Create Your Account  |  Log in  |  Contact    Latest News TMCH extends Trademark Claims indefinitely, kinda The Trademark Clearinghouse is to give the intellectual property lobby something that it’s been crying out for for years — an indefinite extension of parts of the Trademark Claims service. And it’s going to be free. Trademark Claims is a mandatory service for all new gTLD operators, sending pre-registration warnings... DomainIncite.com - 3 hr 51 min ago Go Daddy to take $2,500 profit on Donuts’ first-day domains Donuts’ pricey Early Access Program for its new gTLDs could prove quite lucrative for registrars. Go Daddy today revealed that it’s charging $12,500 and up for first-day “priority” registrations in 14 Donuts gTLDs, a $2,500 profit on Donuts’ EAP registry fee, which I believe is $10,000. The EAP is Donuts... DomainIncite.com - 5 hr 51 min ago GAC kills off two more new gTLD bids A new gTLD applicant has withdrawn two of its Chinese-language applications after failing to secure the necessary government support. Guangzhou YU Wei Information Technology Co withdrew its applications for .深圳 (.shenzhen) and .广州 (.guangzhou). Both are the names of very large cities in southern China. The ICANN Governmental Advisory... DomainIncite.com - 6 hr 34 min ago German geo .ruhr enters the root Verisign today delegated the new gTLD .ruhr to the DNS root zone, making it the 35th new gTLD to go live. It’s a geographic string, meant for residents of the north-west German region of Ruhr, operated by Regiodot. nic.ruhr is already resolving. Regiodot is already taking pre-registrations via approximately 10 signed-up registr... DomainIncite.com - 6 hr 54 min ago Win free tickets to NamesCon Las Vegas (even if you’ve already paid) We’ve got five (FIVE!) free tickets to NamesCon to give away to lucky DI readers. NamesCon is “a pro-new TLDs conference” happening at the Tropicana hotel in Las Vegas from January 13 to 15, 2014. It’s being organized by domain investor Richard Lau, Jothan Frakes (Domain Roundtable, DomainFest), and Jodi Chamb... DomainIncite.com - Monday, December 9, 2013 - 17:57 ICANN will have to make a call on .islam ICANN is going to have to decide whether to approve the new gTLDs .islam and .halal, after the Governmental Advisory Committee punted the issue. GAC chair Heather Dryden told ICANN chair Steve Crocker last week (pdf) that the GAC will not provide ICANN with the clarity it so wanted on the two controversial gTLDs. “[T]he […... DomainIncite.com - Monday, December 9, 2013 - 7:42 Jetpack Domains hit with ICANN breach notice A small Californian registrar has been sent a contract breach notice by ICANN. ICANN says Irvine-based Jetpack Domains has failed to comply with a scheduled audit, breaking the terms of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement that require it to supply records on demand. The company has until January 2 to provide ICANN with the data it ... DomainIncite.com - Monday, December 9, 2013 - 6:55 ICANN floats new rules for dot-brands Dot-brand gTLDs could get big exemptions to the standard new gTLD Registry Agreement under new rules published for public comment by ICANN over the weekend. The proposed changes were negotiated by ICANN and the Brand Registry Group, a coalition of dot-brand applicants that one day plans to become a formal part of ICANN’s policy... DomainIncite.com - Monday, December 9, 2013 - 6:23 Oh no! Cement company withdraws dot-brand bid FLSmidth, a Danish cement company, has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .fls. It’s the first dot-brand to be withdrawn from the program in months. FLSmidth had passed Initial Evaluation and was not facing any objections or Governmental Advisory Committee advice, so it’s not immediately clear why the company deci... DomainIncite.com - Friday, December 6, 2013 - 14:36 TLDH ditches .roma bid after GAC trouble Top Level Domain Holdings has withdrawn its bid for the .roma gTLD, after apparently running afoul of the Italian government. The gTLD was to represent the city of Rome, but Italy issued the company with an Early Warning (pdf) a year ago saying the company had “No involvement or support from the local authorities” and [&#... DomainIncite.com - Friday, December 6, 2013 - 14:23 Donuts’ portfolio swells as ICANN signs 31 new gTLD contracts ICANN signed 31 new gTLD Registry Agreements yesterday, 24 of which were with Donuts subsidiaries. Back-end registry provider Neustar was among a handful of companies signing