iBreakfast, the leading forum for Digital Media Companies and Smart TLDs are co-hosting the first conference on the opening up of the new Domains since ratification at ICANN Singapore on June 20, 2011. The one day conference in New York will be held on August 3rd on the new gTLD program.
The event is going to be Sponsored by Verisign, Afilias, Neustar, Dot Green, Definition6, and Herrick Feinstein LLC. ”
The conference is named:
“The Master of Your Domain – New TLD Conference” will be held on Wednesday Aug. 3rd 8:00 am – 12:00pm
I’m going to be speaking and I look forward to seeing any of you that are New York for the conference. There is a great lineup of speakers and if you have any interest in the new gTLD program this would be a good event to get you started.
Remember the application period for the new gTLD programs opens in less than 6 months on January 12 2012
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The “dot com” era is expanding and will soon be joined with a myriad of possibilities. This is the web’s new lakefront property frontier. Cities, brands, industries, interest groups, even start-up concepts could be your domain. ICANN’s recent ruling to open up the process to apply for and run new domain registries forever will alter the way things are represented online. The implications for SEO and trademark protection are critical, and the opportunities presented to brands, industry associations – even investors – is exploding. This iBreakfast Conference will sort through the opportunities and surrounding issues with industry leaders from around the world.
Confirmed Speakers include: Roland LaPlante, SVP/CMO, Affilias; Ken Hansen, Sen. Dir. Business Development, Neustar; Verisign; Ben Crawford, CEO of CentralNic and dotBrand Solutions; Michael Berkens, Co-Founder, Right Of The Dot and TheDomains.com; Barry Werbin, Trademarks, Herrick Feinstein, LLP.; Edmun Chong, CEO of DotAsia Organisation; Wendy Selzer, Esq., Fellow, Princeton University’s Center for IT Policy; Anastasia O’Rourke, Big Room Inc. (.eco applicant); Annalisa Roger, Founder/CEO, DotGreen Registry Corporation (.green applicant, remote); Scott Seitz, CEO of DotGay LLC. (.gay applicant, remote); and Dirk Kirchenowski, Founder of Dot Berlin GMBH (.berlin applicant, remote).
“The Master of Your Domain?” Event will have an opening keynote followed by three panels contemplating the different major sectors of the New TLDs. chronologically on Brand TLDs; Public Interest and Non-Profit TLDs; and City and Generic TLDs.
The event will be livestreamed, with Social Media DJ™ Jonathan Accarrino, Director of Social Media, Definition 6.
The Master of Your Domain TLD Conference is a must-attend event for big and small business, cities, brands, industries, advertisers, marketers, interest groups, investors, and digital professionals. Gain insight, share thoughts and network together as we explore this game-changing shift in the digital media world.
About iBreakfast:
The monthly iBreakfast meetings, started in 1997, are the longest continually running digital media strategy events delivering the latest trends and issues in the industry. iBreakfast reaches over 20,000 Tristate NY digital media executives through emails, Facebook. LinkedIn and Twitter.
About Smart TLDs
Smart TLDs is domain industry lobbying firm and domain name and IP holdings company. Smart TLDs reaches over 10,000 US and global domain industry leaders; social entertainment and technology executives; luxury brands; digital and social media agencies and stragtegists; law firms; VCs; publications; bloggers; and new media influencers.
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.Co
is going to be even more desirable I think
in a right of dot world
as it does getting any shorter and more meaningful than .Co
“Co is going to be even more desirable I think”
With hundreds of options it is far more likely to just get lost in the mix IMO.
The well known, credible extensions – Big 3 (COM/NET/ORG) and respected ccTLD are what will last.
Brad
I never ever liked the .net or .org
i always equated them with hosting or non profit.
And .com was a mistake
It really should have been .Co
from the get go as others are now beginning to realize.
@Robert
.COM was a mistake? First of all that doesn’t make sense.
Second of all we are 25+ years later with close to 100M regs.
.COM has 2M+ regs per month, even now, after “all the good domains are taken”.
.CO had 1M+ total in a full year at peak hype.
There is obviously no comparison when it comes to usage, popularity, or credibility between .COM and .CO
Brad
old farts
are set in their ways
and can’t change.
as if everythings forever ever.
Not even a mention of the idn.gtld being finally introduced??
Just confirms these “new” extensions are just a cash grab for the industry.
If Ican’t was actually interested in making the internet more “inclusive” they would be promoting the fact that .com and .net are about to go international with full idn.idn (Chinese.Chinese or Russian.Russian or Spanish.Spanish, etc. etc.) for .com and .net domains.
