Fadi Chehade, CEO of ICANN, in a story published by the HuffingtonPost.com, which also contains a video interview with Fadi at World Economic Forum in Davos, explaining how we "went from twenty-something" top domain names to hundreds" throws large domain investors under the bus and then backs up the bus and rolls over them again calling them Cybersquatters. In respond to a questions regarding … [Read more...]
Donuts Wins The Rights To Operate The New gTLD .Cafe Beating Out Co. That Runs .Bar/.Rest
Donuts has picked up another new gTLD extension winning the rights to .Cafe, beating out Punto 2012 the registry that runs .Bar and .Rest. The new gTLD string .Cafe was scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort auction later this Month. Other new gTLD's that touch .cafe include .Restaurant, which is operated by Donuts .Eat was applied for by Google .Food is in contention by three … [Read more...]
Afilias Wins The .Bet new gTLD Beating Donuts, Famous Four & UK Gambling Co. Ladbrokes
The new gTLD .Bet has been settled in what we can only guess was a private auction won by Afilias. Afilias won the rights to operate the new Top Level Domain beating out two big portfolio applicants Donuts and Famous Four Media as well as Ladbrokes a publicly traded British based gaming company. According to Afilias application with ICANN they expect to have 21K .Bet domain registrations … [Read more...]
.Global Registry Offering A $25 Cash Back Rebate, But just for 8 Days
The .Global new gTLD registry just launched a cash back program to give people who register 10 or more .Global Domain names a cash back bonus of $25 per domain. "This is a limited time offer only available between Friday 23th of January and Saturday 31st of January." For details on how to apply for the cashback, please click here. It doesn't matter which registrar that sells .global … [Read more...]
Trademark Clearinghouse Releases New Numbers: 34,400 Trademarks Registered
The Trademark Clearinghouse release some new numbers today. There are now 34,400 trademark submitted to the trademark clearinghouse. Just over 50% were submitted for more than one year for a total of almost 86,000 trademark years. Over 128,000 claim notice have been sent out to trademark holders notifying them of a registered new gTLD covered by their marks. Its seems just less than 5% … [Read more...]
Forbes Asks “Why, Even After A Year, There’s Still No Land Grab For New Internet Domains”
Forbes just published an article on the new gTLD"s and its less than glowing. Here are some of the highlights of the piece written by Roger Kay: "It’s been nearly a year since a whole set of spanking new Internet domain names first came to market. These names —which in technical circles are called “generic top-level domains” or gTLDs — were just becoming available in January 2014...fresh … [Read more...]
My Opinion: Donuts Is Not Helping Itself By Attacking .Com
Raymond Hackney just published a story on the Thedomains.com based on a blog post published on Donuts.co corporate site, which you can read here. I have written about Donuts attacking .Com to sell their own new gTLD's before and even discussed it in our 2014 year recap. I think its a bad move. First of all its false. In 2014 .Com grew by some 3.3 million domains which is slightly less … [Read more...]