RAs for their dot-brands too. Donuts signed contracts for: .haus, .properties, .maison, .productions, .parts, .cruises, .foundation, .industries, .vacations, .c... DomainIncite.com - Friday, December 6, 2013 - 10:23 Small Kiwi registrar loses accreditation ICANN has terminated the registrar accreditation of Pacnames, a small New Zealand registrar. The roughly 10,000 domain names the company had under management will now be transferred to Net-Chinese, a Taiwanese registrar that is not much bigger as measured by DUM. The termination was voluntary, according to ICANN, but it follows the s... DomainIncite.com - Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 5:27 IPO warns about premium loopholes in new gTLD trademark protection It seems like it’s been an age since we last heard the intellectual property lobby pushing for stronger rights protection mechanisms in new gTLDs, but they’re back just in time for the first launches. The Intellectual Property Owners Association has written to ICANN this week to warn about loopholes in the standard new gT... DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 12:14 Superstitious launch planned for Chinese gTLDs TLD Registry plans to time its Chinese new gTLD launch dates to coincide with days considered lucky in Chinese astrology. The Sunrise period for .在线 (“.online”) and .中文网 (“.chinesewebsite”) will start January 17 and end March 17. According to the registry: Both the start and end days of Sunrise fall on highly ... DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 8:34 .eu names to be sold outside the EU EURid is to expand sales of .eu domains to three countries outside the European Union from January 8. Companies and individuals from Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway will get to register .eu names, due to a rule change at the registry. The three countries are members of the European Economic Area, which enjoys many of the […] ... DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 8:9 DotKiwi puts $7 million of premium names on sale DotKiwi has put NZD 8.5 milion ($7 million) of “premium” domain names on the market in advance of the delegation of .kiwi, which it expects to happen this week. There are 4,668 names on sale right now, ranging in price from NZD 501.50 ($410) to NZD 124,626.71 ($102,000). The highest price belongs to hotels.kiwi. The [R... DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 7:57 Let’s Learn IDNs — .中文网 (Chinese Website) Today, the belated first in an irregular series of articles devoted to making new IDN gTLDs more recognizable to the majority of DI readers who use the Latin alphabet in their native tongue. Let’s Learn IDNs, as I said in my introduction to the series, won’t teach you Greek, but it will hopefully make it […] Relate... DomainIncite.com - Monday, December 2, 2013 - 8:41 Two more new gTLDs delegated The new gTLDs .menu and .uno have gone live on the internet. Both appear to have been delegated to the DNS root zone at some point over the last few days — nic.menu and nic.uno are both resolving right now, though nic.uno takes you to an Apache status page. The Latino-focused .uno is the first […] Related posts: Seven mo... DomainIncite.com - Monday, December 2, 2013 - 7:11 Nominet drops libel lawsuit against domain blogger UK registry Nominet has withdrawn its lawsuit against a domainer who had allegedly published “defamatory” remarks about CEO Lesley Cowley on his blog. The defamation complaint was filed against Graham Wingate over his blog Avoid.co.uk in January. Nominet said yesterday that it “continues to refute entirely the untru... DomainIncite.com - Thursday, November 28, 2013 - 7:18 DNS Namespace Collisions: Detection and Response [Guest Post] Those tracking the namespace collision issue in Buenos Aries heard a lot regarding the potential response scenarios and capabilities. Because this is an important, deep, and potentially controversial topic, we wanted to get some ideas out early on potential solutions to start the conversation. Since risk can almost never be driven to... DomainIncite.com - Thursday, November 28, 2013 - 6:39 Next 20 Domaining.com - Newsletter - RSS - Affiliate Program - Advertising - Follow us on Twitter or Facebook or Blog - Contact Us  Suggestions - Trends - Registration - Marketplaces - Portfolios Brokers - Drop - Appraisal - Financing - Escrow - Parking Web Hosting - Development - SEO - Forum - Tools - WHOIS Education - Resources - New Extensions - Legal - Events