{"id":19690,"date":"2011-06-21T23:09:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T17:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=19690"},"modified":"2020-04-06T09:52:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T04:22:42","slug":"register-your-brand-top-level-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2011\/06\/register-your-brand-top-level-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"Register Your .Brand Top Level Domain for $185,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ICANN has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icann.org\/en\/announcements\/announcement-20jun11-en.htm\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that now brands can register their own<strong> .brand generic top-level domains<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Generic_top-level_domain\" rel=\"noopener\">gTLDs<\/a>) for $185,000 and the process will start soon. This is the biggest change in the domain name system till now and will change the way we view domains and brands.<\/p>\n<p>The current popular generic top level domains are limited like .com, .net, .org and many more. Applicants for their own .brand domains will need to pay <strong>$185,000 <\/strong>to process their application and if all goes as expected after a few long months of review, we might see many new gTLDs. Its expensive but its for a purpose so that only big brands will be able to afford it and protect their trademarks, while creating a unique web identity. You can read all the details in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icann.org\/en\/topics\/new-gtlds\/rfp-clean-30may11-en.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">gTLD Applicant Guidebook<\/a> (.pdf)<\/p>\n<p>Applications for new gTLDs will be accepted by ICANN from<strong> 12 January 2012 to 12 April 2012<\/strong>. I guess all brands will again be lining up to register their own trademarks and protect it from cybersquatters.<\/p>\n<p>So the new domains might look like in this in near future &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19694\" title=\"icann-domain-names\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/icann-domain-names.png\" alt=\"icann new domain names\" width=\"500\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/icann-domain-names.png 500w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/icann-domain-names-125x150.png 125w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/icann-domain-names-251x300.png 251w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Infographic by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labnol.org\" rel=\"noopener\">labnol.org<\/a> under CC license.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICANN has announced that now brands can register their own .brand generic top-level domains (gTLDs) for $185,000 and the process&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domain-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}