Tag Archives: ICANN

Mon 26th August 2013
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Dish DBS and .Hotel applicant record “appeals” to new TLD conflict decisions - Two companies appeal to ICANN’s board for reconsideration of new TLD objections. The first of what are likely many “appeals” of new top level domain name objections have been filed with ICANN’s board in the form of Requests for Reconsideration. Both Dish DBS and Hotel Top Level Domain S.a.r.l. filed Requests for Reconsideration with the board on Friday. Each request blames the process created by ICANN as well as the decision making by the panelists. Dish DBS ... read more ...
Sat 24th August 2013
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ICANN Spends Almost $1.5 Million On NON-STAFFERS To Attend Last Two ICANN Meetings; Including GAC Members - According to two reports published by ICANN.org its spent over almost $1.5 Million in transporting, housing, feeding and for Visa’s for 379 NON-ICANN staff to attend the last two ICANN meetings. ICANN of course pays for its own staff’s air travel, hotel and Per Diem fees to compensate for meals, even the cost of Visa’s to get people into the country, but ICANN  also paid those costs not for non-staffers as well. Included in the totals are funds ICANN expended to send members of the GAC to ... read more ...
 
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Do usually 4 new TLDs have a possibility of going live this year? - Barring a flurry of activity at ICANN or changes to the name collision mitigation plan, the launch of new TLDs won’t be a 2013 event. ICANN released updated contracting statistics for its new top level domain name program yesterday, and applicants will be sad to see that there are still just four signed registry agreements. Although a lot of applicants are going through the process, it has been slow going. For example, the applicant for the Arabic IDN that means ... read more ...
Fri 23rd August 2013
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UPDATED 85 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE, 8 Go To Extended Evaluation; Passing .Rio; .NetFlix; .Ping; .Lamborghini .Tiffany - 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 ICANN’s ... read more ...
Thu 22nd August 2013
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Napa Wine Association Letter to ICANN Makes It Clear They Should Have Applied For .Napa/.Wine Instead Of Just Whining - After reading the letter sent by Bruce Cakebread telling ICANN  how the 500 members of the Napa Valley Vintners need protection from the new proposed gTLD’s of .Wine and .Vin,   I walked away thinking that the wine producers of Napa simply missed their chance to apply for .Napa and/or .Wine and now just want to whine about it. In his letter representing the association Mr. Cakebread told ICANN in part: If the applications for .wine and .vin are allowed to move forward, our 5o0 winery members ... read more ...
 
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National Association Of Realtors Reminds ICANN .Realtors Is a Brand App & Should be Outside Of GAC Advice - In a letter sent to the Chair of the new gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) The National Association Of Realtors reminded ICANN that its application for the new gTLD .Realtors is a brand application, not a generic application and should be freed from GAC Advice. Oh by the way they would also like a response to their letter of over a month ago on the same subject: “We send this correspondence for consideration for your upcoming meeting on August 13, 2013. “This communication is in follow-up to our ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Denies Booking.com Request To Reconsider String Similarity Panel Ruling; Bad News On Cam Vs Com? - In turning down Booking.com request for reconsideration the ICANN Board appears to also have bad news for those that think the Board will step into settle the .Com Vs .Cam split decisions. As for Booking.com ton July 7th 2013, they submitted a  the ICANN Board to reconsider the ICANN staff action of 26 February 26th 2013, when the String Similarity Panel placed the applications for .hotels and .hoteis into a string similarity contention set. The Board in denying the reconsideration request of Booking.com ... read more ...
 
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More trouble: apparently .Sport and .Sports are also confusingly similar - Panelist sides with SportAccord in objection against .sports. International Centre for Dispute Resolution has posted an updated list of string confusion objections, and there’s more trouble. SportAccord, an applicant for the .sport domain, has successfully objected to Donuts’ application for .Sports. SportAccord argued that “a significant degree of confusion would occur between any TLD string that is understood to be the plural of another TLD string.” Panelist ... read more ...
Tue 20th August 2013
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ICANN Screwed Up By Not Requiring Joining All Objections By One Objector Against a Same String Into 1 Proceeding - Last nights news that a International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) panelist ruled (pdf) that .cam and .com are too confusingly similar to coexist after two different panels ruled days earlier that the strings  were not similar confusing, shouldn’t be a huge surprise to anyone in the domain space. After all anyone that follows UDRP’s on a regular basis knows there is little consistency  between “close” UDRP cases, those not involving slam dunks like a parked domains like Faceboook.com We ... read more ...
 
