2 more IDN newGTLD contracts signed

[Drewbert]

08 September 2013

xn--3ds443g (在线)

xn--fiq228c5hs (中文网)

No other ASCII's yet.

[zenmarketing]

I like 在线

[andre]

08 September 2013

xn--3ds443g (在线)

xn--fiq228c5hs (中文网)

No other ASCII's yet.

The Registry for 在线 & 中文网 is TLD Registry. Considering they are a Western Company I am impressed with how they have internationalised their digital media. Here are a few of their i18n features I have noticed:-

㊀ They have English & Chinese versions of their website
http://internetregistry.info/
http://internetregistry.info/zh-hans/
http://internetregistry.info/zh-hant/
㊁ Good use of language tags in the URLs. Rather than using zh-CN & zh-HK they are using zh-hans & zh-hant http://rishida.net/utils/subtags/index.php?lookup=hans&submit=Look+up
㊂ They have all their Social Media buttons displayed on their website including their China Sina Weibo http://weibo.com/tldregistry Now this may seem an obvious thing to do but so many western organisations do not do this. Yes they will prominently display their western social media (e.g. twitter, Facebook) but many who do have Sina Weibo (or other China Social Media) do not prominently display it (or mostly do not display it at all). A good example is UK Universities, many of which are on weibo http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6fab54120100vhyh.html If you go to their websites you will easily find links to their twitter/facebook/youtube but try finding links to their weibo/renren/youku

André 小山 Schappo

[Drewbert]

Some more ASCII ones have shown up...

.contractors
.land
.plumbing

[Rubber Duck]

http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/base-agreement-contracting#stats

17 signed last week bringing total to 34 so far.

[domainguru]

http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/base-agreement-contracting#stats

17 signed last week bringing total to 34 so far.

There's only one contract "group" I'm interested in, and I think they will be very near the end of the allotted time for contract negotiations i.e. December 2013

[Drewbert]

New ones are:

.gallery
.graphics
.guide
.menu
.reviews
.sexy
.technology
.uno
.xn--3bst00m (.集团) .group
.xn--6qq986b3x1 (.我爱你) .I love you?
.xn--rhqv96g (.世界) .world

[Drewbert]

One more added.

.onl

[Drewbert]

Another IDN added:

xn--q9jyb4c (みんな)

plus:

.construction

[Drewbert]

New:
.diamonds
.directory
.enterprises
.futbol
.kitchen
.kiwi
.photography
.tips
.today


These appears to be new, but ICANN seems to have put their contract signing dates as August rather than September...

.bike
.camera
.clothing
.equipment
.estate
.guru
.holdings
.lighting
.singles
.tattoo
.ventures
.voyage

[domainguru]

They all seem very long (i'm not talking about the xn-- version of the IDNs), and almost all doomed to immediate failure.

Who on earth is going to make money from .directory or .voyage.

The mind boggles:no:

[alpha]

They all seem very long (i'm not talking about the xn-- version of the IDNs), and almost all doomed to immediate failure.

Who on earth is going to make money from .directory or .voyage.

The mind boggles:no:

I've got a theory on this. You know how we often see chumps registering mymonkeyballzsuck.biz and we laugh at them, because they don't know any better and haven't been in the domain space long enough to know what people buy..

Isn't it exactly the same with the new NgTLDs? The only difference is it takes 184k to play



rarely have any thoughts as to what to use it for

[bwhhisc]

Think of all the IDNs they could have bought for 184k :lol:

[domainguru]

I've got a theory on this. You know how we often see chumps registering mymonkeyballzsuck.biz and we laugh at them, because they don't know any better and haven't been in the domain space long enough to know what people buy..

Isn't it exactly the same with the new NgTLDs? The only difference is it takes 184k to play



rarely have any thoughts as to what to use it for

Why pick on "mymonkeyballzsuck.biz", my only developed site :(

Next round I'm going to apply for .wasteof184k

[Rubber Duck]

I've got a theory on this. You know how we often see chumps registering mymonkeyballzsuck.biz and we laugh at them, because they don't know any better and haven't been in the domain space long enough to know what people buy..

Isn't it exactly the same with the new NgTLDs? The only difference is it takes 184k to play



rarely have any thoughts as to what to use it for

Yep, even Rick Schwartz managed to figure that one out.:lol:

[Drewbert]

Two more:

.kim

xn--6frz82g (移动) mobile

[Drewbert]

xn--cg4bki (삼성) (Samsung)

[Drewbert]

.monash

[Drewbert]

.wed
.pink

[Drewbert]

.ruhr

[Drewbert]

.shoes (Al Bundy = potential TLD spokesman)
.careers
.buzz

[Drewbert]

.xn--4gbrim (موقع) (site)

.career

[Drewbert]

.otsuka

[clipper]

They all seem very long (i'm not talking about the xn-- version of the IDNs), and almost all doomed to immediate failure.

Who on earth is going to make money from .directory or .voyage.

The mind boggles:no:

I know it's been a while, but I've been kicking all of these around in my head and what gets me is how boring they all are, in terms of business model.

Everyone's just following the same model of com/net/org because they believe that the demand will come and there are enough great keywords that they'll make their money back on registrations of things like porn.books and porn.cars and the same old shit that will sell for more than it will ever make back for the developers or end users.

Nobody's really looking at this as what it could be, which is basically a new model. Every registry has the same "register all the names you can" model and that's not going to differentiate them.

