Has the Internet Outgrown Dot Com?

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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ICANN vs. the World - Time Magazine on New Domains

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Time Magazine wrote a piece on New gTLDs this past weekend and boldly stated "later this month [ICANN] will begin the process of accepting applications for new domains."

I suppose this statement isn't entirely incorrect. After all, I guess one could argue that everything up to this point, for the past three years, has been part of the process of accepting applications; the "accepting" part just hasn't started yet.

.SiTE and many other New gTLD applicants are anxiously awaiting the ICANN Board to finalize the rule book for applicants as well as commit to concrete timelines so the likes of, .Music, .SiTE, .Green., .Eco, and others can help usher in a new era of the Internet.

New Russian TLD is a smash hit | DomainIncite.com - Domain Name News & Opinion

New Russian TLD is a smash hit

Kevin Murphy, November 11, 2010, 16:14:32 (UTC), Domain Registries

Russia’s new Cyrillic top-level domain, .РФ, has gone down a storm, beating even the recent launch of .co in terms of the speed of first-day registrations.

The Russian registry is reporting that it broke through the 200,000 domains mark within the first six hours, after it opened its doors at 1pm local time today.

By my calculations, that’s less than half the time it took .co to hit the same benchmark, despite the fact that .co did not have the same residency requirements as .РФ.

 

Looks like the .RF IDN ccTLD is hitting big. Any investors out there?