Following the 9th validation yesterday, ICANN has accepted 341 new extensions.

It is now certain that these extensions will be live before the end of 2013 and 2014.

As a reminder, if you want to participate in the SUNRISE period in order to protect your brand, you must first register it with the validation organization, TMCH, for which Gandi is accredited.

Below is the list of extensions that were validated (that we are offering in pre-reservation):

ads, analytics, app, art, auction, auto, baby, basketball, bid, bike, blog, bom, broadway, business, buy, bzh, cab, cal, camera, career, cars, center, church, city, clothing, cloud, codes, coupon, data, deal, democrat, desi, diet, docs, dog, dot, durban, eco, email, energy, equipment, estate, film, fire, fishing, flowers, food, furniture, gay, green, guide, guru, help, helsinki, hiv, holdings, hosting, hotel, how, immobilien, insurance, investments, land, lat, lifestyle, lighting, live, management, menu, mobile, news, now, online, paris, party, pictures, play, poker, prod, radio, red, room, rugby, ruhr, safety, salon, school, silk, singles, site, soy, sport, study, surgery, systems, talk, tech, thai, theater, trading, uno, ventures, vip, voyage, webcam, wedding, wiki

For the entire month of May 2013, the registry is having a promotion that will let you create .XXX domains at the same price as .COM domains.

This promo is valid for domain name creations from 1 to 10 years!

A good occassion for some of you to protect your trademark, and for others, to launch into the pornographic website business :)

.XXX will will therefore only cost $15.50 (£10.50, or €12.54) excl. VAT per year under A rates, which is a savings of more than 80% (the regualar price for .XXX is $80.00/£57.50/€65.00)!

Want to register a .XXX?

.XXX

A nice treat for lovers of Asian domain names, and those of you who usually spell Gandi with an "h": 50% off .IN domain names!

Seriously, though, from April 2nd until the end of the year, you can get 50% off on the creation of new .IN domain names, for up to 5 years! That means a lot of value for you, our customer. Why not future-proof your new domain today?

 

Want to register a .IN ? :

.IN

 As you know by now, the biggest news of 2013 will be the arrival of the first round of new extensions. More than 500 new registries will emerge to manage a set of nearly 1,500 new TLDs. Obviously, the idea is to multiply the number of available names, and this can only multiply the difficulties when it comes to protecting your trademark. This is where the sp (TMCH) comes into play.

What is it?
To put it simply, the Trademark Clearinghouse is an institution which will focus on centralizing management of trademark-related issues.
More specifically, ICANN has requested the creation of a unique service to manage trademark registrations. This service will be managed by two heavyweights in their respective fields: IBM will handle the technical aspects; Deloitte, the validation procedures. Together, their role will be to verify the rights of registered trademark holders and to facilitate priority registrations during defensive registration periods (Sunrise) or to alert markholders by email when a domain name identical to their trademark has been registered within a 90-day window after the end of a Sunrise period.

Who can sign up?
Any natural or legal person with documented rights to a given national or regional brand (EU and international) is eligible. There are several restrictions on the use of a trademark as a domain name. For example, brands which contain periods or intellectual property rights which cannot be handled by the DNS (e.g. patents and designs) will not be accepted. It will be possible to replace spaces and other punctuation marks contained in trademarks with dashes, and translated versions of symbols such as & and @ can be used, in the language of the trademark jurisdiction (e.g. "and" and "at" for English-language brands)

What can Gandi offer?
We are pleased to offer trademark-based registration management and early-warning notifications through Gandi Corporate Services.

If you are not a Gandi Corporate customer, you only need to subscribe for at least one month on this page: https://www.gandi.net/corporate/souscrire

Gandi Corporate offers complete support for trademark registrations under TMCH and for monitoring for domains registered which violate your intellectual property rights (Claims Services) available at the following rates:

One-year registration (per brand): 190 euros (including TMCH fees of $145) and 190 euros per renewal (for protection under extensions that have not been released yet)
Three-year registration (per brand): 520 euros (including TMCH fees of $435)
Five-year registration (per brand): 830 euros (including TMCH fees of $725)

Knowing that the first extensions will be available by June (according to ICANN estimates) and that the rest will follow over the following 20 to 22 months, it seems smart to take a 3-year package (or 5 years if you want to be ready for the second wave of new extensions!).
Lastly, for bulk purchases, contact us for volume pricing.

If you are interested in our offer or if just want more specific details, we invite you to contact us at tmch@gandi.net.

To celebrate its launch, the .PW registry is letting us sell you .PW domains for only $4 (€3, or £2.75) from March 25th 2013 to June 1st, 2013. This promo is valid for the first year for every .PW domain name creation.

This extension, originally intended for the island of Palau, has undergone a marketing transition and is now targeted for use by internet professionals (PW = Professional Web), though you can also use it if you like how it reminds you of PassWord, etc.

There are no restrictions on its registration and so you are free to use it however it pleases you.

Want your .PW?

.PW

Because the .HU extension is complex to manage (we offer it as part of our Corporate Offer), Centralnic has added .HU.NET to its existing .HU.COM

This extension can be purchased from 1 to 10 years, and is open to everyone (see more info).

Register a .HU.NET :

.HU.NET

Though we have been accredited for a while now, it was only being handled manually and therefore reserved to our Corporate Offer. Today, however it is automated and is available on-line!

.FI domain names are reserved to companies registered in Finland or individuals that live in Finland. You must provide proof of ID to demonstrate this.

.FI domains can be registered for only 1 year, for €20 excl. VAT under A rates (see the extension's information page)

Do you want to register a .FI?

.FI

For the month of February 2013 only, the .CO registry is allowing us to sell you .CO domains at 50% off thr normal price in all rate scales: $16.50 excl VAT for A rates instead of the usual $33.

The offer is only valid for 1-year creations, and does not concern transfers or renewals. As a reminder, .CO is open to everyone.

 

Want to get your .CO?

.CO

Afilias, the .PRO registry, is working with Gandi to offer you .PRO domain registrations for 50% off the regular purchase price of $20. That's a .PRO for $10! 

This price applies to all discount levels, and is good for new registrations for one year only. It does not apply to renewals or transfers. 

Remember, .PRO is special, and restricted to registered companies. 

Register a .PRO now: 

.PRO
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