Good to know: LinkedIn now accepts to capture URLs using a domain name ending in .CLUB. Such change now makes it possible to discussion group participants to start sharing with a source of information using a .club domain name.
Source: http://www.gtld.club/2015/04/good-news-for-club-domain-names.html.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
LinkedIn: a good news for .CLUB domain names
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").
A scarry business model coming for Round 2 of the ICANN new gTLD program?
Extract: "If losing an auction has become a way to recover part of the money invested in a new domain name extension, let's not forget that applying does cost $185,000.00 only (a little more actually because the ICANN has been very slow in launching its new gTLD program and some entrepreneurs lost a lot of money waiting for a launch date), it has also become a way to ... earn a lot more money, even much more when rich applicants are many and definitely want to win their domain name extension in the auction".
Read my complete article on gTLD.club: http://www.gtld.club/2015/04/a-sad-business-model-for-round-2-of.html and register your .CLUB domain name with Uniregistry.
Read my complete article on gTLD.club: http://www.gtld.club/2015/04/a-sad-business-model-for-round-2-of.html and register your .CLUB domain name with Uniregistry.
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").
Good news for .CLUB domain names
LinkedIn is a fantastic tool because it allows to paste a hyperlink in the "discussion title "field to catch an article. Once the "discussion title" is modified with a nice Title, more details can be added below to initiate the discussion.
It is exactly what the 1890 subscribers of the "New generic Top-Level Domains" group do on LinkedIn everyday.
The GOOD news
Until vey recently, it was possible to paste a URL or a domain name using the .com extension and I could make it work with .consulting domains too but for other TLDs, I had to proceed a different way and generate another URL.
LinkedIn now works with .CLUB domain names and it makes it much faster to use any content published on internet using a .CLUB domain name to initiate a discussion on the basis of an article.
How to proceed in a LinkedIn group:
- Copy your .club URL;
- Paste it in the "discussion title" field (and wait for 5 seconds);
- Option: add details below;
- Click on "Share".
Done :-)
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").
Friday, April 3, 2015
A sad business model for Round 2 of the ICANN new gTLD program?
New gTLDs are new domain name extensions authorized by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and launched in 2012. The program was initiated many years before but official publication of the list of new applications was published in 2012; See their list and status here.
Typically, a new gTLD application offers new opportunities and the chance - for example - for a club to register a domain name ending in ".club", instead of ".com" or ".es" (the country code Top-Level Domain for Spain). A good example would be the "new generic Top-Level Domains' Club" which uses gTLD.club as its domain name: as you can see, it ends with the appropriate domain name extension for a club.
Once a new gTLD application has been approved by the ICANN, the owner, also called the Registry, becomes the only legal entity
wolrdwide to be allowed to create thse new domain names to end users. A distribution network is in place already, those to sell these new domain names are called the accredited Registrars.The Round one of the ICANN new gTLD program has been a success and now offers dozen of different industries, types of businesses, locations, communities, trademarks and cities, the choice to select a domain name which offers a high level of precision. The Round one has now ended and it means that no company can submit a new gTLD application anymore and will have to wait for the second round two to start in a few years time.
The Round two of the ICANN new gTLD program
No one really knows when it starts, even the ICANN cannot answer that question but it is quite possible that it happens in 2017 or 2018 (but again...no one knows). The traditional Business model for a Registries is to submit an application (at the price of $185.000), go through the legal, technical and financial ICANN validation process, sometimes go through complementary procedures, then ... start to make money selling domain names. Some Registries are very succesful and some are not.
If the business model is more or less the same for all Registries, receive ownership of the domain name extension from the ICANN and sell domain names massively, the first Round has developped an unexpected and very scary new trend that future potential applicants should keep an eye on prior to submitting their application in "Round 2".
A very sad new business model is born
What happened in Round One
In 2012, when all applications were revealed to the public, many applicants realized that they were not alone to apply for the wanted domain name extension, and in some cases, they were more than five to have paid $185,000 for the same extension. The ICANN methodology to submit an application (also called the ICANN Applicant Guidebook (or "AGB")) offered to solve that problem upfront or, as a final solution, to go to an auction. Not a bad solution but specialists from the domain name industry decided that they could do this themselves and keep some of the money for themselves, instead of giving it to the already very rich ICANN.
Many external auctions to the ICANN helped select the final owner of an application such as the .FREE new gTLD which was won by Amazon. To understand how new gTLD auctions work, I suggest to read this post.
The good point about private auctions is that money is distributed between losing applicants.
What could happen in Round Two
If losing an auction has become a way to recover part of the money invested in a new domain name extension, let's not forget that applying does cost $185,000.00 only (a little more actually because the ICANN has been very slow in launching its new gTLD program and some entrepreneurs lost a lot of money waiting for a launch date), it has also become a way to ... earn a lot more money, even much more when rich applicants are many and definitely want to win their domain name extension in the auction.
The dirty question: what if you don't want to become the owner of a Top-Level Domain but want to profit from other applicants by having them to win their TLD in an auction?
The dirty answer: the idea is to keep your ears open prior to the launching of the second Round of the ICANN new gTLD program to learn about who is going to apply and for which extension. Some applicants have made more than a million dollars losing an auction for the TLD they had applied for. With a minimum investment (let's say $200,000.00) it becomes possible to submit an application and earn much more if several applicants submit the same.
If losing an auction has become a way to recover part of the money invested in a new domain name extension, let's not forget that applying does cost $185,000.00 only (a little more actually because the ICANN has been very slow in launching its new gTLD program and some entrepreneurs lost a lot of money waiting for a launch date), it has also become a way to ... earn a lot more money, even much more when rich applicants are many and definitely want to win their domain name extension in the auction.
