Country Code organization submits ccTLD retirement plan to ICANN. The Country Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) has submitted a new recommended policy (pdf) on the retirement process for ccTLDs for approval by the ICANN Board of ... Continue Reading5 Comments
The web is English, but ccTLDs aren’t
· UncategorizedNew report quantifies the use of local languages on country code domain names. Over half of websites have English as their primary language, but there's a big difference between languages on each top level domain. CENTR, an organization ... Continue Reading5 Comments
.Com dominates North America. What about the ROW?
· UncategorizedCountry code domains are still the majority outside of North America. Take a look at the chart above. What do you notice? While .com dominates North America, it is secondary in ICANN's other four regions. It's easy to be United ... Continue Reading19 Comments
Domain reads: .Com for uptime, .Bank transitions
· UncategorizedDomain industry pros should read these two articles. I read a couple of interesting domain name related stories over the past few days that should be interesting to DNW readers. They give perspectives on domain names from people outside the domain name ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Making money with ccTLDs – DNW Podcast #136
· PodcastsMeet a guy who has sold a half million worth of ccTLDs last year. Is it too late to get into domain investing? Nope. This week's guest is another example of someone who got in late and found a successful niche. Mike Carson sold about a half million ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Crazy Country Code Domains with Daniel Greenberg – DNW Podcast #8
· PodcastsLearn about domain name registries that charge $4,000+ per domain or require hand delivered registration applications. Can you imagine having to send a Western Union payment in order to register a domain name? How about hand delivering an application ... Continue Reading2 Comments
ICANN tells court ccTLDs aren’t property, can’t be awarded to plaintiffs
· Policy & LawVictims of terrorism want to be paid (in part) with country code top level domain names. ICANN has responded to the U.S. federal court in the District of Columbia, arguing that ccTLDs (country Code top level domain names, e.g. .ca and .de) are not ... Continue Reading3 Comments
About those .io domain names…
· UncategorizedFew tech startups understand the origins of their clever domain names. David Meyer of Gigaom published a story this morning titled "The dark side of .io: How the U.K. is making web domain profits from a shady Cold War land deal." The story explains ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Matt Cutts releases new video about using ccTLDs for generic purposes
· UncategorizedCutts explains when Google decides to make a ccTLD global. Google's SEO/Webspam leader Matt Cutts has released a new video about using a country code top level domain name for a website not targeted to that country. His message is the same that ... Continue Reading4 Comments
.GD is another wake up call to tech firms about ccTLDs
· UncategorizedDoes the term "shadow registry" concern you? It should if you own a .gd domain name. Over the past few years startups and tech darlings have increasingly embraced "cute" ccTLDs and domain hacks that include ccTLDs. A key example is bitly. Bitly, ... Continue Reading10 Comments
