January 9, 2012. The Wall Street Journal on January 9, 2012 featured the .shop, .eco, .secure, .bank, and .wine Top Level Domain applicants as the headline article on the Small Business Section. The article starts with a spotlight on .shop applicant Jeffrey Smith of Louisville, KY, who together with his eight partners started Kentucky-based Commercial Connect, LLC, in 2000 for the sole purpose of creating the .SHOP top level domain. "I've dedicated the last 10 years to this," says the 46-year-old Mr. Smith. Visit www.dotshop.biz to learn more about Commercial Connect LLC.

The article then features Jacob Malthouse, founder of Big Room Inc., and the leading .eco applicant. Visit the .ECO website at http://doteco.org.

Mary Iqbal of Domain Security Company LLC, the leading .SECURE and .BANK applicant, then discusses her company's plans for .SECURE and .BANK, which she says "will be attractive to financial institutions and large and midsize businesses seeking greater security on the Web." Visit the Domain Security Company LLC website at www.DomainSecurity.co.

Jean Guillon of DotVinum, an organization seeking ICANN approval for the .WINE top level domain is also featured in the Wall Street Journal article. Jean Guillon has been very active in sharing the news about new top level domains. Guillon runs registries.tel, a website listing all publicly known top level domain applicants, as well as a blog on the industry which is located at http://blog.guillon.com/. Jean Guillion is also the creator of the LinkedIn Group entitled New Generic Top Level Domains, which currently has 545 members.

Also mentioned in the article are Christopher Glancy, an intellectual property attorney, Jothan Frakes, a domain-name consultant in Seattle, Tom Embrescia, the owner of the Cleveland business that oversees dot-jobs, Mr. Schaefer, who is pursuing an undisclosed new Top Level Domain string and Kevin Wilson, who served as Icann's chief financial officer from 2007 to 2011 and is now co-founder of a South Pasadena, Calif., consulting practice.

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