Wired.com published a story today entitled "Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It’s .Seizable". The story goes on to talk about what all of us in the domain industry already know, that if a domain registry is a US corporation, domain names under the extension can be seized by the US government. Those include .com, .net. org, biz, .us, .tv .name and .cc all of which are operated by Registries … [Read more...]
ARI Registry Selected To Run Registry Services For Directi’s New gTLD Division Radix
According a press release issued tonight, ARI Registry Services has announced it has been appointed as the exclusive registry services provider for Radix, a new entity within the Directi Group, that will be focused on obtaining and running new generic TLDs. "The Directi Group runs multiple successful businesses in the web services space including ResellerClub, LogicBoxes, BigRock and … [Read more...]
100,000 New gTLD by 2020? One Blogger Has Just Made That Prediction
Naseem Javed is a frequent author of articles on domain names and gTLD issues and he has been published fairly frequently by CircleId.com where his 23 posts have been viewed over 600,000 times. He just published a post on business2community.com, making the case that there will be as many as 100,000 new gTLD's by 2020: """Imagine. Suddenly it’s 2020, and ICANN has just opened its 10th window … [Read more...]
CentralNic Chosen To Handle The New gTLD; .MLS
According to a press release we received this morning, ""MLS Domains Association, a non-profit association of U.S. multiple listing services, has selected CentralNic Ltd. as its registry back-end service provider for the new .MLS top-level domain. "" "The Association concluded a due diligence process late in 2011 and executed the contract with CentralNic this month." “With so many top-notch … [Read more...]
Demand Media Plans On Investing $5 Million In New gTLD’s
As part of Demand Media's earning report, it appears Demand Media has plans for applying for a number of new gTLD's. In the section of the earnings report "looking forward" to 2012 to serve as guidance to investors of the company's Demand states: ""Excluding up to $5 million of 2012 operating expenses, which the Company expects to incur related to its generic Top Level Domain (“gTLD”) … [Read more...]
WIPO Named by ICANN as Exclusive Provider of Dispute Resolution For Trademark Objections To New gTLD’s Strings
According to a press release out today WIPO “has been appointed by ICANN as the exclusive provider of dispute resolution services for trademark based ‘pre-delegation’ Legal Rights Objections under ICANN’s New gTLD Program,” WIPO has a Q&A page on their site about this. ""The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has embarked on a program of allowing new generic … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Raises Another $14 Million For New gTLD’s By Selling 110M New Shares
According to a press release today Minds + Machines raised an additional $14 Million dollars by selling shares of its parent company in what was described to me "as a oversubscribed funding round" Shares of the company are up 7%+ today on the news Here is the press release: "The Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM:TLDH.L), the only publicly traded company focused … [Read more...]