Tag Archives: top level domains

Wed 10th February 2016
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.Music domain name applicant fails in village bid - A second applicant fails to get community status for .music top level domain name. DotMusic Limited, an applicant for the .music top level domain name, has failed to pass its Community Priority Evaluation. Had it passed, the group would have automatically been awarded .music. Now an auction will be held to determine who gets to operate the domain name. The applicant scored 10 out of 16 points (pdf) on its application. 14 are necessary to get community status. It scored 0 out of 4 on “community ... read more ...
Thu 28th January 2016
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Can we make clarity of $41.5 million for .Shop? - GMO Registry’s outlay for .shop is difficult to rationalize. I’m still trying to wrap my head around GMO Registry paying $41.5 million for the .shop top level domain name. .Shop is a monster TLD, but it’s hard to justify this upfront cost for any top level domain name. I’m not alone. Of the seven participants in yesterday’s auction for .Shop, only two were willing to pay more than $15 million for the domain name. Clearly, GMO is in this for the long term. Any company that invests $41.5 ... read more ...
Wed 23rd December 2015
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What if TLDs are Chinese? - Do certain top level domain names have a Chinese meaning? We’ve often seen TLDs repurposed. For instance, .ME and .TV – originally the country codes of Montenegro and Tuvalu, respectively – are mainly understood as words. While .SI means Slovenia in Slovenia, Spanish speakers might read it as “yes”. More recently, .PW has been marketed as a shorthand for “professional web”. Such extra interpretations can be either natural or forced. Some arise without prompting; some fail to catch ... read more ...
Mon 23rd November 2015
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Twerking & Clubbing – Jeff Sass – DNW Podcast #60 - When will new top level domain names have their “twerking moment”. Have new top level domain names had their twerking moment yet? Jeff Sass, CMO of .Club, talks about what it’s going to take for new top level domain names to go mainstream. We also discuss what’s going on in China and the value of short domain names. Jeff also discloses (for the first time) the sale of a single-letter .Club domain name. Also: Beware of domain name pumping, .Booking domain name auction and is Verisign stock ... read more ...
Mon 26th October 2015
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Paul Vixie, Member Internet Hall of Fame: "New gTLD module is a Money Grab & Mistake" - Dr Paul Vixie, a member of the Internet Hall of Fame has called the new gTLD program a money grab and a mistake and called out ICANN for allowing it to happen saying it “indicates corruption.” ZDNet.com, published a post about Dr. Vixie remarks from the Ruxcon information security conference in Melbourne on Sunday. According to Wikipedia.org,  Dr. Vixie  is “an Internet pioneer, the author of several RFCs and some Unix software.  After he left Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1994, ... read more ...
Tue 13th October 2015
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.Radio field plead Independent Review Process - Companies ask for independent review in .radio decision. Three applicants for the .radio top level domain name have filed for the Independent Review Process (IRP) after losing out to a community applicant. Donuts, Afilias and BRS Media all lost their bids for the .radio domain name after European Broadcasting Union (EBU) prevailed in the Community Priority Evaluation. EBU scored 14 of 16 points, the minimum required to gain community status. The three losing applicants subsequently filed a Request ... read more ...
Mon 28th September 2015
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Uniregistry takes over .HIV domain name - Company takes over struggling top level domain name. Top level domain name registry Uniregistry has taken over ownership and management of the .HIV top level domain name. .HIV launched as a “social cause” TLD about a year ago. It came with a high registration price of about $200, but the registry promised to donate money to HIV/AIDS charities with each visit to a .hiv site. The idea didn’t take off, with only about 500 registrations in the zone file to date. So earlier this year the .hiv backers ... read more ...
Thu 25th September 2014
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Apple iOS 8 tip #10: selecting TLDs from a keyboard - Millions of iOS 8 users are being reminded about how to quickly insert .com using the iOS keyboard. I made the switch from Android to iOS last week with the iPhone 6. iOS 8 has a “tips” app that pushes a new usage tip to you every few days. It’s helpful for someone like me who’s learning a new operating system. Some things in iOS aren’t intuitive to those that haven’t used the operating system before. Last night I received a push notification about shortcuts ... read more ...
