As the launching of new generic Top-Level Domains approaches, many registrants, companies, groups, IP councils and webmasters are going to require new gTLDs monitoring services.
Many offers start to show at major service providers.
I list some of these in "Promotion" here.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Monitoring the new gTLDs launching
New gTLD Consultant based in Paris. "New gTLD" stands for "new generic Top-Level Domains" from the ICANN new gTLD program. They are new domain name extensions such as ".consulting" (instead of ".com").
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Trademark Clearinghouse: how does it work?
Rights protection update of the ICANN new gTLD Program:
- Rights protection mechanisms explained;
- New requirements;
- Trademark Clearinghouse:
- What is it?
- Sunrise Period;
- Trademark claims service;
- Trademark claims process;
- Implementation;
- Selection of the service provider and process development;
- Implementation Assistance Group (IAG);
- Criteria for inclusion in the Trademark Clearinghouse;
- Authentication and validation;
- Trademark claims notice;
- Matching rules: “Identical Match”;
- Dispute resolution and principles;
- Costs;
- URS implementation;
- Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Procedure (PDDRP);
- Trademark PDDRP.
New gTLD Consultant based in Paris. "New gTLD" stands for "new generic Top-Level Domains" from the ICANN new gTLD program. They are new domain name extensions such as ".consulting" (instead of ".com").
Comments from Google on new gTLDs
"Will a new TLD web address automatically be favoured by Google over a .com equivalent? Quite simply, yes it will." This question was answered by a back-end registry promoting and selling new generic Top-Level Domains.
Matt Cutts, head of the webspam team at Google seems to have a different answer to this question and came back responding a "Sorry, but that's just not true".
My question:
"If I should launch a web site in 2013 (or later when the .wine registry is launched) which content is about wine: would google favor the one with a .wine extension or the one with a .com extension?"
If I can understand the answer of Matt Cutts, I don't think the initial question was asked the correct way so I asked him in more simple words:
My question:
"If I should launch a web site in 2013 (or later when the .wine registry is launched) which content is about wine: would google favor the one with a .wine extension or the one with a .com extension?"
New gTLD Consultant based in Paris. "New gTLD" stands for "new generic Top-Level Domains" from the ICANN new gTLD program. They are new domain name extensions such as ".consulting" (instead of ".com").
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Brands are applying for generic keywords
According to Ken Hansen, Senior Director at Neustar (a back-end registry provider), "some brands are applying for generic keywords that are related to the business that they are in".
New gTLD Consultant based in Paris. "New gTLD" stands for "new generic Top-Level Domains" from the ICANN new gTLD program. They are new domain name extensions such as ".consulting" (instead of ".com").
There will be no .ADELAIDE domain names
According to South Australian Information Economy Minister Tom Kenyon, it cost too much to apply for the Australian city Top-Level Domain.
According to figures, let's say, "if a city Top-Level Domain sells", it can be FREE.
New gTLD Consultant based in Paris. "New gTLD" stands for "new generic Top-Level Domains" from the ICANN new gTLD program. They are new domain name extensions such as ".consulting" (instead of ".com").
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
.NRW Top-Level Domain
According to a publication by Managing Internet IP, the German state of North Rhine Westphalia will apply for its domain name extension.
Sponsored article from Minds + Machines on CircleId
Read the article here. More on Reuters here.
Sponsored article from Minds + Machines on CircleId
Read the article here. More on Reuters here.
New gTLD Consultant based in Paris. "New gTLD" stands for "new generic Top-Level Domains" from the ICANN new gTLD program. They are new domain name extensions such as ".consulting" (instead of ".com").
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