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.CO Internet S.A.S. (www.COinternet.co) announced the general availability of the new .CO top-level domain (TLD), which will enable individuals, businesses and organizations to acquire global, credible and easily recognizable domain names that fit their online business or branding needs. .CO domains are now available through leading accredited domain registrars, such as GoDaddy.com, Register.com and Network Solutions, and a multitude of resellers.

Since it was announced in February, .CO domains have already received tremendous support and adoption from the business and Internet communities, who applied for 39,000 .CO domains during the company’s “pre-launch” phase. The domain names for nearly 70% of the brands listed in theBrand Finance Top 500 have already been registered, including Amazon, American Express, Apple, BMW, Cartier, Canon, CNN, Coca-Cola, Disney, Ebay, Exxon, Ford, Google, Hilton, Honda, IBM, IKEA, Kodak, McDonalds, Microsoft, MTV, Nestle, Nike, Nokia, Panasonic, Pfizer, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, Toyota, Unilever, Visa, Yahoo and many more.

“Today’s launch of the .CO domain represents the next phase in the growth and development of the Internet,” said Juan Diego Calle, CEO of .CO Internet. “The .CO domain will create new opportunities in global commerce, content development, social media and other forms of interactivity, which will enrich the overall Internet experience for everyone.”

More Than Just Brand Protection…

Many visionary companies see the new .CO domains as an opportunity to extend their brand or expand their online offerings in a way that was not previously possible due to limited availability of .com domains. Recently, the e-commerce powerhouse Overstock.com announced it paid $350,000.00 USD to acquire ‘O.CO’ to target new audiences and expand its global brand.

“The O.CO domain presented us with an unprecedented opportunity to add a meaningful online presence that will enhance recognition for the “O” brand, align with current marketing initiatives, and make it easier for shoppers to find our products and services online,” said Overstock.com Chairman and CEO Patrick Byrne. “Dollar for dollar, it’s a homerun and well worth the investment because it reinforces among consumers that ‘O’ is synonymous with ‘Overstock’.”

Other well-known companies are using the .CO domain to expand their products or services. For instance, Twitter uses the t.co domain as part of a service to protect users from harmful activity, provide value for the developer ecosystem, and as a quality signal for surfacing relevant, interesting Tweets. The popular political blog Politico is using Politi.co as its official URL shortener. Many other companies have already built sites on .CO domains, which are currently showcased on www.Opportunity.co.

…Unprecedented New Opportunities

Today’s Internet is crowded and lacking in opportunities for those who wish to establish a presence online. After 25 years, nearly all of the recognizable or marketable .com domain names have been claimed, making it exceedingly difficult for start-ups and established companies alike to acquire meaningful domain names for their businesses and products.

“For all intents and purposes, the .com reservoir is empty of meaningful domains,” said Tim Draper, founder of the global venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. “It’s a constant struggle, especially for start-ups, to find a credible domain name that best describes their business or product. For years, many companies have been forced to name their company based on what URLs were available, and then spend millions of dollars to educate their world that names like Afloxis, Bivly or Zoopr really stand for something else.”

Draper continues, “The new .CO domains are a breath of fresh air across an otherwise stagnant ocean, and I’m personally excited to be able to help my portfolio companies achieve their desired goals starting with building the best possible online brand. Plus, we save everyone a keystroke!”

Global Recognition

Whereas most other TLDs focus on a particular niche or region, .CO domain names – like .com names – are generally flexible for use in a wide variety of activities, including promoting companies, content providers, communities, contests and countless other applications. The “co” in .CO already has broad global recognition as a pseudonym for “company,” “corporation,” and “commerce.” In addition, more than 20 countries around the world currently use “.co” in their country specific domains, including the UK (.co.uk), Japan (.co.jp), Israel (.co.il), and others, further fueling .CO’s global awareness and adoption. To date, .CO domain applications have been received from 113 countries.

Greater Security to Protect Intellectual Property

For greater peace of mind, .CO domains also provide a greater measure of safety and security for its user’s online intellectual property. Other domain extensions allow proxy registrations or otherwise obfuscate the domain owner’s information, making it extremely difficult to identify potential domain squatters, trademark infringers or other fraudsters. .CO domain ownership will be highly transparent, which will deter those who seek to use the domain for fraudulent or abusive practices. .CO Internet has also instituted a Rapid Takedown Policy to suspend or remove domains in cases where phishing, pharming, malware, or other significant criminal and/or security threats have been established.

“We’ve invested heavily in technologies and processes that address the needs of the business and Internet communities for greater brand protection and overall security,” said Nicolai Bezsonoff, chief operating officer, .CO Internet. “With so much promise and expectation riding on the success of the .CO domain, protecting the reputations, brands and businesses of our users is a top priority.”

