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We have put together the list of top 10 most wanted generic top-level domains (new gTLD's) below which have been applied for by internet giants such as Google and Amazon, as well as by some of the hottest domain startup's Donuts Inc and Uniregistry Corp. It will be very interesting to see how all of
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Surprisingly, only 4 USA cities may become available as their own top-level domains. Dot Boston has been applied for by The Boston Globe Newspaper Company Inc. City of New York wants .NYC. Top Level Domain Holdings applied for .MIAMI, assuming on behalf of the city of Miami, and .VEGAS has been applied for by Dot
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Vistaprint submitted four applications in ICANN's new gTLD process as revealed today: VISTA Vistaprint Limited VISTAPRINT Vistaprint Limited WEBS Vistaprint Limited WEBS Vistaprint Limited The interesting part about their applications is that they applied for .WEBS as a "normal" new gTLD application and as a Community application according to the l...
Corporation Service Company (CSC) has emerged as one of the largest new gTLD service providers in the corporate realm, submitting applications on behalf of many of the biggest brands and companies in the world. The company's clients include, Better Business Bureau (BBB), General Motors, Fiat, UPS, Fedex, Dish/Directv, Travelers Insurance and MetLif...
Here are the 30 new gTLDs Afilias Limited of Ireland submitted applications for, including two IDNs. Five of the applications appear to be submitted under separate companies numbered "Afilias Domains No. [1-5] Limited": BLOG MAIL WEB DESI POKER And the remainder of the applications was submitted directly by Afilias: APP BET BLACK BLUE CASINO GREEN ...
Frank Schilling has put up over $60 million of his own money to try and secure 54 new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). We now know exactly which strings, as the list of all 1900+ applicants has been made public by ICANN at it's London press event. Some of them will be highly contested, as many
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It has been revealed that MarkMonitor is working closely with many multi-billion dollar companies, in an effort to secure their own top-level domains on the internet. These companies include American Automobile Association (AAA), JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Post (DHL), HBO, Hilton, State Farm, and Hasbro International who is looking to secure .TRANSFO...
Less than 10% of the total applicants released at the ICANN's Big Reveal day today are non-Latin IDN domain names. ?113 of the new gTLD domain name applicants, seen below, appear to be IDNs. ?12 of these applicants are from Verisign for ?transliterations of the existing .net and .com domains During the press conference today
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FairWinds Partners is working hand in hand with many of the biggest companies and brands in the world to get them their own domains. A total of 109 applications are being handled by FairWinds including those for Nike, Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Staples, Old Navy, Marriott, Allstate, Symantec, Comcast and the MLB. The company even applied
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Rumors had it that Google applied for around 50 new gTLD's. Now we can put those rumors to rest, as the list is now officially in. Google Inc. applied for 101 new gTLD's such as .WEB, .SHOP, .YOU, .SEARCH, .BLOG, .BUY and more. The official applicant name/company used was Charleston Road Registry Inc. The full
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ICANN has released the list of all new gTLD applicants during their press conference in London today. Below is the list of the new gTLDs that were applied for, the names of the applicants and links to their websites. ?The list can be viewed in it's entirety at ICANN.org: Related posts: ICANN Offers new gTLD
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Miami based STRAAT, an investment company run by entrepreneurs and internet geeks, has announced that it wants to add 13 more new domain extensions to it's portfolio. STRAAT is the parent company of .CO Internet, the registry operator of the .CO domain name extension, which has over 1.3M registrations from individuals and companies in over
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Nokta is one of the most innovative and successful companies in the domain space, as well as a one of the top 20 largest domain portfolio holders in the world. When we noticed that they were aggressively marketing their domains with the availability for lease, we decided to get in touch with them directly and
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The National Association of Realtors? just announced that they have applied for 3 top level domains with ICANN. The NAR is North America's largest trade association, and it represents over 1 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries. The NAR has been interested in getting it's own new
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As reported by Mike Mann on Facebook, here are some reported sales of this week at DomainMarket.com. According to Mann his company held CoreGaming.com for less than a year. CoreGaming.com already redirects to core.perfectworld.com, a community site for Perfect World Entertainment. Related posts: Michael Mann, WashingtonVC.com Launch DomainMarket.co...
Ireland based Afilias Limited has officially announced that the company will be bringing over 300 new top level domains to the internet. Currently Afilias is best known as the operator of the .INFO, .MOBI and .PRO top level domains (TLD) and a leading provider of registry technical services. The company's technology will support 305 new
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Byron Holland, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, has posted? an update on CIRA's plans to introduce IDN domain names into the .CA space. The registry operator of the Canadian ccTLD plans to introduce the internationalized domain names sometime in January of 2013. According to Byron, below are som...
