Jodee Rich just finished off one of the Keynote Speeches from this mornings Namescon session and had some interesting comments. I also had the chance to chat with Jodee last night at dinner for a couple of hours and he is definitely an out of the box thinker. Mr. Rich's company applied to operate the .CEO and .Best new gTLD. Mr. Rich's company also operates People Browser, a social … [Read more...]
Uniregistry Wants ICANN To Slow Down The Last Resort Auction Schedule
Uniregistry, Corp. ("Uniregistry"), an applicant for 52 top-level domains has gone against many other new gTLD applicants in asking ICANN to slow down the new gTLD Last Resort Auction Schedule. In its comments to ICANN on the new gTLD Last Resort ICANN auction rules Uniregistry says it "is disappointed that ICANN changed the "5-TLD-per-month" cap from its initial proposal." "On the current … [Read more...]
Go Daddy CEO calls current domain space polluted and not descriptive
Blake Irving CEO of Go Daddy sat down at the Consumer Electronics Show and gave a talk about the changes taking place in the domain space. Irving calls the current space polluted and talks about the new names being descriptive. He talks about pizza, doctor, dentist and then says LA, of course LA has been available and is a cctld. This inclusion is why some think that the repurposed country … [Read more...]
Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot.com Partner On Live Auctions Of New gTLD Domains & Contention Auctions
Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot, LLC announced today an exclusive joint partnership to provide live and online auction services for premium domains in new gTLD extensions that are being launched over the next several years. Examples of premium domain names that may potentially be for sale via this new offering could include names like Night.Club, Tour.London, Hotels.NYC, Divorce.Law, … [Read more...]
Domaining.com & TheDomains.com Launch The New gTLD Ticker
Domaining.com and TheDomains.com have a new look this morning as they launched the new gTLD ticker on the top of each site. The new gTLD ticker is an advertising program, the brain child of Francois Carrillo, Founder and C.E.O of Cybertonic which operates Domaining.com who is in charge of making the ticker work Michael Berkens of TheDomains.com is in charge of sales and client relations for … [Read more...]
Domain Registrar Uses The 2nd Coming Of .Com “Beer.com Sold For $7M” To Sell New gTLD’s
Domain Name Registrar, OnlyDomains.com has started to sell new gTLD's chatting about the second coming of .Com domain aftermarket saying on the front page of its site: "Remember when the domain name Beer.com sold for $7 million dollars? " "For the first time since the dawn of the Internet, people everywhere have an opportunity to claim ownership of a whole new range of top level domain web … [Read more...]
.CEO Domains Sunrise Starts Feburary 10th; GA March 28th
CEOTLD Pty Ltd, the registry operator of the new dotCEO top level domain, has announced that its Sunrise period will open on February 10th. During Sunrise, "trademark owners can register dotCEO domains, thereby protecting and enhancing their brands and company names". Specific dotCEO Sunrise details can be found on the ICANN Website. dotCEO is positioned as the only TLD to convey … [Read more...]