Sunrise Period for .BET new gTLD starts today

www.bet.club

The .BET Sunrise Period is announced by the Trademark Clearinghouse to start today. There were four new gTLD applicants and Afiflias plc, based in Ireland, made it to the end.

WHEN

• SUNRISE PERIOD START: Tuesday, 5 January, 2016;
• SUNRISE PERIOD END: Thursday, 4 February, 2016.

WHAT
Extract from the application: "The .BET TLD mission is to become the professional badge that .BET registrants (betting industry vendors) and their betting customers can use to learn about responsible betting, play and conduct business".
WHERE
Registrants interested in participating in the .BET Sunrise Period should contact Nameshield.

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The new gTLD info of the day (Tuesday)

• The .TORONTO new gTLD
• The .BAIDU new gTLD is live
• New gTLD Associations
• Call for Volunteers
• Prediction from new gTLD auction specialist
• Call for Volunteers (endiing soon)
• Starting January 11th: Premium ".club" auction
• RightSide to auction "xyz" domains
• FFM past 1.75 million domains
• Premium TLDs, Real Value for Money

The .TORONTO new gTLD

The idea to create Toronto’s very own domain was inspired by a trip to New York City, where Ainslie took notes on that city’s use of “.nyc,” which has been available to New Yorkers since 2014.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/01/04/city-councillor-wants-torontos-very-own-domain-name.html

Baidu, China’s Google, gets its dot-brand gTLD
Chinese web giant Baidu had its dot-brand gTLD, .baidu, go live in the DNS root zone today.
http://domainincite.com/19751-baidu-chinas-google-gets-its-dot-brand-gtld

New gTLDs: Associations Offer Innovative Benefits To Consumers

1. .REALTOR and the National Association of Realtors
2. .AARP and AARP, Inc. (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons)
3. .BANK and the Financial Services Roundtable
4. How Associations Can Use gTLDs – Now and in The Future

http://blog.fairwindspartners.com/gtld-usage/associations-offer-innovative-benefits-to-consumers-members-through-new-gtld-program

ICANN: Call for Volunteers
New GNSO Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group to Establish a Policy Framework for a Next-Generation gTLD Registration Directory Service to Replace WHOIS (Next-Gen RDS)
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-01-04-en

Prediction from new gTLD auction specialist

Auction expert predicts next auction to be the largest ever with ".com" and ".club" domain names.

http://www.domaininvesting.com/monte-cahn-predicts-namescon-auction-will-be-largest/

Ending soon: 22 of January
The gTLD Marketplace Health Index Proposal: Call for Comments and Volunteers.

https://www.icann.org/public-comments/gtld-marketplace-health-2015-11-17-en

Reminder for Premium ".club" auction

Live auction starts on January 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time (5:00 PM Eastern Time). Domains concerned are:

• athletic.club
• bottle.club
• breakfast.club
• pot.club
• space.club
• trip.club
• fitness.club
• running.club
• night.club

http://nic.club/auction/

Rightside to auction “xyz” domains at NamesCon
.xyz made a bit of a splash with domain investors in 2015, but is the meaningless string “xyz” inherently attractive? Even at the second level?
http://domainincite.com/19749-rightside-to-auction-xyz-domains-at-namescon

Increased momentum blasts
Famous Four Media past 1.75 million domain names in record time
Tuesday, 5th January 2016, Gibraltar: Famous Four Media, one of the largest new registry management groups providing generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), today announced that is has passed one and three quarter million domain name registrations. This comes only 10 weeks after it announced that it has 1 million names under management in its registries.
http://www.realwire.com/releases/Increased-momentum-blasts-Famous-Four-Media-past-175-million-domain-names

Premium TLDs, Real Value for Money
There is an intrinsic value proposition to new gTLDs. They mean to give users fresh naming possibilities and provide more meaningful Internet addresses. And to do so at much reduced prices.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20160105_premium_tlds_real_value_for_money/

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New gTLDs related to Photography

We strongly believe that the .PHOTO new gTLD will be a commercial success in the long term. This post reports on photography TLDs registration volumes.

1. The .PHOTOGRAPHY new gTLD = 51 576
2. .PICS = 31 188
3. .PHOTO = 24 355
4. .PHOTOS: 19 213
5. .VIDEO: 11 976 (just added)
6. .PICTURES = 6 389

In blue: noticeable domain name registrations increase, in red, they decrease from one week to the other.

Source: https://ntldstats.com/tld/photo

The Nameshield Group: Registry, Corporate and Retail Registrar

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