According to a press release issued today, Minds + Machines which is owned by Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM:TLDH.L), has been chosen by the City of Miami to apply for the .MIAMI top-level domain.
“On 7 March 2012, the Commissioners of the City of Miami voted 4-0 to accept the proposal from Minds + Machines and requested Minds + Machines to begin work on the application for .MIAMI immediately. The Minds + Machines’ proposal was chosen following a competitive bid process. Minds + Machines is wholly-owned by TLDH”.”
“Miami is a major tourist destination attracting over 38 million visitors annually who collectively spend on average US$17.1 billion each year. Miami is also a major business hub acting as a gateway between Latin America and the United States. Both Spanish and English are recognized languages in the city and the greater Miami area is the largest urban centre in the southeastern U.S. with a population of 5.5 million.”
Antony Van Couvering, CEO of TLDH, commented: “We are delighted to have secured the support of the City of Miami for .MIAMI. Miami is a key hub, a vibrant multi-cultural city recognized as a major fashion, retail, arts and commercial centre. Having its own top-level domain will enhance the standing of Miami globally and further enhance the City’s prominence in the field of technology and with the ever increasing importance of the Internet. We are well aware of the serious responsibilities given to us by the Commissioners, and we look forward to providing a modern, responsive and reliable .MIAMI registry.”
Top Level Domain Holdings previously announced that it has secured registry service contracts with clients for geographic and generic gTLDs in the US, Germany, India, Africa (.zulu), and New Zealand (.kiwi).
Minds+Machines also announced that it applied for the .Music TLD.
However unlike .Miami, there are expected to be many applications for .Music.
M+M application is a joint venture agreement with LHL TLD Investment Partners of Beverly Hills California (“LHL”) which is said to “consists of a number of leading music industry figures including artists, managers, music producers and lawyers.”
Antony Van Couvering, CEO of TLDH, said: “We’re thrilled to be working with leading music artists and professionals. This partnership brings financial weight and industry expertise to the table and confirms the value which we see in .music.”
On February 21, 2012, “the Company announced that it had already applied for 40 gTLD Application Slots on behalf of itself and its clients. The Company will be applying for a further batch of Application Slots before the Application Window closes on 12 April 2012.”
The article indicates that there has not been much interest in .miami
(unlike .music)
Suprising
I smell a fail on the most massive of scale coming with these gTLD’s.
It shall be fun and interesting to watch.
@My Ami…
I totally agreed with your reply until I got to the word “surprisingly”. Are you for real? You are truly “surprised” that there is no interest in .Miami? Let me guess: you think that .NYC is going to succeed, right? Um…yeah, sounds like you probably do and it also sounds like you are soon to be very disapointed.
Who da heck do you think is actually going to want any of these silly new tld’s? Seems painfully obvious to me they will all fizzle and thud. If the world wanted silly domain extensions, .mobi, .biz, .aero, .jobs, .cat, .museum, .pro, .tel, .coop and .xxx would all still be viable today. They are not.
Think about it. Who is going to build a sand castle on a foundation of a questionable tld knowing that the entire structure can get undermined and go out of business at any time?
Seems rather obvious — not “surprising”.
My
Since Miami is a city the city has the sole right to apply to run its own extension so like New York which chose Neustar there can be only one application, since you have to have the permission of the city to apply.
The only issue would be if another city named Miami applied like Miami Ohio, otherwise there can’t be the rules be more than one bid for a Geo.
A generic like .music is different.
That type of TLD can and will have multiple applications from multiples.
Do these suckers…er…sponsors…actually think that there is a demand for such alternative tlds?
There is not and I suspect they will soon learn this the hard way.
Ask O.CO how that worked out for them. If there is such a demand for new domains, why did New.Net fail?
Cells are big. Why did .mobi fail? People want to be pros, yet .PRO failed. People all have names, yet do you know anyone with a .NAME?
Nah, me either.
