Tag Archives: ICANN

Sun 20th October 2013
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Guest Post: Newcomer Stymied By ICANN and ICC’s Process -                   This is a guest post by Christopher R Barron, who is the Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of GOProud. “GOProud is a national organization of gay and straight Americans who seek to promote freedom by supporting free markets, limited government, and a respect for individual rights. We work on the federal level and state level to build strong coalitions of conservative and libertarian activists, organizations and policy makers to advance our shared values and beliefs.” The ... read more ...
Thu 17th October 2013
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ICANN: Implementing a New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management Plan - On 7 October 2013 the ICANN Board’s New gTLD Program Committee approved resolutions directing staff to implement the New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management Plan (“The Plan”) Tonight ICANN released details on how it will be implementing the New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management Plan. For those Registries that have already signed a Registry Agreement the contract have been notified that there Agreement has  been updated to include the registry operator obligations called for in the Plan, ... read more ...
Tue 15th October 2013
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CADNA Calls On Congress To Increase Cybersquatting Penalties Under The ACPA & Include Registrars/Registries - The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) posted a story on its site, written by Warren Communications News, Inc.,  which quotes Josh Bourne Director of CADNA: “The problem of cybersquatting is going to “explode by at least 2,500 percent when new gTLDs go live” “CADNA will start a letter-writing campaign and continue to seek a sponsor for a revision to 1999′s Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA).” “CADNA’s proposed revamp would establish stronger deterrence for ... read more ...
 
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BGC Rejects Reconsideration Requests: 2 Panels Can Come To Different Decisions on Same Strings: Even The BGC - The Board Governance Committee (BGC) of ICANN rejected two request for reconsideration (“Request”)  over two decisions by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (“ICDR”) One request was brought by Amazon over the decision sustaining Commercial Connect LLC’s (“Commercial Connect”) objection to Amazon’s new gTLD application for the Japanese translation of “online shopping” (“Amazon’s Applied-for String”) as being confusingly similar to Commercial Connect’s application ... read more ...
Mon 14th October 2013
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Uniregistry Beats Back Google’s Objection To .Cars: Different Decisions On The Same String Is ICANN’s Problem - Uniregistry, Corp just beat back an objection from Google’s Charleston Road Registry (CRR) Inc. on the new gTLD .cars in a decision handed down by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (“ICDR”) CRR objected to Unregistry application for .cars as on the basis of String Confusion to its own application for .car and wanted the two applications to be placed into the same contention set which would have forced Uniregsitry into an auction with Google. This panel was aware that a previous ... read more ...
Sun 13th October 2013
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ICANN Makes Domain Investor Daniel Negari The Poster Boy For The New gTLD Program In Video Released Tonight - ICANN has made Domain investor and new gTLD applicant Daniel Negari the poster boy for the new gTLD program in a video released by ICANN tonight on Twitter. Why Dan? Well at 27 years of age, he is the youngest applicant for a new gTLD with an uncontested application for XYZ.com and the winner of a  private auction for .College. I have know Dan for a few years from the domain investor side and he is really smart, very successful. well spoken young man and has his act together at 27 more than most ... read more ...
Fri 11th October 2013
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Trademark Clearinghouse Verification Service Now Accepting Additional Abused Labels - Abused Domain Name label service for Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) Verification is now available. It was created to help rights owners protect labels that have a history of being abusively used or registered in the Domain Names Space.   The Abused Domain Name labels service allows rights holders to register up to 50 “abused labels: related to a verified trademark record in the Clearinghouse. These associated labels must have been the subject of a determination in a prior UDRP case or court decision ... read more ...
Thu 10th October 2013
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ICANN Sends Out 1st Community Priority Evaluation Invitations; .Immo & .Taxi - ICANN has invited eligible community applicants to elect Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) as a potential method to resolve string contention. Today, the first two invitations were sent via ICANN’s Customer Portal to STARTING DOT on its .IMMO application, and Taxi Pay GmbH application for .Taxi All invited applicants will have up to 21 calendar days to elect to proceed with CPE and evaluation will commence shortly thereafter. The evaluation results are expected to be available in two to three ... read more ...
 
