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Politico.com: “Even the most aggressive applicants say they aren’t aiming to knock .com off its perch, at least right away”

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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 change, it’s going to take some time.” Esther Dyson was also quoted in the piece, … [Read more...]

Figuring Out The Next Moves After The New Tlds Launch

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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 moves for investing in domains in general. There will be domains to drop just as a function of the new … [Read more...]

Nic Steinbach on the new tld delays

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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, just saying its a split. Its not a split more like 80 to 90 percent against and 10 to 20 percent in favor from everyoner I talk … [Read more...]

Business2Community “gTLD: Four Little Letters that Will Change the Web”

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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 new company looking for a company name, and then try to get the matching domain, you’ll likely be out … [Read more...]

WhatDomain.org and The Domain Name Association

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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 individuals can finally get the domain they want. There is not just one … [Read more...]

New Tlds, Domain Blogs and Advertising

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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 that take place online as well with the new tlds. I had mentioned that in talking with six or seven registrars that was where a lot … [Read more...]

Do you think .Menu will be a great new tld ? One Man Does

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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 would be a need for an entry level .pro is something I don't understand. Dot Pro would certainly … [Read more...]

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