2013年11月26日星期二
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ICANN cautions about new TLD pre-registrations-NiceNIC.NET
ICANN weighs in on pre-registrations for new top level domain names.
Namazi warns against services that “guarantee” they’ll get the domain name for you:
With more and more domain name registrars offering some sort of pre-registration or pre-reservation service for new top level domain names, ICANN has published a word of caution.
Cyrus Namazi, Vice President of DNS Industry Engagement for ICANN, published a blog post today titled “Pre-Reserve a Domain Name, or Not? ICANN Answers the Question.”
As responsible Registrars are advising, successful pre-registration of a domain cannot be guaranteed. ICANN seconds that advice, cautioning that registrants should be wary of anyone who claims to be able to guarantee a domain registration on a new gTLD. There are several situations that can impact the availability of a domain name and some domain names may never be available for purchase.
Namazi points out that competition between registrars for a single domain, domains claimed in sunrise, reserved domains, premium domains, and name collision domains make it impossible to guarantee. He also notes that some TLDs may not even end up being delegated.
I haven’t personally seen any offers that guarantee you’ll get a domain you pre-register, although the language and disclaimers are probably unclear to the average internet user.
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GoDaddy is ending its domain listing syndication partnership with Sedo as of March 31, 2014.
The partnership enabled domain names listed with Sedo to show up on GoDaddy Auctions as well as in the registration path on GoDaddy.com when a customer searched for a domain listed for sale with Sedo.
The decision comes in the wake of GoDaddy’s acquisition of Sedo’s competitor Afternic in September.
“We’re all in with our vision of the aftermarket, which is Afternic as the single hub of all domains and the registrars just tie in,” said Paul Nicks, GoDaddy Director of Product Development – Aftermarket.
“We believe that a fast transfer system through all the registrars provides the security, the customer experience, and the ease of purchase that’s really necessary to grow the aftermarket,” he said.
Fast transfer refers to the ability of customers to buy aftermarket domain names and have them instantly transferred into their account, regardless of where the domain is registered.
Both Sedo and Afternic have fast transfer services, but GoDaddy never integrated the option. That will change for Afternic now that GoDaddy owns it. The current implementation of Sedo and Afternic on GoDaddy.com involves syndicating sales listings, but the actual domain transfer is a manual process.
At this point, GoDaddy does not plan to change its relationship with DomainNameSales.com (DNS). DNS also has a syndication agreement with GoDaddy, but Nicks views the arrangement differently. The average sales price of DNS domains through GoDaddy is above $15,000.
“We’re lining those up to be the high touch point, lead gen and brokerage [model],” he said.
That compares to sales through Afternic and its fast transfer system, which typically have fixed prices under $2,000.
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Yahoo Auctioned Off More Than 100 Premium Domain Names-NiceNIC.NET
If you're in the market for some great domain names, Yahoo has more than 100 of them to sell you. Starting from 2013-11-13, the company started a week-long auction of premium domain names (most of which appear to have been bought in 1997) of everything from Crackers.com to TrueStory.com. "Domainapalooza" starts Nov. 14 and ends on the 21st.
From Yahoo's Tumblr blog: As we discussed what to do with them, it became obvious that it was time to set them free…back into the wild of the Internet. Surely, creative people, businesses and entrepreneurs could come up with something great to do with them. They could even spark some brand new ideas or companies.
Yahoo will be using domain marketplace website Sedo for the auctions, which already have some reserve ranges set ahead of the bidding.
Some of the more premium domains come with steep reserve prices. Here's a sampling:
— sandwich.com: $50,000 - $99,999
— mym.com: $100,000 - 249,999
— av.com: $1 million to $1.5 million
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From Yahoo's Tumblr blog: As we discussed what to do with them, it became obvious that it was time to set them free…back into the wild of the Internet. Surely, creative people, businesses and entrepreneurs could come up with something great to do with them. They could even spark some brand new ideas or companies.
Yahoo will be using domain marketplace website Sedo for the auctions, which already have some reserve ranges set ahead of the bidding.
Some of the more premium domains come with steep reserve prices. Here's a sampling:
— sandwich.com: $50,000 - $99,999
— mym.com: $100,000 - 249,999
— av.com: $1 million to $1.5 million
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London gets its own web domain name-NiceNIC.NET
Businesses, organisations and individuals based in the capital will be able to apply for a '.london' top level domain (TLD) in spring next year.
