.VIN & .WINE new gTLDs are here, Thanks to Politicians

It is no news that the .WINE and .VIN new gTLDs are to be announced soon by Donuts and if the month of November is the very month everybody has been waiting for, at the beginning of the Sunrise Periods, many questions arise regarding the protection of wine geographical indications.

Axelle Lemaire
There is a lot to say regarding the length of time it took to launch .wine and .vin new gTLDs and, most of all, how difficult it has been to protect its wine Geographical Indications (also called "wine GIs"). The "French way" has been very efficient in facing such a threat to our culture. That is to be demonstrated when these two new gTLD launch. France has had French experts working on how to protect wine GIs but we've also had politicians handling the problem and help find solutions.

Read the end of this article here on CircleId and prepare your .WINE and .VIN Sunrise Periods with Nameshield.

2 new Sunrise Periods have begun (.KYOTO and .信息)

Sunrise Periods
When:

1. .KYOTO:
   SUNRISE PERIOD START: Thursday, 1 October, 2015 - 16:00;
   SUNRISE PERIOD END: Monday, 30 November, 2015 - 16:00.
2. .信息 (information):
   SUNRISE PERIOD START: Thursday, 1 October, 2015 - 16:00;
   SUNRISE PERIOD END: Saturday, 31 October, 2015 - 16:00.

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Source:
https://secure.nameshield.net/recherche-dispo/calendar.php?lang=en.

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Domain names ending in ".sfr" (phone operator)

What to do with .SFR domain names?

SFR is a French mobile phone operator and was recently bought by another operator (Numericable). The .SFR new gTLD application is still in PDT status and it is not yet known if it will be withdrawn.

This article, writen in French, gives an example of a useful use a phone operator could have of its own new domain names.

Read the article on NDD.buzz.

New .NEWS domain names start to be adopted

The .NEWS new gTLD
Just for those who still do not understand what "gTLD" means, it stands for "generic Top-Level Domain". And for those who do not know what a generic Top-Level Domain is, it is a domain name extension: what comes in the end of a domain name. In www.fresh.news, the domain name extension is ".news".

Domain names ending in ".news" can be a good match for journalists but not only. If professionals from the paper and online press publish news, they are not alone: a news can be written by anyone, any business with a relation to posting up-to-date information online. Bloggers are concerned here.

Domain names which meet adoption
There are exercises I often do to see if a specific domain name extension meets adoption or not:

1. I check (weekly) new gTLD registration volumes so I can see which extension has increasing domain name registrations and which extension hasn't. My latest report was published (in French) here. You will note in blue the extensions which registration volumes increase in a significant way and .NEWS is one of them in my latest report.
2. I use the Google's "advanced search" to check how many websites really use this domain name extension. To find how many websites use a ".news" domain name you must first do a search on Google (whatever you like), then you should click on top-right on the little wheel and select "Advanced search". Remove what you searched for in the field entitled "all these words" and add "news" in the field entitled "site or domain". See below how to proceed:

Last time I proceed for .NEWS I found "about 716,000 results (0.24 seconds)".

.NEWS beats competitors

The .NEWS new gTLD has competitors and the biggest one is not .PRESS, it is .BLOG but .NEWS has many advantages:

1. it is multilingual;
2. it is cheap: $10 at the moment at some Registrars;
3. we do not know how much a ".blog" will cost since it has not launched yet;
4. ".press" is more for the press specifically rather than news in general.
5. registration volumes don't lie:
1. there are 24,936 ".news" domain names registered;
2. there are 7,239 ".press" doamins registered.

A problem I foresee with the .NEWS Registry

Anyone interested in following new about new gTLDs reads www.newsgtlds.com and you probably noticed that this website still uses an old ".com" domain name. Isn't it a pity to read news about new gTLDs on a website which uses an old domain name? The reason of this is that this website was launched long prior the launching of the ICANN new gTLD program but isn't it time for a change?

The problem I face here is that gtld.news is a Premium domain name and guess how much I would have to pay to change my old ".com" to "gtld.news"?

;-)

Sources:

• .NEWS by Rightside: http://rightside.co/about/top-level-domains/news/
• Google's advanced search for ".news" websites: https://goo.gl/VZqikt

The Sun Rises on .EARTH today

The .EARTH Sunrise Period
The Sunrise Period for the .EARTH new gTLS starts today.
When:

• SUNRISE PERIOD START:
  Wednesday, 23 September, 2015 - 16:00;
• SUNRISE PERIOD END:
  Tuesday, 17 November, 2015 - 16:00.

Source (TMCH):
http://www.trademark-clearinghouse.com/content/earth. Website of the Registry: nic.earth

The Earth.club domain name is availabe to register here.

The .SRL and .健康 (healthy) Sunrise Periods

Two Sunrise Periods

Sunrise Periods concerned:

1. The .SRL new gTLD:
1. SUNRISE PERIOD START: Tuesday, 22 September, 2015 - 15:00;
2. SUNRISE PERIOD END: Thursday, 22 October, 2015 - 15:00.
2. The .健康 (healthy) new gTLD:
1. SUNRISE PERIOD START: Tuesday, 22 September, 2015 - 16:00;
2. SUNRISE PERIOD END: Thursday, 22 October, 2015 - 16:00.

Source: http://www.trademark-clearinghouse.com/ .

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