New gTLD Auction Results

gtldresult.icann.org

28 points·thistleco··7 comments

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-r...

[1] http://www.google.com/registry/ -- see note on bottom of page.

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?

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

Unfortunately the process is so encrusted in legalese that I can't figure out more than that.

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-mi...

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?

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/

Usage data (or a rough proxy for it) here: https://ntldstats.com/parking/tld The names not used are parked.

IMO new TLDs are better than tryfoonow.com style domains.

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