Archive | June, 2012

ICANN 44 Prague

ICANN Prague Preview

By on June 20, 2012 in Domains, Events, icann, IDN, Ipv6, newtlds

ICANN’s 44th public meeting is being held in Prague next week and we’ll be attending. It’s one of the three public meetings that ICANN hold every year and they’re always pretty interesting events to attend. This time round there will be a number of topics on the agenda. Some of them are new, while some [...]

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Brand applications for new TLDs

Which Brandnames Have Been Applied For as TLDs?

By on June 19, 2012 in Domains, icann, IDN, newtlds

We’ve published several graphics over the last few days to illustrate which domain name extensions have been applied for under the ICANN new TLD program. Today’s graphic illustrates the brand names / trademarks. NB: This does NOT include other extensions, such as “generics” that big brands might have applied for. You can see a lot [...]

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Play With New TLDs

By on June 17, 2012 in Domains, icann, IDN, newtlds

Over the last few days we’ve shared several graphics that help to visualise the new TLD applications. We split them up into: Uncontested applications ie. where only one entity applied for a particular string Contested applications – where more than one entity applied European new TLD applications But there’s a lot of other information related [...]

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Getting Business Online & Google AdWords

Getting Business Online & Google AdWords

By on June 15, 2012 in business, Marketing, Tips

Wow, what a year for Getting Irish Business Online! Over 10,000 businesses have taken the first steps towards getting online and created their website through the initiative. We know there are many more to come. To sign up simply visit the Getting Business Online website and follow the steps. It really is that easy! Your [...]

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New TLD applications by European country

Graphic – New TLD Applications By European Country

By on June 14, 2012 in Domains, icann, IDN, Infographic, newtlds

Since we’re a European country we always like to know what is going on in Europe (obviously!) ICANN classified the new TLD applications by ICANN region. So we took that data and we removed a few anomalies (Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Virgin Islands) so that we could generate a nice simple graphic to show new [...]

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New TLD Applications with more than one applicant

Graphic – Contested New TLD Applications

By on June 14, 2012 in Domains, icann, IDN, Infographic, newtlds

Want to see which new TLD applications have more than one applicant? ie. multiple companies competing for the same domain string? Check out our simple graphic below (click to enlarge): And here’s the list of strings: 信息 娱乐 广东 微博 网址 网店 网站 APARTMENTS APP ART AUCTION AUDIO AUTO BABY BAND BANK BAR BASEBALL BASKETBALL [...]

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Graphic – Uncontested New TLD Applications

By on June 14, 2012 in Domains, IDN, Infographic, Marketing, newtlds

Which new domain applications aren’t contested? We put together a simple graphic to show them off (click to enlarge):   The actual list is as follows: ابوظبي اتصالات ارامكو العليان بازار بيتك شبكة عرب كاثوليك كوم كيوتل موبايلي موزايك موقع همراه дети католик ком москва онлайн орг рус сайт कॉम नेट संगठन 一号店 世界 中信 [...]

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The big reveal

Press Release: New Top Level Domains to Be Announced June 13, 2012

By on June 12, 2012 in Domains, icann, newtlds

Tomorrow afternoon we’ll finally find out who has applied for what in the new TLD space. I’ll be watching the event’s live stream from my office Here’s the press release we’ve put out on the subject: June 12, 2012- Carlow, Ireland – New top level domains (TLDs) are coming, and on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 [...]

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registrar summit 2012

Talking About Domains and Internet Policy In Arizona

By on June 9, 2012 in Events, policy

The internet is a constantly changing landscape and those of us who are lucky enough to work in the industry face new and exciting challenges every single day. With that in mind I like to try and keep up to date with what is going on so that we can best serve our clients’ needs [...]

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Opinion: Ireland Needs A Voice On Internet Policy

By on June 3, 2012 in business, policy

Today’s Sunday Business Post has a short opinion piece by me in their “Real Views” section, which is a weekly opinion piece / column from an SME for SMEs. Since a lot of our readers aren’t in Ireland I’m republishing it here. Since I moved back to Ireland from Italy in 2003 to run my [...]

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