ICANN concludes gTLD initial evaluation phase for 1700 applications -

Mon, Sep 2nd, 13:30 · Kamau Mbote

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ICANN announces conclusion of new gTLD initial evaluations - Major milestone reached in new domain program News | CIOL Bureau LOS ANGELES, USA: ICANN's Generic Domains Division announced the conclusion of the Initial Evaluation (IE) phase of the new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) program. More than 1,700 applications have now moved to the next steps in the program. "This is an extraordinary landmark which demonstrates the progress in this program," said Akram Atallah, president of ... read more ...

ICANN Announces Conclusion of New gTLD Initial Evaluations - Major Milestone Reached in New Domain Program Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) August 30, 2013 ICANN’s Generic Domains Division announced today the conclusion of the Initial Evaluation (IE) phase of the new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) program. More than 1,700 applications have now moved to the next steps in the program. “This is an extraordinary landmark which demonstrates the progress in this program,” said Akram Atallah, President of ICANN’s Generic Domains Division. ... read more ...

Sina Wins Legal Rights Objection on .Weibo & On .微博 - Two separate WIPO panels upheld the objection of the Internet Giant Sina on two new gTLD applications both against the same applicant Tencent Holdings Limited of Shenzhen, China. The WIPO panels upheld Sina objection to the new gTLD applications .Weibo On .微博 “The Panel notes that both Parties accept and claim that “weibo” is the pinyin equivalent (the phonetic transliteration of Chinese characters into the Latin alphabets) of “微博”. “The Panel finds that the Objector holds ... read more ...

PR Newswire – Virtual - Largest applicant moves further toward delegation of new generic top-level domains BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), has completed three additional significant steps toward launch of its applied-for gTLDs. The company said all of its pending gTLD applications have passed Initial Evaluation, an exhaustive review process that determines the financial and technical fitness of an applicant. Donuts ... read more ...

The new gTLDs are almost here - On August 23, 2013, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) released updated statistics on the progression of new generic Top-Level-Domain (or “gTLD”) applications. Although the exact number of gTLDs that will ultimately proceed to launch remains unknown, it is clear that the addition of new gTLD strings will soon be a reality. Trademark owners are now finding themselves looking for ways to protect their marks from being registered as domain names in the new gTLD space ... read more ...

ICANN working group recommends WHOIS replacement -

Fri, Aug 30th, 06:00 · Kamau Mbote

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Gimme Shelter: With Hackers Hitting Domain Providers, Brands May Rely … - Most of us are pretty familiar with the concept of a hacker attacking a website – and, in fact, downloadable tools to help hackers break into a site and steal information are readily available. But what happens when a top-level domain registry is hacked, as appears to have been the case for Google’s Palestinian domain earlier this week?From what TechCrunch reported as of Monday morning, “…it seems that Google’s Palestinian domain was hijacked and redirected to another server altogether. ... read more ...

As Comment Period On New gTLD Name Collisions Come To An End … - As the comment period for the Name Collision report comes to an end there were plenty of comments submitted by applicants and others. May of the comments simply endorsed the letter of NTAG to ICANN submitted during the comment period, while others siply asked for the comment period to be extended Here are some of the more interesting submitted comments: The Afnic/CORE consortium, the registry service provider for the .paris TLD. submitted this comment on behalf of the City of Paris, applicant ... read more ...

ICANN Newest On Name Collision: 20% Uncalculated Risk New gTLD’s Can … -

Hi Berkens,

Do we remember when .COM was about to be released?

Everything about it done internal news, inhabitant news, and general news.

The news about your new gTLD is usually creation your blog.

j/k

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ICANN Approves $200 Million Dollar Budget For 2014; 306 Employees & Still No … - ICANN just approved  its 2014 budget which is coming in at over $200,000,000 in revenue. The budget anticipates ICANN staff growing to over 300 people but the real kicker, in our opinion is that ICANN still has virtually no revenue allocated coming in from the “Last Resort” New gTLD auctions. We have noted in past years that ICANN has not allocated any revenue coming in for auction of new gTLD strings where there is more than one applicant although the Guidebook that ICANN have produced, ... read more ...

9 Things You Need to Consider When Choosing a Registrar Solutions Partner … - The ICANN board has passed a resolution approving the renewal of .INFO, .ORG and .BIZ Registry agreements with the clause on cross — ownership (aka Vertical Integration) removed. What this means is that these Registries will now be allowed to own, part or whole, of a Registrar business. This will enable them to sell their TLD directly to end customers and also establish a reseller chain thus allowing much greater control and flexibility over sales channels. This resolution effectively ... read more ...

UPDATED 85 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE, 8 Go To Extended Evaluation; Passing … - 85 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation today. In a record setting week where 7 applications were send to extended evaluation and one geographic new gTLD failed the application process and is not eligible for extended evaluation. The 7 New gTLD applications that are heading for extended evaluation are: <![CDATA[]]>UPDATE:  On Friday ICANN’s site incorrect listed  .TAIPEI which was applied for by the Taipei City Government as failed but in fact that was an error on ... read more ...

85 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE, 7 Go To Extended Evaluation; 1 Fails: Passing … - 85 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation today. In a record setting week where 7 applications were send to extended evaluation and one geographic new gTLD failed the application process and is not eligible for extended evaluation. The 7 New gTLD applications that are heading for extended evaluation are: <![CDATA[]]>Its interesting to note that one of the applications heading off for extended evaluation is that of .Express who actually filed and lost a Legal Rights Objection ... read more ...

Russian Registrar Regtime Ltd. Lose Two Legal Rights Objections To PIR’s … - Regtime Ltd. and Legato Ltd of the Russian Federation  just lost two separate Legal Rights Objections at WIPO on the new gTLD strings .OPR and .KOM In The .OPR case the company objected to the Public Interest Registry (PIR) application of .OPR. PIR operates the .Org registry. The second objection was to Verisign’s new gTLD application for .Kom which is the more interesting decision in my opinion. Regtime has functioned as an ICANN-accredited registrar since 2007. Regtime was the original ... read more ...

Vipspace Enterprises LLC Withdraws Application For new gTLD .VIP: Now 118 … - Vipspace Enterprises LLC of Munich Germany has become the latest company to withdraw its application for the new gTLD .VIP. The application had a prioritization number of 1,804 meaning that after next week’s Initial Evaluation release by ICANN the maximum refund would have only been 35% but now the applicant gets a 70% refund. Vipspace becomes the 1st applicant for the .VIP new gTLD to withdraw their application. There are still 5 more applicants for .VIP including Google, Donuts and Top Level ... read more ...

Governance Council launched for .BID Top Level Domain - Governance Council launched for .BID Top Level Domain by Tom Snee, Wednesday 21 August 2013 Wednesday, 21st August, Gibraltar: Dot Bid Limited, the sole applicant for the .BID new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD), today announced that it is seeking representatives interested in participating in a Governance Council for the gTLD .BID. “The rise in popularity of market place sites such as ebay, Alibaba, ... read more ...