New gTLD Application: Key Dates
What are the benefits, you ask? Well according to CentralNic, a dotFamilyName means you can have your own....
... Private kingdom
... An official estate
... An heirloom
... A mark of prominence
... a state of the art security system
Personally, I don't think these will fly due to the rules of applying. Perhaps in later rounds???
.au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA) CEO and newly appointed ICANN Board Member, Chris Disspain, talks New gTLDs with Bnet's Phil Dobbie.
Thanks to domainnamenews.com for reporting the Chris Disspain inteview first.
ICANN's decision to expand the domain space has been the net's hot topic since the announcement last Monday (June 20th). According to ICANN, over 2000 articles have been written on the drastic changes planned for the Internet.
We're showing our support for New TLDs today at the GAC/Board meeting today, and tomorrow's board session on New gTLDs by wearing our ".Yes" T-shirts courtesty of AusRegistry.
According to Amazon, an early-morning "networking event" sent its EC2 cloud service into a state of online disarray, completely stranding its customers websites.
From the CNN Article:
Jason Glassberg, co-founder of security outfit Casaba LLC, called the issue "a big ol' black eye" for Amazon.
"Reliability is probably the No. 1 concern with cloud services," he said. "Amazon has worked long and hard to convince folks that their services were robust. This does not help the cause."
Click on the link below the picture to read the entire article.
ICANN released its 2010 Annual Report this morning (JST). New gTLD applicants and users looking to take advantage of a plethora of new domain name extensions might be wondering what the report said about the topic. Well, not much but Chairman of the ICANN Board, Peter Dengate Thrush has this to say:
Enormous progress on ICANN’s biggest project, the introduction of new generic top-level domains.
Since the Board began the implementation phase in June 2008, the New gTLD Program has been the subject of at least 13 Board resolutions and a special workshop in Trondheim in August where a further 13 decisions were made. Many issues remain to be resolved, but conclusion of the implementation phase, expected in 2011, will mean substantial changes to the face of the Internet.
Greg Dumas of ICM Registry discusses the value of XXX for adult webmasters.
He cites that there are "more value added features in a .XXX than a .COM," and suggests the following:
Thanks to a heads up form Michael Berkens over at thedomains.com we were made aware of this video clip from CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.”
The segement discusses New gTLDs, and .XXX. CNBC called in Josh Bourne from the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse and Ben Crawford, CEO of CentralNIC to give their takes on New gTLDs.
Be sure to read the original post, and the candid comments at the bottom.
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