BRS Media launches Registry Management for Top Level Domains

February 28, 2024
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BRS Media launches Registry Management for Top Level Domains

BRS Registry to offer Strategic Marketing, Brand Development and Data Analysis to Top Level Domains!

 

San Francisco CA February 28, 2024 – BRS Media, a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that assists traditional and interactive media companies build and brand on the power of the Internet, announced today BRS Registry offering Top-Level Domain operators data-driven content strategy, unparalleled digital branding expertise, and world-class storytelling.

 

In 1998 BRS Media launched a little known country domain extension and turned into one of the best recognized and most successful rebranded Top-Level Domain (TLD) in the history of the Internet. This TLD continues to have a compelling reputation as a ‘Cult Brand’ Top-Level Domain, a distinctive and alternative style that differs from existing top-level domains. A quarter-century on, the TLD has evolved to meet the growing demand and creativity of its clientele, which has a thriving and diverse client base and over 1.1 Million followers across Social Media that enthusiastically support the TLD.

 

“We are excited and thrilled to be launching BRS Registry Management based on our twenty-five plus years of professional & successful experience in strategic marketing and brand development for Top-Level Domain Registry Operators,” remarked George T. Bundy, Chairman & CEO of BRS Media Inc. “As a Category Creator in the Domain Industry, BRS Media pioneered the ‘Industry Specific’ vertical domain space with dotFM over a quarter-century ago and the .FM Top-Level Domain continues to be at the forefront of innovative technology.”

 

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has acknowledged that: “TLD operators face a challenging task of building consumer awareness and this can and may take significant time and effort”. In today’s ultra-competitive market a brand strategy and marketing plan are a necessary prerequisite to long term success. BRS Registry Management focuses on; Brand Experience, Brand Definition, Platform & Positioning, Content Marketing Strategies, Brand and Portfolio Architecture, Providing Registry Operators with Insights and Trends, Opportunity Assessment, Action Prioritization, Impact Qualifications, Content Marketing Execution and Social Media Brand Marketing.

 

Meet us at ICANN79 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, or connect via BRS Registry at https://brsregistry.com

 

 

About BRS Media, Inc:

Based in the South of Market district (SoMa) of San Francisco CA, BRS Media was established in 1995, featured as one of the fastest growing privately held companies by the SF Business Times and Inc. Magazine for five consecutive years. Its portfolio of leading online properties includes: BRS Registry, Strategic Marketing, Brand Development and Registry Management for Top Level Domains; dotFM® & dotAM®, spotlighting Domain Innovation for media based .FM and .AM domains; dotRadio™ extensions .RADIO.am & .RADIO.fm, Radio’s only Open & Innovative Domain Extensions; Main Street Branding™, helping Clients Assemble a World Class Identity and iRadio® Service. Main Street Branding and dotRadio are trademarks; and dotFM, dotAM and iRadio are registered trademarks of BRS Media, Inc.

 

Junaid Siddiqui

BRS Media Inc.

Email: jsiddiqui@brsregistry.com

BRS Media’s dotFM Releases Ranking of Top .FM Sites and Brands, .FM Top 100 Hits of 2021

January 25, 2022
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BRS Media’s dotFM Releases Ranking of Top .FM Sites and Brands, .FM Top 100 Hits of 2021

The .FM TLD’s Annual ranking of the top sites, sounds and brands building success On Air & Online!

 

San Francisco CA January 25, 2022 – BRS Media, a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that assists traditional and interactive media companies build and brand on the power of the Internet, today announced that dotFM, the .FM Top-Level Domain Registry, has released the annual year-end ranking of the Top 100 Hits of 2021, the year’s top .FM sites and brands.

