3. Who am I?
Michele Neylon
- Founder / CEO Blacknight
- http://mneylon.tel
- @mneylon
- http://michele.me/blog
- Chair RrSG
- Winner IIA Net Visionary 2013
- @mneylon on most other social
networks ..
5. European ccTLDs
• 65.5 million domains across all extensions
• 15.6 million .de
• 10.6 million *.uk
- 5.4 million .nl
- 3.7 million .eu
- 2.7 million .fr (all numbers from CENTR report)
- 1.2 million .se (https://www.iis.se/english/domains/ )
6. ccTLD vs gTLD
• National identity?
– Yourshop.se – local?
– Co.uk trusted AND used by UK business
– Yourbusiness.com – global?
• gTLD -> global business?
cheaper? (depends .. )
Easier to register?
Is it trusted?
18. Relative to the customer (an
opportunity!)
.se
.stockholm
.helsinki
…
.bayern
.cologne
.hamburg
…
19.
20. ccTLD vs gTLD vs New TLD?
• Average business / user won’t want 20
domains
• Will they switch to a new TLD?
• Is the ccTLD “easy” to register?
• Is there a gTLD that’s more “appropriate”?
29. EU Law vs US contract
• EU data privacy law
• ICANN’s contracts
• Whois policy
– .cat + .tel got it changed
Regisrars vs ICANN re: data retention waiver
33. Want to find me?
Michele Neylon
- Founder / CEO Blacknight.com
- http://mneylon.tel
- @mneylon
- http://michele.me/blog
- http://www.internetnews.me
- @mneylon On most other social
networks ..