New TLD Application Tip: Launch Strategies

Almost exactly nine years ago, the .INFO domain first started accepting registrations. This was an historic event as it was the first time a new generic top-level domain (TLD) was launched to an existing domain marketplace and, in fact, was the first new TLD to be added since .com. We've seen (and provided technology to power) many other TLD launches since then, with many business models. As you ...

Anthony Doesburg : Chinese-script domain names a web milestone

When New Zealander Peter Dengate Thrush announced a month ago that an obstacle to registering .xxx websites had been removed, he created a distraction from an even more important internet milestone.The Wellington lawyer is chairman...

Brand Protection Domain Registrations: There Are More Than You Think

One of the major problems for brand owners is protecting the brand in new TLDs.

ICANN's Economic Study - It Depends

Economists aren't very good at predicting things, as any one with money in the stock market can attest. The most powerful economist in the United States, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, is on record predicting a continuing climb in housing pricesjust prior to their precipitous decline.

Comments on Economics Study of ICANN's New TLDs

ICANN has taken another crack at the question of the economics of launching new top-level domains (TLDs). The first report that the group commissioned on the subject was greeted by a loud and unhappy uproar.

.CO Domain Names Now Available to the Public

MIAMI, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- .CO Internet S.A.S. (www.COinternet.co) today announced the general availability of the new .CO top-level domain (TLD), which will enable individuals, businesses and organizations to acquire global, credible and easily recognizable domain names that fit their online business or branding needs. .CO domains are now available through leading ...

Water? It'll cost you at JellyNYC pool parties

Water, water everywhere but you have to pay to drink it.Concert-goers are criticizing a strict new security policy at East River State Park this summer that bars people from bringing in their own beverages even that most essential of exlixers, H20 to the free concerts there.Bottles of Poland...

10 Missed Opportunities in Search Engine Marketing in Japan

Why Japan is the most difficult country to provide both natural search engine optimization and paid search marketing service for. Part one of two. ...

Team USA replacements named for Worlds

With Donny Robinson and Kyle Bennett both out of commission after suffering training injuries at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Mike King and the USA Cycling crew had two Elite spots to fill on their roster for the UCI World Championships going down in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on...

The Geo-Politics of ICANN vs ITU

Over the past couple of years I have had the opportunity to talk to US policy makers and have seen how ITU and ICANN have emerged as proxies for a much wider diplomatic dispute over who is going to control cyberspace.