For the 10th Year in a row, dotFM’s year-end top 100 ranking, “.FM Top 100 Hits of 2021” lists the top sites and brands from the past year under the .FM Namespace. The Top 100 hits represent some of the most innovative and creative brands in podcasting, streaming media and social entertainment today. The .FM Top 100 Hits of 2021 chart is available at: https://Get.fm/2021Top100 

 

“Over the past decade we have seen a meaningful shift in usage reflecting the diversity in the FM namespace, the inspiration and originality of dotFM clients is exciting,” remarked George T. Bundy, Chairman & CEO of BRS Media Inc. “This past year almost all of the Top 100 realized considerable growth in queries, in part from the significant DNS upgrade in early 2021 dramatically increasing the network nodes worldwide from 30 to over 356 across 6 continents.”

Highlights from the 2021 ranking: The fastest growing category in 2021 continues to be Podcast Apps, Podcast Hosting and Podcasters. For the first time in history all five of the top listings are in the podcasting category, with global podcast platform Castbox.fm (No. 1) topping the list for the 3rd year in a row. Podsight’s pdst.fm (No. 2), Podcast App/Services Anchor.fm (No. 3) and Megaphone.fm (No. 5), both Spotify owned companies, and Omny.fm (No. 4) from Triton Digital’s Omny Studio finishing off the top five.

Today, the .FM TLD is one of the best recognized and most successful rebranded Top-Level Domain in the history of the Internet and represents some of the most innovative brands in Broadcasting, Podcasting, Streaming and Social entertainment. The comprehensive portfolio of registrants not only includes broadcasters, Internet radio, podcasters, and the music community but also interactive companies, premier social media ventures, and streaming entrepreneurs worldwide. 

The .FM Top-Level Domain is available through most ICANN Accredited Registrars or any worldwide .FM Registrar Partners (https://get.fm/registrars) like: Namecheap, Go Daddy, Hover, Name.com, Dynadot, Network Solutions, Gandi.net, United Domains and more. Information about .FM Domains, Emoji Domains, Domain Spotlights, Premium Domains and more is also available at https://Get.fm

 

About BRS Media, Inc:

Based in the South of Market district (SoMa) of San Francisco CA, BRS Media was established in 1995, and is celebrating 25 years Online, featured as one of the fastest growing privately held companies by the SF Business Times and Inc. Magazine for five consecutive years. Its portfolio of leading online properties includes: dotFM® & dotAM®, spotlighting Domain Innovation and Brand Registry Services for media based .FM and .AM domains; dotRadio™ extensions .RADIO.am & .RADIO.fm, Radio’s only Open & Innovative Domain Extensions; Main Street Branding™, helping Clients Assemble a World Class Identity and iRadio® Service. Main Street Branding and dotRadio are trademarks; and dotFM, dotAM and iRadio are registered trademarks of BRS Media, Inc.

 

Junaid Siddiqui

BRS Media Inc.

Email: jsiddiqui@brsmedia.fm

BRS Media, Inc. to Launch Brand Registry Services for Top-Level Domains

March 5, 2019
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BRS Media, Inc. to Launch Brand Registry Services for Top-Level Domains

The company pioneered the Industry Specific and Branded TLD space over 20 years ago.

San Francisco CA March 5, 2019 – BRS Media, a diverse and growing marketing and e-commerce firm that assists traditional and interactive companies build and brand on the power of the Internet, today announced the Company would begin offering its successful Brand Registry Services to Top-Level Domain Operators, for the first time in over 20 years. BRS Media is a leading-edge firm that combines data-driven content strategy, unparalleled digital branding expertise, and world-class storytelling to the Top-Level Domain Marketplace.

BRS Media launched a little known country domain extension in 1998 and turned it into one of the best recognized and most successful rebranded Top-Level Domain (TLD) in the history of the Internet. This TLD continues to have a compelling reputation as a ‘Cult Brand’ Top-Level Domain, a distinctive and alternative style that differs from existing top-level domains.Twenty years on, the TLD has evolved to meet the growing demand and creativity of its clientele, that has a thriving and diverse client base and over 1 Million followers across Social Media that enthusiastically support the TLD. Even with the release of over 1200 New Top-Level Domains, this TLD showed a Year-Over-Year traffic growth of over 10% in 2018 and an over 50% growth since 2012.

