.WINE domain names in the French press

Found in SUD-OUEST, French wines are highly cybersquatted and France needs to catch up with domain names. .WINE domain names are to become a serious opportunity to consider.

According to a study from Jean-François Poussard and its online brand monitoring tool Keep Alert, .wine domain names (ex: www.internet.wine) can be an opportunity for France to start building its wine culture on Internet.

For more information, check the dotvinum project.

.NOBLE Top-Level Domain

"The objectives of The dotNoble Foundation are to promote international contacts between people who are entitled to use a noble title or similar predicate, and between organisations of such persons".

Web site is available here: http://www.dotnoble.org

.WATCH French Trademark registered

Company of the same name is being set up:

http://bases-marques.inpi.fr/Typo3_INPI_Marques/getPdf?idObjet=3865736_FMARK-1,FMARK-2

.DOG French Trademark registered

The trademark is translated in french as "point chien":

http://bases-marques.inpi.fr/Typo3_INPI_Marques/getPdf?idObjet=3855724_FMARK-1,FMARK-2

.CLUB Top-Level Domain

.CLUB is one of these Top-Level Domains expected to appear at some point. The word "club" is an interesting one because it is used in the most spoken languages worldwide : English, French, Spanish.

Visit the web site here and : "join the club" !

Google talks about new gTLDs...

...and it sounds very good.

Check minute 37:19 on this You Tube video dated September 2011.

Matt Cutts is the head of Google’s Webspam team and he is the person to answer the magic question everyone invloved in a new gTLD project wants to hear the answer : will a new Top-Level Domain affect Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ?

Let's "re-question" here :

• Will I be better indexed in Google if my web site which deals about wine has a domain name ending in .wine?
• Will this web site be better positionned if I use www.mywebsite.wine instead of www.mywebsite.com?

Well...Google starts to talk and a new video from Matt Cutts is coming on new gTLDs :-)

.LION Top-Level Domain coming soon ?

Same dotlion.com domain name was registered with an "s" and points to the same page.

I did not check all animals' names. It is lucky "rotary" is not an animal's name by the way :-)

.WIEN new gTLD web site.

The official web site for .WIEN domain names (according to my unserstanding of Austrian).

Web site is available here