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Google Backs Off On Closed Generic Strings Including .Search So Does L’Oréal - It looks like Google has given up operating new gTLD generic stings as a close registry,  even for  .Search which at one point it wanted to operate as a Dotless Domain. According to an ICANN’s announcement tonight Google d/b/a Charleston Road Registry has backed off the close generic string application for: .MOVE; .MUSIC; .MAIL; .MAP; .STORE; .SHOP; .BABY; .SHOW; .BOOK; .GAME; .CPA; APP; CLOUD; SEARCH, .MOVIE L’Oréal which applied for top operates generics like .Beauty, .Skin; .Hair; .Salon; ... read more ...
 
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CEO Of ICANN Seems To Have Thrown Himself Into a Snowden/NSA Mess With Brazil - According to Mercopress.com, Bhe President of Brazil,  Dilma Rousseff announced today that Brazil will  host a global summit on Internet governance in April 2014 The announcement was made after conferring the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehade. “We have decided that Brazil will host in April 2014 an international summit of governments, industry, civil society and academia” to discuss Brazil’s suggestions for upgrading Internet security, Rousseff said on Twitter”. The summit will take place in Rio ... read more ...
 
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Signed new TLD registry contracts have a far-reaching operation of priority numbers - Priority numbers helped companies at the beginning of the process but do not correlate closely with signed registry contracts. Yesterday ICANN executed its contract with dotCareer, LLC for the .career top level domain names. The application had a priority draw number of 119. A full week before, on October 2, Donuts executed its contract with ICANN for the .careers top level domain. That application has a priority number of 501. So the contract for priority #501 was ... read more ...
Wed 9th October 2013
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ICANN Shuts Down Pacman Registrar From New Registrations and Transfers Until At Least Jan 30, 2014 - In a letter sent to Pacnames Ltd. of  Auckland New Zealand ICAN has sent a NOTICE OF BREACH OF REGISTRAR ACCREDITATION AGREEMENT AND NOTICE OF SUSPENSION OF REGISTRAR’S ABILITY TO CREATE NEW REGISTERED NAMES OR INITIATE INBOUND TRANSFERS OF REGISTERED NAMES The current breach is the third breach for Pacnames within a twelve-month period. Accordingly, Pacnames’ ability to create new Registered Names or initiate inbound transfers of Registered Names is suspended for 90 days pursuant to Section ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Program Committee On Collision Report: Registries Can Launch If They Block A Lot Of Domains/Calls For More Study/.CORP & .HOME Are Doomed - The New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) made its recommendations tonight to the ICANN Board on the Collision report and its pretty messy. In short the NGPC recommends additional  study of the issue without a stated time frame, but with the exception of .Corp and .Home which seem to be indefinitely delaye, gives all other registries the option to proceed to delegation prior to receiving its SLD collision occurrence assessment report, if the registry operator initially blocks all SLDs that appear in ... read more ...
 
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ICANN gives new TLD field a faster trail to market - Top level domain applicants could start registering domains sooner, but there’s a catch. ICANN has changed its plan for mitigating the risk of so-called “name collisions” at the second level of new top level domain names, potentially allowing new top level domain applicants to start selling domains sooner than expected. It’s good news for applicants whose strings fell in the “uncalculated risk” bucket of name collisions. It could also be good news for ... read more ...
Tue 8th October 2013
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56 new TLD contracts signed, Donuts has some-more than half - New top level domain contracts are slowly (but surely) being executed. ICANN’s latest new top level domain name contracting stats show that 56 registry agreements have been signed. 55 of those have been published to ICANN’s registry page. Here’s a look at some of the stats so far: 32: The number of contracts signed by Donuts, which had more applications than any other company. 13: The number of contracts for internationalized domain names, despite all IDNs being ... read more ...
Sat 5th October 2013
Tue 1st October 2013
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ICANN Publishes The Final Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements For New gTLD Registries - Today ICANN published the final Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements for new gTLD registries,  that enables trademark holders to protect their rights during the Domain Name System expansion. A set of trademark protections were developed by the ICANN community for incorporation into the New gTLD Program and include both trademark claims and sunrise services, which are required for all new gTLDs. These final RPM Requirements are part of all Registry Agreements and include practical details ... read more ...
Sat 28th September 2013
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ICANN Publishes Final Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) Guidelines - ICANN published final Community Priority Evaluation (CPE)  Guidelines last night,  in advance to the  (CPE) commencing. The “Guidelines are to ensure quality, consistency and transparency in the evaluation process. ” “The CPE Guidelines are an accompanying document to the Applicant Guidebook, and are meant to provide additional clarity around the process and scoring principles outlined in the AGB. ” “The Guidelines do not modify the framework or standards laid out in the AGB.” View ... read more ...
Wed 25th September 2013
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ICANN Publishes Study on Whois Privacy & Proxy Service Abuse & Opens Up Comment Period - ICANN authorized a study conducted by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom, to analyze gTLD domain names to measure whether the percentage of privacy/proxy use among domains engaged in illegal or harmful Internet activities is significantly greater than among domain names used for lawful Internet activities. Furthermore, this study compares these privacy/proxy percentages to other methods used to obscure identity – notably, Whois phone numbers that are invalid. These findings ... read more ...
 
