Innovation in the new gTLD space? (in French)

Si le registre reste le point de départ de tout nom de domaine, ne peut-il pas en plus devenir un point focal de l’industrie qu’il convoite ? Un carrefour de la communauté qu’il représente ? 

Dans ce contexte, ne peut-il pas proposer au titulaire une valeur ajoutée supplémentaire au nom de domaine et proposer l’enregistrement de son site Internet dans un annuaire des utilisateurs de son extension?

Rappelons que le registre est aussi propriétaire de la base de données des titulaires et que cela ne représente pas un problème de s’adresser à eux.

Un annuaire des utilisateurs d’une même extension est un projet facile à réaliser, mais d'autres idées peuvent également être mises en oeuvre. Le registre propriétaire du ".email" ne pourrait-il pas par exemple proposer une solution d’email cryptés et celui du ".directory" une solution d’annuaire?

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New gTLD applicant sues ICANN

The ICANN recently rejected a request to postpone the .WEB new gTLD auction. This time, one of the multiple applicants concerned by the auction sues the ICANN for lack of investigation on auction rival.

News:

1. Six new gTLDs were just delegated:
1. The .DUNS new gTLD
2. .MSD (added to the HEALTH new gTLD report)
3. .BOOKING
4. .AMFAM
5. .ESURANCE
6. .CITADEL (added to the FINANCE new gTLD report)
2. Registration volumes:
1. New gTLDs related to CITIES;
2. New gTLDs related to CATERING;
3. New gTLDs related to PHOTOGRAPHY (the .SONY new gTLD has entered the report).
3. Interesting - What was done with the highest selling new gTLD domains; 
4. French - .BIBLE : Deus ex machina?
5. Paid add (see Twitter link) to promote .VACATIONS domain names;
6. Getting Paid $10 To List Your Names?
7. Colin Campbell and Jeff Sass: speakers at The Domain Conference;
8. HOT - Donuts files $10 million lawsuit to stop .WEB new gTLD auction;
9. Review - IANA Transition and ICANN Corruption (capture and control).

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More and more new gTLDs are delegated

You probably noticed that many new gTLDs are (and keep) being delegated during the holidays. According to each new delegation,we add gTLDs to the right report. The .SWIFTCOVER new gTLD was added to the CARS report and the awaited .DOCTOR was added to the HEALTH report. The .LUNBECK (a Trademark) just has its first domain name registration listed.
The Generic new gTLD report (see link below) was updated to day and we are happy to see that the .INTERNATIONAL new gTLD receives more registrations than previous weeks before.

News:

1. Registration volumes:
1. HOT - Generic new gTLDs with a potential to replace ".com" domains;
2. New gTLDs related to HEALTH;
3. New gTLDs related to CARS;
2. dotBrand - Barclays new domain name strategy and operations decrypted;
3. COOL - data on domain growth: geographic top level domains are more popular than IDNs, at least in terms of registration volume;
4. The .WEB auction goes ahead after ICANN denies new gTLD applicant's appeal;
5. Article - 8 companies saying yes to new gTLDs;
6. dotBrand - New gTLD benchmarks: how do your brands compare?
7. Nine new gTLDs were delegated:
1. the .DUCK new gTLD (nothing to do with the animal);
2. .RAID (nothing to do with the French Police élite forces);
3. .SWIFTCOVER (added to report)
4. .SCJOHNSON
5. .IEEE
6. .OFF
7. .DOCTOR (added to report)
8. .RIGHTATHOME
9. .TIAA
8. ICANN Publishes gTLD Statistics and Trends Report, Asks for Community Feedback;
9. If you missed a new gTLD newsletter,they are archived at www.newsletter.domains.

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What should the role of a new gTLD Registry be?

We are preparing an article on the kind a role a new gTLD applicant should have for the community it has decided to represent. DotBrand new gTLDs are not concerned but generics are. It will be published in French first and adapted to English. There is a lot of innovation that we rarely find with new Registries. We will present what we believe is the real role of a Registry.

News:

1. HOT - The owner of multiple new gTLD applications was acquired by another company;
2. Branding - What factors did you consider before choosing data.world for your brand?
3. Registration volumes:
1. New gTLDs related to ALCOHOL;
2. New gTLDs related to REAL ESTATE;
3. COOL - New gTLDs related to SPORT.
4. Facilitating a Trusted Web Space for Financial Service Professionals;
5. Revised Report on DNS Abuse and New gTLD Program Safeguards Now Available;
6. 52 new TLD sales over $5,000;
7. Donuts and Radix still miffed over .Web applicant;
8. New gTLD Breakdown according to Verisign (Registry of ".com" domain names);
9. Release of Country and Territory Names within the .SOFTBANK, .ART and .CARAVAN TLDs;
10. gTLD Marketplace Health Index (Beta): Call for Comments;
11. Three new gTLDs were just delegated:
1. the .LPL
2. the .LPLFINANCIAL
3. the .BESTBUY
12. Getting a handle on spam emanating from generic top-level domains.

