Evan Williams / Evhead:
Five Reasons Domains Are Getting Less Important — While discussing possible names for a product recently, someone asked me if we were at the point where getting the perfect domain name was less important than it used to be. While I’m still a sucker for a clean .com, it does seem less important …
Danielle Sacks / Fast Company:
How Jack Abraham Is Reinventing EBay — Jack Abraham sold his startup to eBay for million. Now all he has to do is help the e-commerce giant redefine the future of retailing. — AT THE MOMENT when most boys are plotting how to launch gum into a classmate’s braids, 12-year-old Jack Abraham was hired by his father.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Exclusive: Top ISPs poised to adopt graduated response to piracy — Some of the country’s largest Internet service providers are poised to leap into the antipiracy fight in a significant way. — After years of negotiations, a group of bandwidth providers that includes AT&T, Comcast …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
What The New ICANN Domain Names Mean For Google Rankings & SEO: Nothing — ICANN – the organization in charge of internet domain names – has approved plans that may create hundreds or thousands of new “top level domain names.” I’ve seen some reports already that this will help with search engine optimization.
Lauren Weinstein / Lauren Weinstein’s Blog:
The Shame on the Internet: ICANN Votes to Massively Enrich the Domain-Industrial Complex — As expected, ICANN has voted overwhelmingly to approve their disgraceful plan for a vast increase in generic top-level domains (gTLDs). — Some observers are expecting hundreds of millions of dollars …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
New Net addresses mean new trademark issues — ICANN announced new generic top-level domains (GTLDs) at a news conference in Singapore. From left to right are outgoing Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush, Chief Executive Rod Beckstrom, and Senior Vice President of Services Kurt Pritz, who led the GTLD effort.
CircleID:
New Top-Level Domains Approved by ICANN — The Board of ICANN today gave final approval to the most dramatic change to the Internet in four decades — allowing the expansion of new Top-Level Domains (TLDs). This monumental decision will allow companies and organizations to turn their own brands …
J.B. / Fusible.com:
Google set to launch Photovine? It applied for the trademark, now it owns the matching domain name — Google applied for a trademark on “Photovine” on June 7 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. — As of June 14, it appears Google owns photovine.com.
Eric Savitz / CIO Central:
Should ICANN Be Adding More Generic Top-Level Domains? — On June 19, hundreds of attendees from around the world representing a variety of industries and communities will gather in Singapore to attend the second public meeting of the year held by ICANN, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names …
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
“.brands” approach with Internet name shake-up — (Reuters) – Brand owners will soon be able to operate their own parts of the Web — such as .apple, .coke or .marlboro — if the biggest shake-up yet in how Internet domains are awarded is approved. — After years of preparation and wrangling …