Now that the new generic Top Level Domain preliminary draw has taken place and it is likely the first new gTLD launches will take place in 2013, a conference on marketing and strategy has been announced for New York in March. 9786
In a report prepared for investor clients, RBC Capital Markets have prepared a report on the new generic Top Level Domain expansion saying that "with potentially 100s more gTLDs becoming available for use in the next year or so, we think DMD (Demand Media) and WWWW (Web.com) - two companies in our coverage universe with major domain registrar operations - will be longer-term beneficiaries through the expansion of the domain name-space." 8734
Demand Media invested $18 million in pursuit of their generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) initiative in April, which it believes represents a complementary strategic growth opportunity for its registrar services. What the investment was in, the company has not said. 8329
ICANN has offered a full refund of application fees for any gTLD applicant that wishes to withdraw its application prior to publication of the list of applied-for new top level domains. 8314
The 2004 German film Downfall on Hitler's demise has spurned a wide number of parodies with well over 100 videos now available online, mostly on YouTube. 8222
In the second of our series of articles on new TLDs resulting from interviews with leading industry players, we talk to Alexa Raad, CEO of Architelos, a TLD consulting and managed registry services company. 8167
ICANN, having thought they were almost there in resolving the technical glitch that forced them to close the TLD application system, or TAS, on 12 April, seem to be still some way from reopening the TAS. However they do believe they have indentified what caused the issue and developed a patch to fix it. 8140
The recent glitch in ICANN's TLD Application System (TAS) could have resulted in applicants being able to see competitors bids. While nobody has come forth to say they saw other bid details, it is also most likely if you had knowledge of competitor's bids one would stay silent and possibly even use the information for commercial advantage. 8079