.ДЕТИ Succesfuuly Passed its Pre-Delegation Testing
According to the Coordination Center for TLD RU/.РФ, the .ДЕТИ (Russian for “children”) ,succesfully passed its pre-delegation testing, the final step before a new gTLD is delegated.
.ДЕТИ is the first new Russian gTLD to clear ICANN testing. If everything goes according to plan, the new gTLD will be delegated as sson as in February,according to some expert estimations.
“With .ДЕТИ successfully completing its pre-delegation testing, it is evident that the Technical Center of Internet offers world-class services that conform to the highest standards.The positive results also mean that PDT would not be a problem for any of the new gTLD registries that have selected the TCI as a backbone services provider,” said Marina Nikerova, deputy director of the TCI.
Andrei Kolesnikov, director of the Coordination Center is also looking forward to the launch of the new gTLD .ДЕТИ.The new gTLD would allow children to safely use all posibilities that the global netword has to offer.
Calzone Launches The First Calendar For Tracking the Various Stages of Every New Top-Level-Domain Name
Calzone announced today that it has launched the first domain name industry calendar, a tool designed to help trademark lawyers, business owners and marketing managers to track the various stages of every new TLD .
You can read the press release after the jump:
“Today, Calzone (www.Calzone.org ) launches the first dynamic calendar for tracking the various stages of every new top-level-domain extension. Calzone is a free productivity tool that was designed to help trademark lawyers, marketing managers and business owners protect their brands and identify the domain extensions and deadlines that matter most to their business. Calzone can be synchronized with a user’s personal calendar on their computer, smart-phone or tablet, allowing businesses to bring some order to the domain name chaos.
“Even for domain name industry insiders like myself, managing the coming tidal wave of new extensions is a challenge,” says Thomas Barrett, founder of Calzone. “The Calzone calendar is the first tool that actually helps manage this problem. It will immediately benefit brand owners and anyone else whose job it is to keep track of the new top-level domain extensions launching on the Internet.”
The Internet is undergoing a sea change as new top-level domain (TLDs) extensions roll out this month, such as dot-Guru, dot-Sport, dot-Fishing, dot-Beer and dot-NYC. Over 1,200 new domains will launch and each one has its own unique policies and dates for their launch plans. This month alone, there are already 82 extensions with approved launch schedules. Tracking the introduction and deadlines of these extensions is essential for marketing managers and trademark lawyers responsible for brand protection.
Calzone will publish key milestones of each new TLD, including their Start-up Plan, the start dates and end dates of the Sunrise Period for trademark owners and other launch phases. Calzone will also track special marketing programs offered by Registries, such as Founder’s programs, Expression-of-Interest programs and auctions of premium names.
Users can browse the free calendar at www.Calzone.org and subscribe to receive updates to their smartphone, tablet or PC via any online calendar, including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft Outlook, Windows Live and Yahoo calendars. Subscribers may also utilize filters to track individual TLDs or industry categories, such as Food & Drink; by launch phase, such as Sunrise Period; or even by IDN language script, such as Russian or Chinese.
Calzone will also send out email and calendar alerts when a Sunrise or Landrush period is about to start or end, ensuring trademark lawyers and brand owners are able to secure their desired domain name before the deadline.
The service includes tools for users to share events with their client and co-workers, send reminders via email or text, and receive changes to deadlines.
Calzone will continue tracking TLDs, even after they completed their start-up Plan, since many Registries often change their eligibility policies and offer new services, in response to competitive pressure. This extends to existing TLD extensions on the Internet.
Visit www.Calzone.org to try out the service.”
It’s Just Not .KOSHER – Jewish Groups Battle Over gTLD
Battles over who gets the opportunity to operate certain new gTLDs has been quite combative for a few, and one in particular is the .kosher application.
While there was only one applicant for .kosher, a subsidiary of OK Kosher, Kosher Marketing Assets LLC, which certifies more than 500,000 products and offices around the world, it drew criticisms from a number of Jewish organisations such as the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, STAR-K Kosher Certification Inc. (STAR-K), Chicago Rabbinical Council (cRc), Kosher Supervision Service Inc. (KOF-K) and the Kashruth Council of Canada (COR) reported Haaretz.
However, Rabbi Moshe Elefant, chief operating officer of OU Kosher, made clear in an interview with the Jewish Journal on 23 January that he still had doubts about how OK Kosher would use the newly delegated gTLD.
