Archive | October, 2011

In Case You Missed It Over the Weekend…

On Friday, ICANN’s passed two resolutions relating to new gTLDs from its Dakar meeting.  Read the decisions in full.

ICANN its taking bids on the .africa domain.  At least one group, DotAfricaConnect, plans to apply.  The domain name could have lots of benefits, including letting web surfers know that they are on a website based in Africa. Read more.

In Case You Missed It…

Here are some articles from this week you might want to check out!

Web.com plans to apply for .web top level domain.  Web.com has filed a trademark application and thinks no one else should be able to get the name.  Read more.

Will there be a few hundred gTLD applications submitted?  Or several thousand?  We will find out on May 1.  But in the meantime, what do you think?

Applying for a new gTLD?  Here are some key dates you should know.

Should Brands Put Advertising Money Towards TLD?

Big brands spend millions of dollars advertising each year – and they are usually promoting a dotcom web address.  What if they put their money towards a .brand TLD?  They could get more out of their advertising dollar if they were promoting and advertising their own TLD.  And a brand TLD could even save companies money because it would eliminate the need to buy domain names in every TLD out there.  What do you think?  Is your company applying for a .brand?  Read the entire .brand article here.

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