Just announced: the .网站 Sunrise Period

The .网站 (.web) new generic Top-Level Domain was announced today by the Trademark Clearinghouse and will launch next week. The Sunrise Period will start on Monday, 26 September, 2016. For those who will be registering their .WEB new domain name in its ASCII version, it can make sense to secure the IDN version of this TLD.
To participate in the next .网站 WEBINAR participants are welcome to register here.

New domain name registration volumes:

• New gTLDs related to COMPANIES;
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• New gTLDs related to the LAW;
• New gTLDs related to FINANCE;
• New gTLDs related to COLORS.

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In our previous Newsletter:

1. Usage statistics of CITY new TLDs: comparison of the usage of .TOKYO (City of Tokyo, Japan) vs. .LONDON (City of London, UK) vs. .NYC (City of New York, USA) vs. .MOSCOW (City of Moscow, Russia) vs. .PARIS (City of Paris, France) for websites;
2. Podacast - How GMO plans to make its big investment in .SHOP pay off;
3. This is the Domain Name Industry Brief by Verisign;
4. .BLOG gets 600 applications halfway through sunrise;
5. Video - Demystifying the Value of .VIP in China;
6. Deleting Its 230,000 Uniregistry Domains;
7. Top 5 New Extensions in 10 Years: yesterday evening on Twitter, .CLUB CEO and co-founder Colin Campbell made a prediction about the “top” 5 new domain extensions in ten years. Here’s what he posted and what his predictions are;
8. Latest stats on the new extensions;
9. UPDATED - Sport Federations: Paid to Promote Their Clubs (selling new domains)?
10. A September To Remember (And It’s Not Over Yet!)
11. Are New gTLDs Dead? Frank Schilling Says “Far From It";
12. Most of the growth is due to new gTLDs;
13. JOB - Domain Portfolio and Risk Control Program Manager.

Previous Campaigns can be viewed here.

Most recent Trademark Clearinghouse Sunrise Period announcements

Feed-back on recent new gTLD events

Premium .CLUB auctions are always an event in the new gTLD world: the specialized online press often reacts to auction results. One of the reasons for this is that the Registry in charge does a lot of buzz before these happenings. Another reason is that a lot of investors participate and "buy". I just found two interesting covers of these events and I suggest to read them. The first one is from OnlineDomains and is entitled "Top 10 .Club Domain Name Sales". The other one is from DoomainNameWire and is entitled: "With one day to go, there are some good deals in this .Club auction".

New domain name registration volumes:

1. HOT - GENERIC new gTLDs;
2. New gTLDs related to CARS;
3. New gTLDs related to HEALTH.

HOT - Tonight's cool Newsletter:
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Wine cans? Come on...
It's week-end and I will probably drink wine: not because I am French, but because I like wine and...and...really...I can help it but I saw this publication on Facebook (using a great ".wine" domain name by the way): http://www.backpack.wine/. Website is nice and I believe the product is drinkable too but...IT IS OFFERED IN CANS. I will complain immediately to the European Commission for a law to be created to prohibit offering wine in cans. I am joking of course but I'd rather drink wine coming from a glass bottle.

Previous Campaigns can be viewed here.

Most recent Trademark Clearinghouse Sunrise Period announcements

Another new gTLD was delegated

One more new gTLD was delegated today, it is the .MONSTER Top-Level Domain and here is what the application says.

The proposed .monster gTLD is a restricted, single-registrant TLD that would help Monster continue as the global leader in online recruitment by enhancing and expanding Monster Worldwide’s ability to:

• simplify Internet user navigation to Monster Worldwide products and services; 
• deliver new and innovative products and services;
• enable marketing campaign activation; 
• facilitate secure interaction and communication with employers and job seekers; 
• improve business operations; 
• demonstrate market leadership in adopting innovative technologies; and
• meet future client expectations and competitive market demands.

New domain name registration volumes:

• New gTLDs related to RELIGION;
• Interesting - Singular VS Plural new gTLDs;
• French new gTLDs related.

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In our previous Newsletter:

1. Universal Acceptance (new gTLDs): Yandex.Mail provides receipt and delivery for Cyrillic, Turkish alphabets and now for any other languages;
2. New gTLD competitors of .Com is opposed to the extension of ICANN's agreement with Verisign;
3. .CLUB is elected Registry of the Year;
4. .GAMES Premium Domains: A Comparison;
5. Descriptiveness - The .CLUB Registry changed the blog section of its website to a ".blog" domain name: http://club.blog;
6. M+M Extension Losing 30% Of Registrations Over 13 new gTLDs.

Previous Campaigns can be viewed here.

Most recent Trademark Clearinghouse Sunrise Period announcements

New gTLDs: my latest article in French

La période estivale n’est pas celle où l’on achète un nom de domaine. La baisse des volumes d’enregistrements impacte la profitabilité des Registres lors de cette période impropre aux affaires. Pourtant, certains s’en sortent mieux que d’autres.

