Date announced for 3 new Sunrise Periods

The Spanish.club

New gTLDs concerned are:

1. .BARCELONA new gTLD: starts on Tuesday, 12 January, 2016;
2. .ISTANBUL new gTLD: starts on Wednesday, 27 January, 2016;
3. .IST new gTLD: starts on Wednesday, 27 January, 2016 - 16:00.

More information here.

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Sunrise Periods for .THEATRE and .LASALLE new gTLDs start today

The Drama Club

.THEATRE new gTLD
When:

• SUNRISE PERIOD START: Monday, 14 December, 2015 - 16:00;
• SUNRISE PERIOD END: Tuesday, 19 January, 2016 - 16:00.

What:
Theatre is the creative namespace for businesses, communities, and individuals to market their events and express their passion.

Where to register: https://www.nameshield.com/

.LASALLE new GTLD

When:

• SUNRISE PERIOD START: Monday, 14 December, 2015 - 16:00;
• SUNRISE PERIOD END: Thursday, 14 January, 2016 - 16:00.

What:
Building trust through innovation. We will use .lasalle to communicate in new ways and build on how we deliver our expertise, market-leading research and innovative investment opportunities.

.LASALLE new domain names are restricted to Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. They cannot be registered by third parties.

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The new gTLD info of the day (Friday)

New gTLD Infographic
The announcement of new generic top-level domain names excited many domain investors and webmasters since they offered a chance to register exact match business and sector focused domain extensions, such as .market,.dentist,.actor and many others, when they first released. However a few was able to register valuable domain names that worth thousands of dollars. The infographic that we designed and shared below shares the lists of the biggest selling new gTLD extensions and top 10 gTLD domain name sales of 2015.
https://domainpromo.com/1757/top-gtld-sales-2015

Refusal to accept .scot email suffix
A HIGHLAND MSP has attacked energy giant E.ON after it refused to allow an account holder to log on with a .scot email suffix.
http://www.thenational.scot/news/msp-attacks-eon-over-refusal-to-accept-scot-email-suffix-because-it-would-cost-too-much.11051?

Are the new gTLDs performing better for SEO?

Since the new generic top level domains (gTLDs) started being released last year, there has been an inevitable question in many brand managers and marketeers heads: will they have an impact upon Search?
https://www.dotnice.com/new-gtlds-performing-better-in-search-than-the-traditional-ones/

SEO and new TLDs
As we all know each domain name is different. stahura.club is different than stahura.photography. Each domain name being “globally unique" is the main benefit of the domain name system.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/seo-new-tlds-paul-stahura

Public Comment Period opens
On 2 December 2015, XYZ.COM LLC submitted a Registry Services Evaluation Policy (RSEP) request to offer a new registry service for .XYZ, .COLLEGE, .RENT, .THEATRE, .PROTECTION, and .SECURITY TLDs. The registry service is a proxy service that will provide secondary gateway access toSRS/EPP, RDDS (via Whois – port 43 –, web-based Directory Service, RDAP, or any combination of the three), or both for the purposes of operating these TLDs in local domain name markets.
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2015-12-10-en

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The new gTLD info of the day (Thursday)

Will new domain name endings affect my website’s SEO?
No. The Webmaster Central blog recently addressed this question and more to make it clear that new domain name endings are not treated any differently than traditional domain name endings like .com or .org. Domain names with new endings are shown in search just like any other domain name. For example, if you search for the business Coffee Club, you will find their URL coffee.club.
http://googleandyourbusiness.blogspot.fr/2015/12/answers-to-common-questions-about-new_10.html

Changing Domain Name Ecosystem
The change began with the introduction of new gTLDs a couple years ago (but it’s not the only driver for the change). Legacy TLDs were, if not worried, at least aware of the dramatically increasing number of TLDs in use. And now I’m sure most of the readers are thinking I’m referring to increased competition by the new gTLDs – but that is not the case, the beef is somewhere else.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/changing-domain-name-ecosystem-juhani-juselius

Trends on the Secondary Market for Domains in the New gTLD Age
Following on from its first white paper on the Secondary Market for Domain Names published in 2010, Afnic has focusing in the latest edition on current issues and trends
https://www.afnic.fr/en/about-afnic/news/general-news/9517/show/trends-on-the-secondary-market-for-domain-names-in-the-new-gtld-age.html

Donuts: We are not Going To Deleted New gTLD Extensions
Donuts has responded strongly to debunk the report saying as the largest new gTLD operator they will not be closing down any new gTLD strings.
http://www.thedomains.com/2015/12/10/donuts-we-are-not-going-to-deleted-new-gtld-extensions/

Why Did Michael Berkens Keep Adult Domains & New gTLDs?
He also revealed that he kept the adult domain names and New gTLDs and plans to launch 2 websites selling these: Adult.Domains and The.Domains.
http://onlinedomain.com/2015/12/07/news/why-did-michael-berkens-keep-adult-domains-new-gtlds/

Request for Proposal: Study About the Domain Name System (DNS) Industry and Business in Africa
The goal of this study is to identify and define the strengths and weaknesses in the industry ecosystem within the region and develop recommendations on how to advance the industry and bring it closer to the opportunities available.
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-11-30-en

