Surprisingly, only 4 USA cities may become available as their own top-level domains. Dot Boston has been applied for by The Boston Globe Newspaper Company Inc. City of New York wants .NYC. Top Level Domain Holdings applied for .MIAMI, assuming on behalf of the city of Miami, and .VEGAS has been applied for by Dot [...] Continue reading →

Vistaprint submitted four applications in ICANN’s new gTLD process as revealed today: VISTA Vistaprint Limited VISTAPRINT Vistaprint Limited WEBS Vistaprint Limited WEBS Vistaprint Limited The interesting part about their applications is that they applied for .WEBS as a “normal” new gTLD [...] Continue reading →

Corporation Service Company (CSC) has emerged as one of the largest new gTLD service providers in the corporate realm, submitting applications on behalf of many of the biggest brands and companies in the world. The company’s clients include, Better Business Bureau (BBB), General Motors, Fiat, UPS, Fedex, Dish/Directv, Travelers Insurance and MetLife, just to name [...] Continue reading →

Here are the 30 new gTLDs Afilias Limited of Ireland submitted applications for, including two IDNs. Five of the applications appear to be submitted under separate companies numbered “Afilias Domains No. [1-5] Limited”: BLOG MAIL WEB DESI POKER And the [...] Continue reading →

Frank Schilling has put up over $60 million of his own money to try and secure 54 new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). We now know exactly which strings, as the list of all 1900+ applicants has been made public by ICANN at it’s London press event. Some of them will be highly contested, as many [...] Continue reading →

It has been revealed that MarkMonitor is working closely with many multi-billion dollar companies, in an effort to secure their own top-level domains on the internet. These companies include American Automobile Association (AAA), JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Post (DHL), HBO, Hilton, State Farm, and Hasbro International who is looking to secure .TRANSFORMERS — possibly one of [...] Continue reading →

Less than 10% of the total applicants released at the ICANN’s Big Reveal day today are non-Latin IDN domain names.  116 of the new gTLD domain name applicants, seen below, appear to be IDNs.  12 of these applicants are from Verisign for  transliterations of the existing .net and .com domains During the press conference today [...] Continue reading →