Two of the largest newspapers in the country have Front Page stories about domain names and its all about new gTLD and new ccTLD's like .Co and .Me Yes I know a LOT of you are getting tired of stories about new gTLD's and .Co but this is what the mainstream press is covering and covering hard, so on to the stories The New York Times article entitled "For Countries That Own Shorter Web Site … [Read more...]
ICANN Punts On The New gTLD’s
The ICANN board today Approved a resolution that would push off a vote on the approval of the the new gTLD program today in its meeting in Colombia to the San Fransisco ICANN Meeting in March. Under the resolution The ICANN board will hold an meeting sometime in February 2011 with the Government Advisory Council (the GAC) to hear their final thoughts on the Guidebook. Moreover under the … [Read more...]
Why Shouldn’t Godaddy Be Barred From Applying For A New gTLD Under The Guidebook Based On Standard Tactics
As we discussed in a post today, according to the ICANN Guidebook v5 published yesterday, any person with 3 UDRP loses will be disqualified from owing a new gTLD registry or being an officer or director of any such entity. George Kirikos just published a comment to ICANN on the new Guidebook v5 on this issue and points out that Godaddy's "Standard Tactics" has lost plenty of UDRP's and … [Read more...]
ICANN New Guidebook: Terrorists Now Ok: Domainers 3 Strikes & You’re Out
In the new Guidebook issued by ICANN yesterday, (pdf) if you're a domain holder that loses 3 or more UDRP (yes they are so fair and well grounded), you will be in the same class as Convicted Murderers, Rapists and child molesters. Yes it would be a bad joke but its true. Under the new ICANN guidebook (pages 1-17/1-19) if you lose 3 UDRP's you're disqualified from being a "major shareholder" … [Read more...]
Our Take On The ICANN Registry/Registrar Decision: The Big Guys Win/The Small Guys Lose
Yesterday ICANN shocked the domain world when it announced it would not prohibit registrars from owning registries and registries from owning registrars. Up to yesterday all the guidebooks on the new gTLD's and the general consensus was that ICANN would limit cross ownership of registrars and registries by to a certain minority position of somewhere between 2%-15%. (You can read about some the … [Read more...]
WTR: 81% Of Global Brands Applying For New gTLD’s Will Make It, Rather Than The .Com Their Master Brand
According to a study conducted by World Trademark Review (WTR) magazine found that of those brands planning to apply to run a new generic top-level domain (gTLD), 81% plan on making their gTLD their master brand. I think most in the domain industry believe that if global brands apply for their own gTLD they would still use their .com as their main internet presence. However if this study is … [Read more...]
CNET Covers The New gTLDS: “It Completely Changes The Landscape Of The Internet “
CNET.com just published a post on the new gTLD's. In a pretty fair and balanced article, it presents both sides of the new gTLD argument quoting those who believe the new gTLD's will be a game changer: "" "It completely changes the landscape of the Internet and how future commerce will happen on the Internet. "Now a company can have a dot-brand and deliver more personalized and … [Read more...]