According to a press release out today BRS Media, one of the applications for the new gTLD .Radio “announced the set launch dates for “The Radio Global Domain Extensions under .Radio.am and .Radio.fm, will launch the Sunrise Period for trademark owners worldwide on May 28, 2013.”
These are subdomains of a ccTLD that are being sold off of Radio.FM & Radio.AM and should not be confused with the new gTLD .radio which BRS Media has also applied for.
BRS Media also operates the .Fm and .Am ccTLD
“TM.Biz will operate the Sunrise Period for the Radio.am and Radio.fm Global Domains, and TM.Biz will validate both trademark applications as well as Signed-Mark-Data (SMD) files from ICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). ”
“The rules and procedures for the Radio Global Domain Sunrise Period will follow the same rules published by ICANN for the validation of trademarks into the Trademark Clearinghouse. In addition, the sunrise will offer an Industry first, flat rate application fee with validation block on both GLDs. This sunrise fee, to accredited registrars, will cover the trademark application, and upon validation a full 10 year block awarded in both Radio.am & Radio.fm Global Domain Extensions.
“Most leading brand management Registrars like Corporation Service Company (CSC), Encirca, IP Mirror, ComLaude, Lexsynergy, 1API GmbH, 101Domain and more, will be accepting .Radio.am and .Radio.fm sunrise registrations.”
“The Radio Global Domain Extensions under .Radio.am and .Radio.fm are designed for Bootstrap Start-Ups, Small Office/Home Offices (SOHO) Entrepreneurs, Social Media Ventures, Streaming Enterprises and Traditional Broadcasters worldwide, while at the same time encouraging originality in expanding the RADIO global domain space. Radio GLDs Information and additional details are available at http://Radio.am & http://Radio.fm.”
The Radio Global Domains Phased Roll-Out Plan TimeTable:
Phase 1: Sunrise – 18:00 GMT, 28th May, 2013 to 23:59 GMT, 28th June, 2013
Phase 2: Landrush – 18:00 GMT, 1st July to 23:59 GMT, 31st July, 2013
Phase 3: General Availability – 18:00 GMT, 3rd August, 2013
“Registrars can easily add .RADIO.AM & .RADIO.FM to their current .FM Registry account, utilizing the same EPP registry solution, by contacting BRS Media directly at: 1.888.DOT.AMFM (1.888.368.2636)
The New Registrar and Resellers Accreditation is still open and interested registrars and domain resellers can get information at http://Radio.fm/Launch/
About BRS Media Inc:
Based in the South of Market district (SoMa) of San Francisco CA, BRS Media (http://brsmedia.fm) is listed as one of the fastest growing privately held companies by the SF Business Times and Inc. Magazine for an astounding 5th consecutive year, its portfolio of leading online properties includes: dotFM® & dotAM®, over 15 years of Domain Innovation and Brand Registry Services for media based .FM and .AM domains; .Radio.am & .Radio.fm, Radio’s New Global Domain Extensions (GLDs); @Radio.am & @Radio.fm, free & premium Web based email services; dotRadio™, the .RADIO Top-Level-Domain; iDotz.Net domain registrar of all gTLD domains (.com .net & .org), as well as, boutique domains (.tv .co .me .la & .im) and the ever-popular Web-Radio, the leading portal for “tuning in” Radio on the Internet. dotFM, dotAM and dotRadio are either registered trademarks or trademarks of BRS Media, Inc.
With Namely PRO anyone with a good domain name can turn it into a registry and sell emails + third level domain names in 5 minutes. The trick is to get it to the right sale channels.
Yeah, good luck with that.
I don’t see a lot of demand for a subdomain based on a marginal ccTLD.
Brad
A perfect example of creating a product and pushing it onto unsuspecting users who are not educated in domains.
I fail to see any added value here? There is no type in value, no keyword value and on top of that is the fact that digital radio is making FM and AM a legacy technology.
Just because the public are not educated in this does not make it OK to hype and pretend and sell a inferior or loaded product.
This applies to many of these gTLDs
We ourselves have muted domains like 1fm, 2fm, 3fm etc etc. for years. We do actually recerve traffic off them…
Howcome?
One would of thought someone spending 180,000 would have worked that one out….
DJ
Michael Berkens wrote:
> These are subdomains of a ccTLD that are being sold off of Radio.FM &
> Radio.AM and should not be confused with the new gTLD .radio which
> BRS Media has also applied for. BRS Media also operates the .Fm and
> .Am ccTLD
I’m 100% positive there will be absolutely no confusion at all. There’s only 4, wait, 5 different extensions there. How much simpler can it get?
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