Domainbox Industry News

Thursday, March 21, 2013

New gTLD Objections won’t be fully posted until ‘Mid-April’

ICANN has amended their schedule for the publication of New gTLD Objections. Originally, it was expected that these objections would be published almost as soon as they were received by the three Dispute Resolution Service providers: The International Centre for Dispute Resolution. World Intellectual Property Organization. The International Center of Expertise of the International Chamber of Commerce. ICANN’s expectation is that these objections ‘will take approximately five month…

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

ICANN Announce Major African Expansion Plans

ICANN’s President, Fadi Chehadé, has announced that ICANN has plans to take a stronger position in Africa by creating six new ICANN representatives from the region. We have a large number of resellers from the African region and feel that this is great news for ICANN and the domain name industry as a whole. There was criticism of the New gTLD programme that it did not …

Monday, March 11, 2013

Sedo Survey Finds Lack of New gTLD Awareness Among Businesses

A survey by Sedo has found that a large number of businesses are unaware that New gTLDs will soon become available. The New gTLD programme is now moving ahead at full speed and the first New gTLDs are expected to be delegated by the end of this year. Sedo has used this survey to discover exactly how aware businesses are of this change. New gTLDs give businesses the opportunity to further define their offer…

Monday, March 4, 2013

PIR Release Latest Dashboard Report July – December 2012

The Public Interest Registry (PIR) have released their latest report, the ‘dashboard’ which details the performance of the .ORG TLD between July and December 2012. Domain Resellers take note – the .ORG domain name extension is still growing! It’s been one of the most popular top level domains available in the last decade and it’s available through...