The Landrush period for the new gTLD .Club closes next week on May 1st. Land Rush is the period during which .Club domain name is available for registration which has for an extra fee you get priority ahead of general availability which begins on May 7th Simply put if you place a Landrush application on an available .Club domain (reserve domains, domains registered to trademark holders … [Read more...]
.GOP To Launch On July 7th
The new gTLD .GOP will go live for registrations on July 7th 2014 according to a email we received from the registry The .GOP new gTLD was applied for by The Republican State Leadership Committee, (RSLC) a group that seeks to elect Republicans to state-level offices not the National Party. According to the email; ".GOP will be major factor in the future of Republican efforts to organize, … [Read more...]
Dot Chinese Online & Dot Chinese Website’s Landrush Period Closes at 3:55AM UTC
The land rush period for Dot Chinese Online (.在线) & Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) TLDs Closes at 3:55AM UTC According to an email we just received Dot Chinese Online (.在线) & Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) TLDs have "been amonsgt the most successful in the history of ICANN's New gTLD Program." Landrush for Dot Chinese Online (.在线) & Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) ends at the following … [Read more...]
Meet The 1st New gTLD Serial Cybersquatter, As Farris Nawas of Austin Loses His 3rd URS
The National Arbitration Forum has suspended the domain name registration for SPANX.clothing after an examiner in a Uniform Rapid Suspension proceeding (URS) found the registrant, Farris Nawas of Austin Texas infringed on the trademark of Spandex. Since the only business line Spandex is involved in is clothing, it is the no-brainer type of registration that the URS was designed for. This … [Read more...]
How Many Letters On To The Right of the Dot is Too Many To Be A Hack?
A domain name hack has traditionally used ccTLD's to form words and made it a brandable domain. Some of the more famous hacks are bit.ly, and del.icio.us instagram.com started out as instagr.am But now with the new gTLD's people are using them to form words with longer extensions to the right of the dot. So .Land with 4 characters to the right of the dot, has become a popular hack in … [Read more...]
KeyBiscayne Gets Creative with .Email
The people behind KeyBiscayne.org are offering residents the opportunity to get their own KeyBiscayne.email address. Posted on their website: KeyBiscayne.org was selected to manage the email address of the Island Paradise. Key Biscayne residents and businesses have the exclusive right to use the address @keybiscayne.email and have the option to receive VIP offers sent only to … [Read more...]
Have Your Opinions Changed or Stayed The Same on the New gTLDs ?
Back on February 6, we posted a poll that asked readers to choose their interest level in the new gtlds. Readers had a choice of strong interest, moderate interest or zero interest. The poll ran til April 1 and in total 240 readers voted. The results were : 132 Zero interest 70 Moderate interest 38 Strong interest So now that the new gtlds have been out for over two months and new … [Read more...]