Official promotional agency London & Partners said it signed a contract with ICANN - the company responsible for overseeing the internet - to operate the domain under a newly-formed subsidiary.
London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "Adopting the .london suffix will enable organisations to more closely associate themselves with our great city's powerful global brand.
"This is also an excellent opportunity to expand London's digital presence, which in turn is set to generate funds to invest back into the city."
Similar effects are also likely to be seen for the introduction of similar doman names for Paris, New York, Berlin and Vienna, so savvy brands around the world will use the introduction of the gTLDs to start thinking about how new domain endings can strengthen their internet presence.
London Mayor Boris Johnson called the announcement 'an excellent opportunity to expand London’s digital presence, which in turn is set to generate funds to invest back into the city.'
First new generic top-level web domains released
ICANN says it intends the new addresses, which are in non-Latin script, to create a more globally-inclusive internet
The first four new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) have been approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) – the body responsible for the allocation of new top level domains onto the internet.
There are around 1.7 billion Arabic, Chinese and Russian speakers, making up more than one seventh of the world’s population. Allowing organisations to register web addresses in Arabic, Chinese and Russian script will therefore open up a way for new markets to brand themselves online.
ICANN says the gTLDs demonstrate its efforts to create a more globally-inclusive internet, and that these are the ‘first of many’ gTLDs in non-Latin scripts including Greek and Hindi.
‘We are already starting to see the emergence of registry sites in Latin script… and a full Arabic script domain going live,’ said Ben Anderson, head of the new gTLDs at NetNames – a company that manages domain names.
Up until now there have been only 22 approved gTLDs worldwide, including .com, .org, .biz, .info and .net.
Yesterday’s announcement marks the first phase of opening up the internet to a possible 1,4000 proposed new domains or ‘strings.’
It took eight years for ICANN to approve the first four domains through a rigorous process of evaluation and consultation.
Over 1,900 applicants came forward to register their suggestions since the application window opened in January 2012.
The new tags could potentially allow organisations to further customise their online brands, with private companies allowed to apply for their own branded gTLDs.
Organisations would have to pay a minimum of $25,000 a year for the use of their equivalent to a .org or .com address – Google made 101 requests including .google and .youtube, and the BBC applied for .bbc.
But the process of issuing new gTLDs is complicated by concerns such as protection of intellectual property and DNS stability.
ICANN rejected Google’s application for ‘dotless’ domains on ‘security’ grounds, and several of Amazon’s applications have come under fire from rival publishing groups competitive grounds for wishing to register and take strict control of ‘.book, ‘.read,’and ‘.author.’
The first four new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) have been approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) – the body responsible for the allocation of new top level domains onto the internet.
Four new gTLDs were set to go live on the web after receiving approval, and include words in Chinese, Cyrillic and Arabic script that translate to ‘.online,’ ‘.games,’ ‘.site,’ and ‘.web.’
ICANN says the gTLDs demonstrate its efforts to create a more globally-inclusive internet, and that these are the ‘first of many’ gTLDs in non-Latin scripts including Greek and Hindi.
Up until now there have been only 22 approved gTLDs worldwide, including .com, .org, .biz, .info and .net.
Yesterday’s announcement marks the first phase of opening up the internet to a possible 1,4000 proposed new domains or ‘strings.’
It took eight years for ICANN to approve the first four domains through a rigorous process of evaluation and consultation.
Over 1,900 applicants came forward to register their suggestions since the application window opened in January 2012.
The new tags could potentially allow organisations to further customise their online brands, with private companies allowed to apply for their own branded gTLDs.
Organisations would have to pay a minimum of $25,000 a year for the use of their equivalent to a .org or .com address – Google made 101 requests including .google and .youtube, and the BBC applied for .bbc.
But the process of issuing new gTLDs is complicated by concerns such as protection of intellectual property and DNS stability.
ICANN rejected Google’s application for ‘dotless’ domains on ‘security’ grounds, and several of Amazon’s applications have come under fire from rival publishing groups competitive grounds for wishing to register and take strict control of ‘.book, ‘.read,’and ‘.author.’
