JuliannaNow Accepting Sunrise B Applications. General Pre-Registration Coming Soon. Eleven years after it was first proposed, the .XXX sTLD (sponsored Top Level Domain) is set to launch in September 2011. Webnames is participating in Sunrise B and General Registration to help facilitate the protection of trademarks, brands and primary domains in other extensions. What is…
Garrett SaundryNew Domain Names are Coming in 2012 Part of the mandate of ICANN is to make the internet representative and inclusive. Over the last ten years they have tried to pick new top level domain names that would best serve the internet and this centralized process saw the introduction of new domain extensions such as…
Webnames.ca StaffThere have been some large Domain Sales published on the YTD Sales Chart which you can view here, and it’s only April. We wanted to share some of the year’s biggest sales so far for 2011. The sales data presented here comes from DN Journal (an extremely useful, albeit ugly website, for keeping tabs on…
If you haven’t already heard or seen the video, GoDaddy is getting a lot of bad press right now because their CEO Bob Parsons shot an elephant and put the video up on the internet (warning: graphic if you haven’t seen it). This is interesting timing because yesterday during a management meeting we were talking…
JuliannaDo you own a .CA domain name? If so, you should know about some of the great initiatives coming out of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) lately. On February 25, 2011, CIRA will be hosting a national event about the future of the Internet – and you’re invited to attend, in person or virtually.…
Webnames.ca StaffWhen I heard about .co I immediately groaned and said “not a faux .com domain”. Yes, I was skeptical. But I’ve had time to rethink that thought. When I started looking into .co and how they have positioned themselves in the marketplace I changed my mind. .co sees itself as an opportunity to get the…
JuliannaThe Internet just got a little bigger today with .CO opening for general registration. Beginning at 11:00 AM Pacific Time, .CO registrations began rolling in fast and furious at Webnames.ca. A new domain launch is always exciting. For registrants it provides a rare opportunity to get truly premium domains – names that are memorable, dictionary…
Cybele NegrisEvery few years a new domain extension is released to the market place. This year there is a new domain that is designed for businesses – .CO, which is associated globally with the word “company,” but can also represent corporations and commercial endeavors. With the similarity to .COM or .CA for that matter, .CO could…
JuliannaIt is less than one week until the Targeted TRAFFIC Vancouver conference and the full schedule is now available online. The three day conference kicks off Tuesday, June 8th with opening remarks from Rick Latona at 11:00 am, then it’s straight into panels, networking and breakout sessions. Webnames.ca CEO Stephen Smith and Director John Demco…
JuliannaDo you love domain names? Do you have a portfolio of domains and want to learn more about domain opportunities including how to develop, monetize and resell your names? If you answered yes, you should not miss Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. in Vancouver! [Breaking News: ticket price drop – more information below!] The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conferences are some…
Cybele NegrisNow that Canada has shown the world what we are capable of and we have all experienced the Olympics together and feeling that overwhelming sense of Canadian pride, here’s a contest for you to showcase your “online Canadian-ness.” No, you won’t win gold but the prizes are pretty good: 1. Grand prize wins a MacBook…
JuliannaVerisign – the registry provider for .COM and .NET – has released its final Domain Industry Brief for 2009. The VeriSign quarterly reports provide a review of the state of the domain name industry, including up-to-date trends in new registrations, renewals, and growth opportunities, through a variety of statistical and analytical research. Summary of Key Trends…
Webnames.ca StaffI read an interesting article on the recent ICANN report about how most WhoIs records contain bad data. TheRegister.co.uk article “77% of domain registrations stuffed with rubbish” published on February 17, 2010 by Kieran McCarthy, got me thinking. Most domain registrars offer Domain Privacy services (we do) that mask your data in WhoIs records. If…
JuliannaWebnames.ca has collaborated with Telnic, the organization behind the award-winning .TEL name, to create the first-ever domain retail card so that .TEL names can be sold by brick and mortar retailers across North America. The new retail card lets customers purchase .TEL names, which act as a ‘live’ digital business card, from stores and shops.…
JuliannaICANN has approved the first four internationalized top-level domain names (IDNs) for Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. In a statement released yesterday, ICANN president and CEO Rod Beckstrom called it “a pivotal moment in the history of Internet domain names.” Why exactly is the support of internationalized top-level domain names so significant? For starters, the exclusivity…