I respect a company like Samsung, who isn't going to let its TM go to the dogs, but they really aren't capable of pushing the envelope with a gTLD that's an entity unto itself, separate from their core business, with a new purpose, unless it reinvents itself as a new Google.

Take, for instance, .band, which basically is going to try to make its money back (and some alleged profits) ten dollars at a time from the unlimited musicians who are already in the hole for instruments they have to occasionally pawn.

That's so depressing. I can't imagine a band who is hitting its stride, who is ready to break into a larger market actually benefitting from a .band domain with its current model.

Especially when you think of what could be done with that namespace if they turned the model upside-down, made it invite- or contest-winner-only and put a paywall up on individual pages.

The same goes for .books and all of them. Everyone just wants to monopolize an existing market instead of growing a new one. The whole thing is depressing.:bored:

[clipper]

This is hard to articulate, but, basically, I mean to say that with the massive influx of new TLDs, the registries are becoming more like wholesalers, and they need to differentiate their product better so that registries have something to sell other than just a word.

They can no longer rely on keywords for differentiation: there have already been too many failures for that to work (.travel, .mobi...).

I wouldn't expect a market leader like Verisign to alter its path, but the fact that no one is differing from their model or suggesting an alternate path is at least encouraging for the success of .com-in-IDN.

[domainguru]

This is hard to articulate, but, basically, I mean to say that with the massive influx of new TLDs, the registries are becoming more like wholesalers, and they need to differentiate their product better so that registries have something to sell other than just a word.

They can no longer rely on keywords for differentiation: there have already been too many failures for that to work (.travel, .mobi...).

I wouldn't expect a market leader like Verisign to alter its path, but the fact that no one is differing from their model or suggesting an alternate path is at least encouraging for the success of .com-in-IDN.

Apart from cities and brands (and ccTLDs of course), how do you go about differentiating a TLD?

Give me some ideas how to "sell" the amazing TLD "directory"? I bet you haven't got any ideas right? I certainly don't.

The truth is there was never any user demand for new TLDs. Even .biz back in the day was a TLD too far. The world doesn't need thousand of TLDs or billions of domain names, its just plain stupid. 90% of the 1,200 new TLDs will just go bust and there will never be another gTLD expansion "set".

Ridiculous idea from the start.

[Rubber Duck]

Ridiculous idea from the start.

ICANN's Forte of course!

[Drewbert]

.xn--fiq64b (.中信) CITIC

[Drewbert]

.coffee
.domains
.gift
.limo
.luxury
.photos
.recipes
.viajes

sigh.

[Edwin]

sigh.

That would almost make a better TLD than some of the junk that's been applied for. People could register things that make them sigh as a kind of personal statement, e.g. homework.sigh, mondays.sigh, breakups.sigh, war.sigh etc.*

*NOTE: I'm not serious, but it's amazing how similarly nonsensical some of the "real" new GTLD look.

[Drewbert]

.cab
.computer
.dance
.democrat
.mango
.nagoya
.support
.wang

[Drewbert]

.wien

[Drewbert]

.berlin
.codes
.email
.xn--mgbab2bd (بازار) market/bazaar

[Drewbert]

.academy
.blue
.build
.builders
.business (i do not understand why .biz didn't try to get this one)
.camp
.center
.ceo
.company
.education
.farm
.florist
.gal
.glass
.holiday
.house
.immobilien
.institute
.international
.kaufen
.management
.marketing
.moda
.ninja
.red (why did Verisign not go for this?)
.repair
.social
.solar
.solutions
.training
.wiki
.xn--55qw42g (公益) community
.xn--zfr164b (政务) govt affairs

[Drewbert]

.club

[Drewbert]

.moe
.tokyo
.voting

[Drewbert]

.agency
.bargains
.boutique
.cheap
.cool
.desi
.guitars
.link
.network
.photo
.pics
.qpon
.rocks
.shiksha
.tienda
.watch
.works
.xn--c1avg (.орг) <--------- !!!!!!!!
.xn--i1b6b1a6a2e (.संगठन) <--------- !!!!!!!!
.xn--nqv7f (.机构) <--------- !!!!!!!!
.xn--nqv7fs00ema (.组织机构) <--------- !!!!!!!!
.xn--xhq521b (.广东) Guangdong
.zone

[Drewbert]

.рус (.xn--p1acf) have signed their contract with ICANN.

http://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/registries/xn--p1acf

A very short blocklist.

[basel]

drewbert , if you finished all .fuck suggest them to start with .numbers .1 or .123
because i feel after i saw all this extension i will not surprise if i see .basel lol
fuck , the game of domaining will die

But , .com is the king for me english or idn.idn(com) ONLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[basel]

escort.sexy available hehehe

[Rubber Duck]

Has some kind of deal between struck between IPC and Registries, as this went through without a wimper:

http://www.lawyer-monthly.com/2013/12/icanns-trademark-clearinghouse-to-offer-ongoing-claims-notification-services/

If not, the only conclusion is that our Not for Profit is now entirely controlled by the IPC, in which case incorporation in Cyprus would be more appropriate than Switzerland.

[Drewbert]

2 more IDN contracts signed.

xn--czrs0t (商店) (.store)

xn--80adxhks (москва)

[DktoInc]

so far .wow is the leader in the block list section standing at 205k blocked names.

wow

[squirrel]

world of warcraft ?