Google Domains pitches new TLDs with Q&A post
Google uses Coffee.club as an example of how new domain names show up in search. It suggests typeing in “coffee club” at Google to see how a new TLD shows up in results, just like a .com domain name does.
http://domainnamewire.com/2015/12/10/google-domains-pitches-new-tlds-with-qa-post/

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The French new gTLD info of the day

Quelles sont les tendances du Second Marché des noms de domaine à l’heure des nouveaux TLDs ?
Dans le prolongement de son premier dossier thématique sur le Second Marché publié en 2010, l'Afnic s'intéresse dans cette édition aux enjeux et tendances actuelles.
https://www.afnic.fr/fr/l-afnic-en-bref/actualites/actualites-generales/9511/show/quelles-sont-les-tendances-du-second-marche-des-noms-de-domaine-a-l-heure-des-nouveaux-tlds.html

Zero Tracas
ll s'agit du nouveau site Internet de MMA.
http://www.zerotracas.mma/

Noms de domaine: leviers de croissance pour Internet
En marge de cette conférence, le cabinet américain Amglobal a présenté son offre de noms de domaine pour le monde associatif «.ngo et .ong». Conçu pour être le premier répertoire mondial d’ONG en ligne, ce nom est centralisé sur la plateforme On Good pour renforcer leur présence en ligne, améliorer leur visibilité et par ricochet récolter plus de dons. «A ce jour, nous avons identifié plus de 10 millions d’associations au niveau mondial et environ 90.000 associations marocaines éligibles à ce nom de domaine», précise Andrew A Mark, PDG de Amglobal.
http://www.leconomiste.com/article/981261-noms-de-domaineleviers-de-croissance-pour-internet

Les géoTLDs, une « passion française » ?

Alors que les débats autour du .vin et du .wine ont animé la réflexion sur les nouvelles extensions depuis plus d’un an, le succès des extensions géographiques françaises peut être lu comme une expression par les Français de leur attachement à l’origine géographique des produits et services. Elles signalent le lien avec un lieu, un territoire, un terroir et utilisent cette origine comme un attribut positif et rassurant.
https://www.afnic.fr/fr/l-afnic-en-bref/actualites/actualites-generales/9505/show/les-geotlds-francais-dynamisent-le-marche-des-noms-de-domaine-1.html

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The new gTLD info of the day (Wednesday)

Wonder.land
wonder.land is at the same time a musical and a website build with a new Top Level Domain. The musical is described as ” inspired by Lewis Carroll’s iconic story, wonder.land is a coming-of-age adventure that explores the blurred boundaries between our online and offline lives.” It has been created by Damon Albarn, Moira Buffini and Rufus Norris, and is playing since summer 2015.
http://dotstories.com/wonder-dot-land/

The New gTLD Domain Name Disputes
Much of the attention on domain name disputes among the new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) has focused on the new dispute policy that arrived with them — the Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS). But, an increasing number of new gTLD registrations are being decided under the pre-existing (and well-entrenched) Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).
http://www.gigalaw.com/2015/12/09/here-come-the-new-gtld-domain-name-disputes/

CentralNic Buys Registrar Instra.com
CentralNic (LON:CNIC) is buying privately-owned domain name registrar, Instra Group, funded in part from a £10mln placing of stock with investors at 40p a share, for almost £16mln (A$33mln).
http://www.thedomains.com/2015/12/08/centralnic-buys-registrar-instra-com-stock-is-down-almost-20/

Decent .club domain names dropping soon
Again, here are some of the gems on the .CLUB SnapNames monthly auction. My team filtered out some decent names set to drop shortly. Any of these can be bid on by SnapNames. If they do not sell on SnapNames the names will be placed in the June 15th, 2016 tiered pricing premium name list set to be made available through the registrars.
https://www.namepros.com/threads/official-club-showcase-and-discussion-thread.825755/page-16#post-5172556

.MUSIC new gTLD: Imogen Heap Speaks For Herself
Pass the ad and listen to Imogen mention the coming .MUSIC new gTLD. It starts at 12:25 (Yes, I listened to the first 12 minutes)
"Imogen Heap chats with Jordan Crook about her MiMu gesture-control gloves, the single biggest problem facing musicians today, and what she’d like the future of the industry to look like."
http://techcrunch.com/video/imogen-heap-speaks-for-herself/519315651/
gTLDs: Baby, you can drive my .car
December 2015 will see the launch of three generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), all focused on the automobile industry. However, the launch of .CAR, .CARS and .AUTO are unlikely to drive up domain name registration volumes due to the very high registration fees being charged by Cars Registry Limited, the joint venture that is the Registry operator for all three gTLDs.
http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=7da9abbe-3c4f-4b08-8bf2-c7ad67dc2b19

Four Sunrise Periods launching today:

1. .CARS new gTLD
2. .AUTO
3. .CAR
4. .コム (com)

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

Verisign appeals XYZ court loss
Just days after .XYZ asked a court to force Verisign to pay its legal bills in a lawsuit; Verisign upped the ante by appealing the case.
http://domainnamewire.com/2015/12/09/verisign-appeals-xyz-court-loss/

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