Sometimes there is a lot of information that is provided in a long comment thread that goes unnoticed, many may not keep up with string of comments and some miss them entitrely. It was big news this week that Tube.xxx and Tubes.xxx sold for $750,000. The buyer of those names Really Useful out of Turks and Caicos is owned by JT who was one of the founders of You Porn. Really Useful launched … [Read more...]
Go Daddy “thousands and thousands” of people have preregistered 25 new gtlds”
This week we did hear from some companies within the new gtld space and what kind of demand they were seeing. Donuts put out a blog post yesterday where they said they have already received total orders and commitments over $5million. Now some of this number is most likely including the DPML product that Donuts is offering trademark holders. The DPML works like this: (Courtesy of … [Read more...]
IBM/ Deloitte Goes With Trademark-ClearningHouse.Uno & TMCH.Uno to Promote Spanish Brand Awareness.”
IBM & Deloitte which operates the Trademark Clearing House for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) announced they will use the domain names TRADEMARK-CLEARINGHOUSE.UNO and TMCH.UNO to Promote Spanish Brand Awareness.” Dot Latin LLC announced today the delegation of two key domain names to Deloitte & IBM to support the Trademark Clearinghouse. Deloitte … [Read more...]
Inc and the Los Angeles Times weigh in on the new gtlds
More and more non domaining publications continue to come out with stories about the new gtlds. As we get closer to new strings being available to register many want to cover the upcoming release. Inc Magazine came out with an article, Carolyn Cutrone took this approach when it came to Start ups, From the article: Critics argue that the added gTLDs could spur mass confusion, while … [Read more...]
Why Google Wants to Give You 101 Alternatives to .Com
Leo Mirani is on a roll he wrote an excellent piece yesterday on the new gtlds with co author David Yanofsky He is out today with a piece entitled, "Why Google wants to give you 101 alternatives to .com" Mike has spoken in the past that Google is a big wildcard with regards to what extensions they end up with and how they distribute them. Google giving away domains for free could be something … [Read more...]
WSJ: There Real End Users Looks Forward To Moving Their URL To A New gTLD
The Wall Street Journal has become the another major publication to publish a story about the launch of the new gTLD program and has actually talked to some real people, small business owners who are looking forward to registering a new gTLD to replace their longer .com The Story is entitled "Sell Bike's? There's a Web Domain For That" "The World Wide Web is about to get a lot … [Read more...]
Quartz: “The biggest land rush in the history of the internet starts on February 4”
Leo Mirani and David Yanofsky wrote a very thorough piece for Quartz on the new gtlds. Their article titled, "The biggest land rush in the history of the internet starts on February 4" The article did a nice job in the set up and background of the program, then they took a look at the existing tlds and their reach on the Internet. They looked at new tld applicants and talked about "Free … [Read more...]