Tag: TLDs
VeriSign says, "not in your.name"
ICANN approves proposal to blow away 25 years' worth of *.*.name domains.
Brave not brave enough for .brave as Unstoppable ICANN bid proves stoppable
Unstoppable said Brave decided to not move forward with an ICANN application despite having already sold web3 domains advertised with a web2 future.
US gov suspends .org domain of Italian anti-fascist hacktivists Autistici/Inventati
Abuse of anti-terror powers highlights international risk of .org TLD being subject to the whims of the Oval Office.
How would a Telegram TLD work?
Telegram have applied for .gram to wrest control from Montenegro but we don't know exactly how it would look.
Crowdfunded new gTLD applications
Campaigns for .furry and .meow successfully each raised over the $90k needed to submit their ASP-supported applications.
Link Freedom Group (LFG) applies for over 300 new gTLDs
Applications have now closed for the opportunity to introduce the first new gTLDs since 2014 and I take a look at LFG's applications.
.clusterfuck
Amazon has bid for .book and .author. Google has bid for .app and .love. Microsoft has bid for .docs and .live. American Express has bid for .open. Opening the top-level domain system is a great idea. There are just 22 generic top-level domains right now - .com, .org, .net and so on. (There are 280 country-related TLDs, like .us and .uk.) Because digital real estate has been so limited, the price of valuable words has skyrocketed, and domain name squatting - where a name is registered purely to