ICANN’s generic domains division president Akram Atallah described the launch of the first new domains as ‘the biggest change to the Internet since its inception,’ ‘In the weeks and months ahead, we will see new domain names coming online from all corners of the world, bringing people, communities and businesses together in ways we never imagined,’ he said in a statement, ‘It's this type of innovation that will continue to drive our global society’.
.Gay Objector Strikes Out-NiceNIC.NET
International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) has lost three community objections, it brought against applicants for the .gay top level domain name. The objections were filed against Top Level Design, Top Level Domain Holdings, and United TLD (Demand Media).
ILGA is backing a rival .gay bid by dotgay LLC.
Panelist Dr. Bernhard Schlink ruled that the gay community is a clearly delineated community, and that ILGA had standing to bring the objection. However, he determined that ILGA did not prove that .gay going to the applicants would cause material detriment to the gay community.
Schlink agreed that the “gay community” might lose the chance to operate the .gay string as a result of the three companies’ applications. But he pointed to section 3.5.4 of the applicant guidebook, which states “an allegation of detriment that consists only of the applicant being delegated the string instead of the objector will not be sufficient for a finding of material detriment.”
He also ruled against ILGA in its objection to Afilias’ application for .LGBT.
Schlink is the same panelist that found against Metroplex Republicans of Dallas in its own objection against dotgay LLC (the group ILGA is backing). In that case, he ruled that the objector didn’t have standing.
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Tea.CN on TOP triggered Chinese Domain RUSH-NicNIC.NET
November 19th, "Chinese .CN Domain Contest" sponsored by Domain.CN came to an end, Chinese character .CN domain name of "茶.CN" (Tea.CN in English) overwhelmingly come out on top - just a simple word, but with strong connotations of Chinese characteristics, potential commercial value for the domain name industry.
Under current trend of short alphabetic .COM, .CN being sold for whopping price, we can still see such a good short domain name, which makes "Chinese. CN" the domain name industry's attention and Chinese domain's awareness greatly improved. More remarkable, it triggered a Chinese Domain RUSH.
It is understood that the domain name contest with theme of "Chinese Dream + Chinese Red + I Love 'Chinese .CN'" aims to drive the whole domain industry's attention, publicize Chinese .CN domain name and let more end-users know Chinese.CN.
Only 244 Chinese .CN domain names were selected and proved to be qualified for final round. Each domain of 244 has its own Chinese features, such as "金玉满堂.CN", "招财.CN", "俺.CN", "早教.CN", "巴萨.CN", "京唐港.CN" etc.
After several rounds of online voting, "茶.CN"(Tea.CN), "彩票.CN" and "特产.CN" won the top three.
Owner of "茶.CN"(Tea.CN) expressed: Chinese is our mother tongue, in the highly condensed context of domain name, Chinese domain name is application-oriented and more suitable to be developed to a website. I hope domain lovers will give more concern about "Chinese.CN" domain name and in return, earn serious bucks in the Chinese Domain Rush.
The statistic data by China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) show that as of the end of October 2013, .CN domain quantity already broke through 8.8 million. "Chinese.CN" domain represents not only Chinese international influence but also the advantage of intuitive, specific, profound Chinese characters.
At present, abundant Chinese resources guarantee that both domestic and international companies would have chance to find their brand image and product positioning matched domain name.
In the Internet field, with growing international influence of Chinese, rates of "Chinese .CN" domain awareness and application rockets simultaneously.
Under current trend of short alphabetic .COM, .CN being sold for whopping price, we can still see such a good short domain name, which makes "Chinese. CN" the domain name industry's attention and Chinese domain's awareness greatly improved. More remarkable, it triggered a Chinese Domain RUSH.
Only 244 Chinese .CN domain names were selected and proved to be qualified for final round. Each domain of 244 has its own Chinese features, such as "金玉满堂.CN", "招财.CN", "俺.CN", "早教.CN", "巴萨.CN", "京唐港.CN" etc.
After several rounds of online voting, "茶.CN"(Tea.CN), "彩票.CN" and "特产.CN" won the top three.
Owner of "茶.CN"(Tea.CN) expressed: Chinese is our mother tongue, in the highly condensed context of domain name, Chinese domain name is application-oriented and more suitable to be developed to a website. I hope domain lovers will give more concern about "Chinese.CN" domain name and in return, earn serious bucks in the Chinese Domain Rush.
