According to a mailing from the offical site of the .NYC new gTLD domain name extension, mydotnyc.com the city expects that the .NYC extension will go live in the 1st half of 2014. "The City of New York will be one of the first cities in the world to be granted its own domain extension … [Read more...]
ICANN Makes Domain Investor Daniel Negari The Poster Boy For The New gTLD Program In Video Released Tonight
ICANN has made Domain investor and new gTLD applicant Daniel Negari the poster boy for the new gTLD program in a video released by ICANN tonight on Twitter. Why Dan? Well at 27 years of age, he is the youngest applicant for a new gTLD with an uncontested application for XYZ.com and the winner of a private auction for .College. I have know Dan for a few years from the domain investor side … [Read more...]
1and1.com New gTLD Pre-Registrations Top 3 Million Domain Names
It was back on September 22nd when we posted that 1and1.com, the domain name registration which has been running television commercials in heavy rotation in the United States t0 promote new gTLD domain names broke the 2 Million pre-registration mark. Tonight 1and1.com blew past the 3 … [Read more...]
Trademark Clearinghouse Verification Service Now Accepting Additional Abused Labels
Abused Domain Name label service for Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) Verification is now available. It was created to help rights owners protect labels that have a history of being abusively used or registered in the Domain Names Space. The Abused Domain Name labels service allows rights holders to register up to 50 "abused labels: related to a verified trademark record in the … [Read more...]
Facing Competition From .Kiwi, New Zeland ccTLD To Allow .NZ Registrations
The Council of InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) which operates the ccTLD for New Zealand approved today to allow domain names to be registered at the second level in the .nz domain name space. By allowing registrations at the second level, people and organisations will be able to register theirname.nz instead of theirname.co.nz or theirname.net.nz (the current system, which allows … [Read more...]
Google’s Registry For New gTLD’s; Charleston Road Registry Launches its Site
Google's Registry for that will be the back end operator for Google's new gTLD strings, CharlestonRoadRegistry.com officially launched their site today (Update I have been informed that this site actually launched on March 29, 2013) "Welcome to Charleston Road Registry, Google’s domain registry. We’re really excited about the domains we’ll soon be able to offer. The Internet has always been … [Read more...]
Donuts To Start Sunrise Period For 9 New gTLD’s On October 29th
The Donuts Inc. registry has just announced it will begin of the Sunrise period for 9 new gTLDs on October 29, 2013. The TLDs are: .CAMERA .CLOTHING .EQUIPMENT .GURU .HOLDINGS .LIGHTING .SINGLES .VENTURES .VOYAGE The Sunrise for each of the gTLDs will last 60 days, meaning that Landrush will most likely start right after the new year, in January 2014. Only … [Read more...]