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ICANN needs to chuck TLD field a bone on name collisions - If delays are necessary, ICANN should pitch in for monitoring and notification system. A couple weeks ago new top level domain name applicants received some very unwelcome news: many of their TLDs could be significantly delayed due to security concerns about “name collisions”. Basically, some private networks already ping non-existent top level domain names that applicants have applied for. This leads to so-called name collisions. ICANN should have undertaken ... read more ...
Sun 18th August 2013
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So Now What Will Google Do With Its New gTLD Application For .Search - Of the over new gTLD 1,900 applications received by ICANN, Google’s application for .Search has gotten arguably the most attention of the mainstream media (neck and neck with Amazon’s .Amazon TLD) Google originally filed its  application for .Search to operate on a closed basis, meaning that the registry generally would not be open to registrations by third parties, but amended its application back in April of this year to operate it as a open string using Dotless Domains, just days after the ... read more ...
Sat 17th August 2013
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NY Times Covers New gTLD’s: “Like Derivatives on Wall Street, They Have No Value” - The New Tork Times just covered the coming new gTLD’s and quotes a number of sources which give some juicy quotes like the one in the title which came from  Esther Dyson Some of the new gTLD’s getting a mention in the article were: .bible, .blog, .family, .game, .gay and .pizza. The article quotes  Akram Atallah, from  ICANN who says: “With .com and .net, if you wanted a nice name, it’s all taken,” “The idea of new gTLD’s is to provide real-estate availability in the market.” “The ... read more ...
Fri 16th August 2013
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95 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE: .Visa; .College; .Casino; .Poker; .Hamburg; . Cologne; .Kia; .Playstation; .Sina - 95 new gTLD’s passed ICANN Initial Evaluation today. Two Geographic applications passed today both a large German cities; .Cologne and .Hamburg Some generic applications passing today include .College; .Earth; .World; .Golf; .Poker; .Casino; .Taxi;. .Yoga; .Tickets; .Foundation and .Gives and Amazon’s application for .Kids and .Author. Some of the .Brand applications passing today was Visa Credit Cards application for .Visa; Safeway Grocers application for .Safeway; Sony’s application for .Playstation;  ... read more ...
 
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A month after initial 4 TLD contracts signed, still usually 4 signed - There’s been a delay (surprise!) after the first four TLD contracts were signed. ICANN took advantage of its public meeting in Durban, South Africa last month for a public signing of the first four top level domain name contracts. It’s been a full month since then, and no one else has signed a contract yet. ICANN has just published a new statistics page to track the progress of registry signings. Although only four have signed so far, it looks like a lot more ... read more ...
Thu 15th August 2013
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ICDR Rejects Verisign’s String Confusion Objection To .Cam As Being Too Confusing to .Com - One of the more interesting objections filed at the International Centre for Dispute resolution (ICDR) based on String Confusion was Verisign’s objection to the new gTLD .Cam being too confusing to .Com. Today a panel has ruled that .Cam is not confusing to .Com, finding “the visual similarity of the two strings does not allow a conclusion that confusion would result”. “The test is not to decide whether the proposed domain name bears similarities to existing domain name but rather to determine ... read more ...
Wed 14th August 2013
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IPC wants Uniform Rapid Suspension supplies in .org, .biz, and .info contracts - Intellectual Property groups already asking for way to add URS to existing top level domain names. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. The ICANN Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) has asked ICANN to insert a provision into registry agreements for existing TLDs that could lead to Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) expanding beyond new top level domain names. URS is a faster and cheaper form of Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). It was designed ... read more ...
Tue 13th August 2013
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Secretaries of All 50 States Tells ICANN To Follow GAC Advice On INC, .LLC, .CORP and .LLP - National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) is an organization whose members include Secretaries of State and Lieutenant Governors of the 50 U.S. states and territories send a letter to ICANN in late July that was just published today, that the new gTLD’s .INC, .LLC, .CORP and .LLP.should only be allowed to be registered by  ‘entities that are appropriately registered and in good- standing with the Secretary of State or other appropriate state agency.” “The members of the National ... read more ...
 
