This is a guest post by Jennie-Marie Larsen, Chief Executive Officer of DomainDiction.com Jennie-Marie has an extensive marketing, PR & business development background in web-based products and services with years of experience launching new businesses through digital marketing and channel management. She entered the domain name industry 12 years ago as Head of Europe for NeuStar´s registry … [Read more...]
Barron’s: “The Dot-Com Era Finally Comes to an End”
Barron's, the weekly publication that has changed the fate of public companies and the direction of markets for over 50 years just covered the new gTLD's in a story entitled: "The Dot-Com Era Finally Comes to an End" Like many accuse me of, the headline is more provocative than the story. Baron's is not predicting that .Com will be replaced by the new gTLD's but rather discusses the new … [Read more...]
Bloomberg Asks Online Experts What To Expect From New gTLD’s, ICANN IN 2013
Bloomberg issued its Electronic Commerce & Law Report where they asked asked several dozen leading attorneys and online experts "for their views on the most important legal developments in online law during 2012 and on what policy areas they believed would be the most important to their practices in 2013 including our own Phil Corwin of the ICA, Bloomberg got plenty of thoughts and … [Read more...]
New gTLD Applicant Group Blasts ICANN On “Slippage Of Timelines” In Program
New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) blasted ICANN on meeting its deadlines and time frames on various on the new gTLD program. The letter cites 6 major issues involving the new gTLD program and ICANN for extending previously announced deadlines: Release of Contention Sets Release of Background Screening Results Extension of Rights Protection Comment Window Extension of Objection … [Read more...]
Pool Shutting Down Registrar Threads: Refocusing From Drop Catching To New gTLD’s
We just got this email from Pool.com this morning: "The impending launch of new gTLDs has led Pool.com to refocus its business away from an emphasis on the secondary market and to a broader range of on-going services. " "As a result, we will be shutting down a number of our registrar threads effective January 10, 2013. " "This will have an effect on some of your domains acquired through … [Read more...]
Top Level Domain Holdings: Pleased With ICANN Drawning & Announces Results
In a press release today, The Directors Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) the holding company of Minds + Machines "are delighted to announce the results of ICANN’s Prioritization Draw that concluded Monday evening in Los Angeles." The directors are pleased that three of TLDH’s five geographic applications were in the top third of the Prioritization Draw. Antony Van Couvering, CEO of TLDH … [Read more...]
Google Leads Those Applicants Not Pulling Paid Tickets At 24: Here’s The Full List
After ICANN drew all the tickets that were purchased for the new gTLD prioritization draw last night, ICANN drew the rest of the applications, again those not purchasing the $100 draw ticket. ICANN previously stated that those not purchasing tickets would be placed at the end of the cue and ICANN did in fact place them after the last paid ticket 1,776 which was .financial. Interestingly out … [Read more...]