Friday, December 12, 2025

New gTLD Innovation in 2026, a €4M annual income in 5 years

Project "John Wolley"

The Universal Directory

Project John Wolley is a concept of universal yellow pages based on the use of a single .BRAND domain name extension where each domain name is a city or a village's name.

White and Yellow Pages exist in most countries but no directory exists
for the entire world. Project “John Wolley” offers to use one single
domain name extension to operate one global directory. Each city
name becomes a domain name and each domain name is one
local directory.

Download the pitch

Monday, December 1, 2025

The AI answered these "new gTLD" questions

We recently asked an Artificial Intelligence a few questions about the next round of new gTLDs:
Can I sell domain names ending in my ".brand" through the network of ICANN accredited Registrars?
  • Why should investment funds invest in new gTLDs in 2026?
  • Are new gTLDs monopolies?
  • What is ICANN 84?
  • Why are community and geographic new gTLD applications more expensive?
  • I want to fund a new generic Top-Level Domain at the ICANN but which one?
  • How many people are needed to run an ICANN new gTLD Registry?
  • Where are listed all upcoming new gTLD projects?
  • What does the latest ICANN 84 GAC communiqué says about the next new gTLD round2 in 2026?
  • Are 4 months enough to decide to submit a new gTLD application in the next ICANN new gTLD round?
  • Can you apply for an ICANN new gTLD with a budget of 800,000€?
  • ICANN Round 2 of new gTLDs: is it mandatory to deposit data of a Registry with an escrow agent
  • As a generic new gTLD Registry, how much should I sell my domain names to the network of accredited Registrars?
We asked the AI a lot more questions!

Monday, November 24, 2025

Data Escrow for your new gTLD?

As a key component of the global domain ecosystem, DENIC Services ensures the secure registration and operation of generic (gTLD) and country-code (ccTLD) top-level domains. DENIC Services provides essential Data Escrow services, relied upon by more than 2,800 domain registries and registrars internationally.


Its robust and highly secure IT infrastructure stores the data for over 180 million domains, representing more than 50% of all domains globally. Operating a gTLD necessitates the deposit of registry data with an accredited escrow agent. DENIC Services meets this requirement as the only designated escrow service in the ICANN RDE programme, and is fully approved under the ICANN Registry Data Escrow programme.

Become part of the DENIC network now.

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Latest news: the new gTLD Guidebook was adopted

Just in case you missed:

  1. The ICANN84 Governmental Advisory Committee Communiqué Now Available. 12 very exciting pages to read and even more exciting starting page 6 of the PDF (the rest is a transcript):
    1. Applicant Support Program Implementation and New gTLD Next Round Outreach.
    2. Additional Fee for Evaluation of Geographic Names During the Next Round of New gTLDs.
    3. Latin Script Diacritics.
    4. IGO Protections.
  2. The ICANN Board just "adopted" the next round Applicant Guidebook (also called the "AGB"),
  3. ICANN Request for Proposal: New gTLD Program: 2026 Round Background Screening Services,
  4. ICANN Request for Proposal: Evaluator Panels for String Similarity and Variant Strings for the new gTLD Program: 2026 Round,
  5. Collaboration Key to Delivering ICANN’s New gTLD Applicant Guidebook.

There is a new "Quick links" pages on the ICANN website here.

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

New gTLD auctions: "Reminder"

This is what applicants paid in the first Round of new gTLDs to fight for their string in ICANN auctions:
  1. .WEBS : $1
  2. .WEB : $135,000,000
  3. .SHOP : $41,501,000
  4. .HOTELS : $2,200,000
  5. .SRL : $400,000
  6. .PING : $1,501,000
  7. .APP : $25,001,000
  8. .MLS : $3,359,000
  9. .BABY : $3,088,888
  10. .DOT : $700,000
  11. .SALON : $5,100,575
  12. .REALTY : $5,588,888
  13. .SPOT : $2,200,000
  14. .BUY : $4,588,888
  15. .VIP : $3,000,888
  16. .TECH : $6,760,000
  17. .信息 : $600,000

To learn more about how TLDs are going to be auctioned in the next round, see "4.6 ICANN New gTLD Auction" from the existing draft of the next new gTLD applicant guidebook (page 153).

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Latest Sunrise Information (at Google)

Trademark Claims Period have started on 01 October 2025 for:
  1. The .GMAIL new gTLD,
  2. The .ANDROID new gTLD,
  3. The .YOUTUBE new gTLD.


Something coming at Google?

Learn more.

Thursday, September 11, 2025

The new gTLD Directory "has" launched

A Directory for Applicants and Providers

The Directory is a free tool for applicants in the 2026 ICANN new gTLD Program, looking for a service provider with the capacity and experience to guide them through the process of submitting their application to the ICANN in 2026...and after.


Registration is free, please join: www.gtld.directory

















Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Why a .META new gTLD makes sense

We asked Gemini (an AI) the question, and as expected, it lacks ideas and imagination.

The META new gTLD could be a .BRAND or a .COMMUNITY application but we, at Jovenet Consulting, think there is a strategic move to make for Mark Zuckerberg in 2026.



Strategy and numbers

Many .BRAND applicants want their domain name extension to protect their assets and sometimes do nothing with it, or create a few personalized domain names to introduce themselves a better way.

With more than 3 billion users*, Facebook Meta has an opportunity to create something that is terribly missing on Internet: domain names without spam (phishing, etc...). Many existing operators have been trying to secure domains and emails for decades with fantastic technical tools such as SPF, DKIM, DMARC, BIMI...but let's be honest : things are doing better but we still receive spam and all sort of phishing emails of all kind. I personally find homographic attacks interesting ones.

Certified Email

If "meta" is a sign short enough to be acceptable at the end of an email, it is the Facebook platform that could become the next gMail with a new way to guarantee that all incoming emails are spam free.

If existing methods to block spam do not work entirely, operating the largest social media platform is an opportunity to start from scratch and do three things:

  1. Create a new email tool that blocks spam: the blockchain allows that. A new way to block spam is not only technical, it is about policy, technic and "rules to respect or you are kicked out". I personally don't need to send more than 5 emails per day.
  2. Keep users in your platform.
  3. Increase brand awareness: all emails end in ".meta".
If the platform guarantees it blocks spams for Facebook users (and for free), then companies pay for extra services. I receive so much spam from Indian design companies offering me seo services and webdesign that I would probably use a new personal email ending in ".meta".

* https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/

.BRAND new gTLD Reports are updated once a month.

.BRAND new gTLD Reports are updated once a month.
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