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About 100 ANA Members Apply for New Top Level Domains
June 14, 2012 @ 11:36 PMAround 20% of Association of National Advertisers members applied for new TLDs, but many may have been defensive. One of the most outspoken — and tardy — groups to lobby against ICANN’s expansion of the internet namespace was Association of National Advertisers (ANA). The group lists close to 500 members on its web site, and…
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ICANN: .WeScrewedUpAgain
June 14, 2012 @ 11:44 AMGroup publishes private details of new top level domain applicants. During the ICANN press conference on Wednesday a reporter stood up and asked if ICANN had told applicants that their email addresses and phone numbers would be published. Yes, was the response. Something to the tune of “we told everyone this would be an open…
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.WTF? — 20 New Top-level Domain Names That Should Exist, But ...
June 14, 2012 @ 9:19 AMOn Tuesday, the list of new proposed top-level domains, and the companies seeking to control them, was published by ICANN. The new contenders
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GOP Congressional Candidate Admits Buying Sex-themed Domain Names
June 14, 2012 @ 6:06 AMOn Thursday morning, Mother Jones reported that GOP congressional candidate Trey Radel, a former Fox radio talk show host in southwest Florida, had once owned a company that registered a number of smutty Internet domain names. Many of the sex-related web addresses were in Spanish. The list included such sites as <a href="http://www.casadelasputas" rel="nofollow">http://www.casadelasputas</a> (whore house), and <a href="http://www.sexguideonline.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.sexguideonline.com</a>. Radel did not respond to repeated requests for comment from Mother Jones. But after our story broke, Florida news outlets started hounding Radel for an explanation. This afternoon, he finally addressed the matter.
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Rush is On to Snap Up Domain Names
June 14, 2012 @ 5:36 AMBanks, sports codes, universities and a handful of opportunists are among the first 40 Australian applications to go after a generic domain name.
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Amazon.com Won't Offer Domain Names to The Public
June 14, 2012 @ 4:37 AMAmazon.com intends to only offer domain registrations to itself. Amazon.com has applied for 7 …
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Amazon.com Won’t Offer Domain Names to The Public
June 14, 2012 @ 4:36 AMAmazon.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 applications, and each one has similar language explaining who can register a second level domain under…
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ICANN's Call for New Domain Names Brings Criticism, and $357 Million
June 14, 2012 @ 3:47 AMThe corporation that regulates the Internet plans to increase the number of “top level” domains from the current 22 to 1,000 domains starting in early 2013. The proposed domains offer a cross-section of the Internet — what we use it for, and where the money is.
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Over 40% of Fortune 100 Apply for Top Level Domain Names
June 14, 2012 @ 12:58 AMTech, pharma, consumer and financial companies more likely to apply. At least 42 of the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500 applied for one or more top level domains. I’ve embedded the spreadsheet showing the companies below. This is actually a bit harder to sort out than I expected; some companies applied under unusual…
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New TLDs Include at Least Four Contested .brand Applications
June 13, 2012 @ 11:37 PMCompanies 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 domain. .Monster – Monster, Inc. vs. Monster Worldwide, Inc. The former sells really expensive cables…
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