Dot Music Fronts TLD name Success

The .Music (Dot Music)url destination claims two million global subscribrs to the domain based music portal. This unique music interchange serves as the type of platform many TLD applications to ICANN envision but can be speculative about potential for delivery. The .music address story serves as a functional exemplar to the success many ICANN TLD formation. applications strive for.

Domaining Hits the Beeb

Not often domainers see a BBC news story centered around domaining. Yet the BBC news network ran a recent story concerning the .me development market. Montenegro’s little TLD that could has garnered massive me-dia attention and helps domainers sell to end users. Over 50,000 live registrations marked a decided lively market of “me”. Now if only the Sudanese United Villagers would form a country….and get the .SUV TLD off the ground.

Dot Mobi: Dead or Sleeping?

The tld .MOBI has had some ups and downs in the domain market lately. Domainers have been frantically staking their claim to the side of the argument they feel passionate about. Are MOBIs dead, or are they sleeping? Could they explode with another interpretation of what the extension means? Did the TLD release happen too long after the advent of true web access via phone necessary for apps and destination sites to monetize the MOBis? When will dot-MOBI mobilize in value again? Time will tell but perhaps there are value hunters cruising through the bottom waters snapping up key generics. Watch this space for more .MOBI news.

Foreign Generics Ramping Up

 

Geo TLD Flood Garners Industry Scrutiny

 

 

Dotgay allies with Cause Org

Dot Gay Alliance unveils a plan to create the .GAY top-level domain that will provide a reliable and ethical source of online funding for LGBT civil rights. Website names and email addresses ending in .GAY  will sponsor a new Internet wave of self-identified LGBT businesses, individuals and organizations and all those who wish to communicate with them.

Ambitious claims:  .GAY will be a community that gives back: A majority of all profits will be returned to the LGBT community to fight for equality in the US and around the world.

Generic web addresses (known as top-level domains) ending in .com, .org, .net, .edu and .gov. will increase when early next year the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) once again starts accepting TLD applications. These top level domains for new web addresses from cities, companies, organizations and entrepreneurial ventures that want to create and support for business and civic causes.

“The LGBT community has always supported itself and its causes – no one was there to help us,” Dolce said. “We’ve made amazing progress in the 40 years since Stonewall. Now in the digital era a .GAY top-level domain is a logical evolution in our history of self sustenance”.

The Dot Gay Alliance is led by Founder & Executive Director Joe Dolce, whose media strategy firm, DolceGoldin, provides communications services for the Alliance. The Dotgay ICANN application has yet to be approved.

The technical infrastructure is provided by Minds + Machines, the international Internet consulting group that is working with a number of new top-level domain efforts, including .NYC www .dotnyc .net with former New York City mayor Ed Koch, and .ECO .supportdoteco .com with the Sierra Club and Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection.

TLD’s in motion

Top Level Domain development continues apace. For those naysayers who pitched up that all top level domains and their most preferable names had been snapped up, this is a bit of a comedown. Developing TLD launchpads names continue to be promoted and articulated worldwide.

Dot Pro Still Pooling…

The qualifier reg domain name.pro is still attracting domainer investors and developer interest. The dot pro tld is one that requires a professional incorporation or documentation delivered to the registrar to keep the domain active and registered.

Healthy four digit .pro sales have ben reported as of the last 12 month period. Speculators in the domain name marketplace have been promoting dot pro domains and minsites with a view to auctioning them once the dot pro tld takes off. Comments one leading domainer, “Plurals are less popular, but sibling registrations also have some association value”.

Global Domain Frenzy

Of concern to many domainers is the consolidation of sizeable international portfolios of names within certain estimated price ranges.  This kind of acquisition signals serious sea changes for competition within those markets. With the many new country codes and sub-TLD’s being launched by ICANN recently, domainers continue to watch the domain spaces around the world closely.

 

Icann Forms Up In July for ccTLD’s

ICANN has consolidated and developed the ccTLD platforms for the following countries in July 2009: Portugal, Paraguay, Vanuatu, and Haiti.

 

2 July 2009	ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Portugal (.PT)
1 July 2009	ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Paraguay (.PY)
1 July 2009	ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Vanuatu (.VU)
1 July 2009	ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Uruguay (.UY)
1 July 2009	ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Haiti (.HT)

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