#newgtld

[assetdomains]

Alphabet.xyz, Alphabet.top, who’s next ?

Alphabet.top registered by google 14.08.2015, interesting, what will be the next fancy newgtld registration of the N1 internet company ? 

[corporateassistance]

Announcing CSC’s Bi-Monthly New gTLD Utilization Report

By Vincent D’Angelo

With over 200 launches scheduled in the coming months, the New gTLD program is gaining momentum fast. One of the key questions that online marketers face is how New gTLDs will impact consumer behavior, search and SEO. To shed light on this important issue, CSC is launching a report that assesses how these new domains are being used.

It’s nearly a year now since the launch of .shababka, the first new generic top-level domain, and just a few months since .axa became one of the first New gTLD “dot brand” domains to go live. Already, there are possible indicators that .brand domains may provide ranking signals for search engines. Early observations also reveal that certain generic New gTLDs are being used and developed while others are being parked. By comparing registration volumes for New GTLD domains with Alexa rankings, CSC’s Report shows which of these new extensions may be genuinely popular and in active use.

Our report will reveal:

.Brands in search – highlights and observations

The number of New gTLDs in the Alexa Top 1M

The Top 10 generic New gTLDs

Which New gTLDs are most successfully penetrating the Alexa Top 1M

>> Click here to view our first New gTLD Utilization Report.

[avri]

#ICANN silly season: the FUD concerning so-called 'closed-generics'.

In the beginning, there were 'closed generics' (.mil and .gov) and community names (.edu) - though of course they were not called out specifically.  To argue that these are something new, dangerous and against Internet principles, is nonsense.

As part of the GNSO process discussing the new gTLD program there was always the assumption that some names would be used for private, or closed purposes.  Some of us called them boutique names at that time.  Some of us spoke of families obtaining their family name as a vanity gTLD.  This was, of course, before ICANN in its Infinite Wisdom decided that only companies instead of individuals could obtain names (the first of many anti-policy so-called implementation decisions made by ICANN staff without community consensus).

Some have spoken of so-called 'closed generics' as being a breach of the Code of Conduct and of the prohibition for a Registry to treat all Registrars equally. Nonsense. Yes, a Registry must use a Registrar to register names beyond the first handful. Since we have accepted Vertical Integration, however, a Registry can become an Accredited Registrar. And of course they can offer all Registrars the opportunity to registrar names under the same conditions enjoyed by the in-house Registrar - they may not like those conditions, but they will be equal conditions.

Finally, it is important to remember that any name is only one word, in one script, in one language.  To assume that any specific word is so sacred that it needs to be protected from private use as a domain name is linguistically blind - there are many words in this world for every meaning; one word need not be protected from private use.  

So called 'closed generics' have been part of the Internet since domain names were first created, to stop them now alters the Internet as we know  it. 

[analystdistrict]

Learn about new gTLDs and how they could affect (or not affect) your business - analystdistrict.com

[webwiseforum-blog]

So as the New gTLD programme rolls on, we're finding out more and more about the New gTLD registries plans for these new domain name extensions. This is a great explanation of why dotAfrica has been applied for and the applicants plans for the TLD!