ICANN has just released the official “meeting guide” for the upcoming ICANN Meeting #44 in Prague, Czech Republic. There are over 100 meetings scheduled, and many of the domain industry’s most powerful and successful businessmen and companies will be in attendance. ICANN’s outgoing CEO Rod Beckstrom writes: “Before us are a multitude of important issues [...] Continue reading →

Have you heard of Freedom Registry? Probably not, so pay close attention, because it is likely that you will be hearing a lot about this new company in the weeks and months to come. FDR is marketing and proposing a disruptive new business model to operators/registries of the new generic top level domains (new gTLDs) [...] Continue reading →

MarkMonitor.com has analyzed all 1,930 new gTLD applications that were successfully processed with ICANN. The applications came in from 60 countries for 1,408 unique strings. Of the 1,930 applications received, dotBrands accounted for 664 of them according to MarkMonitor, which makes for about 1/3rd total. MarkMonitor has segmented the data and provides the following insights [...] Continue reading →

The hottest domain start-up around, Donuts Inc, spent over $56 million in application fees alone with ICANN to try and secure 307 new gTLD’s. Donuts (a play on Domain Nuts) has applied for more gTLD’s than Google, Amazon and Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Corp combined. Donuts Inc is backed by a whole lot of capital, which [...] Continue reading →

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) through it’s Luxembourg based subsidiary Amazon EU S.à r.l. is pursuing 76 new domain extensions. Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer has selected Neustar (NYSE: NSR) as the provider of back-end registry services for all of it’s new gTLD’s, it was revealed earlier today during ICANN’s press event in London, UK. Neustar has [...] Continue reading →

On news of the applicants for new gTLDs today, speculators were still alive and well.  It appears that some in the domain space saw value in registering  .com domains that included the word “dot” and the TLD.  It’s unclear if all of these new registrations were speculators as some could be new TLD applicants. At the [...] Continue reading →

Some domainer owners watching the news about the new gTLD applications may have had a pleasant surprise today. Domain owners that own a .com domain that has a corresponding new TLD application may just have learned about increases in traffic and possibly value to their .com holding. Clearly many of the applicants for new TLDs [...] Continue reading →