“We don’t believe that any one group should have control over the word ‘kosher,’ Elefant told the Jewish Journal. “If one kosher certifying agency has control over which businesses could obtain Web addresses ending in .kosher, he said, any business that wanted to have such a presence on the Web would be forced to sign up with OK Kosher.”
But according to the report “an expert working for the International Chamber of Commerce rebuffed this objection and awarded the right to manage .kosher” to OK Kosher “on 14 January concluding that there was no proof that it would have a negative impact reported the Jewish Journal.
“Competitors claim OK Kosher would use the domain to attain an unfair competitive advantage in the kosher certification business, but the International Chamber of Commerce rejected their objection,” reported Haaretz.
“OK Kosher’s head of public relations, Rabbi Chaim Fogelman, told the Jewish Journal that the company is not yet sure what it will do with the new domain, but it will be in line with their mission of “kosher without compromise.”
But there is a background to the battle over the rights to .kosher. “There’s a long history of intense rivalry — but also cooperation — between kosher certifiers in the United States,” reported the Jewish Journal. “Today, a consumer food product may have only one kosher symbol on its package, but it’s likely that its ingredients are certified by different agencies.”
That balance between competition and cooperation is a delicate one, and this dispute could push that system in one way or another, Timothy Lytton, a professor at Albany Law School whose book “Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrialized Food” was published last year. Gaining control over .kosher could give OK Kosher increased Internet traffic, he said.
“If that could be translated into greater market control or greater control over public understanding of kosher standards, that might push [the American system of kosher certification] in the direction of centralised control,” he said.
And while there is an application fee of $185,000 to apply for a gTLD, and many other costs, those opposing the bid spent around $100,000 on fees to ICANN and lawyers. And they could spend more to appeal the decision.
Elefant told the Jewish Journal that when news of OK’s application to take control of .kosher reached him at the OU in late 2012, it was a surprise.
“We were never informed by OK of their application,” he said. “We happened to find out — and religious Jews don’t like to use this word — coincidentally.”
Before they took their objection to ICANN, though, the OU, together with the four other agencies, approached OK Kosher according to the report. A meeting was held in January 2013 to see if some kind of mutually acceptable agreement could be reached.
But if the OU’s preference was for no agency to own the gTLD .kosher, OK Kosher took a different attitude. Fogelman said the .kosher gTLD has “enormous potential to spread kosher and educate about kosher.” Furthermore, Fogelman believes there is a danger to leaving the .kosher gTLD on the table.
“Allowing it to be directed by people who are either not qualified or have ulterior motives for managing .kosher has the potential for great disaster,” he said.
January 2014 Highest Reported .COM Domain Name Sales
Wan.com was the highest reported .COM domain name in the first month of 2014.The domain name changed hands for a whopping $800,000.
Here are the top 20 .COM domain name sales in January 2014:
1. Wan.com (“play” in Chinese) $800,000
2. Teamwork.com $675,000
3. True.com $350,000
4. LGG.com $175,000
5. JCT.com $98,000
6. TeamShirts.com $89,000
7. Xiaoxiao.com $51,688
8. Crafting.com $51,500
9. OnBroadway.com $50,000
10. BigBen.com $50,000
11.Homify.com $40,500
12. Acar.com $40,000
13. Heard.com $40,000
14. GetCash.com $33,901
15. Desperados.com $33,500
16. Xili.com $32,500
17. PersianRugs.com $28,204
18. Haynesville.com $25,000
18. Lauffer.com $25,000
20. HelloMoney.com $24,000
GoDaddy Auctions Sold 35,209 Domain Names, Led by Spokes.com for $40,000
GoDaddy Auctions sold 35,209 domain names in January 2014.Spokes.com was the highest selling domain name at $40,000,which is currently resolving to a Parked page.
Here are the top ten sales :
Spokes.com $40,000
Radiant.org $23,000
Rottencredit.com $22,000
Oair.com $20,100
Myanmar.org $20,000
Bloggapedia.com $19,600
Fia.org $18,000
Lcloud.com $13,700
Irishgold.com $11,950
Interiordesigners.net $11,050
GoDaddy sold 4,386 less domain names in January vs December 2013. The company sold in December 39,595 domain names. In January 2013, GoDaddy sold 35,156 domain names.
