Monday, January 13, 2014

Domaining.com & TheDomains.com Launch The New gTLD Ticker

The new gTLD ticker is an advertising program, the brain child of Francois Carrillo, Founder and C.E.O of Cybertonic which operates Domaining.com who is in charge of making the ticker work.
http://www.thedomains.com/2014/01/13/domaining-com-thedomains-com-launch-the-new-gtld-ticker/

Friday, January 10, 2014

New GTLDs Will Change Internet User Behavior Drive Social Media Industry Growth

The sentence like structure of new Generic Top Level Domains (GTLDs) like hotels.nyc or mountain.bike will change the way that internet users think search and navigate the internet says Scott Alliy a domain name expert and Internet marketing pioneer.

Preparing for New gTLDs (for Domain Name Investors)

I’ve gone through the entire gamut of emotions and opinions about new gTLDs. If you search online back far enough, you can find a few of my rants stating that adding anything more than .com, .net, and .org is a terrible idea (this was when they were proposing .info and .biz). Obviously, I’ve warmed up to the idea today and have a different view. I’ve been directly involved in assisting 10 or so applicants to submit 60 new gTLD applications. I’ve been a domainer, worked for a registry, and now, work for a registrar so I’ve seen the industry from all sides.

http://www.domaininvesting.com/preparing-new-gtlds-domain-name-investors/

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Are Domainers Concerned by New gTLDs?

I recently spoke on the phone to a French domainer about new gTLDs. There are not so many of them in France that can make decent money from reselling domain names. His story was pretty straightforward: “my list is ready and I have not used any pre-registration platform. I will register when new domains extensions are open to all”. No mention of any Landrush or Sunrise period. Of course, no word about the domain names he plans to register. This is a very conservative strategy, and I am not surprised, since there will be plenty of opportunities with so many new Top-Level Domains launching, especially for non-English speakers; even if we consider that English domain names are usually the most profitable ones.
http://www.business2community.com/digital-marketing/domainers-concerned-new-gtlds-0736341

My Take on the New GTLDS – Joe Uddeme

Over the past 18 months a tremendous number of clients and colleagues have been beyond apprehensive regarding the impending introduction of roughly 1,700 new Generic Top Level Domains (GTLDS) into the current marketplace. What will happen with domain values? How will these new domains affect the internet? Who will buy these domains?
http://www.domainholdings.com/my-take-on-the-new-gtlds-joe-uddeme/#.Us5ZkdJDvkt

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Frank Schilling on gTLDs: Greed will trump fear

I read several industry blogs daily and from each one I attempt to extract key points that they make though their posts and comments.

DotWhatever is a new online publication that arrived to fill the current gTLD void, covering the new era in the domain namespace that has irreversibly arrived.

http://acro.net/blog/domains/frank-schilling-on-gtlds-greed-will-trump-fear/

Thursday, January 2, 2014

.BID: buy and sell virtually anything online

With over 112 million users on eBay alone, having a dedicated virtual space for auction platforms and marketplace sites provides a beacon for an enormous and self-selecting user base ready to buy and sell virtually anything online.