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new TLD draw results

Irish Domain Registrar evaluates which new TLDs will first be available for their customers

By on December 20, 2012 in Domains, icann, newtlds, Press Releases

Earlier this week ICANN held a lottery or draw to help determine the prioritisation of new TLD applications We put out this release on it earlier this afternoon Blacknight Announce Results of New gTLD Applicant Priority Draw Irish Registrar evaluates which new TLDs will first be available for their customers. December 20, 2012- Carlow, Ireland [...]

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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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Is This The Future of gTLDs?

New TLD Application Window Opens Tomorrow What Does It Mean?

By on January 11, 2012 in Domains, icann, newtlds

  Tomorrow, January 12th 2012 ICANN will open the application window for new TLDs. What on earth does that mean? Companies, organisations, groups and even cities will be applying to run their own domain name extension. What is a domain name extension? It’s the bit on the right of the dot (“.”). For example, blacknight.com [...]

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New TLDs From Registrar Perspective

By on September 17, 2011 in Domains, Events, icann, newtlds

Last week I was speaking at the 4th International Conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe in Novi Sad, Serbia. Here are the slides, though they might not make a huge amount of sense, as they’re more notes than anything else New TLDs from a Registrar Perspective View more presentations [...]

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Blacknight Warn Consumers Against New gTLD Pre-Registration

By on June 30, 2011 in Domains, icann, newtlds, Press Releases

June 30, 2011 – Carlow Ireland -Blacknight (http://www.blacknight.com) warn domain registrants to beware of companies offering pre-registrations in New gTLDs. Last week in Singapore, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), announced that it would launch a program to include new generic top-level domains.  For those unfamiliar with the terminology, gTLD is an acronym [...]

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Blacknight Welcomes the Approval of New gTLDs

By on June 20, 2011 in Domains, newtlds, Press Releases

This morning in Singapore, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a program that will change the Internet, as we know it. Blacknight (http://www.blacknight.com) welcome  ICANN’ s decision to launch new generic top-level domains. A top-level domain includes extensions (as in after the dot) such as .com, .net, .org. The New gTLD [...]

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New TLDs – Big Decision Monday .. . Maybe ..

By on June 18, 2011 in Domains, icann, newtlds

This week I’m attending the ICANN meeting in Singapore.The hottest topic of the meeting is whether or not ICANN’s board of directors will make a decision on new TLDs. If new TLDs are given a green light this week then it will signal the beginning of a whole new era in the domain name industry [...]

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