As the The Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress Conference wrapped up yesterday in London Frank Schilling founder of Uniregistry an applicant for more than 50 new gTLD's, posted a comment to our post to his opening remarks from the conference, in response to over 65 comments made by readers on the original post the following: """" this.stuff is.not that.hard There are only so … [Read more...]
ICANN Publishes Final Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) Guidelines
ICANN published final Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) Guidelines last night, in advance to the (CPE) commencing. The "Guidelines are to ensure quality, consistency and transparency in the evaluation process. " "The CPE Guidelines are an accompanying document to the Applicant Guidebook, and are meant to provide additional clarity around the process and scoring principles outlined in … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling Live From London: “.Com Will Become Like AM Radio”
The Digital Marketing & gTLS Strategy Congress conference kicked off today with Frank Schilling of Unregistry, laying out how he see the future of the domain name space and its the new gTLD program. Mr. Schilling was being interviewed on stage by Kevin Murphy of Domainincite.com As always Mr. Schilling had some interesting observations and bold predictions: Big brands placed their … [Read more...]
New gTLD .XYZ Rolls Out Site Out In German
Citing a "great response from the German market" the new gTLD .XYZ has launched their site in German as well. "Our initial outreach has shown Germans are likely to register a .xyz domain name when it becomes available. " "We have had a successful outreach effort to generate pre registrations from individuals and businesses in Germany ." "Additionally German based registrars are all on … [Read more...]
UPDATED: Registrars Where You Can Place Pre-Reservations On New gTLD Domain Names
We have updated this post which was published a couple of months ago adding registrars that are now taking pre-orders or pre-reservations on New gTLD domain names. Pre-orders or pre-reservation require a form or payment while expressions of interest do not After I wrote the post that 1and1.com topped over 2 Million new gTLD domain name pre-reservations (actually now over 2.15) I got a few … [Read more...]
ICANN Publishes Study on Whois Privacy & Proxy Service Abuse & Opens Up Comment Period
ICANN authorized a study conducted by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom, to analyze gTLD domain names to measure whether the percentage of privacy/proxy use among domains engaged in illegal or harmful Internet activities is significantly greater than among domain names used for lawful Internet activities. Furthermore, this study compares these privacy/proxy … [Read more...]
ICANN To Post Redline Changes To New gTLD Registry Contracts
According to a post by ICANN on its site it will start publishing redline versions of executed Registry Agreements as it " would be helpful to the entire ICANN community, and would also support ICANN's efforts to provide operational transparency". "Published redlined versions will highlight changes between an executed agreement and the current standard 2013 Registry Agreement. " "Redlined … [Read more...]