The entire concept is doomed to fail and to seperate suckers from their money. The only beneficiaries will be the registries, ICANN, consultants and trademark attorneys. No one else.
Don’t waste your money.
I, too, want to sponsor a new tld and hereby affirm my committment to the process…
YES, I am interested in trying to get an unreasonable number of suckers to sign up for my silly gtld and in annually charging them far more than the price of a .com.
YES, I am interested in creating a new, longtail tld which will leak traffic like crazy and only help its .COM counterpart.
YES, I am interested in trying to trick investors into believing that hundreds of thousands of idiots (no, wait…millions!!!) will actually want to set up cyber businesses under our .CRAPOLLA tld when history has clearly shown that there is no interest in alternative extensions.
YES, I am interested in offsetting promotional and advertising efforts of each of the Fortune 500 — all of which exclusively use .COM. I acknowledge that I will also need to offset over 20 years of .COM brainwashing and am willing to certify that I have the trillions of dollars that will be needed to successfully do this.
YES, I am interested in obligating myself to an ICANN contract that makes no sense and am willing to blindly support this business which will most likely be hemmoraging money forevermore with no possible exit strategy. I am prepared to go down with the ship and sell blood, sperm and my wife’s jewelry if necessary since bankrupcy can not be an option.
YES, YES, YES…sign me up! I am very interested!
Looks like Miami is an adjective more than a city
Miami.Heat Miami.Vice and Miami.FL
Many people prefer top level domains to be generic nouns
Trademarks are adjectives that have to have a noun
Miami.®
According to Wiki Answers, there are a whopping 54 (!!!) cities named Miami.
(http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_cities_are_named_Miami)
Can’t we all just agree that this entire gtld concept is .STUPID and will .FAIL?
MIAMI.® is the same as MIAMI.r
MIAMI.☼
.FCC Bobble.Head.Symbols
.© .☺ .® .☼
I hope they do not expect domainers to bankroll all these new extensions when they roll out, I think they will see a serious lack of interest when they are released.
Thurston,
There are plenty of openings at ICANN and you’ve just pledged you alligience
I only hope mhb gets his share. Certainly better qualified for Miami than m&m
http: //www .miamiok. org/
City of Miami
PO Box 1288
129 5th Ave NW
Miami, OK 74355-1288
(918) 542-6685
There is no question that these tlds will see some action. Unfortunately most of it will come from a small and very select group of customers. Much like ireit and others tried to game the .eu extension by getting in early and often and much like frank schilling cut himself a sweetheart deal with the boys at XXX (a lesson he learned many years earlier by throwing some cash at the registrar community) allowing him access to what he believed was the cream of the crop long before anyone else had a glimmer of a chance at these domains, thats where the action will come from. The same guys who have dominated the current spaces will try to expand their reach and dominate in upcoming extensions. As far as the man in the street goes, fuggedaboud it they are still trying to figure out the difference between a .com and a .info. Most peeps will never know the first thing about these names much less buy them and the ones who do are chasing hopes and dreams that died long long ago. Time will tell but the story thus far always repeats itself
“There is no question that these tlds will see some action.”
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YES !!! The .OK top-level-domain will be an interesting development.
ICANN will not be involved. It will be handled directly by the .IANA
Web address controversy deepens after U.S. warning
“Not to award ICANN the IANA contract would be to completely knock it off its foundations,” said Philip Corwin, who is legal counsel for the Internet Commerce Association, an organisation for domain name investors and developers.”
Looks like Miami is an adjective more than a city
Miami.Heat Miami.Vice and Miami.FL
Many people prefer top level domains to be generic nouns
Trademarks are adjectives that have to have a noun
Miami.®
I hope they do not expect domainers to bankroll all these new extensions when they roll out, I think they will see a serious lack of interest when they are released.
I hope they do not expect domainers to bankroll all these new extensions when they roll out, I think they will see a serious lack of interest when they are released.
It will be nice if you could tell me where I can get .ok domain from or is it available.
There is no .OK domain