According to a press release we just received, Dot Latin LLC announced today that the world’s largest domain registrar, GoDaddy, has signed the Registry-Registrar Agreement for the .UNO domain extension, specifically designed for the Hispanic and Latino communities, worldwide. .UNO is the first global web … [Read more...]
SlamStrategy: Risk Vs Reward of Owning A New gTLD
In a blog post written by Lauren Pitman for slamstrategy.com.au, looks at the perception that all new gTLD applicants that they will be profitable, its an very interesting post and though its worth a read: "It’s estimated that you would need about $50,000 a year to cover your costs of running a new gTLD. So as long as the applicants felt that they could cover those costs with a minimum number … [Read more...]
Confirmed: 1and1.com Has Spent Over $50 Million On Television Ads; But Are They Over?
Fairwinds Domain Strategy Blog has confirmed was we have been suspecting, that 1and1.com has spent more than $50 Million dollars on its television advertising campaign promoting pre-registrations for the new gTLD program. ""Web hosting company 1&1 has spent over $50 million on TV, print, and online marketing for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and has increased its web traffic by 200% … [Read more...]
.Club Selects Sedo For Sunrise & Landrush Auctions & Broker Premium Domains
.Club Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.Club” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), have announced today that it has selected Sedo to run the “sunrise” and “landrush” auctions, manage its premium reserve list and broker premium sales of .Club domains. Formed in 2012 and backed by $8.2 million from private investors, .Club Domains will enable … [Read more...]
Community Objections to .Islam and .Halal Denied By ICC
Two separate ICC panels have denied the objections to the new gTLD's .Islam and .Halal finding that although there "opposition to Respondent’s application to some extent, but such opposition is not substantial". Although they were two separate opinions both shares a lot of the same finding and drew the same conclusions: Here are the relevant parts of the decision: The Expert observes that … [Read more...]
NewDomains.org Conference Kicks Off On Sunday In Munich
The NewDomains.org Conference being held for the second year in Munich, jammed packed of seminars, speakers and social networking events. The show kicks off on Sunday with some networking events and dinner and then goes into full gear on Monday morning with two sessions running all day. Monte Cahn from RightoftheDot.com a company in which I'm a Director in will be speaking in the session … [Read more...]
We Said It Over A Year Ago, The BC Tells ICANN Allowing Singular & Plural New gTLD’s Are A Bad Idea
In a letter sent to ICANN, the Chair, ICANN Business Constituency (BC) told ICANN what we at TheDomains.com said over a year ago, that allowing new gTLD's of plural and singular of the same term is a bad idea. "As we move towards the launch of the first new gTLDs this year, the Business Constituency is extremely concerned about ICANN’s intention to delegate both singular and plural versions of … [Read more...]