By: Raymond Hackney Politico.com covered the new gtld program today, with comments from the ICANN Vice President of industry engagement who said, “Even though the Internet is only about 20 years old, our minds have been programmed, for all practical purposes, to end our urls with a .com,” Namazi said. “And for that mindset to […]
Continue ReadingEuro DNS Takes A Look at the New Tld Casino
By: Raymond Hackney EuroDns is out with a mighty nice looking infograhic about the new tlds. Giving it a casino theme the designer did a great job imo. Courtesy of EuroDns
Continue ReadingFiguring Out The Next Moves After The New Tlds Launch
By: Raymond Hackney The new tlds are coming so all the unproductive discussion about whether they suck or they are not needed has been relegated to the trash bin. These extensions are coming out and there is nothing a domain investor can do to prevent that. The important things are to figure out the next […]
Continue ReadingNic Steinbach on the new tld delays
By: Raymond Hackney Nic Steinbach talks about what is going in with the new tlds, that there will be 20 tlds that can be delegated to the root every week. He also goes into how the delays are affecting the registrars who have to wait on ICANN. He did not go to deep into domainers, […]
Continue ReadingBusiness2Community “gTLD: Four Little Letters that Will Change the Web”
By: Raymond Hackney Kathy Nielsen wrote a piece on Business2Community.com about the new tlds From the article: This is really a brand new wave of opportunity for naming on the internet. I’d say that around 99% of all first searches for a domain name show that the first choice is not available. If you’re a […]
Continue ReadingWhatDomain.org and The Domain Name Association
By: Raymond Hackney I came across a website called WhatDomain.org, which is a website dedicated to educating the public about the new tlds. They illustrate the Internet as a group of neighborhoods and that there will be many new neighborhoods coming online. They present these new changes as a bigger and more organized Internet, where […]
Continue ReadingAttendees at Hosting Con and their differing views on New Tlds
By: Raymond Hackney Name.com uploaded videos from Hosting Con where they asked attendees about the new tlds coming out. There was a diverse mix of answers. There were those who felt it was great and others who thought it would just promote confusion.
Continue ReadingHow New Domains Will Change The Internet – Brian Cute, CEO PIR REGISTRY
By: Raymond Hackney Brian Cute from PIR Registry the people who run .org, discusses the new tlds with the Wall Street Journal. Cute is high on niche focused tlds that serve communities. He also talks about security and confusion for the consumer.
Continue ReadingNew Tlds, Domain Blogs and Advertising
By: Raymond Hackney I was having a conversation with a friend who is a domainer and he was going on about the new tlds. He was talking about the usual stuff that they are a waste of money, will only bring about confusion and no one wants them. That is a lot of the conversations […]
Continue ReadingDo you think .Menu will be a great new tld ? One Man Does
By: Raymond Hackney Bob Mountain is senior vice president of business development at Namemedia. He was interviewed about new tlds and mentioned that he thought that .Menu will be a home run, he also states in the interview below that he thinks that .pw has done very well as an entry level .pro. Why there […]
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