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Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history

by Paul Sloan on  news.cnet.com

Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in historyICANN tomorrow will reveal who is going after what new domain extensions, paving the way for a very different looking Web. Prepare for dot-madness. by Paul Sloan June 12, 2012 4:00 AM PDT ...

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by Owen Thomas on  businessinsider.com

Google, Facebook, And Twitter Will Be The Only Winners In The Coming Domain-Name DISASTER (GOOG, OSTK)

Tomorrow begins one of the greatest disasters in the history of the Internet: the introduction of new top-level domain names, or "strings," that come at the end of Web addresses. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, ...

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by Jack on  blogsuccess.com

Branded Domain Applications Revealed Today – A New Internet Land Grab Begins

Curation Software(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Is a new, bigger-than-ever, fabric-of-the-web, land grab happening?  According to this article at CNET Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history, and many more below, were about to see where a ...

by Caitlin Berens on  wire.inc.com

Bye-bye .com? Domain Landscape to Become More Diverse

Turns out, .com might not be your only domain option in the future. ICANN will reveal tomorrow which companies and organizations have applied for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), including .music, .free, and .game, according to CNET. The ...

by Andrew Allemann on  domainnamewire.com

Frank Schilling applies for 54 new TLDs, Juan Calle also in the mix

Schilling applies for 54 domains, reports Paul Sloan. CNETs Paul Sloan, who has been covering the domain name industry for many years, just wrote a piece on new top level domains that teases out more details behind Frank Schillings plans for new ...

by Michael H. Berkens on  thedomains.com

Frank Schilling Invests $60 Million Dollars & Applies For 54 new gTLD’s

A few days ago we wrote about Frank Schilling, one of the worlds largest private domain name investor, getting into the new gTLD space under the new domain Uniregistry.com Today comes word through Cnet.com that Uniregistry has applied for 54 new ...

by Jillian D'Onfro on  inc.com

Bye-bye .com? Domain Landscape to Become More Diverse

Over 1,900 companies vie for new domains via ICANN.It turns out that .com might be getting some more domain-naming competition. ICANN will reveal tomorrow which companies and organizations have applied for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs),...