With Godaddy taking paid preregistrations on four new gTLD's today, .Luxury, .Build, .Menu and .Uno, your chances of selling your premium domain name may increase if its listed in Godaddy resale channel. As people search to preregister a new gTLD domain, if that domain isn't available because its already preregistered or reserved by the registry (Godaddy doesn't distinguish) they are showing … [Read more...]
ICANN: No New gTLD’s Last Resort Auctions Until Early March 2014
In a webinar held by ICANN today on its Last Resort Auction for new gTLD strings in contention, ICANN stated that no new gTLD ICANN last resort auction will be held in 2013 and most likely not until March 2014. Moreover the ICANN schedule is 10-20 auctions per month, with no applicant being able to participate in more than 5 auctions per month. So a company like Donuts which has over 100 … [Read more...]
Verisign Rolls Out 4 Part Series On Why Second Level Domain Blocking For New gTLD’s Isn’t Good Enough
Verisign just published the 1st of a new 4 part series on the potential collision issue arising from new gTLD's this one authored by Burt Kaliski. Verisign message is "the introduction of a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) at the global DNS root could result in name collisions with previously installed systems" and that ICANN “alternate path” for new gTLD's to launch of blocking any SLDs … [Read more...]
Donuts 1st 7 New gTLD’s Will Not Have a Landrush Period But Go Live After Sunrise On Jan 29
Donuts Inc., today announced that the “Sunrise” period for the first seven new gTLD names, the window during which trademark rights holders have exclusive access to registrations, will begin November 26, and close January 24, 2014. The other big news from today's announcement is that "Donuts will forgo a traditional land-rush and move directly to general availability to all registrants on … [Read more...]
Donuts: .Com Is Like A Department Store, We are Building An Entire Shopping Mall
Clickz.com, , just published an interview with Jon Nevett one of the founders of Donuts and Mason Cole their VP of Communications and I found a few very interesting quotes. Jon Nevett is quoted as saying "At a high level the existing name space is overused and worn out. As new businesses start up, they can't find what they want in the existing name space so they end up with a crazy mix of … [Read more...]
.Cam Objection Fall Out: Demand Media Compains About Panels Reaching Different Conclusion on Same String
Another day and another applicant is complaining a new gTLD Dispute Resolution panels. Today its Demand Media, Inc, (DMD) complaining to Cherine Chalaby, Chair of ICANN New gTLD Program Committee over the International Center for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) on the objections filed by VeriSign against the three applicants for .CAM.In two of the cases a ICDR panel rejected the application of … [Read more...]
New gTLD Program Committee Accepts GAC Advice On Cat 1 & 2 Beijing Communiqué Safeguards
In a letter sent to Heather Dryden , Chair, Governmental Advisory Committee by the New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) , they are intending to accept the GAC’s Beijing Communiqué advice concerning Category 1 and Category 2 Safeguards. The result of the NPGC action is that some new gTLD's in the same vertical will be open to anyone who wants to register a domain name, while others will fall into … [Read more...]