“We are excited and thrilled to offer for the first time, our twenty plus years of professional & successful experience in strategic marketing and brand development for Top-Level Domain Registry Operators.” remarked George T. Bundy, Chairman & CEO of BRS Media Inc. “Our primary focus is to create and support Top Level Domain brand goals by development and management of marketing processes and platform strategies to ensure that a TLDs culture cuts through and translates into best-in-class online experience for the audience and clients.”

In a recent letter to a New Top-Level Domain Operator, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), acknowledged that: “New gTLD operators face a challenging task of building consumer awareness and this can and may take significant time and effort.” and “introduction of new gTLDs to the market would involve significant effort and investment by the registry operators”. In addition, a recent Amendment by the U.S. Department of Commerce recognized, “.. that ccTLDs, new gTLDs, and the use of social media have created a more dynamic DNS marketplace.”

In today’s ultra-competitive market a brand strategy and marketing plan are a necessary prerequisite to long term success. BRS Media’s Brand Registry Services focuses on; Brand Experience, Brand Definition, Platform & Positioning, Content Marketing Strategies, Brand and Portfolio Architecture. Providing Registry Operators with Insights and Trends, Opportunity Assessment, Action Prioritization, Impact Qualifications, Content Marketing Execution and Social Media Brand Marketing.

BRS Media will be in attendance at the ICANN meeting in Kobe, Japan. New gTLD, ccTLD or Legacy TLD Registry Operators looking to position Top-Level Domains to cut through and translate into outstanding online experience for the audience, contact George Bundy or schedule a call via registry@brsmedia.com    

About BRS Media, Inc:

Based in the South of Market district (SoMa) of San Francisco CA, BRS Media (https://brsmedia.com) was established in 1995, and is celebrating over 20 years Online, featured as one of the fastest growing privately held companies by the SF Business Times and Inc. Magazine for five consecutive years. Its portfolio of leading online properties includes: dotFM® & dotAM®, spotlighting Domain Innovation and Brand Registry Services for media based .FM and .AM domains; dotRadio™ extensions .RADIO.am & .RADIO.fm, Radio’s only truly Open & Innovative Domain Extensions; @RADIO.am & @RADIO.fm, Premium Web-based Email Services and iRadio® Service. dotRadio is a trademark; and dotFM, dotAM and iRadio are registered trademarks of BRS Media, Inc.

Junaid Siddiqui

BRS Media Inc.

Email: jsiddiqui@brsmedia.com

BRS Media’s dotFM to Launch Emoji Domain Names

BRS Media’s dotFM to Launch Emoji Domain Names

The .FM TLD will offer emoji based domains.

San Francisco, CA. January 24, 2018 –  BRS Media, a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that assists traditional and interactive media companies build and brand on the power of the Internet, today announced that dotFM, the .FM Top-Level Domain Registry, will launch Emoji based Domain Names. Emoji domain is a domain name with an expressive digital image or icon in it, for example, http://📻.fm

“We are extremely ‘😀‘ to announce the launch of emoji domains under the .fm Top-Level Domain,” remarked George T. Bundy, Chairman & CEO of BRS Media Inc. “Today emojis are incorporated in all aspects of consumers online conversations; social media, texting and messaging, why not web domains? Emoji domains date back to 1995, but recent demand has sparked an explosion in popularity. dotFM is excited to be one of only a few prime TLDs to support emoji-based domain names.”

Emoji Domain Names will be available based on Unicode Consortium Emoji Version 5.0 standards using single code point; and allowing a mix of letters and emoji characters under the top-level .FM, as well as the dotRadio extensions, .RADIO.fm and .RADIO.am at a launch date to be announced soon. Emojis are supported by most major search engines, all modern web browsers and all operating systems; iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux.

BRS Media has pioneered the ‘multimedia’ domain space since launching the .FM & .AM Top Level Domains in 1998. Since that time, the .FM Brand Registry Service has evolved to meet the growing demand and creativity of the clientele. Today, the comprehensive portfolio of registrants not only includes broadcasters, Internet radio and the music community, but also interactive companies, premier social media ventures and podcast entrepreneurs worldwide. Some of the world’s most innovative .FM brands include; Overcast.fm, CarrieUnderwood.fm, Earbud.fm, Rainmaker.fm, Southwest.fm, Jazz.fm, Coca-Cola.fm, Summertime.fm, among thousands more.

The .FM Top-Level Domain is available directly from dotFM (https://dot.fm), as well as through most ICANN Accredited Registrars (https://get.fm/registrars) like: Go Daddy, Hover, Name.com, Dynadot, Network Solutions, Gandi.net, United Domains, and many more. Information about .FM Domains, Domain Spotlights, Premium Domains and Emoji Domains are available at http://www.📻.fm or https://Get.fm/Emoji

 

 

About BRS Media Inc:

Based in the South of Market district (SoMa) of San Francisco CA, BRS Media (http://brsmedia.fm) was established in 1995, and is celebrating over 20 years Online, featured as one of the fastest growing privately held companies by the SF Business Times and Inc. Magazine for five consecutive years. Its portfolio of leading online properties includes: dotFM® & dotAM®, spotlighting Domain Innovation and Brand Registry Services for media based .FM and .AM domains; dotRadio™ extensions .RADIO.am & .RADIO.fm, Radio’s only truly Open & Innovative Domain Extensions and @RADIO.am & @RADIO.fm, Premium Web-based Email Services. dotRadio is a trademark; and dotFM and dotAM are registered trademarks of BRS Media, Inc.

BRS Media’s dotFM Releases Ranking of Top .FM Sites and Brands, .FM Top 100 Hits of 2016

January 24, 2017
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BRS Media’s dotFM Releases Ranking of Top .FM Sites and Brands, .FM Top 100 Hits of 2016

The .FM TLD year-end ranking of the top sites, sounds and brands building success On Air & Online!

San Francisco, CA. January 24, 2017 –  BRS Media, a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that assists traditional and interactive media companies build and brand on the power of the Internet, today announced that dotFM, the .FM Top-Level Domain Registry, has released the year-end ranking of the top sites, sounds and brands building success On Air & Online, the Top 100 Hits of 2016, the year’s top .FM sites and brands.

For the 5th year in a row, dotFM’s year end top 100 ranking, “Top 100 Hits of 2016” lists the top sites and brands from the past year under the .FM Top-level Domain. The Top 100 Hits represent some of the most innovative brands in streaming media, social entertainment and podcasters worldwide. The .FM Top 100 Hits of 2016 chart is available at: https://get.fm/2016top100

“We are pleased to see continued growth in diversity within the .FM namespace, from markets like China and Russia to the U.S and Europe; the originality of dotFM clients is both impressive and exciting,” remarked George T. Bundy, Chairman & CEO of BRS Media Inc. “This past year the hottest segment of the market has been podcasting. The growth in podcasters and listeners have resulted in the biggest segment growth we have seen in the past 5 years. From live streaming to podcasting, the .FM TLD’s innovative, cutting edge Brand Registry Services have evolved to meet the growing demand and creativity of our clientele. Today, our comprehensive portfolio of registrants not only includes broadcasters, Internet radio and the music community, but also interactive companies, premier social media ventures and podcast entrepreneurs worldwide.”

BRS Media has pioneered the ‘multimedia’ domain space since launching the .FM & .AM Top Level Domains in 1998. Since that time, the .FM Brand Registry Service has evolved to meet the growing demand and creativity of the clientele. Today, the comprehensive portfolio of registrants not only includes broadcasters, Internet radio and the music community, but also interactive companies, premier social media ventures and podcast entrepreneurs worldwide. Some of the world’s most innovative .FM brands include; Overcast.fm, CarrieUnderwood.fm, Earbud.fm, Rainmaker.fm, Diffuser.fm, Castbox.fm, Panoply.fm, Qingting.fm, Podbay.fm, Rainmaker.fm, Jazz.fm, Coca-Cola.fm, Summertime.fm among thousands more.

The .FM Top-Level Domain is available directly from dotFM (https://dot.fm), as well as, through most ICANN Accredited Registrars (http://get.fm/registrars) like: Go Daddy, Hover, Name.com, Dynadot, Network Solutions, Gandi.net, United Domains, and many more. Information about .FM Domains, Domain Spotlights, Premium Domains and more is available at http://Get.fm

 

About BRS Media Inc:

Based in the South of Market district (SoMa) of San Francisco CA, BRS Media (http://brsmedia.wpengine.com) was established in 1995, and is celebrating over 20 years Online, featured as one of the fastest growing privately held companies by the SF Business Times and Inc. Magazine for five consecutive years. Its portfolio of leading online properties includes: dotFM® & dotAM®, spotlighting Domain Innovation and Brand Registry Services for media based .FM and .AM domains; .RADIO.am & .RADIO.fm, Internet Radio’s only truly Open & Innovative Domain Extensions and @RADIO.am & @RADIO.fm, Premium Web-based Email Services; dotFM and dotAM are registered trademarks of BRS Media, Inc.

 

Junaid Siddiqui

BRS Media Inc.

Email: jsiddiqui@brsmedia.fm

BRS Media’s dotFM Launches Language-Specific Internationalized Domain Names

October 25, 2016
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BRS Media’s dotFM Launches Language-Specific Internationalized Domain Names

The .FM TLD is now available in over 170 different languages and scripts worldwide

San Francisco, CA. October 25, 2016 –  BRS Media, a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that assists traditional and interactive media companies build and brand on the power of the Internet, today announced that dotFM, the .FM Top-Level Domain Registry, has launched Internationalized Domain Names or IDNs. Internationalized domain names (IDNs) are domain names or websites that are displayed as multilingual Web addresses, in the non-English languages, as an example, http://域名.fm

“We are thrilled to now offer the .FM Top-Level Domain in language-specific script or IDNs,” remarked George T. Bundy, Chairman & CEO of BRS Media Inc. “Internationalized Domain Names allow the global community to use a .FM domain name in their native language or script, making it easier to create, memorize and relate to dotFM domain names worldwide. Multilingual Web addresses will extend and improve International brand recognition under .FM TLD.”

Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) improve the global accessibility and functionality of the .FM TLD by allowing users to register domain names in non-English languages. Language-specific scripts supported include: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish and many more.

Internationalized Domain Names assist and promote multilingual Internet users and are now available under the top-level .FM, as well as, .RADIO.fm and .RADIO.am SLDs.

BRS Media has pioneered the ‘multimedia’ domain space since launching the .FM & .AM Top Level Domains in 1998. Since that time, the .FM Brand Registry Service has evolved to meet the growing demand and creativity of the clientele. Today, the comprehensive portfolio of registrants not only includes broadcasters, Internet radio and the music community, but also interactive companies, premier social media ventures and podcast entrepreneurs worldwide. Some of the world’s most innovative .FM brands include; Overcast.fm, CarrieUnderwood.fm, Earbud.fm, Rainmaker.fm, Douban.fm, Jazz.fm, Dubtrack.fm, Coca-Cola.fm, Summertime.fm, among thousands more.