Wed 16th April 2014
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With only 22 domains registered, .Rich is a biggest explosve in new TLDs. Or is it? - .Rich zone file only has 22 names in it. Last week the .rich top level domain name quietly launched in general availability. And I mean quietly. .Rich registry I-Registry’s website is still promoting the January launch of the .rich sunrise. There’s no mention of registrars carrying the domain, either. I can only find a handful of registrars supporting the domain. Oh, and it comes with a steep price tag: about two grand a year. That’s not a typo. IP Mirror is ... read more ...
Mon 6th January 2014
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Verisign files obvious focus for automatically formulating Whois use for TLDs - Verisign wants to patent a way to scale creation of whois service for top level domain names. Verisign has filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office related to automatically creating Whois for new top level domain names. The application, 13/746579 (pdf), was filed in January 2013 and published last week. It describes a typical whois system, and then explains that creating whois for a provisioned top level domain name does not scale: With ... read more ...
Mon 30th December 2013
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Anti-Google organisation FairSearch.org loses conflict opposite .map - Panelist unmoved by FairSearch.org’s arguments against Google’s bid to run a .map top level domain name. FairSearch.org, a consortium representing companies that compete against Google, is now 0-for-2 in community objections it filed against Google’s top level domain name applications. Panelist Vladimir Khvalei has determined that the group’s community objection against .map fails (pdf). It previously lost its objection to .fly, and only a determination on ... read more ...
Mon 18th November 2013
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.Gay Objector Strikes Out - ILGA loses three community objections against .gay and one against .LGBT International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) has lost three community objections it brought against applicants for the .gay top level domain name. The objections were filed against Top Level Design, Top Level Domain Holdings, and United TLD (Demand Media). ILGA is backing a rival .gay bid by dotgay LLC. Panelist Dr. Bernhard Schlink ruled that the gay community is ... read more ...
Fri 30th August 2013
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Google employing for new tip turn domain name initiative - Google is looking for a couple people to work on its top level domain name program. Google has posted two job openings related to its new top level domain name plans. The company is seeking both a Product Marketing Manager, Domains and a Strategic Partner Manager, gTLD program. Here’s the description for the Strategic Partner Manager: Google is launching a domain registry and we are looking for people that are excited about building this new business for Google. ... read more ...
Thu 22nd August 2013
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California wineries are a bit dipsomaniac over .wine tip turn domains - Two groups representing the same wineries take opposite views on .wine and .vin top level domains. When you’re around a cellar full of wine, it’s understandable that your judgment might get a bit cloudy. Does that explain the apparent contradiction between two different California wine groups and their view of geographic second level domains in the .wine and .vin top level domain names? Here’s the contradiction. In June, the Wine Institute sent a letter to ICANN ... read more ...
Thu 8th August 2013
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How field comparison their new tip turn domains - Here’s how new TLD applicants decided which strings to apply for. Some new top level domain applicants picked one or two domains to apply for. Others applied for dozens. It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall when these companies debated about which ones to apply for. From talking to many applicants, I’ve discovered a number of approaches they took to creating and finalizing their list. The data junkie I crunched existing domain name, search, and marketing ... read more ...
 
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Dish DBS ruled a tip turn domain cybersquatter - Dish’s .direct application tossed out; Donuts is sole applicant remaining for .direct top level domain name. It’s notable that the two applicants deemed to be attempting to cybersquat top level domain names thus far aren’t nefarious cybersquatters, as industry groups suggested would happen. Instead, it’s two members of those types of trade groups that have lost the two Legal Rights Objections for new top level domain names. First, there was Del Monte International ... read more ...
