Tag Archives: ICANN

Mon 16th December 2013
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ICANN updates new TLD auction plans, still no fortitude for surreptitious contention - ICANN has published new rules for upcoming auctions which will resolve top level domain strings with more than one applicant. ICANN has published updated rules for its so-called “Auctions of Last Resort” to resolve new top level domain name contention sets. It has also published a draft schedule for the auctions. ICANN hopes to resolve 20 contention sets per month via auction. With 201 contention sets, this means the auction procedure could extend into 2015. This ... read more ...
Thu 12th December 2013
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A large website is going to go dim interjection to ICANN’s new Whois verification - New verification requirement is bound to ensnare some notable websites. ICANN’s 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement is slowly going into effect at major domain name registrars. The biggest change that people who register domain names will notice is whois verification. Starting January 1, when you register a domain name, you will have to verify your contact details with the registrar. Most registrars will send a verification email to you with simple verification ... read more ...
Fri 6th December 2013
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Intellectual Property Owners Association Tells ICANN Registries Should Not Be Able To Hold Trademarked Domains - The President of The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), Richard Phillips, sent a letter to ICANN telling them that that new gTLD registries should not be allowed to be reserved names that are filed with the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) and if they are allowed the IPO wants the registry to be subject to a UDRP like dispute resolution procedure. “We are particularly concerned that the rights provided to new Registry Operators in Specification 5 of the Registry Agreement will adversely ... read more ...
Thu 21st November 2013
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GAC Communiqué: Wants To Look At “Public Policy Implications of Holding Auctions to Resolve String Contention” - The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) just issued its Buenos Aires Communiqué from the ICANN Meeting and “requests a briefing on the public policy implications of holding auctions to resolve string contention (including community applications)”. The GAC considers that new gTLD registry operators should be made aware of the importance of protecting children and their rights consistent with the UN Convention on the Rights ... read more ...
Tue 19th November 2013
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Panel denies village objections opposite .Hotels applicant - Objectors were upset with single registrant application for .hotels. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has denied two community objections filed against .hotels applicant Booking.com. The cases were filed by Hotel Consumer Protection Coalition and HOTREC, Hotels, Restaurants Cafés in Europe, and the cases were consolidated. Although there were 7 applications for the .hotel (singular) top level domain, it seems that the groups were concerned about Booking.com’s ... read more ...
Mon 18th November 2013
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WOW: .Wow Leads All Strings In Number of Domains On Collision Report With Over 205,000 - Wow is right .Wow has the highest number of collisions in the ICANN report of new gTLD strings released today with over 205,000 domain names. I think most people in the domain industry wouldn’t  think there would be 200K domain registrations in .Wow much less than 205,000 strings in the collision report. For the record here are the top 10 new gTLD with the most domain names listed on the collision report: .Wow .Host .Gold .Hotel .Dell .Telefonica .Samsung .House .Auto .Computer     Google+Michael ... read more ...
Fri 8th November 2013
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NCSG: ICANN Board-Staff Violated Its Own Corporate Bylaws By Unilaterally Imposing “TM+50 Policy” - The Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) says ICANN Board-staff violated ICANN Bylaws by adopting the Trademark+50 policy without following the proper policy modification process The specific policy at issue in this CEP is ICANN staff’s unilateral decision to grant trademark holders significantly greater rights via its “trademark plus 50” (“TM+50”) policy in contradiction to the GNSO Council’s policy recommendations and implementation guidance and the process described in ICANN’s ... read more ...
Thu 7th November 2013
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ICANN: No New gTLD’s Last Resort Auctions Until Early Mar 2014 - In a webinar held by ICANN today on its Last Resort Auction for new gTLD strings in contention,  ICANN stated that no new gTLD ICANN last resort auction will be held in 2013 and most likely not until March 2014. Moreover the ICANN schedule is 10-20 auctions per month, with no applicant being able to participate in more than 5 auctions per month. So a company like Donuts which has over 100 applications in contention, based on the current time frame could be looking at a couple of years to settle ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Program Committe Denies 3 Reconsideration Request But Punts On .Amazon - The  New gTLD Program Committee (NPGC) of ICANN denied several requests for reconsideration in its latest meeting of which the minutes published last night, while punting on reconsideration requests Amazon on .Amazon. The NGPC denied the requests for reconsideration of Hotel Top-Level-Domain S.a.r.l’s (“dotHotel”) of the 8 August 2013 Expert Determination from a dispute resolution panel established by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) dismissing dotHotel’s objection ... read more ...
Wed 6th November 2013
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Verisign Rolls Out 4 Part Series On Why Second Level Domain Blocking For New gTLD’s Isn’t Good Enough - Verisign just published the 1st of a new 4 part series on the potential collision issue arising from new gTLD’s this one authored by Burt Kaliski. Verisign message is  “the introduction of a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) at the global DNS root could result in name collisions with previously installed systems” and that ICANN  “alternate path” for new gTLD’s to launch of blocking any SLDs associated with the new gTLD in the “Day-in-the-Life of the Internet” (DITL) and other ... read more ...
Tue 5th November 2013
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New gTLD Program Committee Accepts GAC Advice On Cat 1 & 2 Beijing Communiqué Safeguards - In a letter sent to Heather Dryden
, Chair, Governmental Advisory Committee by the New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) ,  they are intending to accept the GAC’s Beijing Communiqué advice concerning Category 1 and Category 2 Safeguards. The result of the NPGC action is that some new gTLD’s in the same vertical will be open to anyone who wants to register a domain name, while others will fall into the highly restricted category and can only be registered by those that are licensed or meet the ... read more ...
 
