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  • How to register an expired domain name

    How to register an expired domain name

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    There’s 2 reasons you might want to register an expired domain name: It’s your own domain name and you forgot to renew. Or, it’s someone else’s domain name and you want it. Unfortunately, it’s complicated, because different registrars and different top-level domains have different terms for how they do things. And there’s not a precise…

  • Best of the new top-level domains

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    In our crowdsourced world today, indicators of what’s best could be measured by: what’s most popular, the best reviews, the highest ratings, the most likes, the most shares, the highest score. In this new era of the Internet namespace, with nearly a thousand new domain extensions (technically known as generic top-level domains or gTLDs), there are different…

  • Unclaimed Domain Names as comedy

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    There’s an industry out there with people and companies that buy and sell domain names. Report has it that “the United States generates $600 million yearly from its domain name industry.” Just found out about a comedy bit from Daniel Tosh about unregistered domain names (ht: thedomains.com) that actually got people to register the unclaimed domain names…

  • List of dotBrand websites launched to date

    List of dotBrand websites launched to date

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    ICANN’s new gTLD program has many more brands applying for its top-level domain, far beyond expectations. And 400+ new gTLDs have launched so far (new domain extensions like .CHURCH, .CLUB, .LINK, and .WEBSITE) with more to come. In the mix are dotBrand TLDs, those that are exclusively used by a branded corporation / organization /…

  • Shape the Future of the Internet at ICANN Meetings

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    Hey, conference lovers and Internet lovers. There’s a professionally-produced conference you can attend for FREE. It’s the ICANN Meeting, open to the public, held this week in Los Angeles, California (USA), and I attended on behalf of my work with the .BIBLE TLD Registry (operated by the American Bible Society). The official description of these events:…

  • Next Innovation on the Internet: no more slashes?

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    Here at the ICANN 51 conference (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) in Los Angeles this week, sitting in on lots of policy details being examined and re-examined, so as it goes with a multi-stakeholder model of governance, and there’s sidebar presentations of technical layers too. By the way, did you know there’s now…

  • The Very First .CHURCH Websites are Live!

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    … the first movers might have a head start, but it’s easier than ever for others to catch up… but the first movers will always be the first movers… And, according to Google Search, these are the first 5 church websites running on their new .CHURCH domain names

  • .CHURCH domain name can be registered now

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    .CHURCH domain names are now available for registration everywhere – see this list of registrars for pricing information

  • 50% of Interbrand’s Top 100 Global Brands applied for new gTLDs

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    The Internet has already seen the launching of 250+ new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) this year and it’s estimated to be over 1,000+ new gTLDs by next year, 2015, even though a majority of people are not aware of them yet. Global brands may well be the biggest factor in changing that perception; .BMW has already launched. One…

  • How to get the new gTLD domain names you want

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    With new gTLDs (generic top-level domains) launching every week this year and the next, there’s quite a feeding frenzy for potentially popular domain names. There are domain investors (aka domainers or cybersquatters, cf. domain name speculation) as well as individuals and organizations that want to get certain domain names. The thing is: only one entity…

  • List of the Best Blogs on New gTLDs

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    Best way to answer the question “What’s going on with new gtlds? I’m finding it very difficult to get any decent information about the new gtlds that are being released” is to keep up with the bloggers that are good about posting frequent updates with current news and information about new gTLDs, aka the Internet…

  • When will more new gTLD websites go live?

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    Thousands upon thousands of domain names are being registered with new gTLD extensions, 746,000+ new domain names at the time of this post, with endings like: .guru .berlin .club .photography .email .link .today .tips .company (gTLD stands for generic top level domain) – but I’m finding less than 1% (guesstimate) of them have real websites up-and-running…