which also enhances the discoverability ... read more ...

DotHealth, LLC Passes ICANN’s Initial Evaluation for the .HEALTH New Top … - Ridgewood, NJ (PRWEB) June 13, 2013 Reaching a critical milestone in the generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) approval process, the DotHealth, LLC (“DotHealth”) application to operate the .HEALTH new top level domain registry has passed the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) initial evaluation. DotHealth plans to enable a safer online namespace for global health and which also enhances ... read more ...

Poll on New TLDs Shows Value of Brand Loyalty, Willingness to Try New … - Internet users are willing to navigate to, use, and trust new web addresses that will be flooding the Internet later this year, and brand name websites will carry more weight with Internet users than generic sites. These are among the results of a public opinion survey commissioned by FairWinds Partners, a consultancy that specializes in domain name strategy. The poll also found that the owners and operators of these new addresses should be technically prepared or risk driving away or losing ... read more ...

International – Predicting gTLD take-up: survey provides clues - As gTLDs move ever closer to launch, the one unknowable for applicants and non-applicants alike is the likely uptake in terms of internet user behaviour. Once live, will non-applicants rue their decision to not apply as they watch internet users migrate to ‘.brands’? Will consumers prove sceptical of the introduction of hundreds of new TLDs and continue to default to ‘.com’ when searching for goods, services and information? Or will the reality be somewhere in the middle, with ‘.brands’ ... read more ...

So, Your gTLD was Approved – What Now? - The world is just waking up to the fact that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been accepting applications for new generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, since 2012 and that hundreds of these gTLDs have already been approved through Initial Evaluation, with more being approved every week. It is expected that the new extensions will begin appearing online in the second half of 2013, and over 1,000 new extensions will likely be added to the Internet by 2014. But ... read more ...

Fadi Chehade: The internet has become the most powerful tool for freedom - The internet's global big daddy, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), oversees the allocation of domain names and IP addresses. Its new CEO, Fadi Chehade, spoke with Robin David at the Stockholm Internet Forum about ICANN changing the online world by introducing 1,000 new top level domains (TLDs), becoming less American and more global — and how, as controversy rages over Barack Obama's administration allegedly surveying people online, the internet is the most powerful ... read more ...

Go Daddy CEO Talks Possible IPO, New TLDs & More - (Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) – Top domain registrar Go Daddy may be known to the general public more so for its somewhat irreverent Super Bowl ads, but at the heart of the company lies an intricate model that’s made the web host one of the world’s most successful. Still relatively new CEO Blake Irving (who was appointed back in December) was recently interviewed by The Wall Street Journal wherein he discussed a number of interesting company issues, including the ... read more ...

Slovakia tops 40000 .eu registrations - Slovak companies and residents have to date registered more than 40,000 .eu domain names, according to EURid, the registry for the .eu top-level domain (TLD). In terms of registrations, Slovakia is the 14th largest market in the European Union, behind Hungary and Greece, ahead of Denmark and Ireland. In Slovakia, .eu has shown stable growth over the past few years, with a registration growth rate steadily above the EU average of 5.4 percent. Many .eu domain name holders believe ... read more ...

Security Studies on the Use of Non-Delegated TLDs, and Dotless Names … – ag-IP - MARINA DEL REY, CA - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced two studies regarding: 1) the use of non-delegated TLDs and 2) potential risks related to dotless domain names, according to the Corporation. On 31 January 2013, ICANN security team received the SAC 057: SSAC Advisory on Internal Name Certificates. On 18 May, the ICANN Board directed staff to commission a study on the use of TLDs that are not currently delegated at the root level of the public DNS in enterprises. ICANN ... read more ...

Here’s what ICANN’s board decided on Saturday – Domain Name Wire - Board passes resolution that might delay certain new TLDs and approves a new UDRP provider. While most of us were hanging with our families or on the golf course this weekend, ICANN’s board was approving a number of resolutions that could have a big affect on some parts of the domain name industry. Here’s what the board decided :Some new TLDs may be delayed or rejected based on internal name conflicts. ICANN is going to further investigate the potential for security issues related to certain ... read more ...

Amazon May Not Get Its .Amazon Domain-Name Extension After All - Walmart (NYSE:WMT), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and more than a dozen other retailers who applied for their own top-level domains (TLDs) were expecting to see them rolled out starting this year. But the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is running into more delays in approving the vanity domains, and some—including .amazon—look like they may not be available to retailers at all.The problem comes down to the fact that anyone can object to a TLD that has special significance ... read more ...

Key-Systems is on the Spot at WHD.india 2013 - ST. INGBERT, Germany, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Metaregistry™ RRPproxy™, a division of the Key-Systems GmbH, will present its registrar and reseller solutions for new top level domains (TLDs) at this year's WHD.india in Mumbai from May 27-28. Jochen Kieler, Chief Business Development Officer of Key-Systems, holds a speech on RRPproxy on May 28, starting at 14:40 pm in Ballroom B. By using ... read more ...

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A look at micro TLDs – Domain Name Wire – Bayoubuzz.com - The world’s smallest active top level domain has seven second level domains. In the world of micro TLDs, .coop looks like a giant. As of January there were 14,990 registered .coop domains. ICANN recently published the latest batch of monthly registry reports, which include data on how many domains are registered in each (non-ccTLD) top level domain. The latest data was for the end of January.There’s a lot of interesting data in these reports. What I find particularly interesting is looking at ... read more ...

A look at micro TLDs – Domain Name Wire - The world’s smallest active top level domain has seven second level domains. In the world of micro TLDs, .coop looks like a giant. As of January there were 14,990 registered .coop domains. ICANN recently published the latest batch of monthly registry reports, which include data on how many domains are registered in each (non-ccTLD) top level domain. The latest data was for the end of January.There’s a lot of interesting data in these reports. What I find particularly interesting is looking at ... read more ...