A BusinessInsider.com article today reminded me its been one year since Justin Timberlake's invested into MySpace.com At the time I thought Justin would have been better served if he simply applied for the new gTLD of .Music. I can't exactly tell you how, but through representatives very close to Justin I made him aware of the opportunity that a .Music application would have provided, … [Read more...]
Name.com Asks “What New gTLD’s Are You Waiting For”
Unlike some other registrars that are taking "pre-orders" or expressions of interest in domain name registrations for certain hand selected new gTLD's, Name.com is going from it at a whole different angle asking users: "What new gTLDs are you waiting for?" Name.com is asking users to tell then what new gTLD's they are most interest in. The page put up by Name.com starts with an important … [Read more...]
The Top Policy Mistakes ICANN Made In The New gTLD Program
Now that everyone has had time to fully digest the big reveal of the new gTLD applicants and the strings applied for, its time to look at the biggest issues ICANN has created for the domain name system. We are not going to look at mistakes ICANN made in the implementation of the program (such as the TAS debacle) just the fundamental policy mistakes ICANN made in our opinion which are have … [Read more...]
BuyDomains Launches BuyDomainsCentral.com Powered By Enom To Take New gTLD Domain Pre-orders
Buydomains.com, which is owned by Name Media, is teaming up with Enom.com, which is owned by Demand Media, to start to take pre-orders or a create a watch list for new gTLD's domain name registration when they become available. The new site set up by BuyDomains.com for the new gTLD program is BuyDomainsCentral.com, which is powered by Enom. Its an interesting move by two company's that are … [Read more...]
New gTLD’s All Explained in an 8 Minute Video Which You Will .LOL At
For those still confused by the new gTLD's and all the possibilities they bring to the domain space, video should explain it all to you. The new gTLD's naysayers will have a blast. For the believers you got to still have a sense of humor. I have no idea who is responsible for the video but hats off to someone who has a a lot of time on their hands and created a worse case scenario for the … [Read more...]
With The Domain Space Only Growing By 17 Million A Year, Where Will All The Registrations For New gTLD’s Come From?
We know that .com/.net registrations as of the last report sits at 116 million registrations is growing at the rate 8 million new registrations a year. We also know including the 116 million .com/.net registrations, there are 225 million domains name registered as of March 31, 2012 with 10% or some 20 million new registrations coming since 4th quarter of 2,010. So basically your looking at … [Read more...]
RBC Report On New gTLD’s “Could Be A Game-Changer For The Domain Registry & Registrar Businesses”
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) published a fascinating report (pdf) today on the gTLD business. The report is entitled: "Say .anything – Opening Up the gTLD Landscape" and subtitled: "Examining the potential value the new gTLD initiative creates for Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) and Web.com (WWWW)" Its a 17 page report which you of course should check out in its entirety since it is a very … [Read more...]