Can anyone register a premium domain when a new tld comes out?

[hughesa]

What i mean is, say a new tld comes out, like when the .eu and .mobi have come out recently, do all the premium domains get took up straight away, or are they available to first come, first served? For example when .mobi was released was anyone able to get in there and get some good one word domains?

 

[Web Master]

When a new TLD comes out, such as .EU, some parties may reserve many premium domains, and there are some other premium domains left for first coming, first serving. Not sure about .mobi.

 

[hughesa]

When a new TLD comes out, such as .EU, some parties may reserve many premium domains, and there are some other premium domains left for first coming, first serving. Not sure about .mobi.

Say for example names like business.eu, mobilephones.eu, football.eu soccer.eu, etc. Who will register these first?

 

[Spade]

Typically, now-a-days the registry knows that those domain names are premium and will sell for high dollar amounts. They hold those domain names back, and later auction them off. This recently occured at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. with several "premium" .mobi's

Also, bare in mind that a few companies have figured out that by having several "fake" registrars. They can access the registrys database durring the landrush much faster and many more times than a stand alone registry. Which means, they have a better chance at grabbing the higher quality domain names.

Hope this helps..

Justin

 

[Charley]

Would be better if you could cite some examples.

Also, bare in mind that a few companies have figured out that by having several "fake" registrars. They can access the registrys database durring the landrush much faster and many more times than a stand alone registry.

 

[Spade]

Durring the .eu landrush there were "phantom registrars" which all appeared to be owned by the same company as an attempt to grab as many quality .eu domains as possible. Here is Bob Parsons blog post about it:

http://www.bobparsons.com/Newfactsemerge.html

A huge group of 400 registrars, all located in New York, caught my eye in particular. None of these registrars have a website – imagine that, a registrar without a website. All of these registrars were registered as Delaware LLC’s and listed the Corporation Service Company as their agent – so they are all, no doubt, related and part of the same group.

 

[jmcc]

Say for example names like business.eu, mobilephones.eu, football.eu soccer.eu, etc. Who will register these first?

Speculators using dodgy Belgian fast track trademarks to claim prior rights. That's the simple answer. The same kind of activity (well financed speculators targeting premium domains using dubious methods can be seen in any Sunrise).

The .eu case was special because the registry was run by incompetent fools who shouldn't have been allowed within an ass's roar of a TLD. But their buddies, those well known domain industry experts in the European Commission thought that these morons were best equipped to run .eu ccTLD.

The phantom registrar issue involved hundreds of front company (LLC) phantom registrars. The morons in EURid were informed of this problem as hundreds of these registrars started appearing before the landrush. They took no action and were, in the eyes of the European domain industry, negligent on a scale that is almost criminal. How these morons ever got to run a registry should be investigated. But since the European Union is associated with fraud, waste and corruption, so there will be no investigation. There will be no justice.

You want names? We got names:

Michael Berkens. (UK front company: Malls Ltd)

Jay Westerdal (Nameintelligence /domaintools.com)
Ray King (ex-CEO Snapnames.com)
(Both of the above used UK Front companies: Aphrodite Ventures Ltd, Hanoki Ltd, Lexicon Media Ltd, Name Battery Ltd, Vintisia Ltd, World Online Endeavours Ltd, Lehigh Basin Ltd, Fienna Ltd)

Marchex (Used Irish front company)
Enom
Pool
etc

You want the domains targeted and the domains they registered?
We have them too.

Regards...jmcc

 

[scandiman]

.Mobi is/was handled differently. There is a pool of reserved names as specified by icann and there is a pool of premium names that mtld kept for themselves to be distributed via public auction or RFP process.

The first registration period was for holders of registered trademarks and following that was a landrush period where anyone could pre-reg names that were not in the reserved or premium pool and the names presumably were assigned in a random way. (I got about 30% of my landrush names and received a refund for those I was not successful in getting).

After landrush came the general registration period as it is now.

Some names from the premium pool have been auctioned at the Moniker events, like flowers, fun and RealEstate.mobi to name a few and the first RFP process is soon to be finalized for news.mobi, sports.mobi, ringtones.mobi and weather.mobi.

 

[jmcc]

.Mobi is/was handled differently. There is a pool of reserved names as specified by icann and there is a pool of premium names that mtld kept for themselves to be distributed via public auction or RFP process.

Actually .mobi is a lot better run than .eu ccTLD. The people in mTLD watched the .eu fiasco closely and didn't make the same stupid mistakes.

Some names from the premium pool have been auctioned at the Moniker events, like flowers, fun and RealEstate.mobi to name a few and the first RFP process is soon to be finalized for news.mobi, sports.mobi, ringtones.mobi and weather.mobi.

It is a very smart way to encourage natural growth and development.

Regards...jmcc