At the Godaddy new gTLD Registry Days event today it announced it would be withdrawing its applications for .home and .casa. We want to concentrate and be just a registrar for all new gTLD's so we are withdrawing our applications for the new gTLD's for .Home & .Casa. Another big move by Godaddy.com but one which makes a lot of sense for the company which doesn't want to potentially go … [Read more...]
Breaking: GoDaddy To Drop .Com From Logo
At the Godaddy Registry Days conference, Godaddy.com announced that they will be dropping the .com off their logo over a period to time just to read "Godaddy". "10 years from now we will look back at a world where every domain name ended in a .com like our kids look at record players" said Blake Irving the CEO … [Read more...]
ICANN’s “Geographic Names Panel” Says .Vegas Is Not A Geo
.Vegas apparently is not a Geo, so says the ICANN Geographic Names Panel. The panel "has determined that the string .Vegas does not fall within the criteria for a geographic name contained in the Applicant Guidebook Section 2.2.1.4." The .Vegas application says: "Dot Vegas, Inc. (herein referred to as “Dot Vegas”, “Dot Vegas, Inc.ʺ, the ʺCompanyʺ or “Applicantʺ), in cooperation with and … [Read more...]
Two More New gTLD Applications Withdrawn: .HEINZ & .KETCHUP
ICANN just posted on its site the withdrawal of two more new gTLD applications bring the total of withdrawn applications to 21. ProMark Brands Inc. withdrew the only two new gTLD applications it had for .HEINZ & .KETCHUP. .KETCHUP had a Prioritization number of 737, and HEINZ had a Prioritization of 1345. It should be noted at this point, applicants still get 70% of their application … [Read more...]
The Independent Objector For ICANN’s New gTLD Program Decides Not To Object To Anything
As part of the new gTLD program ICANN provided it would establish an Independent Objector who could file an objection to new gTLD strings or applicants and May 14th 2012 on named Professor Alain Pellet as the Independent Objector (IO). "Acting solely in the best interests of global Internet users, the Independent Objector may lodge Limited Public Interest and Community objections in cases … [Read more...]
.Menu One Of The First New gTLD That Should Launch Goes With Namejet/Afternic
WhatBox? LLC, the applicant for the new top level domain .MENU, has selected NameJet and Afternic to operate the sunrise and landrush auctions, and offer premium name distribution for the .MENU top level domain (TLD). According to a press release we received today, .Menu "is targeting restaurants and food enthusiasts in its efforts to contribute to the evolving online culinary … [Read more...]
Fallout From Contention Sets: .Law/.Lawyer; .Hotel/.Hotels; .Car/.Cars & Many More
Now that ICANN has stuck to its guns and only placed 4 new gTLD's strings that look confusingly similar into contention sets, rather than those that sound identical, such as .inc and .ink or those that have the same meaning like .Law and .Lawyer or those that are singular and plurals of the same word, we now know what we will get when the new gTLD's roll out and in part its going to be a very a … [Read more...]