.CO Internet was required to meet stringent technical and operational criteria designated by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) in order to be re-delegated as the official operator of the .CO domain.

Support from Top Global Domain Registrars

.CO domains are now available to the public through a select list of accredited global registrar partners and resellers who have committed themselves to the growth, development and integrity of the .CO domain. The accredited registrars include GoDaddy.com, Register.com, Network Solutions, Melbourne IT, eNom, InternetX, Open SRS, Dotster, My.co, and Dominio Amigo.

“When a good domain name extension like .CO comes to market, you see how strong the Internet really is and how powerful its growth is going to be for years to come,” said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. “Let’s face it, domain names are 21st century real estate.”

Going Once, Going Twice…

With the launch of .CO domains, certain generic domains relating to specific industries, products and business categories, such as car.co, lending.co, adoption.co, insure.co and others are expected to generate extraordinary demand. As such, .CO Internet has withheld approximately 2,000 premium generic domains from today’s General Availability and will auction them to help promote and maintain the .CO domain. The auctions will take place at a variety of online and off-line venues over the course of the next 12 months.

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CADNA’s findings are based off a document released by ICANN last month regarding the expected number of gTLDs, or the letters found after the last dot of a domain name like .COM or .ORG, that will be created during the first round of the TLD launch. CADNA determined that the launch ICANN predicts could cost individual brand owners about $500,000 each if one conservatively estimates that the average brand owner will defensively register 3 domain names per gTLD, that the average price of domain name registrations in sunrise periods of new gTLD launches will be $500, and that brands will not necessarily participate in each gTLD launch equally. These estimates exclude costs that will be incurred by any business that secures its own branded TLD. The $500,000 per business price tag is likely low, as it does not factor in future renewals, new domain name monitoring, or enforcement costs in a drastically expanded Internet.

This new cost will apply to brand owners across the board. Brands in all industries, whether for profit or nonprofit, will be forced to spend significant time and money to monitor activity in each new gTLD and to defensively register domain names in an attempt to mitigate the effects of malicious use of their trademarks.

“Most businesses will not even use all the domain names they pay to register,” said CADNA president Josh Bourne. “But they feel pressured to buy them anyway in order to prevent an unaffiliated party from purchasing domain names containing their trademarks and using them to deceive and exploit their customers.”

“The bad faith acquisition of a trademark in a domain name, or cybersquatting, is already rampant online. The creation of new gTLDs expands the opportunity for cybersquatting,” Bourne continued. “While there are a few existing remedies for this problem, ICANN is known to poorly enforce them and the federal government’s solutions are outdated. Improvements to ICANN as an organization and to the federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) would help prevent cybersquatting.”

With well over 200,000 .tel domains registered since General Availability on March 24th customers from all over the world have been benefitting from the .tel domain. Languages now supported include English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

“Kebab shops in Algiers and dermatologists in New York through to hotels in Vietnam have all been happily using .tel domains, but we’re very pleased to be able to open the .tel domain up to many more people around the world,” said Justin Hayward, Communications Director at Telnic Limited. “The .tel is a revolution in simplifying and lowering the cost of publishing on the internet under an individual’s own space and we want to remove as many barriers for as many people to take advantage of this as possible.”

User guides have also be translated in conjunction with the control panel, access to which is supplied to .tel registrants through ICANN-accredited registrars or .tel service providers. To view the control panel and guides in the language of their choice, users can simply change the settings on their browsers.

Source: Telnic Limited

Big Room Inc., a Canadian company based in Vancouver, has developed its platform and bid for the Dot Eco generic top-level domain (gTLD) along with an international team of partners, advisors, and investors with well-established roots in the sustainability and business communities. Afilias, one of the world’s most-respected registry services providers, is partnering with Big Room to operate the technical aspects of Dot Eco.

“Big Room’s Dot Eco is the right bid by the right team at the right time,” said Big Room co-founder Trevor Bowden. “Individuals and organizations want to cut through all the eco claims out there so they can make better choices. Our Dot Eco will help them do that.”

The Dot Eco system will collect and store eco-information in addition to the technical and administrative information collected when someone registers a domain name.

“By using the Internet as a global online database, Big Room’s Dot Eco will allow individuals to make informed eco-choices and it will give businesses and organizations, both big and small, an effective and inexpensive tool to share their eco performance,” Bowden added.

In keeping with the bottom-up spirit that has driven the Internet and the global sustainability community, Big Room will further refine its application through a series of worldwide public consultations to develop and refine the policies that will govern Dot Eco.

