Tag Archives: .gay

Wed 3rd February 2016
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.Gay domain name applicant denied again - ICANN Board Governance Committee denies one .gay applicant’s request for reconsideration. dotgay LLC has lost again in its attempt to get community status for its .Gay top level domain name application. The company lost its first bid for community status, and then got a second crack at the Community Priority Evaluation process because of a procedural technicality. It lost that bid as well. It then filed a request for reconsideration. ICANN’s Board Governance Committee just denied the request. Unfortunately ... read more ...
Fri 9th October 2015
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.Gay fails village test, again - Queue the complaints about ICANN again…even though it’s not its fault. dotgay LLC, an applicant for the .Gay top level domain name that was seeking community status, has once again failed (pdf) to convince an independent panel that it qualifies. The company lost its Community Priority Evaluation last year, with the panel ruling in part: “The applied-for string neither matches the name of the community as defined by the application nor does it identify the defined community without over-reaching ... read more ...
Tue 21st October 2014
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ICANN struggles to kick relate cover after .Gay decision - Many responses to .gay community application decision are oversimplifying what happened…and getting it wrong. In headlines and tweets, it’s pretty easy to knock ICANN for a recent decision not granting .gay applicant dotgay llc community status for the domain name. The reality, for anyone who takes the time to understand it, is that ICANN didn’t determine anything about whether there’s a gay community. Nor did it (or anyone) block dotgay llc from using ... read more ...
Mon 18th November 2013
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.Gay Objector Strikes Out - ILGA loses three community objections against .gay and one against .LGBT International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) has lost three community objections it brought against applicants for the .gay top level domain name. The objections were filed against Top Level Design, Top Level Domain Holdings, and United TLD (Demand Media). ILGA is backing a rival .gay bid by dotgay LLC. Panelist Dr. Bernhard Schlink ruled that the gay community is ... read more ...
Fri 21st December 2012
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Iran: .Gay domain would widespread hatred - Republic of Iran wants to stop .gay top level domain. The government of Iran has filed an early late warning to applicants for the .gay top level domain name. Iran thinks that a .gay top level domain will “spread of hatred and hostility in the society”. And it doesn’t think that’s an ironic statement. It further states: We believe that the right approach in new gTLD program should be based on creation of healthy environment in all the societies. Thus for ... read more ...
Mon 27th June 2011
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.Gay Trademark Application Filed - Trademark frontrunning continues. A Washington man has filed an intent-to-use trademark application for “.gay” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Thomas Petersen DBA Creighton Investments, LLC filed the application on June 20 just after ICANN approved a plan to open up the top level domain name system. Petersen doesn’t seem to be connected to either of the two groups that have publicly announced plans to apply for the .gay top level domain name thus ... read more ...