Feature • Who needs a domain name and website anymore?
Some would have you believe websites are passé:
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| Source: Hootsuite.com and Edelman.com |
- Hashtags in Super Bowl ads slip to 30% in 2017, overtaken by URL use in 39% | MarketingLand.com and Exclusive: Rick Schwartz Thinks Use of Domains In The Super Bowl Over Hashtags Is A Game Changer For The Domain Industry | TheDomains.com.
- Facebook, Snapchat Deals Produce Meager Results for News Media: "Newspapers and other media outlets are struggling to make money from their partnerships with tech giants like Facebook and Snapchat, raising concerns over their business models in a news landscape increasingly dominated by social media platforms."--Bloomberg.com
- Why I Spent $1.5 Million on Our Domain [SUMO.COM] | entrepreneur.com
- Why brand names are the new logos | DesignWeek.co.uk: "Re-brands commonly involve the simplification of brand marks. Think of Airbnb, Google, Moo.com. In the interests of user experience, simple flat word marks with key-line symbols are prevalent for tech brands."
- The End of Digital Advertising as We Know It | knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu: "The new era of post-peak advertising will mean that publishers and marketers will have to adapt or die."
- TechReview | What's Really Wrong With Twitter ... | DomainMondo.com: "... ANY general media platform trying to attract "users" [customers]--viewers or consumers of content--that relies solely on an app, and is effectively unusable on the mobile web, is a #FAIL [compare Twitter's mobile web experience to YouTube.com via a mobile web browser]."
Other Internet Domain News:
- Verisign $VRSN Q4 2016 Earnings LIVE Webcast Feb 9, 4:30pm ET: "... as it relates to our becoming the registry operator for .web, on January 18, 2017, the company received a Civil Investigative Demand from the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, requesting certain information related to VeriSign's potential operations of the .web TLD. The CID is not directed at VeriSign's existing registry agreements. As we said at the time of the auction last July, we strongly believe VeriSign is well-positioned to grow and widely distribute .web to provide an additional option to the marketplace, given our proven track record of reliability and stability, and we look forward to explaining our views as we respond to the CID and continue to cooperate with the DOJ."--D. James Bidzos, Verisign President, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of the Board (Transcript | SeekingAlpha.com).
- Pending: Appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals: Ruby Glen LLC (Donuts affiliate) vs ICANN.
- Afilias Chairman Jonathan Robinson resigns as Co-Chair of the Cross-Community Working Group on new gTLD Auction Proceeds (CWG-Auctions)--
2. ICANN CCWG Accountability Workstream 2 (WS2) Dashboard for the month of January 2017 (pdf) excerpt:
3. Update on ICANN's CCT-Review--Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice Review--"We will be spending our two next plenary calls (February 9 & 15) discussing the Executive Summary, defining Prioritization and finally reviewing recommendations priority (including if there is a prerequisite to subsequent procedures). Considering we are behind schedule on our papers discussions, we have shifted our deadline to publish our draft recommendations to February 20 ..."--CCT-RT Chair Jonathan Zuck
4. Global Amendment to the Base New gTLD Registry Agreement: ICANN completely disregarded domain name registrants' concerns, and is going to remove pricing transparency on new gTLDs, what happens next?
- As of the end of December 2016, ICANN org has 365 people, that is 21 people less than the FY17 year end budget projection of 386. Over the last three months, 15 joined and another 8 left.
- ICANN Org by Locations: As of December 31 2016, North America Offices & Remote consists of 217 (79%) in Los Angeles office, 28 in Washington DC office, 29 work remotely in US, 1 work remotely in Canada, totaling 275 (75% of the total organization).
6. Letter from Göran Marby to Thomas Schneider [Published 8 February 2017] ICANN | President & CEO Responses to the questions in Annex 1 of the Hyderabad Communiqué GACCommuniqué - Hyderabad, India [Published 8 November 2016] excerpt:
Question 2b. Is ICANN conducting any type of independent research that allows it to obtain metrics and generate statistics related to concentration of malicious domain names per registrar/registry and how this trends over a determined period of time? Answer: "At this time, ICANN is not generating statistics on malicious domains in a comprehensive way ..."