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Is The Future of Norman in .YOUTUBE ?

Most French know who Norman and Cyprien are. They are two funny persons doing funny videos on YouTube. They are a lot to do this on Internet actually, so in fact, this post is for anybody who has a big audience (page views) on YouTube.

If I personally like both of them, I need to select one of them for my example below so I'll use...Norman.

The ".YOUTUBE" extension

The .YOUTUBE new gTLD, from Google, was delegated in August 2014. At the moment, it is still not really in use and Google gives no info about its plans for its new domain name extensions. I found a "gaming.youtube" indexed in Google but it does not point to anything.

Question 18(a)

The question 18(a) of the ICANN new gTLD application is informative and sometimes gives an idea of the Registry's future plan to develop its domain name extension. Here is what the application says:

The proposed gTLD will introduce a dedicated Internet space in which select YouTube channel providers can link to the content hosted on their respective YouTube page.

Question 18(b)

Point 18.b.i.1 says:

Charleston Road Registry (Google) intends to apply for an exemption to ICANN’s Registry Operator Code of Conduct and operate the proposed gTLD with Google as the sole registrar and registrant.

This means that Google will own all domain names.

But point 18.b.ii.2 also says:

The .youtube gTLD will provide select registrants with the opportunity to differentiate their YouTube video offerings from other media distribution services by virtue of its branded gTLD.

It remains unclear how Google will select third parties to be allowed to use ".youtube" domains but ...

...Point 18.b.ii.3 says:

The concentration of Internet users seeking digital video content in the .youtube gTLD space, moreover, will likely invite user comparison among second-level domain sites, encouraging second-level domain registrant content innovation as a point of differentiation.

This is to me a clear sign that the future of ".youtube" domain names is to become available to anybody having a YouTube page.

Point 18.b.iv confirms that:

Given the proposed limited scope and use of the gTLD, Charleston Road Registry believes that there is a reasonable case for such an exemption. Should ICANN not condone this proposed exemption, Charleston Road Registry will make access to Registry Services, including the shared registration system, available to all ICANN-accredited registrars.

Google keeps repeating that it will be sole Registrant (sole owner of ".youtube" domain names) but then, why add things like: "Charleston Road Registry will attempt to prevent the misuse of WHOIS data for improper purposes such as spam, intellectual property theft or phishing." or "Google will follow ICANN rules for attributions of trademarked second-level domains and will offer other protections for trademark owners, including but not limited to an extended Trademark Claims Service of indefinite length"?

What does it mean for Norman and Cyprien?

If it is totally impossible to say when this happens, it is possible to give an idea of what it means for end users with audience.

Norman posts his videos on an ultra long and ugly URL. People visit https://www.youtube.com/user/NormanFaitDesVideos to watch his shows so...would Norman become a "selected content distributor", and would he own a Trademark (or not), he might be able to use a http://norman.youtube domain name. Nicer isn't it?

A lot of new gTLDs were "just" delegated

Many new gTLDs were delegated recently, which means that more are going to launch. Most of them are Trademarks. Some of these .BRANDs were added to the new gTLD reports.

1. "ICANN Secretly Colludes With New gTLD Registry Operators";
2. SEO expert says “.com”. Other expert says “It depends”;
3. Registration volumes:
1. HOT - New gTLDs related to CITIES;
2. New gTLDs related to CATERING;
3. New gTLDs related to PHOTOGRAPHY.
   (was added to the ".panasonic" new gTLD to the report)
4. Just noticed: there is an http://gaming.youtube listed in Google;
5. A conversation with Matt Mullenweg about .BLOG domain names;
6. A History of .SCOT: An Interview with Chris Jones;
7. Which celebrity has registered its ".club" domain name? There is a directory for Celebrities.
8. Starting soon: the .QUEST Sunrise Period;
9. Patent: system and method for modifying a domain name system template;
10. New gTLDs which were just delegated (and which shall launch soon):
1. .BBT
2. .PANASONIC
3. .BEAUTY
4. .LUNDBECK
   (was added to the HEALTH new gTLD report)
5. .TJX
6. .SMART
7. .FUJIXEROX
8. .HOMESENSE
9. .STAPLES
10. .MARSHALLS
11. .LANCOME
12. .TKMAXX
13. .HOMEGOODS
14. .PFIZER
15. .VIVO
16. .WINNERS
17. .ONYOURSIDE
18. .TJMAXX
19. .NATIONWIDE
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Today is ".RIP" Nice

For the second time recently, France is facing another terrorist attack. Today is a sad day and all my thoughts go to these families in Nice whose kids were murdered. I strongly believe that one of the reasons why France is hit so hard is because our Government is so slow at taking the right decisions: our forces are not even allowed to react when they are thrown rocks at during demonstrations. French are seriously pissed by this situation.

