Recent Posts
- ICANN publishes its Woke Manifesto. Here’s my hot take
- Alibaba, Name.com among new RDRS opt-ins
- The Swiss can register .swiss domains from next week
- .ai up to 425,000 domains
- A million “free” .music domains up for grabs
- D3 to get $5 million in crypto to apply for .ape gTLD
- Alibaba hit with ICANN breach notice
- New Vegas conference “Davos for Web3 interoperability”
- ICANN content policing power grab may be dead
- Cable company unplugs its dot-brand after acquisition
- Germany crosses 10,000 dot-brand domains milestone
- Founders out as Com Laude gets equity injection
- PIR’s Diaz to leave domain industry
- Some registrars have already quit ICANN’s Whois experiment
- ICANN opens $217 million Grant Program
- Internet could get one-letter gTLDs (but there’s a catch)
- .ai registry fights deadbeats with tweaked auction rules
- Amazon and Google among .internal TLD ban backers
- .ai registry advises buyers not to use GoDaddy
- .post liberalizes with new sunrise period
- Team Internet spends $41 million on content farm
- Epik backtracks on Kiwi Farms claim after legal threat
- .austin names launch on blockchain
- Freenom shuts down 12.6 million domains — report
- GoDaddy’s next .xxx contract may not be a done deal
- GlobalBlock blocking 2.5 million domains
- Microsoft moving its cloud apps from .com to .microsoft
- ICANN 79: anonymous trolls and undercover lawyers
- ICANN scores win in single-letter .com lawsuit
- Cosmetics brand terminates its gTLD
- Up to 70 jobs on the line at Nominet as .uk regs dwindle
- Governments back down on new gTLD next round delay
- Private auctions could be banned in new gTLD next round
- ICANN meeting venue “insensitive and hurtful”
- GoDaddy to start selling graphic.design domains
- GAC spinning up new gTLD curveball at ICANN 79?
- GoDaddy’s GlobalBlock supports blockchain names
- Police .uk domain takedowns dive in 2023
- GoDaddy wants to cut the bullshit from .xxx
- Dueling domain blocking services to launch at ICANN 79
- Freename tries to bridge DNS and blockchain
- Olive retires from ICANN
- Whois policy published without life-saving disclosure rule
- UK gov takes its lead from ICANN on DNS abuse
- Tucows reports 2023 results
- Twitter “completely unresponsive” on clickable domains
- ICANN spends $5 million more than planned in first fiscal half
- .art takes a million domains off its premium list
- KeyTrap ‘the most devastating vulnerability ever found in DNSSEC’
- Freenom settles $500 million Meta lawsuit and will exit domain business
- New gTLD lottery to return in 2026
- First GlobalBlock prices revealed — they ain’t cheap
- Domain universe grows on new gTLDs despite .com shrinkage
- D3 signs up crypto gTLD client number five
- GoDaddy reports strong domains growth
- How to qualify for a $40,000 gTLD
- Registry service provider evaluation handbook published
- WebUnited inks deal to “mirror” country’s TLD in the blockchain
- GoDaddy project unveils brand-blocking calculator
- Report: Monster “misappropriated” millions from Epik
- .com is shrinking but Verisign raises prices again anyway
- D3 announces fourth crypto new gTLD client
- Donald Trump loses second UDRP case
- UK cybersquatting complaints hit record low
- No excuses! PIR to pay for ALL registries to tackle child abuse
- ICANN insists it is working on linkification
- Namecheap sues ICANN over .org price caps
- GoDaddy offers free Ethereum blockchain integration
- Epik reveals who is running the company
- Epik gets acquired again! The plot thickens…
- Airline gTLD crashes and burns
- First chunks of new gTLD Applicant Guidebook drop
- Epik to reveal its owners soon
- Another crypto firm to apply for a new gTLD
- Monster and Royce are NOT involved in Epik?!
