A brief report on the Eiffel Tower in Paris moving its web address from eiffel-tower.com and eiffel-tower.fr to toureffeil.paris.
With a 48% rise in the amount of money stolen from online banks in the UK, Barclays hopes that a switch from .uk and com to .barclays will tighten their cybersecurity efforts. Anyone can register barclay-banks.com but only Barclays can register a .barclays domain.
A very brief report about Barclays move to their .barclays and barclaycard brand registry domains with a highlighted quote from Barclays CIO.
Ray King, co-founder of Top Level Design, give 4 reasons why the new TLDs are better than .com domains.
This Adweek article seeks to spread the word about the new TLD extensions to the advertising industry. One analyst concludes that the new TLDs will become more visible once large brands such as .bmw and .yahoo launch official web properties.
JD Supra explains that banks wishing to register a .bank domain require a submission of trademarks to the Trademark Clearinghouse in order to qualify.
An in depth analysis of ICANN’s domain name report showing growth trends among various TLD categories from ccTLDs, legacy TLDs and new TLDs etc. It provides interesting stats around domain maintenance rates, newly created domain rates etc.
A very interesting look at Amazon’ activity in registering new TLDs with a long list of Amazon new TLD domains from electronics.discount to wholebean.coffee.