Two weeks ago we told you that PCadvisor.co.uk opened up a poll on the new gTLD program Today total votes received broke the 2,500 mark and the results are pretty interesting. With 2,506 votes cast 25% of all voters said they planned to buy a new gTLD domain name although only 3% said they were on any sort of pre-registration list. 42% of the voters said they were not interested. 29% … [Read more...]
GAC Tells ICANN It Can Proceed Normal Evalution Process On .Wine and .Vin
The "GAC agreed in Durban to set a firm deadline for providing a potential safeguard advice regarding .wine and .vin. and in a letter to ICANN today, the Governmental Advisory Counsel, (GAC) advised the ICANN Board that the GAC has finalized its consideration of the strings .wine and .vin and "further advises that the applications should proceed through the normal evaluation process" The letter … [Read more...]
Valideus Asks ICANN To Clarify Details On Its Last Resort gTLD Auctions, All 16 Points
Valideus which is private company "currently managing 5% of all new gTLD applications", including Amazon's sent a letter to ICANN asking for a lot of details on ICANN’s "Last Resort Auctions" which are scheduled to begin in mid-October. Included in the requests are many valid concerns about the amount of the deposits that will be required to participate in the auction, who will hold the funds, … [Read more...]
Endurance Files For $400M IPO: Buys Directi For $110M: Commits Up To $62 Million In New gTLD Auctions
As reported by Domainincite.com, Endurance International Group Holdings Inc, filed for an IPO to $400 million in an initial public offering of its common stock and plans on buying Directi for between $100 and $110 million Dollars. In buying Directi Endurance would also get Radix Registry which has 29 active new gTLD applications of which 26 are in contention. Endurance is also committing an … [Read more...]
TechRadar Confuses A Pre-Reservation With An Actual Registration; Telling People new gTLD’s Can Be Registered Today
TechRadar.com covered the new gTLD program telling people that new gTLD are available to be registered now. "New top-level domains now available" ".online, .web, .ltd, .website, and .blog just some of the suffixes available" The publication clearly has confused a pre-registration that many registrars and back order providers are offering with a domain registration. Of course none of … [Read more...]
WTR: Chats About How Radix Is Planning on Marketing Its New gTLD’s
The WorldTrademarkReview.com, published a story on Radix this morning and applicant for 29 new gTLD's and spoke to Sandeep Ramchandani, business head of Radix , on how the company would market its offerings. Radix’s marketing strategy is two-fold." "It plans to leverage its relationships with registrar channels as well as offering extensions directly to specific industries through direct … [Read more...]
Wow: Check Out Verisign’s Scathing Letter To ICANN
In a scathing letter from Chuck Gomes, Vice President of Verisign to Fadi Cheladeto CEO of ICANN Mr. Gomes lists 6 "examples of ICANN's Unaccountable Actions as Requested by ICANN CEO Fadi Chelade" The letter itself fills in the back story as it is an outgrowth of a discussion that the two men had during "the GNSO discussion at the recent ICANN meeting in Durban. " "In that exchange, I … [Read more...]