It appears that promoting the obvious cash grab for names like .mycompany or .Ihaveabigwallet is the easiest $$ on the table. imo most people will still try the .com first, then the country code.
Ultimately this just reinforces the .com brand x1000.
.co?? I’ve got a deal on some great .cc’s for those .co pushers.
Cheers!
p.s. newsflash*** I heard the Columbian government who controls the .co extension will not be renewing .co names because the new government wants to get all of the premium names back so they can auction them off.$$$$…………..:)
Steve
This is a conference not a news organization that is required to cover all sides of the story and who like all conferences is scheduling things that are interesting to their audience.
We at RIGHT OF THE DOT have aligned ourselves with one of the true IDN experts in all the world so we have this covered.
Life is a big cash grab, you ever see the stock market, the thousands of publicaly traded companies just in the US markets and tens of thousands traded around the world.
People go into business to make money.
Otherwise go run a non-profit.
BTW .co has nothing to go with the new gTLD’s, its a country code but out of curiosity who is your source inside the .Co government which gave you this ‘newsflash”
@MHB,
I was playing devil’s advocate. Investing in a third world extension and expecting the government to play by the rules may be a mistake. It happened to the Russia and China extensions.
Yes free markets should be able to run free and people should be able to make as much $$$ as they possible can. period.
The real advance for the internet is actually letting people type and navigate in their native languages. Adding more “extensions” only confuses things. imo. The new gtld’s are just a great opportunity to talk someone into believing they need .mycompany rather than mycompany.com or mycompany.cctld
Cheers!
@MHB
Who is your idn expert? What do they think about lumping idn.idn together with all of these .whatever extensions? How do they feel about letting idn.cctlds get a 3 year jump on the idn.gtld’s??
Thanks again, all the best!
Steve
Depends on the language for example for Arab languages these guys
http://mligrp.com/
“People go into business to make money.
Otherwise go run a non-profit.”
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Yeah …. like ICANN does …cough cough
Gazzip
Well you bring up a good point, ICANN is a non-profit with over $40 Million in the bank but the difference is they can’t distribute the money or us the money to acquire other businesses.
If ICANN was a private for profit business it could do whatever they wanted to do with the money, distribute it to shareholders, bonus it out, buy other companies with it, etc, etc
Here the money is stuck at the corporate level
“Well you bring up a good point, ICANN is a non-profit with over $40 Million in the bank but the difference is they can’t distribute the money or us the money to acquire other businesses.”
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But they can hold meetings all around the world, stay in fancy hotels and throw lavish parties whilst paying themselves a very good wage, bonus and expenses. (as read on your blog and others)
Sounds like they are trying to spend all the (non) profit they’re making but they can’t do it fast enough
…it must be a hard life but I guess somebody has to do it
Gazzip
They have to hold meetings all over the world, its their charter, each meeting must be held on a different continent since it is a global organization.
Yes some in the org get salaries (but not most of the board members) but don’t forget they have to compete with for profit businesses to get talent and unlike for profit businesses they can’t give stock options which can add tens of millions even hundreds of millions to a for profit exes compensation.
Point taken
I still think these new .whatevers are just a cash grab for Icann and probably spurred on by some insiders & ex employees….sounds all too cosy.
It may have been more practical to introduce some new .whatevers but 1000 + is idiotic if its not just about making money.
The coming financial meltdown will stop most of them in their tracks anyway so .whatever
JMO – good luck
Khaled Fattal on IDN gTLDs:
Conclusion
I have no doubt that some may not support such modifications to the ICANN structure for a multitudes of reasons, least of all special interest or lack of awareness, but if ICANN is to deliver on its mandate and serve all current as well as future 4+ billion Netizens of the world, the majority of whom will come from the IDN regions, and do it effectively, fairly, equitably, homeopathically,
and congruently in a manner that will withstand the test of time over the coming decades of the twenty-first century and beyond, this change is unavoidable.
Suffice it to say, absent creation of the IDNSO in an expedient and timely fashion, and prior to the launch of the new IDN gTLDs, so that all matters with IDNs are addressed in a manner reflecting the needs and aspirations of the IDN local communities and their current and future Netizens first and foremost, the current plans for IDN gTLDs may well cause incalculable damage to the Internet and its DNS at the expense of the communities they were originally intended to serve first and foremost.
http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/fattal-to-beckstrom-15oct09-en.pdf
Any reason you didn’t show up this morning, MHB?
Tyriel
Yup family issues & car broken down issues.
I notified the show organizer it didn’t look like I was going to be able to make it on late Monday.
We see everyone in SF at Dot Nxt and/or Munich in September .