- Nominet to overhaul .uk registry, turn off some services
- Russia blames DNSSEC, not Ukraine, for internet downtime
- Team Internet says revenue beat estimates
- Sold for over $20k, insure.ai and dog.ai back in .ai’s expired names auction
- .ai helps UDRP cases rise in 2023, WIPO says
- Freenom’s domains land at Gandi after termination
- .ru domains fly off the shelf as Western sanctions bite
- ICANN picks its first ever Supreme Court
- Lebanon’s ccTLD going back to Lebanon after ICANN takeover
- ICANN picks the domain it will never, ever release
- ICANN approves domain takedown rules
- Has Epik gone “woke”?
- First bits of new gTLD Applicant Guidebook expected next week
- ICANN bans closed generics for the foreseeable
- You can’t use money to buy .box domains
- After 14 years, ICANN practices what it preaches on IDNs
- Weak demand for private Whois data, ICANN data shows
- .ing doing way better than .meme
- DNS Women barred from ICANN funding?
- Dev releases free open-source TLD registry platform
- INCO flips a gTLD to Identity Digital
- Anguilla fears the .ai junk drop
- Five more gTLDs get launch dates
- $10 million of ICANN cash up for grabs
- Almost 50,000 .ai domains sold in a quarter
- ICANN threatens to regulate your speech [RANT]
- Life insurance company kills dot-brand
- ICANN finds new home for Lebanon’s TLD after founder’s death
- ICANN begs people to use its new Whois service
- Shiba Inu outs itself as crypto new gTLD applicant
- Over 50,000 .ai domains sold in three months
- Amazon planning new push into registrar market?
- Registries and registrars vote ‘Yes’ to new DNS abuse rules
- ICANN predicts flattish 2025 for domain industry
- Fast-growing Gname buys another 150 registrars
- GoDaddy service to let you block domains in over 650 TLDs
- Did I find a murder weapon in a zone file?
- ICANN drops the “man” from Ombudsman
- Have your say on police domain takedown powers
- Most registrars are shunning ICANN’s new Whois system
- Nominet to take over .gov.uk
- ICANN picks Istanbul for 2024 meeting
- ICANN’s private Whois data request service goes live
- .au regs slide on 2LD anniversary
- ICANN accused of power grab over $271 million auction fund
- A registrar is getting blamed for an Israeli war propaganda site
- Two more dot-brands bite the dust
- Google sells five-figure AI domain and six-figure .ing hack
- .blackfriday is still a bit rubbish
- Internet Naming Co acquires five more gTLDs
Win free tickets to the newdomains.org conference
Kevin Murphy,
September 12, 2013, 18:20:51 (UTC),
Domain Services
DI has three tickets to the upcoming new gTLDs conference newdomains.org to give away to three lucky readers, courtesy of organizer United-Domains.
It’s the second newdomains.org event. The first, in 2011, was pretty good but hampered slightly by being scheduled before the ICANN new gTLD program officially kicked off.
With new gTLDs likely to be in the root by the time this year’s conference rolls around in October, the chance of good conversation and some productive networking is likely to be much improved.
Speakers on the agenda include ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade and Google’s Jordyn Buchanan, as well as many senior domain name industry executives, and me.
The event runs from October 28 to 29 at the Sofitel Munich Bayerpost in Munich, Germany.
Our giveaway covers tickets for the conference (valued at €821.10 each) but not the cost of your transport or accommodation, so if you can’t make it, please don’t enter.
To be in with a chance of winning, just leave a comment on this post completing the following sentence:
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be…
We’ll use a random number generator to pick a winner early next week.
UPDATE 9/16: Entries are now closed. Winners will be selected on Tuesday.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be getting registrars to implement/sell the new gTLDs.
(Thus a lot of registries will be setting up their own retail operations.)
The biggest challenge to new gTLDs next year will be education. . . or search . . . or obstruction . . . or . . .
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be the sustainability of the registry businesses.
…endlessly entertaining.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be getting the attention of 3 billion internet users. It would be nice to ICANN to take 1% of the money that have collected to support all of the names coming to market.
Colin Campbell,
CEO.club
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be building trust and acceptance.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be continued argument over whether “to be in with a chance of winning, just leave a comment on this post” is, or is not, exclusive of one person leaving multiple comments.
Not to mention whether b) replies and c) messages from the moderator count.
