The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) finally revealed who has applied for which generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) in what is expected to become the largest expansion in the history of the internet domain names system. Below we have some of the key stats and data, courtesy of Pool.com, in an infographic format [...] Continue reading →

Burson-Marsteller, a leading public relations and communications firm, announced today that it has formed a consulting group dedicated to advising clients on the introduction of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). B-M currently operates 67 wholly owned offices and 71 affiliate offices in 98 countries across 6 continents. The company boasts that ICANN worked with the [...] Continue reading →

Ottawa based Pool.com has just announced the launch of a specialized search and filter tool of the new gTLDs database which was unveiled earlier today. The search tool helps to make sense of newly released ICANN data for applicants, media and the general worldwide audience. Richard Schreier, CEO of Pool.com said: “This is an extremely powerful [...] Continue reading →

Many of Europe’s biggest cities will soon have their very own space on the web, right to the dot, to be exact. This means that very soon you will be able to have your website hosted at johnsrestaurant.PARIS for example, or BikeStore.MOSCOW. There was a total of 66 new gTLD applications classified as geographic, according [...] Continue reading →

London based Valideus, a gTLD consulting & registry management company, and it’s sister company Com Laude (boutique domain registrar) announced today that they assisted 19 clients, all of them brand owners — to apply for 121 new top-level domains. This is just over 6% of the total of 1,930 completed applications received by ICANN. It [...] Continue reading →

When the idea of new gTLDs were introduced, it seemed logical that big brand owners would be the first to adopt.  The cost to own one’s own “dotBrand” is somewhat restrictive because of the application price of $185,000 in addition to the costs to run the new TLD.  Among the Fortune 100 though, one would [...] Continue reading →

We have put together the list of top 10 most wanted generic top-level domains (new gTLD’s) below which have been applied for by internet giants such as Google and Amazon, as well as by some of the hottest domain startup’s Donuts Inc and Uniregistry Corp. It will be very interesting to see how all of [...] Continue reading →