Recently in a CircleID blog, Alexa Raad, CEO of Architelos pointed out that applying for a new Top-Level Domain (TLD) is an expensive and lengthy process, costing an estimated $500K for application and various legal and professional services and that is assuming there is no other applications for the same string, nor any objection to the string being filed. Ms. Raad pointed out that one of … [Read more...]
Mashable.com: “A New Era For Internet Domains: Why .XXX is Just The Beginning”
Mashable.com just published a post entitled "A New Era for Internet Domains: Why .XXX is just the Beginning." The story was written by Ben Crawford who is the CEO of Central Nic and was featured on CNBC last week Speaking about new gTLD's Crawford said in part: "In the future, locally focused websites will use their city TLD, websites on specific cultures will use their community TLD, … [Read more...]
RIGHT OF THE DOT.com, My Take On The New gTLD’s: The Next 25 Years & How You Can Profit
As many as you have heard, Monte Cahn the founder of Moniker.com and most recently an Exec with Oversee.net, has joining myself, in a new venture called RIGHT OF THE DOT. RIGHT OF THE DOT can be broadly defined as a consulting company which advises registries on how best to roll out their extensions, including marketing and selling of domains; increase the number of registration of domains; … [Read more...]
UnitedDomains.com Starts Taking Free Pre-Reservations For new gTLD Domains
Pool.com has been taking pre-reservations for domain names for anticipated new gTLD extensions for well over a year. Now another registrar, UnitedDomains.com started yesterday to accept the pre-reservations for some of the anticipated new gTLD extensions including .gay, .hotels, .nyc, .berlin, .eco, .sfo and .film. UnitedDomains.com has received almost 5,000 reservations as of time of … [Read more...]
Launched Days Ago WIPO’s Global Brands Database Already 560,000 Strong & Full Of Generics
WIPO announced a few days ago, that it started a "Global Brands Database" no doubt in hopes that once the concept is giving the final approval by ICANN that WIPO will be chosen to manage the Database. What is the Database and why should you care about it? Under the gTLD guidebook trademark owners which have been demanding additional protection for "Global Brands" get the Unform Rapid … [Read more...]
House Rep. Promises Hearings On New gTLD’s: “We Want To Ask Them Why It Is Necessary & Important To Do That”
During his remarks this weekend on C-Span Rep. Bob Goodlatte, who is the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, he promised a that the House would be holding a hearing on ICANN's plan on expand the number of top level domains otherwise known as new gTLD's. "We are also going to hold a hearing on ICANN's plan to dramatically expand the number of domain extensions, which … [Read more...]
KeyNote From .Nxt Meeting: Juan Calle “.Com Is Really A Typo Of .Co”
As the 1st .Nxt show in came to a close in San Francisco today, Juan Calle the CEO of the .Co registry took the stage and spoke on the future of domain names and the opportunity that new gTLD's will bring. Mr. Calle stated that the size of the opportunity is huge." "Relative to the growth of the Internet the registration of domain names is quite low" "Presently the ratio of domain name … [Read more...]