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First 12 New TLD fibre difficulty objections denied - ICDR panels deny first 12 string confusion objections. The International Centre for Dispute Resolution has issued its first 12 decisions regarding string confusion objections for new top level domain names. All 12 objections were denied. The denied objections were: Universal Postal Union vs. Deutsche Post AG for .epost The UPU operates the .post top level domain name. Verisign vs. Google for .new Verisign vs. NEC for .NEC Verisign vs. Donuts for .Vet Verisign vs. ... read more ...
Sat 10th August 2013
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105 New gTLD Pass ICANN: .Google; .Vegas; .Brussels; .NFL; .MLB; .Nissan; .Irish; .Jeep; .Barclays - 105 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) on Friday. A few geographic area new gTLD’s passed including .Brussels; .Osaka; .Yokohama; .Bayern Leading the way on the .Brand applications were the new gTLD applications of Google for .Google; The National Football League’s application for .NFL; Major League Baseball’s application for .MLB and .Baseball;  The car makers applications for .Mitsubishi,  .Nissan and .Jeep;  the worldwide Hotel chain .Hyatt; the .Com and .Net Registry ... read more ...
Thu 8th August 2013
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Verisign’s New Letter To NTIA On New gTLD’s: Its Important to Differentiate Between “Ability” and “Advisability.” - In a letter send by Verisign today to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), U.S. Department of Commerce; Verisign made it clear it is ready, willing and able to delegate up to 20 new gTLD’s to the root upon request of the NTIA but it also  made clear that it doesn’t advise that the 1,000 new gTLD strings a year get delegated to the root saying: “The introduction of delegations of new gTLDs into the root zone, it is important to differentiate between “ability” ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Sends Notice Of Breach Of RAA To PacNames.com (Again) - ICANN has sent a notice to Pacnames Ltd. of Auckland 1052 New Zealand A Notice of Breach of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA): “”Please be advised that as of 5 August 2013, Pacnames Ltd. (“Pacnames”) is in breach of its Registrar Accreditation Agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) dated 26 February 2012 (“RAA”). These breaches result from: Pacnames’failure to maintain registration records as required by Section3.4.2 of the RAA; ... read more ...
Tue 6th August 2013
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ICANN’s Name Collision Study Could Derail 20% Of All Applied For New gTLD Strings - ICANN released the Name Collision Study it commission, which suggests the the applications for the new gTLD’s .Corp and .Home be indefinitely delayed  and that 20% of all new gTLD applied for strings be delayed for at least 3-6 months as additional studies are conducted. “ICANN commissioned and today releases the results of a study that considers the likelihood and impact of name space collisions between applied-for new gTLD strings and non-delegated TLDs. ICANN contracted with Interisle ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Publishes Dotless Domain Name Security and Stability Study Report & Recommends More Studies - ICANN released the  Dotless Domain Name Security and Stability Study Report (pdf) tonight which was prepared by Carve Systems. Dotless Domains are a big topic of conversation ever since Google announced it wanted to operate the new gTLD .search as a “Dotless Domain” The bottom line of the report is that technically Dotless domains are possible, but there are some issues which require additional study.  As for User confusion “it seems inappropriate to simply dismiss the option to foster awareness ... read more ...
 
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After unconditional it underneath a rug, Name Collisions come behind to haunt new TLD program - Name collisions derail new top level domain name timeline. Everyone in the executive suite at Verisign must have been smiling this morning. That’s because ICANN dropped a bombshell, delaying a big portion of new top level domain names due to “name collisions”. It not only delays much of the program (as some have argued is Verisign’s goal in raising concerns), but also shows that Verisign isn’t crazy for raising its concerns. (Name collisions have been discussed ... read more ...
Fri 2nd August 2013
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92 New gTLD’s Pass IE: .Quebec; .Honda; ,Android; .Staples; .Gap; .AARP; .Porn - 92 more new gTLD’s passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today. Highlighting the results today are the Geographic applications for .Quebec; and  .Scot Leading .Brands applications passing today were the applications for .Android; .Honda; .Staples; .Gap; .AARP; .GMO; and .Ram Some generic string passing today included .Organic; .BlackFriday; and .Porn With today’s results ICANN has gone through all applications with a prioritization number of 1,500 with 1,384 getting a disposition.   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael ... read more ...