I just got this message from the .me folks: """Thank you for your interest in .ME domains. You recently received multiple emails for the .ME domains you are bidding on, each displaying a separate Shopper ID. Please disregard those messages. We've come up with a new solution for creating just one Shopper ID for ALL your .ME auctions – giving you the opportunity to work with your various auctions … [Read more...]
A lot of e-mails.me
I just got though going the 2 step process for creating separate accounts for each of the .me domains I backordered, which look like they are going into auction mode. Although I backordered all the domains through my godaddy account in one shot, I got about 60 e-mails, one for each .me domain (not identified in the e-mail) asking me to set up an account to apparently allow me to bid in the … [Read more...]
Maybe Getting that New Domain Extension Won’t be That Easy
Looking at the draft flow chart that ICANN has posted for the process of obtaining new extensions, it looks like it may not be a quick and easy process as the press described. Certainly you can count next year out. An extension can be knocked out by if it is "too similar to reserved names or existing TLD's and /or likely to cause instability." If it passes that test it still can be … [Read more...]
New Extension .CYM: That Wouldn’t Confuse Anyone, Would It?
According to an article, New Whales is going for the .CYM extension for a Welsh websites. South Wales West AM Bethan Jenkins said the ICANN annoucement: "could, in effect, pave the way for the dotCYM domain name to be used for Welsh website addresses. It's important that the world has access to everything that Wales has to offer and I believe that a dot CYM web address would be one way of … [Read more...]
Fight Against New Extensions
This is a Guest Post by Seb ICANN is opening the door to a huge mess for companies of all size, SMBs to Fortune 500. Companies were used (should i say forced) to register their company name and brands in all new extensions ICANN would come up with : .eu / .mobi / .asia. These are nothing but defensive registrations, mostly not resolving or simply redirecting to the .com corporate … [Read more...]
So are you Ready For Hundreds of New Domain Extensions?
During the ICANN Meeting in Paris this week, ICANN annouced that it was seriously considering whether to opening up domain names to endless variations and approve hundreds of new extensions including .berlin, .paris, .quebec .cat (for Catalonia) and one for the big apple, .nyc "We're talking about introducing potentially thousands more names," said Paul Levins, executive officer of Icann "The … [Read more...]