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New
Online Magazine Will Focus Entirely on ccTLDs + ICANN
Closes Its Latest Meeting By Announcing a New Trademark
Clearinghouse Database
Morgan
Linton has just rolled out
a new online magazine for country code domain aficionados
called ccTLD
Investors. The ccTLD space has
exploded over the past couple of years and with
the
rapid growth of the internet in markets around the world
interest in country codes will undoubtedly continue to
expand. Linton said "The market is
there, we’ve already seen some huge sales this year, the problem is that there are very few resources for ccTLD
Investors. In 2009 ccTLD sales doubled making it the quickest growing segment in the Domain Investing
space."
Linton
added that while .com is the focus of attention in
the U.S. it is different in many other markets
around the globe. For example, "In
Canada owning a brand means owning the corresponding
.ca domain, in Germany it means owning the corresponding
.de domain," Linton
said.
"ccTLDs give investors the chance to buy into a market before it takes
off. Markets like India's .in and Mexico's .mx are just starting to see some larger sales but have mostly stayed below the five-figure range.
Just think, at this very moment India already has more Internet users than the United States. In India, .com is not as strong as
.co.in or .in but the market for buying and selling these domains has
just started."
Morgan
Linton (left) interviewing
Rick Silver (N49 Interactive) for
his Domainvestor TV series.
Linton said he has put
together a team of industry experts for his magazine that will
provide detailed insight into markets very few people have experience with.
He plans to publish weekly at ccTLDInvestors.com
at the start to give readers the opportunity to interact directly with the writers through an online comment system making the magazine more accessible. Linton
also plans to continue to add more writers throughout the year to reach even more markets.
Linton's
ccTLD magazine in the latest in a line of new domain blogs
and publications that are making information about all
facets of the industry available to people around the
world and spurring additional growth in our
business. Some of those that I have added to my own reading
list in recent weeks include Shane Cultra's DomainShane.com,
FacingTheAbsurd.com
(written by a successful domain investor from the Czech
Republic) and DomainConsultant.com
- a site that was recently relaunched as a blog by veteran
domainer Mike Fiol. If you are new to the industry,
Domaining.com
is a great place to familiarize yourself with the many
informative resources now available at your
fingertips.
Elsewhere,
ICANN closed its 37th international meeting
in Nairobi, Kenya today by announcing the
organization would maintain a Trademark
Clearinghouse database that ICANN says
will improve trademark protection on the web.
During this week's meeting ICANN also rejected a
proposal to implement a system of "Expressions
of Interest" (EOI), which would
have been a pre-registration process for those
wishing to apply for the new generic top-level
domains they expect to roll out one day (the
process has repeatedly been delayed). The Board
also decided to postpone action on the
controversial .XXX sponsored TLD they
previously rejected but are now
reconsidering.
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