The statistic data by China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) show that as of the end of October 2013, .CN domain quantity already broke through 8.8 million. "Chinese.CN" domain represents not only Chinese international influence but also the advantage of intuitive, specific, profound Chinese characters.
At present, abundant Chinese resources guarantee that both domestic and international companies would have chance to find their brand image and product positioning matched domain name.
In the Internet field, with growing international influence of Chinese, rates of "Chinese .CN" domain awareness and application rockets simultaneously.
That a large number of domain name lovers participate, vote and promote in "Chinese .CN Domain Contest" shows public are full of expectations and confidence in the future of Chinese domain name. The promotion and application of "Chinese.CN" domain names will be more conducive in helping build up "pure Chinese internet", more convenient for Chinese to get access to internet, and easier for enterprises to launch positioning online marketing.
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2013年11月18日星期一
Why You Won't Find Tuvalu on a Map of the World's Internet Domains
Tuvalu (.tv) and Micronesia (.fm) may have a lot of websites registered to their country-coded domains, but they mostly have little to do with the actual countries.
Illustration by Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata / Oxford Internet Institute (used with permission)On traditional maps of the world, Russia, Canada, China, and India loom large. On this map, though, the size of each country corresponds to the estimated number of websites registered there. The United States, unsurprisingly, is home to the largest number of registered Internet domains. Perhaps less predictably, Germany ranks a solid second, ahead of the United Kingdom. China is fourth despite the world's largest online population, with only one registered domain per 40 Internet users, indicating that far fewer Chinese people create websites than visit them. The United States, in contrast, has about one domain registration for every three Internet users.
One of the project's findings is that while Asians, South Americans, and Africans may represent a fast-growing proportion of Internet users, the vast majority of websites continue to be produced in the United States and Europe. For instance, they note that Italy and Vietnam have about the same number of Internet users, but Italy is home to seven times as many websites.
The estimates were painstakingly compiled by Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata, researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, based in part on data from University of Kentucky professor Mark Zook, who specializes in the geography of the Internet. To arrive at a full picture of how many websites are registered in each country, the researchers combined WHOIS registration data for generic top-level domains (like .com) with data on the number of registrations for each country-code top-level domains (like .us for the United States, .de for Germany, and .cn for China). They explained their methodology in a blog post Wednesday morning.
One interesting sidenote: To guard against miscounting, the researchers excluded top-level domains like .cc, .fm, and .io that actually belong to specific countries but are widely used by websites in the U.S. and elsewhere as alternatives to the traditional .com. I almost wish they had left those in: It would have been fascinating to see a large blip on the map between Australia and Hawaii and wonder, "What country is that?", before realizing that Tuvalu's domain is .tv, making it highly attractive to media-related companies across the English-speaking world. Here's the full list of country-code domains that the researchers excluded for similar reasons:
.tv (Tuvalu): used by the media industry
.fm (Federated States of Micronesia): used by the media industry
.am (Armenia): used by the media industry
.mu (Mauritius): used by music websites
.ac (Ascension Island): used by education-related websites
.re (Réunion): used by real-estate agents
.ws (Samoa): used as an abbreviation for “web site”
.me (Montenegro): used for personal websites
.cc (Cocos Islands): used as an alternative to .com (administered by VeriSign)
.cm (Cameroon): used as an alternative to .com (as a way of exploiting typing errors)
.nu (Niue): means “now” in Danish, Dutch, and Swedish
.as (American Samoa): the suffixes “AS” and “A/S” are used in some countries (e.g. Norway, Denmark, and the Czech Republic) for joint stock companies
.io (British Indian Ocean Territory): used by start-up companies
.st (Sao Tome and Principe): is used around the world in several ways
.tk (Tokelau): the .tk domain can (unusually) be registered for no monetary cost. This has meant that there are over 17 million domains registered to the country (which is more than the total registered in the UK).
The researchers also discounted non-local registrations on two other countries' domains:
.co (Colombia): used as an alternative to .com (as a way of exploiting typing errors)
.md (Moldova): used by medical doctors
It's possible these types of workarounds would never have been necessary had ICANN embarked earlier on its current plan to greatly expand the range of available generic top-level domains. On the other hand, the old arrangement has been a boon to countries like Tuvalu, whose government apparently relies heavily on royalties from the .tv domain.
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