INTA will be hosting a free roundtable discussion on new gTLD's in Munich next week. The main focus of the free seminar event will be legal rights objections for trademark owners. Brand owners and companies are encouraged to attend. According to the International Trademark Association (INTA) more than 1,200 new gTLD applicants have registered with ...
The Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority, operator of the Finnish ccTLD domain .FI, is examining close to one thousand deliberately misspelled Finnish domain names of popular Finland based companies and internet services. A total of 886 .FI ccTLD domains are currently being closely examined. All of the domains in question were registered at ...
ICANN's big reveal day is almost here. On Wednesday, we will find out exactly which companies applied for what new gTLD's. If you haven't been "keeping score", here is a roundup of what we know in regards to who is applying for how many new extensions, which ones exactly, and more. FairWinds Partners has applied
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Neustar Inc (NYSE: NSR) has announced that it has been selected as the registry services provider for 358 applicants for new generic Top-Level domains (gTLDs). Additionally, Neustar has been selected by the City of New York as the official registry service provider to manage the application process and operate .nyc. Neustar currently provides domai...
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) has announced that the company will be actively participating in the historic expansion of the internet, under ICANN's new gTLD's program. Demand Media applied for 26 new gTLD's in categories such as e-commerce, social media and sports. DMD has also revealed that the company has entered into a strategic arrangement with
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We've now learned about another new gTLD registry operator,Uniregistry.? The guy behind the company is none other than Frank Schilling, one of the most successful and well respected domain investors around today. So, we reached out to Frank Schilling, managing director of Uniregistry, to get some more details about the newly unveiled company that i...
It looks like Facebook has finally gotten control over one of the most popular typo variations of it's website. As Fusible first reported a few days ago, according to DomainTools.com historical records, wwwFacebook.com had expired in late May of this year and was listed on the SnapNames marketplace available for a backorder.? The previous owner
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It's not every day that you'll see a startup from the domain world get some prime coverage from the mainstream media. Donuts Inc put all eyes on the domain industry earlier this week, when the likes of Bloomberg, Forbes, TechCrunch, CNN, Wall Street Journal, and additionally many other tech focused publications/magazines covered their official "com...
It looks like every single day now there are more and more companies that are anti Digital Archery, stepping up their efforts in order to scrap or suspend as a whole what's being called a flawed batching process. Companies want to find a different solution than what Digital Archery currently is. Just today MarkMonitor voiced
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ICANN will hold a special news conference in London UK on June 13th 2012, only days from now, where they will finally unveil the gTLD applicants and strings. The ?big reveal? event as everybody is calling it, will finally shed some light on which city's, governments, companies, brands, organizations, domain registry start-ups, and others have
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Mozilla, a global non-profit organization dedicated to making the web better, has announced the new release of Mozilla Thunderbird version 13. The new version of the popular e-mail client aims to simplify and personalize the e-mail experience. In the official update on it's blog, Mozilla revealed a strategic domain registration partnership with Eur...
In an official announcement, ICANN has confirmed that Digital Archery aka Batching Process will begin June 8th, 2012 (tomorrow). The batching process will determine which new gTLD applications are going to be processed in the first batch, the second batch, etc. It will be done by assignment of a timestamp, and the formation of batches.
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Josh Jarvis, an associate with Foley Hoag LLP, who personally specializes in intellectual property matters and domain related issues such as UDRP's, says that next week ICANN's reveal day presents an early opportunity for various companies, organizations and brand owners to identify potential benefits and risks associated with the 1,900+ proposed n...
Confused about Digital Archery, Target Time Variance Procedure or whatever it is being called? You aren't the only one. ICANN released a? batching doc titled "How ICANN will process applications if many are received" a little over two month's ago. According to ICANN, the New gTLD program was built so that approximately 500 applications will
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In an eagerly anticipated confirmation from the domain world and tech community, ICANN has now officially announced that at a special news conference to be held on the original target date of June 13th 2012, they will finally unveil the gTLD applicants and strings. The "big reveal" as everybody is calling it, will finally shed
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California based CitizenHawk, a global provider of online brand protection and enforcement services, has announced the launch of a powerful online brand protection tool called "HawkDiscovery" that enables users to search the entire web and detect use of trademarked terms and phrases, helping uncover instances of brand abuse ranging from counterfeit...