Tue 30th April 2013
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Top Level Domain Holdings releases financials by December - TLDH releases annual report and earnings. Top Level Domain Holdings, the only publicly traded pure-play top level domain applicant, today released its annual report and audited financials for the fourteen month period ending December 2012 (pdf). The company ended 2012 with £2.418 million in cash and cash equivalents on its books. That’s down from £7.074 million at the end of 2011. That’s not a lot of cash with which to fight over contested strings, but the ... read more ...
Thu 21st March 2013
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Objection! What objections opposite Donuts’ TLDs uncover us about a subsequent proviso of a new TLD game - An early look at new TLD objections shows some questionable claims. The deadline to file objections against new top level domain applications was March 13. Dispute resolution providers are slowly posting the objections, but it looks like what has been posted so far is just the tip of the iceberg. Donuts, the largest TLD applicant with 307 applications, has informed Domain Name Wire that it received around 40 objections. Donuts provided details on a limited number ... read more ...
Thu 29th November 2012
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Will .website domains give .ws a boost? - Contrary to government’s opinion, .website domains will give a boost to .ws. The government of the State of Samoa submitted early warnings on top level domain applications for the .website string. So what’s Samoa upset about? The country of 200,000 people has the .ws country code. Over the years it has tried to market this as being short for “web site”. That has mostly been a failure. Still, it claims .website is confusingly similar to .ws. We are writing ... read more ...
Mon 25th June 2012
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.Art and .Church heading a competition for open comments on tip turn domain applications - Public comments on new TLD applications range from boring to misinformed. Anyone with an email address (and I do mean anyone) can comment on any one of the nearly 2,000 top level domain applications. As of right now there are 161 submitted comments, mostly covering just a handful of proposed top level domains. Many of the comments are predictable. As we saw with .xxx, religious folk do a good job with email blast campaigns. So there’s plenty of “support” for ... read more ...
Wed 13th June 2012
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Amazon, Google, and Symantec to quarrel for .cloud domain name - Seven applicants to compete for .cloud top level domain include some really big internet giants. Seven applicants filed requests with ICANN for the .cloud top level domain name — and three of them are heavyweight contenders. Amazon.com, Google, and Symantec Corporation are all in the running for the domain name. They’ll be competing against some smaller competitors including Aruba.it, CloudNames.com, Donuts.co, and Top Level Domain Holdings. If the seven can’t ... read more ...
 
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NBA, MLB, and NFL request for tip turn domains - Are you ready for .baseball? The United States’ three biggest professional sports leagues have applied to ICANN to run their own top level domains. As I predicted, Major League Baseball applied for .MLB. It also applied for .baseball. It will face a play-off with .baseball though, as Donuts Inc also applied for the domain. Donuts is the largest new TLD applicant, and submitted the application through its Silver Pass, LLC company. National Basketball Association ... read more ...
Mon 11th June 2012
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TLDH: Digital archery might have technical bugs - Big new top level domain applicant finds odd results with digital archery system. Digital archery, which creates a secondary timestamp for new TLD applications that will determine how they are batched, is run through ICANN’s TLD Application System (TAS). This is the same system that was taken offline for over a month due to a security glitch that allowed some competing applicants to see limited data from other applicants. So you don’t suppose there could be problems ... read more ...
Wed 2nd May 2012
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Hey buddy, it’s substantially too late to heading .NYC - A good way to waste $325. The guy who just recently wasted his money filing a trademark application for .music is at it again. Joseph Walker DBA ExtraWeb Ent just filed trademark applications for .nyc and .shop. New York City has already announced plans for the .nyc domain name and has selected a registry partner to bring it to market. Numerous companies want to bring .shop to market as well. Both of these applications will be summarily rejected by the U.S. Patent ... read more ...
Tue 8th December 2009
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8 TLDs I’ll Express an Interest In - At $100 a pop, I’d submit an Expression of Interest for a bunch of new top level domain names. Tomorrow ICANN’s board will consider accepting “expressions of interest” for new top level domains from applicants. On DNW Radio a couple weeks ago, Minds + Machines founder Antony Van Couvering suggested that these expressions of interest require a $55,000 payment. I agree that a substantial fee should be required to make it predictive of actual applications. Others ... read more ...