News:

1. Auction - ICANN: please postpone the .WEB auction;
2. Is Verisign .web applicant’s secret sugar daddy?
3. Registration volumes:
1. HOT - GENERIC new gTLDs (".com" challengers);
2. New gTLDs related to CARS;
3. New gTLDs related to HEALTH.
4. Rightside reveals premium and .live stats, date for 2-character release;
5. Just delegated:
1. the .INTUIT new gTLD;
2. the .MINT new gTLD;
   (was added to the FINANCE new gTLD report)
3. the .MACYS new gTLD;
4. the .LEFRAK new gTLD;
   (was added to the REAL ESTATE new gTLD report)
5. the .ALLSTATE new gTLD;
6. the .GOODHANDS new gTLD.
6. Article - 5 Things You Should Advise Your Client to Do with That Defensively Registered Domain;
7. The .MOI new gTLD Sunrise Period ends today.

Yesterday was on .FIRE (new gTLD)

It happens that we don't send our Newsletter: the reason of this can be a lack of info that day (so it is added the next day) or it can be a fire next to the place where I reside and it is what happened yesterday. No worry, family and Jovenet Consulting headquarters are fine.

There are a lot of different NEWS today: BREXIT, good reasons to use new domain names with a relation to SEO, The Amazon acquisition of Premium ".club" domains, Sunrise Periods ending, the fantastic weekly update of the awaited new gTLD report on Singular VS Plural new gTLDs. We even talk about old".com" domains ;-)

News:

1. Article - Google and "dotless" domains;
2. $109,269.75 - Amazon Buys Prime.club, Alexa.club & Fire.club;
3. Article - Why You Should Use Unique Domain Names for Shortcuts and Microsites;
4. Brexit - What about .london?
5. Article - The ".brand" state of play;
6. Three Sunrise Periods are ending soon:
1. the .STCGROUP new gTLD
2. the .STC
3. the .VIVA
7. Registration volumes:
1. New gTLDs related to RELIGION;
2. HOT - Plural vs Singular new gTLDs;
3. New gTLDs related to FRENCH applications.
8. Article - Companies still love descriptive ".com" domain names;
9. URS - Was complaint an abuse of process in Grey.email?
10. 27 July 2016: Discussion on BREXIT - Challenges for the Domain Industry;
11. Will governments get new rights to own 2 domains in new gTLDs under new ICANN policy?

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The new gTLD info for Monday, July 11th

There is info coming about the awaited .BLOG new gTLD. Interesting too, the recent delegation of the .NIKE new gTLD which will enter the .SPORT new gTLD report updated each Wednesday.

1. How much will it cost to register a ".blog" domain name?
2. Interesting - A new domains early warning system for TLDs;
3. 647 registrations on day 1 for .TUBE new gTLD;
4. Registration volumes:
1. New gTLDs related to CITIES;
2. New gTLDs related to CATERING;
   (was added the ".coffee" new gTLD)
3. New gTLDs related to PHOTOGRAPHY;
5. Two new gTLDs were just delegated:
1. .NIKE
2. .SES
6. Proposed Measures for Letter/Letter Two-Character ASCII Labels to Avoid Confusion with Corresponding Country Codes;
7. More coming by the end of the day.

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Is the ".com" old gTLD losing appeal?

This week, the GENERIC new gTLD report - a report focusing on challengers of the ".com" domain name extension, shows that there are less ".com" registrations than the week before: it also means that the ".com" Registry is losing registrations. Is the increasing volume of new domain name registered the reason of this?

New:

1. 12 Reasons Why Chinese TLDs Are Good For Brands and Businesses;
2. Article - Following ".republicans" and ".democrats" everywhere!
3. $0.99 for ".club" domains until the end of July;
4. Six new gTLDS were just delegated:
1. The ".GODADDY" domain name extension;
2. .XFINITY
3. .COMCAST
4. .GODADDY
5. .MITSUBISHI
6. .FUJITSU
5. HOT - GENERIC new gTLDs registration volumes;
   (for the first time".com" domain name registration volumes are in the red)
6. Registration volumes:
1. New gTLDs related to HEALTH;
2. New gTLDs related to CARS.
   (a new dotBRAND new gTLD has entered the report)
7. Do you even need keywords on the page to rank anymore?
8. The World's Most Abused TLDs;
9. I Owned 17 Single Letter/Number .TUBE Domains Today Until The Registry Took Them Back;
10. More coming.

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