Uniregistry.com registered back in 2006, original trademark application in 2010. Last month Uniregistry Corp., Frank Schilling's new top level domain venture, filed trademark applications for the mark "Uniregistry" as well as its stylized "U" ... Continue Reading3 Comments
NCC plans to invest $9.4 million in .secure (if it can get the domain)
· UncategorizedCompany hopeful it can prevail over Amazon.com. The CEO of United Kingdom security company NCC Group (NCC.LN) told Dow Jones Newswires that it plans to invest 6 million pounds ($9.4 million) in the top level domain name .secure, with over half of that ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Verisign working to fix Hebrew IDN error
· UncategorizedCompany wants to fix error in one of its new top level domain applications. Verisign has responded to Domain Name Wire's inquiry regarding an error in its application for a Hebrew internationalized domain name (IDN) for a transliteration of ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Sorry, but this round of new TLDs isn’t revolutionary
· UncategorizedRules of engagement make this round of new TLDs less than satisfactory. Last week ICANN released the names of the 1,400 some odd top level domains that might be headed to the web in the next year or two. Despite every cliche ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom ... Continue Reading12 Comments
Domain horse trading event in Prague next week
· UncategorizedYou can have .app if I can have .cloud. I talked to Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush about 15 minutes after ICANN's "big reveal" news conference ended last week. He told me he had already received an email from another ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Amazon.com won’t offer domain names to the public
· Policy & LawAmazon.com intends to only offer domain registrations to itself. Amazon.com has applied for 76 top level domain names. But don't expect to be able to register any second level domains underneath them. I just reviewed eight of the company's ... Continue Reading12 Comments
New TLDs include at least four contested .brand applications
· UncategorizedCompanies battle each other for rights to top level domains. I've identified at least four cases of contested .brand top level domain applications, defined here as a case where two different brand holders are going after the same top level ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Google and Amazon compete on 21 new top level domain applications
· UncategorizedGoogle and Amazon had a lot of the same ideas for new top level domains. One of the biggest battles over new top level domains will pit internet heavyweights Google and Amazon against each other. Amazon applied for 76 top level domains and Google ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Demand Media’s 26 TLDs hit the armed forces, democrats, and republicans
· Domain RegistrarsDemand Media applies for 26 domain names -- and some of them are very interesting. Publicly traded Demand Media, parent company of domain registrar eNom, has applied for 26 top level domain names through (what appears to be) a subsidiary called United ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Directi applies for 31 top level domains
· UncategorizedRadix, a Directi company, makes big investment in top level domains. Directi Group (see disclosure) announced today that is has applied for 31 top level domain names through its new company Radix. I believe this makes it one of the biggest "portfolio" ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment