<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">hi all,<div><br></div><div>here’s the article where i found the link to the ECO study. here’s the link</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://domainincite.com/15499-new-gtld-launches-registrar-coverage-at-less-than-40-of-the-market">http://domainincite.com/15499-new-gtld-launches-registrar-coverage-at-less-than-40-of-the-market</a></div><div><br></div><div>here’s the lede:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><p><strong>Registrars representing less than 40% of the gTLD market are
ready to offer new gTLDs during their launch phases, according to the
latest stats from ICANN.</strong></p></div><div><p>ICANN released yesterday a list (<a href="https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/db-registrar-certified-06jan14-en.pdf" title="ICANN" target="_blank">pdf</a>)
of the just 21 registrars that have signed the 2013 Registrar
Accreditation Agreement and have been certified by IBM to use the
Trademark Clearinghouse database.</p></div></blockquote><div><div apple-content-edited="true">
and here’s my observation…</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">the “uptake” of the 2013 RAA seems pretty slow to me — Godaddy is really the only major registrar in that group right now. this may have interesting implications for those of us who are dealing with the downstream/knock-on effects of the new gTLD program. i’m not sure what those effects will be — but my naive observation is that this is a lot like introducing 1400 new kinds of snack food and only having a few stores sign up to sell them.</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">the ECO study supports this trend, and notes that a large percentage of those registrars surveyed are planning to increase their coverage of *existing* TLDs. </div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">mikey</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">PHONE: 651-647-6109, FAX: 866-280-2356, WEB: <a href="http://www.haven2.com">www.haven2.com</a>, HANDLE: OConnorStP (ID for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)</span>
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