According to a press release, going out tomorrow, Right Of The Dot™, LLC is launching a Contention Resolution Service for new gTLD applicants who have applied for the same or confusingly similar domain name extension as other applicants. Right Of The Dot™, LLC is an Internet consulting firm specializing in advising existing and new TLD registries in maximizing revenue, increasing … [Read more...]
Famous Four Media Applies For 61 Generic TLD’s; .Poker; .Bet; .Bingo; .Casino; .Win
A company based in Gibraltar that you probably never heard of, Famous Four Media has turned out to be one of the largest applicants of generic TLD's. and actually I think my personal favorite list of new gTLD's. Here is the info about them from their site: "Famous Four Media is a global provider of services to the gTLD industry with operations in London, New York and Gibraltar (global … [Read more...]
Demand Media Applies For 26 gTLD’s Including .Social; ..Gay; .Green .RIP; .Wow; .Airforce; .Navy
It looks like Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) has applied for 26 new gTLD's and some of them are .Wow The applicant is United TLD Holdco Ltd. and the contract there is Mr. Jeffrey Eckhaus, who is a Senior Vice President of Demand. There are some interesting one's here. .Airforce and .Navy would appear to be an issue and subject to objection by the US government and the GAC unless they are making … [Read more...]
UPDATED: Our Biggest Surprises From The Big Reveal: Apple Didn’t Apply For .App; Google is 2nd Largest Applicant
I have at least another couple of hours trying to digest all of the 1,931 applications released by ICANN in the Big Reveal but already have found some pretty big surprises. Apple didn't apply for .App The owner of the biggest App Store in the world didn't make application, but Amazon and Google did. Apple also didn't apply for .Mac Facebook did not apply for .Facebook or for any other … [Read more...]
Tucows Applies for 4 New gTLD’s
Tucows (TCX) applied for only 4 new gTLD's GROUP MARKETING MEDIA ONLINE … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $995K In Domains Led By ConferenceCalling.com For $80K
Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $994,964 for the week ending June 10th, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by ConferenceCalling.com at $80K, followed by VertigoEntertainment.com at $65K. Below is the complete list released of publicly reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]
You May Have Seen The Last Really Sexy GoDaddy Ad
According to The New York Times, GoDaddy.com, who up until now produced all of their own commercials in house, including those Super Bowl commercials, has hired for the first time a professional advertising agency, Deutsch New York. According to The Times the first commercials produced by Deutsch New York will begin airing during the Olympics. The article quotes Godaddy.com's CEO Warren … [Read more...]