When ICANN makes it "Big Reveal" of the new gTLD applicants tomorrow, one of the more interesting and lingering questions is will Manwin, the owner of YouPorn.com, who filed a lawsuit against ICM Registry, the operator of the .XXX extension and ICANN itself, file an application for a new gTLD like .Sex or .Porn or .Adult? Frankly IMHO Manwin, is in between the proverbial rock and the hard … [Read more...]
Afilias Backend Provider for 305 Applications Including 175 .Brand TLD’s
Afilias Limited, the operator of the .INFO, .MOBI and .PRO top level domains (TLD) announced that it will be the back end provider for 305 new generic TLD applications to ICANN. "The applications span a range of new TLD ideas, and include 18 Internationalized TLDs (for example, Chinese and Cyrillic), four community domains, four geographic domains and more than 170 "dot Brand" names." "The … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling Invests $60 Million Dollars & Applies For 54 new gTLD’s
A few days ago we wrote about Frank Schilling, one of the world's largest private domain name investor, getting into the new gTLD space under the new domain Uniregistry.com Today comes word through Cnet.com that Uniregistry has applied for 54 new gTLD's making Frank one of the largest applicants for new gTLD's. The article written by Paul Sloan entitled "Here Comes the Greatest Internet … [Read more...]
Neustar Racks Up 358 Applications Including .NYC; How Did They Beat Verisign? We Know
Neustar, today announced that it has been selected as the registry services provider for 358 applications for new generic Top-Level domains (gTLDs). including the City of New York as the registry service provider to manage the application process and operate .nyc. We reported back in March that Neustar had guaranteed the city of New York $3.6 Million dollars to get the contract. How did … [Read more...]
Key- Systems Launches Their Own Digital Archery Service
According to press release, Key-Systems Has become the Third company to launch a Digital Archery Service. The price is 15,000 Euro's which is about $18K ""Key-Systems offers its technical expertise to new generic top level domain (gTLD) applicants for ICANN's batching according to the Digital Archery procedure. " "A high ranking in ICANN's Digital Archery is required to be among the … [Read more...]
Demand Media Applies For 26 gTLD’s & Is Partners With Donuts, Inc. on 107 New gTLD’s
According to a press release out this morning Demand Media (DMD), announced that it has applied for 26 new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). "The company selected gTLD names in categories connected to an extremely broad range of interests and capabilities including: ecommerce, personal & professional identity, education, entertainment, internet life, sports, small business and social … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling Unveils His New gTLD Company: Uniregistry.com
Frank Schilling one of the largest private domain name portfolio owners in the world through Name Administration, is getting into the new gTLD space, as a registry, making application for some new gTLD's and today officially launched his new gTLD company called Uniregistry "We are building the next wave of destinations for businesses to exist on the Internet." "What happens when you take a … [Read more...]