Amongst Sedo's latest sales report for the previous week is ie.de, which was purchased by Microsoft for 9,500 EUR (appx. $11,860 USD) – most likely to use for their Internet Explorer browser. This past week, 669 transactions took place on Sedo?s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.19 million. 41.1% of total sales were the
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Stephane Van Gelder is the current chair of the GNSO (Generic Names Supporting Organization) council, one of ICANN's major policy making bodies. St?phane has seen the madness first hand for approximately the past year and a half and has had enough of ICANN's craziness. In a blog post titled "ICANN Gets Crazy? Again!" published yesterday
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It was just announced by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) that on June 12, 2012, they will be performing a system upgrade to the .CA registry. This upgrade, known as a "middleware implementation" will make it easier for domain registrars such as GoDaddy and Network Solutions to work with CIRA, they say. In order
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Earlier today Donuts Inc. (stands for Domain Nuts) website went live. According to an official press release on the site, we now know that the company has raised more than $100 million in funding in plans to expand the domain space with 307 new generic top level domains that the company has applied for with
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As reported by Torrent Freak, one of the oldest filesharing sites, Filesoup, is shutting down and selling their domain names. When the site started there was no Pirate Bay, no Torrentz, and isoHunt wasn?t searching .torrent files yet. FileSoup outlived many of the sites that sprung up around the time and developed an active and
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While the deadline for the new gTLDs recently closed, ICANN today published an update to their gTLD Applicant Guidebook. As per the announcement by ICANN, no changes have been made to the application process, but with regards to the objection filing period. A summary of the changes can be found here. Here's a brief summary
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As announced in a press release today, Kansa based DOT Registry, LLC has applied for the INC, LLC, LLP and CORP gTLDs in the new ICANN gTLD program. DOT Registry plans to limit the availability of the TLDs to US registered companies. DOT Registry worked closely with many Secretary of State?s offices to develop their
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As we reported earlier, ICANN has selected IBM? & Deloitte as providers of trademark clearinghouse services for the new gTLD's. Today, Doug Isenberg, a veteran domain name attorney and founder of The GigaLaw Firm has decided to chime in on the matter. He explains in detail what the proposed TMCH service actually provides at his
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Frederick Felman, Chief Marketing Officer at MarkMonitor, posted up his thoughts on new gTLD's a few days ago on the company's brand protection blog. He addresses the very real threat of brandjacking and/or brand abuse once the newly sponsored gTLD's are approved and go live, which could happen as early as 2013. He says companies
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One of the biggest complaints registrants of the .UK ccTLD voiced out often was the requirement of 2 year initial registrations and/or renewals of .UK domain names. It was impossible to simply register a domain name for 1 year, just like with any other gTLD (com, net or org) or most other ccTLD's in the
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In a recent blog post, Frank Schilling of NA Media, owner of close to 400,000 domain names, one of the domain industry's most powerful and successful individuals of all time has made some bold predictions regarding new gTLD's. In the post titled "In New gTLDs, The Only Certainty is Change" Schilling brings up a few
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In an official press release on it's website, ICANN has announced that it is working with Deloitte and IBM on implementation of trademark clearinghouse services. According to ICANN, both providers are highly qualified, with significant experience, technical capacity, and proven ability to manage and support processes. New information has also been ...
FCCN, the Portuguese registry operator of .PT domains earlier this year finalized and approved less restrictive requirements for registrations of the ccTLD domain name at the second level. During a special 2 month sunrise period (March through end of April) any business, organization or individual was able to register .PT domains using their alread...
Ireland based Afilias Limited, a global provider of registry services for top-level internet domains has announced that it is the first European company to gain observer status with the Global Network Initiative organization (GNI). The GNI is a multi-stakeholder initiative comprised of companies and other stakeholders in the global information and ...
Chief internet evangelist at Google,?Vint Cerf, yesterday made an official announcement confirming Google's bid for various new gTLD's. According to a number of sources, there may be as many as 50 new gTLD's that the company will be trying to secure. The new details released on the official Google blog shed a light on Google
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According to the latest progress report from the .eu top-level domain registry, EURid, .eu domain name registrations grew by 6.1% year over year. This represents the best annual growth in .eu registrations since Q3 2010. The first quarter also saw 9% more new .eu registrations than at the same time one year ago. Lithuania recorded
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As reported by DNN earlier, Most Wanted Domains recently started reporting their domain sales in real time via Facebook and Twitter. Exactly 10 days ago the first domain sale was announced, which was AllTricks.com selling for $13,500. During the past week and a half alone, they have already scored 8 domain sales for a total
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