theatlanticcities.com, just covered the coming New gTLD Geographic domain names calling them perfectly tailored for city residents, businesses, & services" Here are some of the more interesting points from the story: "Dozens of municipal governments, from Durban to Taipei, have claimed corresponding top level domains (TLDs) -- even the wordy ones like .amsterdam and .helsinki -- in the … [Read more...]
MediaPost: New gTLD’s Will Change Search
MediaPost published a story today with the headline; "Top-Level Domain Names Will Change Search" "Search engine optimization (SEO) will change dramatically within the next few years as a result of the Internet transitioning from 23 top-level domain names (TLD) to more than 1,409 strings. " The story quotes Jennifer Wolfe, president of Wolfe Domain as saying: "TLDs will become ZIP codes … [Read more...]
Uniregistry and TLDH Team Up on The New gTLD .Country
According to a press release just out Uniregistry which is headed by Frank Schilling and Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM:TLDH) which both applied for the new gTLD .Country have struck a deal As Uniregistry and TLDH are the only two applicants for the new gTLD .Country the two companies have decided to split the new gTLD to end contention and avoid an ICANN last resort auciton ""Under the … [Read more...]
39 More New gTLD Pass IE: .AAA; .Chase; .NRA; .Live; .Swiss; .Vip; .Cpa
ICANN has passed another 39 new gTLD through Initial Evaluation today, including the National Rifle Association application for .NRA, The American Automobile Association application for .AAA, JPMorgan Chase application for .Chase, Microsoft's application for .Live. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants application for .CPA also passed IE. Google passed IE for its .Vip and … [Read more...]
Sedo: 63% Unaware of New gTLD’s; 94% Not Planning On Purchasing One
Sedo.com published a New gTLD Research Report last month and I don't see that anyone reported on it. The report was based on a survey of 600 small to medium business owners that took place in January The most important findings of the ‘gTLD Awareness Report’ are: 63% of small to mid-sized business owners are unaware that new gTLDs will be available in 2013 and many do not understand what … [Read more...]
TLDH Withdrawing 4 New gTLD Applications: .Free; .Sale; .Spa; .Zulu
According to a press release we received this morning, The Board of Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM:TLDH) issued an update to its new gTLD application with the biggest news out of the release is that it is withdrawing 4 of its new gTLD application TLDH announced that is decided to withdraw its application for .Free; .Sale; .Spa; .Zulu. Those withdrawals are not reflected on … [Read more...]
eNom Collects More Than 2 Million Expressions Of Interest on New gTLD’s
According to enom.com its "New TLD Watchlist module has collected more than two million expressions of interest for domains to be registered with the new TLDs, in just nine months In the more than two million Watchlist submissions received over the course of nine months, the three new domain extensions of greatest interest are: 1) .Web 2) .Shop 3) .Hotel From a category viewpoint, the … [Read more...]