7. Healthy Domains Initiative Isn't Healthy for the Internet | Electronic Frontier Foundation | EFF.org:
8. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) and Donuts Sign Multi-Year Extension of their New gTLD Registry Services Agreement (Feb 7, 2017): Rightside will continue to provide the back-end registry services for Donuts' nearly 200 new generic Top Level Domains (new gTLDs). "A registry back-end system performs the critical functions necessary for a domain name registry to fulfill its technical obligations in running a top-level domain (or TLD, the section of the web address to the right of the dot). This includes provisioning and maintenance of domains in the registry database and the domain name system (DNS), supplying Whois services, providing shared access to registration functions for domain name registrars, and numerous features to support the business and operational requirements of registry operators."
9. Q4 2016 Results this coming week on DomainMondo.com: GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) Q4 2016 Results, LIVE Webcast Feb 15, 5:00pm ET. ICYMI on Domain Mondo: Tucows $TCX Q4 2016 Earnings LIVE Webcast Feb 7, 5:00pm ET.
On DM's coverage list, only Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) has failed to announce when it will release Q4 2016 results. Perhaps Rightside, like Neustar, will go private since it's a thinly traded small cap stock and apparently isn't going anywhere:
10. Geneva Internet Platform DigitalWatch newsletter (pdf) notes 1) that "over the last two decades, globalisation and the growth of the Internet have been closely related. Looking ahead, the crisis of globalisation will have an unavoidable impact on the internet ... in addition to a more fragmented internet ..." and 2) in Russia, three cybersecurity specialists connected to the Kremlin were arrested over allegations that they were spying for Washington.
• 3 Internet Domain News Quick Takes:
Healthy Domains Initiative Isn't Healthy for the Internet https://t.co/anM74XNULK via @EFF #domains #DomainName #NetGov @ICANN #ICANN pic.twitter.com/LSabeWKtfW— Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) February 11, 2017
8. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) and Donuts Sign Multi-Year Extension of their New gTLD Registry Services Agreement (Feb 7, 2017): Rightside will continue to provide the back-end registry services for Donuts' nearly 200 new generic Top Level Domains (new gTLDs). "A registry back-end system performs the critical functions necessary for a domain name registry to fulfill its technical obligations in running a top-level domain (or TLD, the section of the web address to the right of the dot). This includes provisioning and maintenance of domains in the registry database and the domain name system (DNS), supplying Whois services, providing shared access to registration functions for domain name registrars, and numerous features to support the business and operational requirements of registry operators."
9. Q4 2016 Results this coming week on DomainMondo.com: GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) Q4 2016 Results, LIVE Webcast Feb 15, 5:00pm ET. ICYMI on Domain Mondo: Tucows $TCX Q4 2016 Earnings LIVE Webcast Feb 7, 5:00pm ET.
On DM's coverage list, only Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) has failed to announce when it will release Q4 2016 results. Perhaps Rightside, like Neustar, will go private since it's a thinly traded small cap stock and apparently isn't going anywhere:
10. Geneva Internet Platform DigitalWatch newsletter (pdf) notes 1) that "over the last two decades, globalisation and the growth of the Internet have been closely related. Looking ahead, the crisis of globalisation will have an unavoidable impact on the internet ... in addition to a more fragmented internet ..." and 2) in Russia, three cybersecurity specialists connected to the Kremlin were arrested over allegations that they were spying for Washington.
• 3 Internet Domain News Quick Takes:
- Domain name transferred under UDRP restituted by French court in absence of infringement | WorldTrademarkReview.com
- Top 10 Domain Name Mistakes (Part I) | The National Law Review | natlawreview.com
- Fiber broadband: Is it a waste with 5G and Elon Musk's satellites on the horizon? | ZDNet.com
- UPDATE: Ninth Circuit Denies Stay of TRO, State of Washington vs Trump
- News Review: .AFRICA Update, ICANN Annual Report, ICANN.org 404: Update Feb 9, 2017: ICANN finally free to proceed with the delegation of new gTLD .AFRICA following California Superior Court ruling.
- Twitter $TWTR Q4 2016 Earnings LIVE Webcast Feb 9, 8:00am ET
- Tucows $TCX Q4 2016 Earnings LIVE Webcast Feb 7, 5:00pm ET
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