…or his wife.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be… to differentiate/separate themselves from their immediate new competitors.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be…getting registrant recognition in an over-saturated retail marketplace.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be…to collect all the information on every single string in regards to technical, marketing and sales aspects for implementation into our registrar system.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be… ICANN, including but not limited to ICANN Board, ICANN staff, ICANN GAC, ICANN GNSO, ICANN ALAC, etc.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be … all of the above
Senior Domain Name Industry Executive
Day 2 15.30 Channel B
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be…thinking about the next round of applications and applying lessons learned in the first round
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be marketing. Getting found in a sea of new GTLD extensions will be harder than most registrars ever thought. There are two ways to succeed in this area. Be where qualified buyers are or make it easy for them to find you.
Will be interesting to see which get it… And get it right! When it comes to marketing.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be providing one-stop-shop buying experience for a given TLD with the value add-on products.
(Plumber want to buy plumbing domain but not .somethingELSE)
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be simply making the general public aware of their existence! How will a basic Internet user know that there is a .love but not a .lover. So many choices will leave consumers and merchants constantly guessing. I don’t think choice is bad but I do think that having so many choices will lead people to think they can get just about anything they want (and many times they won’t be able to get an ending they might exist).
Joe, your subconscious called, and asked you stop letting it post on blogs:
“How will a basic Internet user know that there is a .love but not a .lover. […] I don’t think choice is bad but I do think that having so many choices will lead people to think they can get just about anything they want…”
How many people, faced with the possibility of love without a lover, or a lover without love, have indeed been led to think they can get just about anything they want.
The biggest challenge to new gTLDs next year will be making the public aware of them, demand them, and prefer them over their current choices.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be…
standing out from the crowd.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be…
“His Grandiloquence the Nabob of MySpace”
You got to give this to me, Kevin 🙂
Kevin, you need you build a Super Like button for comments such as these 🙂
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be…
the same challenge for all other TLDs. My iphone keyboard has a “.com” button =)
…applicants actually having their TLD delegated…
Let’s see what happens!
Getting thru the ICANN process and getting delegated.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be…the first PICDRP against Donuts in connection with its Spec 11 commitment to “monitor the TLD for abusive behavior and address it as soon as possible if detected,” and whether its feet will be held to the fire, making policing the new norm for open registries. That, or making sure [cough] the IGOs are adequately protected.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be what to do with all the g–damn CASH.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be contracting and logistical delays.
Overall I think the positives far out way the challenges next year. Onwards!
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be… education of businesses, marketers and consumers that new TLD’s are available. Creating a mindset to grab a great name and not “wait” to see what other TLD’s are coming….
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be the huge amount of marketing dollars required to cut through the noise and gain traction.
The biggest challenge (and opportunity) facing new gTLDs next year will be embracing this new gTLD world and understanding how things have operated in the past will not suffice in the present and the future.
I am up to it.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be…to convince skeptics that the money each gTLD applicant spends on its ICANN application and related promotions isn’t a fool’s errand.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be…
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be to find committed resellers for selling the dozens of new tlds.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year, whatever they are, will look like insignificant speedbumps compared to the decade long gauntlet of frustration would-be applicants and new G’s have passed through. There will be demand from the 99% of the global population that doesn’t have a domain yet, these names will get found after some initial hurdles and they will get more successful with each passing year. It’s a downhill sprint for the next 20 years and it begins in 2014 – Wheeeeeee : )
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be…Pygmy Goats. Sure, new domain names will be shorter on the whole, but Pygmys are even shorter, and clearly more useful.
Actually, I’ve attempted to answer this question on another blog here:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130912_you_just_signed_a_registry_contract_with_icann_what_are_your_plans/
I will also be at the new domains conference. See you there.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be… An issue that has hardly been imagined as of yet. The fact that no one has considered it, or is prepared for it, will only amplify its impact when it emerges in the next six months or so. Like the rest of you, I wish I knew what it will be.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be building trust and finding cut through to separate themselves from each other
… to pitch them to registrars.
The biggest challenge facing new gTLDs next year will be to create awareness all around the world, in every country, every language and be able to get the general public to understand their choices.
When it comes to the new GTLDs and education awareness and marketing activities I would ask all potential players registries, service providers etc. that stand to gain from the success of the program the following.
If you plan to get in on the GTLD success story “when would be a good time to start.”