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New gTLD Auction Results

28 points by thistleco 12y ago

dragonwriter 12y ago
Note for those who follow the link, and see "Charleston Road Registry, Inc.", and wonder why the headline says "Google": Charleston Road Registry, Inc., is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google [0] through which Google operates "Google Registry" [1]. [0] http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/who-is-charleston-road-registry-the-leading-gtld-applicant.html http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/who-is-charleston-r... [1] http://www.google.com/registry/ http://www.google.com/registry/ -- see note on bottom of page.
pgrote 12y ago
How used are the new tlds right now? What is the plan to use them? Won't it take people a long time to think .app for something?
- thistleco 12y ago
  There are some 4.5m of them sold to date, you can see usage information and sales data (and lots of other stuff!) here: http://ntldstats.com/ http://ntldstats.com/ Usage data (or a rough proxy for it) here: https://ntldstats.com/parking/tld https://ntldstats.com/parking/tld The names not used are parked.
- wmf 12y ago
  IMO new TLDs are better than tryfoonow.com style domains.
thistleco 12y ago
The headline was changed... Google won the right to the .app TLD for $25m. More information here: http://domainincite.com/18066-google-buys-app-for-over-25-million http://domainincite.com/18066-google-buys-app-for-over-25-mi...
scott_karana 12y ago
How in the world aren't these conflicts of interest? (The winner of the bid gets to be the registrar of the new TLD, I assume?) Johnson & Johnson owns .baby, why would they want rivals to share it?
- wmf 12y ago
  The new gTLD process allows "community objections" which mean that "Substantial opposition to the gTLD application exists from a significant portion of the community that the gTLD string targets". In this case I guess that community would be parents. http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/odr http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/odr Unfortunately the process is so encrusted in legalese that I can't figure out more than that.

28 points by thistleco 12y ago

Note for those who follow the link, and see "Charleston Road Registry, Inc.", and wonder why the headline says "Google": Charleston Road Registry, Inc., is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google [0] through which Google operates "Google Registry" [1]. [0] http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/who-is-charleston-road-registry-the-leading-gtld-applicant.html http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/who-is-charleston-r... [1] http://www.google.com/registry/ http://www.google.com/registry/ -- see note on bottom of page.

pgrote 12y ago

How used are the new tlds right now? What is the plan to use them? Won't it take people a long time to think .app for something?

thistleco 12y ago
There are some 4.5m of them sold to date, you can see usage information and sales data (and lots of other stuff!) here: http://ntldstats.com/ http://ntldstats.com/ Usage data (or a rough proxy for it) here: https://ntldstats.com/parking/tld https://ntldstats.com/parking/tld The names not used are parked.
wmf 12y ago
IMO new TLDs are better than tryfoonow.com style domains.

thistleco 12y ago

The headline was changed... Google won the right to the .app TLD for $25m. More information here: http://domainincite.com/18066-google-buys-app-for-over-25-million http://domainincite.com/18066-google-buys-app-for-over-25-mi...

scott_karana 12y ago

How in the world aren't these conflicts of interest? (The winner of the bid gets to be the registrar of the new TLD, I assume?) Johnson & Johnson owns .baby, why would they want rivals to share it?

wmf 12y ago
The new gTLD process allows "community objections" which mean that "Substantial opposition to the gTLD application exists from a significant portion of the community that the gTLD string targets". In this case I guess that community would be parents. http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/odr http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/odr Unfortunately the process is so encrusted in legalese that I can't figure out more than that.