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ICANN’s 44th public meeting is being held in Prague next week and we’ll be attending. It’s one of the three public meetings that ICANN hold every year and they’re always pretty interesting events to attend. This time round there will be a number of topics on the agenda. Some of them are new, while some […]
We’ve published several graphics over the last few days to illustrate which domain name extensions have been applied for under the ICANN new TLD program. Today’s graphic illustrates the brand names / trademarks. NB: This does NOT include other extensions, such as “generics” that big brands might have applied for. You can see a lot […]
Over the last few days we’ve shared several graphics that help to visualise the new TLD applications. We split them up into: Uncontested applications ie. where only one entity applied for a particular string Contested applications – where more than one entity applied European new TLD applications But there’s a lot of other information related […]
Wow, what a year for Getting Irish Business Online! Over 10,000 businesses have taken the first steps towards getting online and created their website through the initiative. We know there are many more to come. To sign up simply visit the Getting Business Online website and follow the steps. It really is that easy! Your […]
Since we’re a European country we always like to know what is going on in Europe (obviously!) ICANN classified the new TLD applications by ICANN region. So we took that data and we removed a few anomalies (Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Virgin Islands) so that we could generate a nice simple graphic to show new […]
Want to see which new TLD applications have more than one applicant? ie. multiple companies competing for the same domain string? Check out our simple graphic below (click to enlarge): And here’s the list of strings: 信息 娱乐 广东 微博 网址 网店 网站 APARTMENTS APP ART AUCTION AUDIO AUTO BABY BAND BANK BAR BASEBALL BASKETBALL […]
Which new domain applications aren’t contested? We put together a simple graphic to show them off (click to enlarge): The actual list is as follows: ابوظبي اتصالات ارامكو العليان بازار بيتك شبكة عرب كاثوليك كوم كيوتل موبايلي موزايك موقع همراه дети католик ком москва онлайн орг рус сайт कॉम नेट संगठन 一号店 世界 中信 […]
Tomorrow afternoon we’ll finally find out who has applied for what in the new TLD space. I’ll be watching the event’s live stream from my office 🙂 Here’s the press release we’ve put out on the subject: June 12, 2012- Carlow, Ireland – New top level domains (TLDs) are coming, and on Wednesday, June 13, […]
The internet is a constantly changing landscape and those of us who are lucky enough to work in the industry face new and exciting challenges every single day. With that in mind I like to try and keep up to date with what is going on so that we can best serve our clients’ needs […]
Today’s Sunday Business Post has a short opinion piece by me in their “Real Views” section, which is a weekly opinion piece / column from an SME for SMEs. Since a lot of our readers aren’t in Ireland I’m republishing it here. Since I moved back to Ireland from Italy in 2003 to run my […]