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Two more dot-brands are on their way out, bringing the total to fall on their swords to date to a nice round 50. Both of the new departures appear to be brands belonging to the Saudi telecommunications company Etihad Etisalat, which does business as Mo...
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May 7, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.mobily, .xn--mgbb9fbpob, Domain Registries, dot-brands, tradermarks, موبايلي.
Amazon has rejected attempts by South American governments to make the would-be gTLD .amazon “jointly owned”. In a letter to ICANN last week, Amazon VP of public policy Brian Huseman finally publicly revealed the price Amazon is willing to ...
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April 23, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, dot-brands, gac
KPMG has become the latest company to dump its .com domain in favor of its dot-brand gTLD. The company recently announced that it is now using home.kpmg as its primary web site domain, replacing kpmg.com. The migration appears to be complete already. U...
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April 12, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, dot-brands, kpmg, pwc
Amazon has switched two thirds of its large portfolio of new gTLDs over to Nominet’s back-end registry services, replacing Neustar. Judging by changes to IANA records this week, Amazon has moved 35 gTLDs to Nominet, leaving 17 at Neustar. A Neust...
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April 12, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, dot-brands
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Italy’s sixth-largest bank, has become the latest new gTLD owner to tell ICANN it no longer wishes to run its dot-brand. It’s the 47th new gTLD to request termination of its registry contract. The affected TLD is...
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April 10, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.bnl, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Domain Registries, dot-brands
Honeywell International, a $40-billion-a-year US conglomerate, has become the last major company to dump its dot-brand gTLD. The company informed ICANN in February that it no longer wishes to run .honeywell, and ICANN yesterday published its preliminar...
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March 21, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, dot-brands, honeywell
Neustar has released its latest .Brands Industry Report, with a February 2019 date. The report provides an in-depth analysis of the use of dot brands, new gTLDs used by companies worldwide. New gTLDs enhance the effectiveness and spread of marketing ca...
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March 12, 2019 DomainGang
.Brand TLDs, Brands Industry Report, dot-brands
ICANN has given Amazon and the governments of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization less than a month to sort out their long-running dispute over the .amazon gTLD. The organization’s board of directors voted on Sunday to give ACTO and the e-...
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March 12, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, dot-brands, icann 64, kobe
When ICANN’s board of directors voted in late October to let Amazon have its controversial .amazon gTLD, it was not entirely clear what governments in the Amazon region of South America thought about it. Now, it is: they’re pissed. The gove...
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December 4, 2018 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, dot-brands, gac, reconsideration
Two more new gTLDs have changed hands, DI has learned. XYZ.com has picked up former dot-brand .monster from recruitment web site Monster.com, while newbie registry Intercap Holdings has acquired .dealer from Dealer.com. Both ICANN contracts were reassi...
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November 14, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.dealer, Domain Registries, dot-brands, ich, intercap, Intercap Holdings