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Can we assess who is leading the new dot brand gTLD? There are lots of emotions and hypothesis around the new gTLD programme. Is it a success, is it a failure? Is it coming too late, in a world ruled by search and apps? We try to measure that success...

CircleID: The dot brand observatory is a research program on brands who registered their name at the top level of the internet domain name system — the DNS. The research looks at the registration of second level domain names by brands, but also the use...

 CircleID.com: December 2016 Dot Brand Insights CircleID The dot brand observatory is a research program on brands who registered their name at the top level of the internet domain name system — the DNS. The research looks at the registration of second...

A French bank appears to be the first major company to commence a permanent switch from a legacy TLD to a new dot-brand. BNP Paribas, the fourth-largest bank in the world, is dumping its .fr and .net domains in favor of .bnpparibas for customers in...

Social networking has created its own search language: the #hashtag. Rather than relying on search engines, people in the social sphere decide what’s hot and throw a hashtag in front of it. If it clicks, more people put that hashtag in front of it, and...