NCC Group has announced the line-up of its new .trust Advisory Board, "an elite panel of renowned security experts responsible for supporting NCC Group’s .trust Technical Policy, in a bid to create the world's first secure community on the Internet". Six renowned security experts currently sit on the board alongside Gunter Ollmann, CTO of the group’s Domain Services division. The board will … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines To Register Up To 30K New gTLD Premium Domains Under Emerald Names
Minds + Machines announced they are going through the process of registering up to 30,000 Premium Names from across its wholly-owned portfolio of TLDs through its wholly-owned entity, Emerald Names, "so as to raise the visibility of its inventory amongst the broker and registrar channel, as well as with consumers". "As a result, these Premium Names will resolve to a “for sale” web site, … [Read more...]
New gTLD .Tech Enters Early Access Period (EAP) Today With 40+ Pioneers
Radix announced today that .Tech has entered the 1st day of the Early Access Program (EAP) Unlike other Radix new gTLD extensions that previously launched .Tech is not going to have a landrush period but an EAP period like Donuts and Rightside. Radix further announced that it has signed up 40+ Pioneers for .tech. "The Pioneer list includes impressive names like Carl Pei, co-founder of the … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Loses 1st Uniform Rapid Suspension on EOS.Blackfriday
Frank Schilling North Sound Names has lost its first Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) on the domain name eos.blackfriday. North Sound Names registered almost 208,000 domain names Uniregistry new gTLD's and marks the first time North Sound has lost a domain name in a URS or a UDRP. Due to the ruling the domain registration will be suspended for the during of the registration. The term EOS … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling On New gTLD’s and The Value of .Com In The Years Ahead
Frank Schilling in a comment to our post on .Bank getting 5,500 applications, had a very interesting comment: ""IMO Dot Com will still be the largest individual TLD, but many, many viable alternative TLD’s will marginalize the totality of .com’s mindshare in future. Speaking as the owner of a large portfolio of valuable dot com names, I once felt comfortable explaining that people should … [Read more...]
Verisign: Brands Are Keeping Their .Com: Don’t See Anybody Abandoning .Com for .Brand or Another TLD.”
In the Verisign earnings call yesterday the following question was asked by Fred Ziegel, Topeka Capital Markets. Fred Ziegel (Analyst - Topeka Capital Markets): "In your .brand customer base that you are working with, what's your sense of how they are thinking about it from the perspective of -- are they going to move from .com to .xyz or whatever? Or are they more thinking that this will be an … [Read more...]
.Bank Gets Over 5,500 Applications For a .Bank Domain At $1K+ Per Domain
fTLD Registry Services announced today that more than 5,500 .BANK applications have been received from members of the global banking community at a retail price of $1,000 + depending on the registrar. Unlike most domain names, .Bank is restricted so if you want to register a domain you have to fill out an application and provide proof that you qualify to own a .Bank domain Top locations for … [Read more...]