The dirty question: what if you don't want to become the owner of a Top-Level Domain but want to profit from other applicants by having them to win their TLD in an auction?
The dirty answer: the idea is to keep your ears open prior to the launching of the second Round of the ICANN new gTLD program to learn about who is going to apply and for which extension. Some applicants have made more than a million dollars losing an auction for the TLD they had applied for. With a minimum investment (let's say $200,000.00) it becomes possible to submit an application and earn much more if several applicants submit the same.
Conclusion
Any applicant with the intention to submit an application in Round 2 of the ICANN new gTLD program should NEVER inform the public prior to having selected the right partner to submit his application. Forget about NDAs because an extension is just a keyword anybody can drop in a discussion so when you tell a service provider that he is too expensive and move to the next one... Well, you're the one to judge.
If these infos were not kept so secret in the first Round, it is because no one expected so many applicants to submit the same application but also because no service provider had imagined creating a different auction process to solve such string contentions. Now the process exists, expect experts to profit from auctions to generate cash: the first Round of new gTLDs has very clearly demonstrated that losing an auction can be profitable.
Any applicant with the intention to submit an application in Round 2 of the ICANN new gTLD program should NEVER inform the public prior to having selected the right partner to submit his application. Forget about NDAs because an extension is just a keyword anybody can drop in a discussion so when you tell a service provider that he is too expensive and move to the next one... Well, you're the one to judge.
If these infos were not kept so secret in the first Round, it is because no one expected so many applicants to submit the same application but also because no service provider had imagined creating a different auction process to solve such string contentions. Now the process exists, expect experts to profit from auctions to generate cash: the first Round of new gTLDs has very clearly demonstrated that losing an auction can be profitable.
Hold on: what about Trademarks?
Any lawyer is aware that a Trademark using a generic string/keyword can be exposed, in particular in countries where Trademark Law is not so respected nor efficient. So what happens when a Trademark owner realizes that someone else submitted an application in Round 2 for its string as a "Generic application" and not a "Brand application"? If legal procedures exist to fight against such behaviours...finding no solution can also end...in an auction.
Any lawyer is aware that a Trademark using a generic string/keyword can be exposed, in particular in countries where Trademark Law is not so respected nor efficient. So what happens when a Trademark owner realizes that someone else submitted an application in Round 2 for its string as a "Generic application" and not a "Brand application"? If legal procedures exist to fight against such behaviours...finding no solution can also end...in an auction.
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, April 1, 2015
ICAN to acquire Jovenet Consulting to promote new gTLDs
Jovenet Consulting, the company to have massively promoted new gTLDs from the past four years, was just acquired by the Not For Profit Giant in charge of developing new generic Top Level Domains worldwide.
The American giant, after being criticized for its lack of communication to end-users, has decided to take action and give 1% of revenues generated by new gTLDs to sponsor Jovenet Consulting.
Jovenet Consulting promotes new domain names to end-users.
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 31, 2015
.CLUB and .BAR Domains Team Up at Nightclub & Bar Show
Since the beginning of the Internet, clubs and bars have been relegated to getting a .com, .net or similar web address that gives no context or meaning to what consumers will find at the site, nor does it necessarily help in SEO rankings. In addition, with many of the good .com domains long taken, it leaves new businesses with little or no opportunity to have a great web address to market online. But the Internet is changing…
The .club and .bar extensions have now become available, and more than 200,000 .CLUB and .BAR names have already been registered. .CLUB is the #1 selling new domain and also leads in premium name sales including Vegas.club for $100,000 and others, totaling more than $800,000 to date.
“.CLUB and .BAR really epitomize the success of the gTLD industry, because they’re two words that give genuine context to a web address and also are used throughout the world in just about every language,” said Colin Campbell, president and CEO of .CLUB Domains. “It’s what the expansion of the Internet naming system was all about: giving businesses a chance to better brand and market themselves on and offline with a cool, amazing domain name that has meaning to everyone.”
“.BAR and .CLUB domains are short, easy to remember and recognized all over the world. This is a great opportunity for bars and clubs to have a very relevant element that builds or reinforces positioning, marketing and categorization in the online world, and even offline,” shared Aaron Grego, CEO of .BAR Domains. “Every day, we are finding new websites using .BAR domains, in exciting and innovative ways”
Anyone can register for a .CLUB or .BAR domain name at hundreds of registrars around the globe. A list of .CLUB registrars can be found at nic.club/register and a list of .BAR registrars can be found at register.bar/registrars
Register your .BAR & .CLUB domain names with Uniregistry.
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").
Friday, March 27, 2015
New gTLDs: Custom app URLs in "Google Apps domain"
Extract: Web address mapping: have your Google Sites appear under custom URLs for all of your domains, such as hr.yourdomain.consulting, hr.yourdomain.international or hr.yourdomain.club.
Source: http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.fr/2015/03/feature-parity-for-multi-domain-google.html.
Register your .CLUB domain name with Google Domains.
Source: http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.fr/2015/03/feature-parity-for-multi-domain-google.html.
Register your .CLUB domain name with Google Domains.
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 24, 2015
3 Sunrise Periods have started
Sunrise Periods:.SCHOOL
- SUNRISE PERIOD START: Tuesday, 24 March, 2015
- SUNRISE PERIOD END: Saturday, 23 May, 2015
.FOOTBALL
- SUNRISE PERIOD START: Tuesday, 24 March, 2015
- SUNRISE PERIOD END: Saturday, 23 May, 2015
.CASINO
- SUNRISE PERIOD START: Tuesday, 24 March, 2015
- SUNRISE PERIOD END: Saturday, 23 May, 2015
More information here: http://trademark-clearinghouse.com/gtld-calendar.
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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