Tomorrow morning I’m heading off to Amsterdam. I wish it was just to enjoy the city, to soak a bit of culture and to hangout with friends, but it’s for work. ICANN is convening a regional meeting in the Dutch capital for registrars (companies like us), registries (think Neusta, Afilias or Verisign) and prospective domain [...]
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ICANN Prague Post-Mortem
The 44th ICANN public meeting drew to a close on Thursday evening after the “public forum”. It was a long and pretty eventful week so trying to sum it all up quickly isn’t easy and I’ll probably miss some key events. First off ICANN has a new CEO. Fadi Chehadé was announced as the new [...]
ICANN Prague Preview
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 [...]
Which Brandnames Have Been Applied For as TLDs?
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 [...]
Play With New TLDs
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 [...]
Graphic – New TLD Applications By European Country
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 [...]
Graphic – Contested New TLD Applications
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 [...]
Graphic – Uncontested New TLD Applications
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 [...]
New Top Level Domain Application Window Closes .. So Now What?
Last night at around 1 in the morning (Irish time) ICANN closed the “application window” for new TLDs (top level domains). They were meant to have closed it back in April, but due to technical and security issues the entire process was delayed for over a month.. So now what? First off you won’t be [...]
IDN Domains Names Are Go!
Over the past few weeks our technical team have been working on integrating IDN domain names. IDN domains are “internationalised” so with an IDN domain name you can put in the accents like the “fada” in Irish, or the Spanish N (Ñ) directly into the domain name.So, for example, I’ve registered Mícheál.eu, while other members [...]
Speaking On New TLDs In Serbia
I’ll be speaking on a panel about new TLDs at the 4th International Conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe next week in Serbia. The conference will bring together domain industry experts from all over Europe for two days with a fairly packed agenda. Topics that are on the agenda [...]
New TLDs Explained In Plain English
ICANN has released a video which explains in simple terms what new TLDs are all about and what is going to happen: Related articles ICANN Board Votes in Favour of New TLDs (internetnews.me) Blacknight Welcomes the Approval of New gTLDs (blacknight.com) George Sadowsky’s Explanation of His No Vote (internetnews.me)
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