2012 News
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
ICANN have issued a statement this morning in relation to the ongoing issues with the application system.
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
In March 2012 Nominet reached an important and successful milestone – the registration of 10 million .uk domain names.
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
At the weekend ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom confirmed to a industry journalist that the TAS system currently has 1268 registered users. Each user has up to 50 available gTLD application slots per TAS account so NetNames expects to see more than 1268 applications, perhaps closer to 2000 applications.
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
On 27 April the COO of ICANN, Akram Atallah, issued a statement about the technical glitch in the TLD (Top Level Domain) application system. The update is as follows:
Monday, 16 April 2012
There were long faces all over the new gTLD ecosystem on Friday — applicants, consultants and technical operators alike — when ICANN took their application system (TAS) offline and announced that it would not be brought back up for five days. Read the full article here.
Friday, 13 April 2012
NetNames has received an important announcement from ICANN regarding the TAS system which is used to submit new gTLD applications. Read the news article on our gtld website here.
Friday, 13 April 2012
The move to snap up Instagram this week by Facebook for a cool $1 billion came out of left field for many people. The same question will be asked in boardrooms up and down the internet - "Why them?". Instagram, formed just 18 months ago, is a digital photo editing and sharing app, built initially for IOS devices (iPhone and iPads). They employed 13 people and their sole product was designed to make pictures look like they came from a Instamatic or Polaroid camera. Retro has never been so cool. Read the blog article here.
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
"Living in a Microsoft World, and I am a Microsoft girl" could have been a remixed version of Madonna's Material Girl back in 2008. The Washington State giant ruled the internet world, with over 90% of internet users using a Windows-based PC and accessing their favourite websites via Internet Explorer. Sure, it crashed (a lot) and IE was clunky, but many of us had grown up using dial up internet connections and to us this was the future. Read the full blog story written by Stuart Fuller, Director of Communications Group NBT here http://www.netnames.com/blog/?p=239
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
In August 2010 Symantec purchased VeriSign Authentication Services and since that time, VeriSign SSL Certificates as well as the VeriSign® Trust Seal have been provided by Symantec as a complement to Symantec’s existing Norton security products. In a matter of weeks however, the SSL Certificates will become a new part of the Norton product family as Symantec is changing the name of the VeriSign® Seal to the Norton™ Secured Seal. The new name and identity have been created to leverage both Norton’s brand equity and Symantec’s reputation as the leading source of online trust.
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
ICANN has always said that there would be no first come, first served for new gTLDs. So some kind of random selection process would have made sense if the number of TLDs applied for was greater than 500. How much greater? ICANN's Kurt Pritz told the GNSO Council at the recent Costa Rica meeting that anything much over 510 applications would force ICANN to adopt a batching solution. View the full news article by Stéphane Van Gelder, Head of Group NBT New gTLD Team here.
Friday, 30 March 2012
NetNames is delighted to announce the acquisition of Cedel AB in Sweden through its parent company, Group NBT Limited. NetNames will now treble its presence in the Swedish corporate domain name market to become a key player in Scandinavia. Read the Group press article here.
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Every day we receive hundreds of emails from scammers pretending to be someone they are not. Scammers even pretend to be the FBI, the Inland Revenue or reputed banks through phishing emails. The wording on these emails, punctuation, spelling mistakes, the use of unusually familiar words give away most of these. However, we still hear of frightening stories of innocent people being duped into these scams. Do financial institutions need to do more to educate their customers than adding to the problem by just emailing them a warning? What can Domain Name companies do to protect clients and what tools are available out there?
Read the full blog story written by Stuart Fuller, Director of Communications Group NBT by visiting our Blog here.
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
On Thursday 26 April 2012, NetNames and Envisional will be hosting a seminar in California for clients. The seminar is titled: 'Online Challenges for Brand Owners in the 21st Century'.
Friday, 16 March 2012
Rarely has there been a domain name issue that has two high profile contrasting viewpoints in such as short period of time as the matter of how Google will treat the new gTLDs in terms of search engine ranking. In some ways it shows how reliant brands (and everyone) are on one company to make or break them in an online sense...
Read the full story written by Stuart Fuller, Director of Communications Group NBT by visiting our Blog here
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Last week a friend tweeted a link to a website called "Dogs at Football". The link took me to a webpage on a site called Pinterest.com. I’d heard of the site before, after all it is the latest buzzword on the Social Network scene, but had yet to venture inside for a look or play.
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Sophie Tedmanson wrote an interesting article in The Times today about the arrest of the founder of the piracy Internet site Megaupload.com. For more information click on the title above to read the article.
Friday, 20 January 2012
Megaupload, one of the internet's largest file-sharing or Bit Torrent sites was yesterday shut down by the US Justice Department. The site founders and owners have been charged with violating privacy laws in what is being seen as a precursor to the types of action taken if/when the SOPA bill becomes federal law.
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
An updated version of the Applicant Guidebook was posted by ICANN with the opening of the new gTLD application window. ICANN states:
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
The boxer Mike Tyson recently submitted a complaint to WIPO asserting legal rights over a disputed domain name miketyson.com.
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
A new organisation called Dot Kiwi Ltd has applied for the domain suffix .kiwi as part of the new gTLD application window.
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
After more than seven years of planning, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has begun accepting applications for the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The world of .com, .gov, .org and 19 other gTLDs will soon be expanded to include all types of words in many different languages and for the first time, generic TLDs can also include words in non-Latin languages, such as Cyrillic, Chinese or Arabic.
Friday, 6 January 2012
In only a few days, ICANN (the body that regulates Internet naming conventions) will be opening its doors to applications to run the next generation of domain extensions (the new form of .com, .net, .org).
This momentous occasion is set to revolutionise the nature of the Internet domain name space forever. No longer will companies, which have the foresight to apply, be constantly battling cybersquatters for their brand name, acquiring domain names already registered at hugely inflated prices in an over populated market and spending way more than necessary chasing brand misuse from online counterfeiters, phishers and fakers.
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
From Stephane Van Gelder, Head of Group NBT's New gTLD Team and Chair of ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organisation:
In late December, I received a "Happy Christmas" call from ICANN's CEO Rod Beckstrom. A thoughtful gesture, but more importantly a great opportunity to ask him about the current anti-new gTLD pressure that seems to be building in the US.
