I wrote a while back about how cities and regions especially could benefit from the new Generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) names that ICANN is in the process of ushering in.
It seems though some commercial entities intent on buying a city TLD – such as .sydney for example – in the hope of then [...]

The Dot Horse Project aims to bring about the creation of a dot-horse generic top level domain. Hmm, racing.horse anyone?
The .horse namespace will provide a safe, reliable internet community for all things equine – where anyone involved with the sport, business, or enjoyment of horses can communicate and share trusted news, information, and ideas. We [...]

A small number of corporate brand owners have expressed enthusiasm for the generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) which will be available for registration early next year, but 70% of respondents to a recent Melbourne IT survey expressed concerns as to how they will be received by their customers.
“Some of our larger corporate clients with sophisticated [...]

The Pope thinks ICANN should refrain from the licensing of Top Level Domain names such as .catholic and .buddhist for example, fearing such a move could create arguments as to their actual ownership:
ICANN, frequently accused of mission creep, could find itself having to decide who gets to represent an entire religion on the internet, His [...]

How many Top Level Domain names are there? I guess it’s something most of us have stopped to think about at one time or another, except apparently for visitors to ICANNs offices:
Hands down, the most common question I get at an ICANN meeting is “Where are the restrooms?” A close second is “How many top-level [...]

Is the practice of brands incorporating URLs in their logo pointless? A tweet by Sean Smith aka @nakedbearmedia on the subject caught my eye last week:
Likewise, I don’t think brands should use “.com” as part of their logo. It’s not 1999 where you need to tell people you are an online biz.

It makes sense. After [...]

ICANN’s decision last year to allow the creation of almost any generic Top Level Domain (gTLD), or domain name suffix such as .com. or .net, stirred up more than a little controversy.
Among other things, critics felt the new system could result in a confusing combination of website addresses, while brand owners had concerns about [...]

Will the growing desire for separate sovereign states, as witnessed, for example, by the break-up of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the 1990s, eventually lead to the World Wide Web becoming a series of localised intranets, accessible only to those within the confines of certain geographic territories?
So what if you put all the three [...]

More on the potential chaos that could, or will, ensue as a result of ICANN’s change in Top Level Domain policy. What will brand owners have to do now in order to protect their brand?
On one hand this means we don’t have to all fight and scrape to grab any brand followed by a .com. [...]

ICANN’s change in policy for domain name extensions, or Top Level Domains (TLD), might be good news for domain speculators (and even ICANN itself), but for the rest of us it could usher in an era of confusion when it comes to finding some websites.
If anything, this actually devalues .com domain names – many browsers [...]