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.Sport Fallout: 12 Applicants Call On ICANN To Add An Appeals Proceess For Community Objection Proceedings - The fallout from the .Sport objection continues as 12 new gTLD applicants sent a letter to ICANN today signed  “expressing our ever-growing concerns relating to the Community Objection process”. A ICC panel upheld the objection of SportAccord to Famous Four application for .Sport finding that SportAccord represented the community of “Sports” The letter was signed by Radix Registry and co-signed by 11 new gTLD applicants, United TLD Holdco Ltd.,  DotClub Domains, LLC, Top Level Design, ... read more ...
Fri 1st November 2013
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ICANN Board Of Directors Get Over $1.7 Million In Compensations & Reimbursements in FY 2013 - This table represents reimbursements and compensation paid directly to Board Members, payments made to third party vendors such as hotels, restaurants, and travel agencies on behalf of Board Members as well as a total of the three amounts. This is only compensation and reimbursements for the Directors. Not included are compensation paid as Officers and Employees. This is for the fiscal year of 2013 which ends on June 30, 2013. Compensation amounts reflect amounts effectively paid in FY13, including ... read more ...
Thu 31st October 2013
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Famous Four issues matter about .Sport decision - Famous Four questions panelists decision in .sport community objection. In case you haven’t heard yet, SportAccord won a community objection against Famous Four Media’s application for the .sport top level domain name. It was a surprising decision, as it’s pretty hard to argue that “sport” is a clearly delineated community. I personally don’t know anyone who has never participated in a sport or watched a sport. It seems like anyone who breathes is a member ... read more ...
Wed 30th October 2013
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Wrap Up From OTA’s New gTLD Domain Collisions Workshop: Collision Issue Is Like Y2K - The Online Trust Alliance‘s (OTA) held a new gTLD Domain Collisions Workshop yesterday in Herndon, VA over what “many stakeholders believe there are significant risks of “domain collisions” occurring with the introduction of the new gTLD’s The workshop ran well over 7 hours and the overriding theme is that the domain collision issue is a lot like Y2K. Domain collisions are the result of a long-standing practice of network administrators setting up intranets (internal networks) using top ... read more ...
Tue 29th October 2013
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WOW: ICC Upholds Community Objection Of SportsAccord To Famous Four’s App For New gTLD .Sport - The ICC has Upheld the Community Objection of SportAccord against the application of Famous Four for the new gTLD .Sport SportAccord is also an applicant for the new gTLD .Sport, actually the only other applicant for .Sport so what this ruling means if it stands, is that Famous Four’s application for .Sport will be rejected and SportAccord will wind up with the new gTLD .Sport. The ICC panel found that SportAccord represented the community of Sports. There is also a new gTLD application .Sports ... read more ...
 