The .FM Top-Level Domain is available directly from dotFM (https://dot.fm), as well as, through most ICANN Accredited Registrars (https://get.fm/registrars) like: Go Daddy, Name.com, Gandi.net, DirectNic, Hexonet, Hong Kong based 耐思尼克 under iisp.com and many more. Information about .FM Internationalized Domain Names is available at https://Get.fm/idn

About BRS Media Inc:

Based in the South of Market district (SoMa) of San Francisco CA, BRS Media (http://brsmedia.wpengine.com) was established in 1995, and is celebrating over 20 years Online, featured as one of the fastest growing privately held companies by the SF Business Times and Inc. Magazine for five consecutive years. Its portfolio of leading online properties includes: dotFM® & dotAM®, spotlighting Domain Innovation and Brand Registry Services for media based .FM and .AM domains; .RADIO.am & .RADIO.fm, Internet Radio’s only truly Open & Innovative Domain Extentions and @RADIO.am & @RADIO.fm, Premium Web-based Email Services; dotFM and dotAM are registered trademarks of BRS Media, Inc.

Junaid Siddiqui

BRS Media Inc.

Email: jsiddiqui@brsmedia.fm

BRS Media’s dotFM Launches Domain Apps Center

August 18, 2015
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BRS Media’s dotFM Launches Domain Apps Center

Easily connect .FM Domains to Popular Online Services!

San Francisco CA August 18, 2015 – BRS Media Inc., a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that helps traditional and interactive media companies build and brand on the power of the Web, today announced that dotFM, the .FM top-level domain registry, has launched a user friendly DNS based service called “Domain Apps Center”, providing domain holders with a simple and easy way to connect domains to Popular Online Services, like WordPress, Twitter, Squarespace, Spreaker, Bitly, SoundCloud and many more. The Domain Apps Center (https://dot.fm/Apps) covers nearly every segment of the Internet from Podcasting and Blogs, to Social Media and Email Services.

“Since the beginning of time, DNS has been a complicated and confusing undertaking for most domain holders, CNAME, MX, A records are not as easy to understand or set-up properly,” remarked George T. Bundy, Chairman & CEO of BRS Media Inc. “We are delighted to offer a straightforward, self-guided and simple to use option for domain holders. Customers do not need to be aware of DNS or other technical jargon to quickly connect their domain name to a Popular Online Service.”

For over 17 years, dotFM has provided the ‘On-Air and Online’ Industry with a professional, reliable, secure and stable ‘Industry Specific’ domain, while at the same time encouraging innovation, openness and creativity in the unparalleled .FM namespace. dotFM has successfully attracted premier social media ventures, streaming entrepreneurs and traditional broadcasters including: Bop.fm, Jazz.fm, Rainmaker.FM, Summertime.fm, Coca-Cola.fm, ATP.fm, Podbay.fm, Overcast.fm, KBU.fm and thousands more.

Imagining, the Next Big Thing?  Get .FM! The .FM Top-Level Domain is available directly from dotFM (https://dot.fm), as well as, through most ICANN Accredited Registrars (http://get.fm/registrars) like: Go Daddy, Hover, Name.com, Dynadot, Network Solutions, Gandi.net, United Domains, and many more. Information about .FM Domains, Domain Spotlights, Premium Domains and more is available at http://Get.fm

 

About BRS Media Inc:

Based in the South of Market district (SoMa) of San Francisco CA, BRS Media (http://brsmedia.wpengine.com) was established in 1995, and is celebrating 20 years Online, featured as one of the fastest growing privately held companies by the SF Business Times and Inc. Magazine for five consecutive years. Its portfolio of leading online properties includes: dotFM® & dotAM®, spotlighting Domain Innovation and Brand Registry Services for media based .FM and .AM domains; dotRadio, .RADIO.am & .RADIO.fm, Internet Radio’s only truly Open & Innovative Domains (TLDs) and @RADIO.am & @RADIO.fm, free and premium Web-based Email Services; dotFM and dotAM are registered trademarks of BRS Media, Inc.

 

Junaid Siddiqui

BRS Media Inc.

Tel:  415-677-4027

Fax: 415-677-4025

Email: jsiddiqui@brsmedia.fm