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ICANN To Post Redline Changes To New gTLD Registry Contracts - According to a post by ICANN on its site it will start publishing redline versions of executed Registry Agreements as it ” would be helpful to the entire ICANN community, and would also support ICANN’s efforts to provide operational transparency”. “Published redlined versions will highlight changes between an executed agreement and the current standard 2013 Registry Agreement. ” “Redlined versions will be available starting October 2013.” “As of Friday 20 September, ICANN has signed ... read more ...
Mon 23rd September 2013
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Microsoft, Verisign & Yahoo! Sends Joint Letter To ICANN: We Want An Update On Name Collision Mitigation Plan - In a joint letter Microsoft, Verisign and Yahoo! urged ICANN to study the Collission Mitigation Plan before allowing any “The undersigned companies and organizations submit this letter to express our significant concern regarding several unresolved stability and security issues associated with the upcoming delegation of new gTLDs.” “We understand that the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) recently submitted a letter on these issues. While some of the undersigned are members or observers of NTAG, ... read more ...
Sun 22nd September 2013
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Paris Opens Up Founders/Pioneer Program For 1st 100 .Paris Domain Names - The City of Paris opening up a submission period to allocate the first 100 .Paris new gTLD domain names. The city is opening  two “Calls for Proposals” for the purpose of selecting the first domain names under “.paris” top-level domain (TLD). Interested parties can apply on the web site http://mondomaine.paris.fr to be among the first 100 first holders of a web site ending in “.paris”. “The first Call for Proposals enables various types of actors to obtain a domain name matching their ... read more ...
Fri 20th September 2013
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ICANN admits new TLD auctions are delayed - The first ICANN auctions to settle new top level domain contention sets could take place in the middle of November. In a new top level domain applicant update webinar yesterday, ICANN VP of gTLD Operations Christine Willett admitted that new TLD auctions won’t start in October as previously planned. The start date has been pushed to the middle of November. This shouldn’t come as any surprise to applicants, especially given the number of outstanding issues that ... read more ...
Thu 19th September 2013
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Donuts loses another conflict to .Pets domain name - Another panelist finds that .pet and .pets are too similar to both be delegated as top level domain names How many pets are there?Apparently two panelists agree: .Pets and .Pet should be in a contention set because they’ll cause confusion amongst internet users. International Centre for Dispute Resolution just posted a decision (pdf) by panelist Richard Page for Google’s objection to Donuts’ application for .pets. Google argued that having both .pet and .pets ... read more ...
Tue 17th September 2013
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Making Whois Info Universally Private Will Be Horrible For Domain Investors & A Big Money Lose For Registrars - An ICANN working group  interim report to make Whois information generally unavailable  to the general public is getting some coverage in non-domainer publications over the last couple of days Basically the proposal calls for scrapping the current whois system which allows anyone to see who the owner of a domain is, (unless the owner has paid the registrar to have the registrar hold the domain under privacy) with a centralized Whois system called the Aggregated Registration Data Service (ARDS) ... read more ...