The 7 Top Things to Consider When Starting a new gTLD Registry – Prelude

Minds + Machines just started up, and we’re giving away a lot of our good advice on registry operations to potential new applicants.

Antony, Elaine and I have had the opportunity over our long careers in the Domain Name Industry to learn a lot about the aspects of registry operations that can really benefit people who are hoping to launch a New Top Level Domain in the coming application rounds.

Many of the potential applicants are technical, many are not. For many aspiring TLD registries, it is hard even to know the right questions to ask. And the timing is such, even with a little extra breathing room while ICANN’s draft applicant guidebooks are being worked through and they gel, that it is time to be selecting partners for registries.

For those of you that have not sorted out their priorities and partners, now is the time to be making those choices, and we decided to share some of our perspective in the hopes that it will help ensure that everyone gets what they need.

So in the coming days, watch for a series of posts here at Minds + Machines‘ blog, titled “The 7 Top Things to Consider When Starting a TLD“.

The Top 7 Things to Consider:
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