Now that ICANN has stuck to its guns and only placed 4 new gTLD’s strings that look confusingly similar into contention sets, rather than those that sound identical, such as .inc and .ink or those that have the same meaning like .Law and .Lawyer or those that are singular and plurals of the same word, we now know what we will get when the new gTLD’s roll out and in part its going to be a very a tough marketing road for some of the strings.
Not only will the new gTLD strings have to sell themselves to the public as alternatives to incumbent TLD’s and ccTLD’s but they will have to separate themselves from other new gTLD’s that will be fighting in the same vertical for seemly the same customers with almost the same String.
Here are some new gTLD strings that will not only have to compete for the same vertical but possibly a real problem is separating themselves away a very close alternative
.Law/.Lawyers
.Hotel/.Hotels
.Car/.Cars
.Coupon/.Coupons
.Deal/.Deals
.Fish/.Fishing
.Film/.Movies
.Game/.Games
.Gift/.Gifts
.Host/.Hosting
.Insure/.Insurance
.Kid/.Kids
.Loan/.Loans
.Photo/.Photography
.New/.News
.Realestate/.Realty/.Realtor
.Secure/.Security
.Sport/.Sports
.Shop/.Shopping
.Tech/.Technology
.Web/.Webs
.Site/.Website
Of course there is still the objection period which doesn’t close until March 13th under which applicants can object to other applications; the Initial Evaluation of applications which should start to be released in March which could change things around and of course there are still the GAC objections
These are in the clear yet. Applicants now get to object.
But I bet somegovernmental third party weighs in as well.
Here are a few more:
career/careers
home/homes
pet/pets
photo/photos
review/reviews
work/works
Hello MHB,
This whole gTLD Folly may have to be named = MARKETING MONOPOLY
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Sex/Sexy
To answer my own question, yes this is from the String Similarity Evaluation Panel. Those guys apparently got paid a lot of money for their “independent evaluation”.
I disagree that this is inline with policy. There was a string similarity test, scores above 35 were supposed to be scrutinized. .Mobi vs .Mobile scored 72.
ICANN has tipped their hand, evaluations are kangaroo courts, the objective is to pass as much as possible. Private generic strings mean more money for ICANN, so they pass. Not to worry about competition between similar strings, all but a few will be private.
Including many that claim in their application to be public. A private TLD is now a super category-killer domain, nothing more or less, and a lot more valuable private than public.
Hello MHB,
Ha ! good luck doing business offshore with certain Private TLDs. People have no clue whats coming.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Jeff
I have no idea of what your talking about and being offshore is not a sin just ask Mr Schilling
Does this mean that in the next round, companies can apply for mis-types of generic words as TLDs? If hotels/hotel, car/cars, and loan/loans are not confusingly similar, what POSSIBLY could be??
Also, ICANN should update UDRP to reflect this new “creative” understanding of confusingly similar.
So Car & Cars are not similar? Or Hotel & Hotels?
Ask a Grade 2 student if your high power committee can’t tell if they’re similar.
Talk about money making the world go around.
Mike, Lol I hope you’re not trying to say that anything Schilling does cannot be a sin. Must admit, couldn’t rule it out myself if taxes go too high. But the offshore world can distort markets, while increasing the tax burden of those who remain onshore.
Much more attractive to go ahead with a venture if one gets to keep the entirety of any gains.
The offshore markets were “created” and are increasingly used because of the US obsession with taxing those who make the most money and pay the most taxes more and more while allowing 50% of the population to pay zero tax
The US is also one of only 3 countries in the world that tax base off of citizenship rather than where the money is earned or where the taxpayer lives
Jeff
R.E. = “I have no idea of what your talking about and being offshore is not a sin just ask Mr Schilling”
There is tremendous International resistance to the Monopoly TLDs coming out, Yes they view as I do these as Monopoly TLDs. This is an outrageous Monopoly Over Reach Game going on and you will continue to see this Monoply label ,not just by me but many others, because you can put lipstick on a pig but it remain a Pig. This is an Epic Pig !
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact group) (Metal Tiger)
If your talking about the closed generic they are mostly coming from US companies, Amazon and Google, the other l’oreal is French based not usually considered an offshore jurisdiction
R.E. ” If your talking about the closed generic they are mostly coming from US companies, Amazon and Google, the other l’oreal is French based not usually considered an offshore jurisdiction ”
I agree and this is tainting to whole TLD offering. Like it or not its part of the whole new TLD compromise. Just like congress sneaks Pork into Bills up for passage, ICANN is victim to lots of Pork in this TLD Monopoly Grab.
Well as you might expect Microsoft and others are starting to Squeal like Whistle Blowers. Wait till Beging ?
Gratefully Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
.APP/.APPS, .CLOUD/.CLOUDCOMPUTING, .DATE/.DATING
.OMG/.LOL
Any more “consulting” (legal/marketing/biz development) gigs left for this venture?
There’s real .money/.cash. in .consulting/.advising .here/.there, I .think/.believe.