• Un Registre?
• Vous avez dit monopole?
• Pour bien comprendre;
• Le .CLUB: un Registre qui “vend”;
• Le Marathon de la rentrée;
• Quelques exemples de sites.

Read the complete article on the French Journal Du Net.

UPDATE: Sport Federations & new gTLDs

This is an update of the an article I  published last week on Digital Doughnut.

Paid to Promote Their Clubs?

New domain name extensions are a fantastic tool for the industry, the sport, the group or business they represent. When checking domain name registration volumes for some new sport domain name extensions, it is noticeable that some of them are on the decrease when the opposite should happen. Would this change if sport federations were paid to do the promotion of their sport by offering new descriptive domain names?

Read my complete article on Digitaldoughnut

Why affiliation matters (new gTLDs)

I just wrote an article related to affiliation and why I believe this could push sport organizations to do the promotion of their sport.

The problem is that I am not sure they care about promoting their sport because most are too local, but also....they probably have no idea that it is possible to offer domain names related to their sport and receive money from this.

To give an example, there are lots of Karate Clubs in France and there is one French federation which could offer these clubs to register their ".club" domain name and receive money from this. This is typically the kind of sport organization with the capacity to set up an affiliation program and send an email to all of its Karate Clubs.

New domain name registration volumes:

• HOT - New gTLDs related to CITIES;
• New gTLDs related to CATERING;
• New gTLDs related to PHOTOGRAPHY;
• New gTLDs with a FRENCH connotation;
• GOOD TO KNOW - New gTLDs related to COMPANIES;
• New gTLDs related to the LAW;
• New gTLDs related to FINANCE;
• New gTLDs related to COLORS.

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In our previous Newsletter:

1. What’s in a Domain Name? Perhaps, the Future of News;
2. New gTLD/dotBrands and what this means for search;
3. URS requires clear cybersquatting;
4. Announcing the Disrupt SF Hackathon;
5. URS on arcelormittal.lol
6. Two-character domains from Rightside will be available as of Sept. 14;
7. NIC.AT Sister Company Takes Over Operation Of .VERSICHERUNG;
8. Celebrating One Year of .online.

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Most recent Trademark Clearinghouse Sunrise Period announcements

4 Sunrise Periods begin today

Donuts Inc, is launching four Sunrise periods today. The Top-Level Domains concerned are IDNs.

WHICH:

1. .企业 (enterprise)
2. .商店 (store)
3. .游戏 (game)
4. .娱乐 (entertainment)

WHEN:

• START: Tuesday, 13 September, 2016;
• END: Saturday, 12 November, 2016.

WHERE:

Unless I am wrong, this is the list of accredited Registrars to the Donuts Inc new gTLDs. Note that a few of them offer to participate in sunrise Periods.

Starting this week-end: The Domain Conference

New contracting statistics have been released by the ICANN but I 'd be tempted to focus on the coming The Domain Conference which is to start this week-end. Many new gTLD applicants will be present and it will be interesting to listen to the General Manager for Amazon Registry Services, author of "Start, Scale, Exit, Repeat!" (find him here), Jeff Sass "also named "The Vegan", Dan Schindler from Donuts, Jennifer Gore - Director of Registrar Services at ICANN, Rolf Larsen - CEO of the .GLOBAL Registry and many other domain name experts such as lawyers, brokers and other specialists.

Starting tomorrow: the Sedo .CLUB Premium domains' auction.

New domain name registration volumes:

• HOT - New gTLDs related to SPORT;
• New gTLDs related to ALCOHOL;
• New gTLDs related to RELIGION;
• New gTLDs related to FRENCH new gTLD applicants;
• HOT - SINGULAR vs PLURAL new gTLDs;
• New gTLDs related to REAL ESTATE.

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In our previous Newsletter:

1. CentralNic Registry Revenue up 100% & Gross Profit Up 19% in 1st Six Months of 2016;
2. CentralNic swings to loss, billings soar on .XYZ deal;
3. Chinese gTLD registry slashes prices to .com levels;
4. Best Benefit Ever: MAKE DESIGN YOUR DOMAIN;
5. Video: Why is .VIP Popular in China;
6. French - Comment Pictet a sécurisé ses sites web;
7. Want a free .GDN domain name?
8. First dot-brand gTLD to go generic after TLS deal;
9. PodCast (Early days, new uses for DNS, and security by the inventor of the domain name system; Frank Schilling (new gTLD applicant with multiple applications) sparking a busy day for Rightside; .SHOP’s launch; and more....)
10. Looks Like At Least 4 Brands Paid Tens of Thousands Each To Register 6 .Shop Domain;
11. DotBrand .observer wordt open domeinnaamextentie;
12. Want to become a ".club" re-seller?
13. Hackathon in September (win a free ".club" domain name).

Previous Campaigns can be viewed here.

Most recent Trademark Clearinghouse Sunrise Period announcements