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ICANN gets a CSSRO - ICANN promotes senior director to replace Chief Security Officer role. I hope John Crain abbreviates his title on business cards.Most companies have CXOs. ICANN is expanding that to CXXXOs. The non-profit announced today that it has promoted John Crain to be the Chief Security, Stability and Resiliency Officer. That’s a new title for the Chief Security Officer role, which is being vacated by Jeff Moss at the end of the year. Crain was previously a senior director ... read more ...
 
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BreatheAccord wins village conflict opposite .Breathe tip turn domain name - The following is a satirical response to news that SportAccord won a community objection against the .sport top level domain name. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has upheld a community objection brought by BreatheAccord against dotBreathe LLC’s top level domain name application for .breathe. The decision by panelist Aru Kiddinme means that BreatheAccord, the only other applicant for .breathe, will now have a clear path to delegation for the domain ... read more ...
Fri 25th October 2013
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We Said It Over A Year Ago, The BC Tells ICANN Allowing Singular & Plural New gTLD’s Are A Bad Idea - In a letter sent to ICANN, the Chair, ICANN Business Constituency (BC) told ICANN what we at TheDomains.com said over a year ago, that allowing new gTLD’s of plural and singular of the same term is a bad idea. “As we move towards the launch of the first new gTLDs this year, the Business Constituency is extremely concerned about ICANN’s intention to delegate both singular and plural versions of the same string. “We believe that allowing singular and plural versions of the same TLD string will ... read more ...
Thu 24th October 2013
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Applicant questions how .Cars collision can be cleared - One applicant for .cars has good questions about how exactly it can resolve its contention set. DERcars, an applicant for the .cars top level domain name, has filed a reconsideration request (pdf) with ICANN’s board after Google won a string confusion objection against the company’s .cars application. I wrote about the .cars case a few weeks ago, and said that ICANN would be forced to act in the wake of the string confusion objection. As one reader pointed out, ... read more ...
 
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Panel dismisses UDRP formed mostly on laches - Panelist questions why complainant waited 13 years to file a domain name dispute. A National Arbitration Forum panel has dismissed a UDRP case, and it seems that the main reason was that the case was brought 13 years after the domain name was registered. The case was brought by Galaxy Catering, Inc., aka Big Texan Steak Ranch over the domain name TheBigTexan.com. The respondent registered the domain name in 2000, and panelist Nathalie Dreyfus questioned why, if it ... read more ...
Wed 23rd October 2013
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ICANN Announces 1st New gTLD Added to a Root - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced that the first new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) from its New gTLD Program were delegated. This means they were introduced into the Internet’s Root Zone, the central authoritative database for the Internet’s Domain Name System. As a result, the domain name Registries, the organizations approved to operate these and other soon-to-be-delegated gTLDs, can execute the final processes required to make their domain ... read more ...
 
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It’s Official: initial 4 new TLDs have been delegated - Four new top level domain names delegated. It’s October 23, 2013, and a few new top level domain name applicants can finally see the fruits of their many, many years of labor. ICANN announced today that four new top level domain names have been delegated. The four domains are شبكة. (web), .游戏 (games), .сайт (site), and .онлайн (online). The registry operators for these domains will soon put up a second level domain or two, which will be another ... read more ...
Tue 22nd October 2013
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Verisign Vs ICANN Round 3 - In a letter sent to ICANN yesterday by Verisign’s Chuck Gomes,  Vice President, Policy of VeriSign, Inc. responded to the response he received from his initil letter to ICANN seeking to “set the record straight” As the previous two letters its worth a read: Dear Cyrus, I was disappointed by your October 3, 2013, response to my August 30 letter to Fadi. But before I tell you why, let me start by saying that I am not interested in starting an unending chain of correspondence. That said, I do ... read more ...
 
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First 4 New gTLD’s (ALL IDN’s) Cleared By ICANN To Go To Delegation - According to an announcement by ICANN, today, the first four domains from ICANN’s New Generic Top-Level Domains Program were cleared to proceed to delegation. These first new gTLDs, or strings, are: شبكة (xn--ngbc5azd) – the Arabic word for “Web” or “Network” Registry : International Domain Registry Pty. Ltd. онлайн (xn--80asehdb) – Russian for “Online” Registry: Core Association сайт (xn--80aswg) – Russian for “Web site” Registry: Core Association 游戏 (xn--unup4y) ... read more ...