“.eco is a unique global resource which must be stewarded effectively and responsibly to promote sustainability around the world,” said Martin Atkin, Director of External & Media Relations for WWF International. “Big Room’s vision for .eco will create a new, credible and trustworthy Internet extension that will make a real difference for individuals and for the environment.”

Big Room will submit its bid for Dot Eco when the application round for new gTLDs overseen by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers opens in the first quarter of 2010.

More information on the Big Room Dot Eco application is available at www.doteco.info

A new report entitled “The future liberalisation of the internet”, carried out by The Future Laboratory on behalf of domain name registrar Gandi.net, has found that the geography of the internet is about to change significantly, but that consumers and businesses are not enthusiastic about the prospect.

From next year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the international body that oversees the structure of the Internet, will liberalise the market for domain name extensions – the .com or .uk part of a web address. This means that the possibilities for new addresses are virtually endless and include city domains such as .berlin, .paris, .london and .nyc and activity-specific domains such as .music, .sport or .movie.

The majority of consumers polled (60%) agree that the liberalisation of domain name extensions will change the way they use the Internet, but not for the better. The sceptical amongst them believe that the Internet will become full of pointless domain names (for 65% of the people polled), messy and confusing (57%), too complex to navigate (46%) and out of control (41%).

From a business perspective, a shocking two thirds of businesses were unaware that this change is taking place. But for those that were aware, they see an obvious branding opportunity. Of those businesses surveyed, a massive 81% stated that liberalisation will be innovative, three quarters stating it will be advantageous, and two thirds exciting when launching a campaign online.

When looking at the wider potential of liberalisation of the Internet, the issue of control throws up several areas of concern. ICANN has already outlined its proposals for how the various sub-groups of domain names extensions will be managed, but in some cases these proposals throw up more questions than they answer.

For example the following issues could arise:

.God: What if this domain were to be bought and registered by a group of atheists? Or by a single faction of a religion? This would cause uproar on a global scale. ICANN has had to instigate a process whereby domains relating to morality will need to be decided upon and administered by a committee. But who should sit on that committee?

.London: There are already plans underway that any organisation wishing to manage or be part of a new geography top level domain name should reside or have a presence in the chosen geography. This is the same for the current plans around .paris and .nyc

.Brand: The ultimate anti-competitive behaviour would be for a company to buy-up its competitors brand name TLD. Whilst trademark laws and planned ICANN regulations make this unlikely to happen, the complications around how to administer domains amongst the millions of global brands and trademarks cannot be ignored

.GP: There is a great industrial opportunity around specific business sectors and groups, but this would require industry organisations taking a more active role in leading the way and setting  a standard which their members can then sign-up to and follow

.Sex / .Xxx: There is an argument that creating the Internet equivalent of a red light zone will make the regulation and management  of Internet pornography and adult rated content easier to manage. On  the other hand, it may be hard to control and enforce exactly what  stays in the zone vs what is let out

With this level of confusion it may not be surprising that consumers have managed to muster little enthusiasm for any new top-level domains. A quarter of people are ambivalent about the prospect of a .music suffix and 28% would be wary of domains ending with .theirprofession. Just 15% think this sort of suffix would be appealing. Consumers are most suspicious of extensions linked to porn and religion. A massive 84% of consumers think .sex is dodgy, and two thirds think .god is suspect.

One prospect that does interest consumers, however, is the opportunity that new suffixes present for building communities online. Of the consumers surveyed, 29% think the Internet will become localised, allowing cities and towns to create virtual spaces that promote the local area and that connect communities.

“It may sound scary but this is an exciting change,” says Wendy White from Gandi “There will be new opportunities for consumers and businesses with the increased choice of domain names. But if liberalisation is to bring the benefits that it promises, it needs to be handled carefully. There is a danger that squatters will take over the virtual high street and as soon as the criminals move in, you’ll see the overall web experience decline.”

She continued: “As an ‘ethical’ registrar we really believe all players in the domain space need to take a longer term, mature view of how they behave. This includes registrars and registries whose commercial interests sometimes conflict with the goal of keeping the domain space from being polluted, which in turn blights the consumer experience. We wanted to get the industry and general public debating on what the key challenges facing the industry are, and how these can be addressed in the coming months.”

To continue the discussion, log onto http://www.gandibar.net where you can find the Gandi discussion forum, a video discussing the report, a one-page factsheet on the report’s findings, and a guide for small businesses on how to address the changes in the internet.

The ‘Future Liberalisation of the Internet’ report was commissioned by Gandi in partnership with the Future Laboratory. The research included a quantitative survey of 1,000 average Britons, and a quantitative survey of 50 e-commerce managers from large high street businesses and 50 e-commerce managers from SMEs. A series of in-depth senior industry executive interviews were then completed to critically analyse the survey findings.

