The landrush for the new .Tel extensions open at 10am EST this morning on a first come, first served basis. .Tel registrations will be available though many registrars including moniker.com I met Justin Edelman, last week at DomainFest, a representative for the .tel registry, whose .tel domain is Justin.Tel is up and operating if you want to see what this type of page looks like. Justin … [Read more...]
ICANN Publishes It’s Annual Report: Here is Ours
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, published it's annual report, The report puts a bright face on what ICANN calls the "organization's achievements and progress during 2008" The report highlights the three major initiatives ICANN has undertaken this year: the process for introducing new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to the Internet; the introduction for the … [Read more...]
Scotland Looking For It’s Own Extension: Will New gTLD’s Hurt The Value Of Existing Country Code Domains
A government studey in Scotland, found almost 60% of organizations there, and more than 80% of those questioned worldwide, support the idea of Scotland having it own gTLD, when they are released late next year. Suggested addresses are .sco or .scot, which would create an alternative to the current .co.uk. First Minister Alex Salmond commented on the survey, saying: "I think in terms of the … [Read more...]
Open Letter To ICANN: Our Take On the New Domain Extensions
As we wrote a few days ago, Monday is the last day for submitting your comments on the New domain extensions, the gTLD's, which is an incredibly important issue for all domain holders. It effects all domain holders because the rules that are applied to the new gTLDs can be used to amend existing contracts for all existing extensions. So even if you have no interest in acquiring any new gTLD … [Read more...]
Last Chance To Comment To ICANN On Proposed gTLD’s
The comment period for the proposed gTLD's has been extended until next Monday December 15th. Yesterday in a post entitled "Why Domaining Sucks", my friend Sahar posted as reason number 3 "We lack influence with ICANN". I think this is common complaint. However, as of today there are less than 100 comments posted on any of the six topics you can comment on regarding the new … [Read more...]
New Domain Extensions: Registries Should be Required To Give Trademark Holders Their Domains.
The domain industry got another black eye when Toyota.me became the highest priced .me domain sale, at over 90K. In the next few years there may be hundreds of new extensions (gTLD's) and each one will increase the trademark problem, unless some policy is adopted to head it off. Trademark holders can apply for their domain during the sunrise period of a domain extension launch. Sunrise … [Read more...]
.PRO To ReLaunch on September 8th
EnCirca the registry of the .Pro domain announced today that the extension will be relaunched on September 8th. The relaunch of the .pro domain is now allows all licensed Professionals from every country in the world. Previously, .pro was limited to professionals in the engineering,accounting, legal, and medical fields in the United States and three other countries. Now all licensed … [Read more...]