Source: Gandi.net

The benefits of a .tel domain integrated with a website include:

• The power of .tel ‘click to connect’ technology but in the same look and feel as your own branded website

• Structured contact information for multiple offices or outlets for easy navigation

• Instant updating of contact information without the need for web editing skills

• The ability to change profiles so different contact information can be displayed at different times of the day – such as office hours and out-of-office hours support

• Speedy publication of important contact information, such as a new call centre number or emergency contact information in a time of crisis

• The ability to constantly change content easily so that search engines will re-index the site and see that it is being refreshed often, increasing search engine optimization results

“The ability to incorporate .tel information easily into your main website now means that you get all the power of ‘live’ contact information in a traditional website,” said Henri Asseily, Chief Strategist and CTO at Telnic. “Easily maintaining ‘live’ .tel information will also mean getting good SEO through the easy refreshing of contact information without the need for continuous coding.”

The free tool, which comprises of code, a ‘how to’ file and examples, can be downloaded from http://telnic.org/community-applications.html and http://dev.telnic.org/pages/webmaster.html. Examples of how .tel information can be integrated into a website can be found at http://telnic.org/contact.html and http://largeco1.com/contact.html.

How would you use a .ME domain? This personalized domain has exploded in popularity on the Internet over the last year. Whether it’s an online business card, personal or corporate blog, even a college search site, people worldwide are finding truly unique and useful ways to incorporate .ME domains into their online marketing messages.

The result — these sites stand out from the crowd!

.ME is the country-code top level domain (ccTLD) of Montenegro, available to anyone. More than 223,000 .ME domains have been registered since April 2008 with a wide variety of personal and professional uses.

“Dot-ME is the fastest-growing ccTLD on the Web,” stated Predrag Lesic, the executive director of the .ME Registry. “Practically every day I find another fascinating Web site using our domain extension in an impressive way. People and companies worldwide are making dot-ME — all about them!”

Here are just a few clever examples:

www.MyEducation.ME — A Web site dedicated to helping young people in Ontario, Canada search for the best college to meet their educational needs. The site’s slogan is It’s all about M.E. (My Education). The Web site is publicized in a Canadian television commercial campaign as well as print advertisements.

GoDaddy.com CEO and Founder Bob Parsons hosts his video blog on a .ME site called www.BobParsons.ME. According to Alexa rankings, it is one of the most popular CEO blogs online!

www.YouAnd.ME is a free online dating site. It went live on Valentine’s Day and already has close to 20,000 members and receives more than 60,000 page views a day, according to Reriani.com.

www.uTag.ME is a social bookmarking and tagging site powered by U.

There’s also www.LasVegas.ME — A Web site for those looking for information about hotels, entertainment, tickets and all things Vegas!

“There is no doubt dot-ME makes a statement and Web users are leveraging it very well,” adds Lesic. “Since our launch just one year ago, more than 440 dot-ME sites have become part of the Web’s top one million — other newly- launched TLDs have not seen this sort of explosion in popularity.”

If you want a clever catch phrase to promote yourself or your business online, look no further than the latest crop of .ME domains available at auction beginning later this month.

The .ME Registry announces two auctions — one this month and one next — for domains not originally allocated in the Sunrise and Landrush auctions last spring.

These two online auctions are scheduled to begin April 23 and again May 14. Each auction lasts 7 days.

To find a complete list of authorized registrars, domains available for auction and instructions on how to participate, go to: http://domain.me/policies/unallocated-sunrise-landrush-names.html

To learn more about the .ME Registry, visit http://www.domain.me/ .

This proposed legislation would create a Cybersecurity Advisory Panel, which would assess trends in cybersecurity, analyze the ongoing efforts of the United States to address cybersecurity, and report to and advise the President on national cybersecurity programs and strategy. The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 also mandates the development of a strategy for implementing a secure domain name addressing system.

“The Internet is constantly evolving, and bad actors are deft at finding new opportunities to exploit the space and its users — because of this, we need national and international policymakers to get involved in policing the space,” said Bourne. “CADNA supports initiatives such as the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, which make the Internet a safer place for the Internet community.”

CADNA is also pleased to see that the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 addresses the relationship between the United States Government (USG) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The Coalition applauds Senators Rockefeller and Snowe for recognizing the need to clarify the USG’s role in Internet regulation and looks forward to supporting their efforts on this legislation as well as any future Internet security initiatives.

The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the systemic domain name abuses that plague the Internet today. For more information, please visit www.cadna.org.

Source: Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse