Tag Archives: ICANN

Thu 1st August 2013
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ICANN Will Start Enforcing a New Expired Registration Recovery Policy (“ERRP”) At The End Of The Month - On August 31, 2013 ICANN will start enforcing the new Expired Registration Recovery Policy (“ERRP”) . The ERRP is expected to promote better understanding of registrants’ options and help alleviate common issues related to the expiration of gTLD registrations. This policy is intended to help align registrant expectations with registrar practices by establishing certain minimum communications requirements and making renewal and redemption of domain name registrations uniformly available in prescribed ... read more ...
Fri 26th July 2013
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104 New gTLD’s Pass ICANN IE: .Sydney; .Wow; .Gmail; .Catholic; Volkswagen; .Walmart; .MIT; .Comcast; .Realtor - 104 new gTLD’s passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today. The highlights for this week include the one of the most beautiful cities in the world .Sydney and some applications filed by Google’s Charleston Road Registry Inc which had been passed over in some previous weeks IE results including .Gmail; .Wow; .FYI; .Shop; .Fun .Fly and .RSVP Other interesting new gTLD applications passing this week were the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for .MIT; Amazon’s application for .Search; Some ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Follows Uniregistry & Withdraws Two gTLD Applications .Media & .Marketing Leaving Donuts The Only Applicant - Three more new gTLD applications were withdrawn with ICANN today and two are very interesting. Tucows, Inc. withdrew two of  its new gTLD applications one for .Media, just one week after another applicant Uniregistry dropped their application for .Media. and .Marketing just a little over a month after Uniregistry dropped their application for .Marketing. Tucows application for .Media had prioritization number of 407 and .Marketing had a prioritization number of 793 and both had passed ICANN Initial ... read more ...
Thu 25th July 2013
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Demand Media successfully defends .CAM TLD opposite objection - Company defends one objection for .cam, still faces a string confusion objection. Demand Media subsidiary United TLD Holdco Ltd has defended itself against a legal rights objection over its .cam top level domain name application. AC Webconnecting Holding B.V., a competing applicant for the string, based its objection on community trademark registrations for “.cam” as a word as well as a .cam logo. It also said it is the controlling shareholder of a company that ... read more ...
Mon 22nd July 2013
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ICANN Ombudsman LaHatte reappointed to second term - Chris LaHatte appointed to second term. ICANN’s Board of Directors has reappointed Chris LaHatte as Ombudsman to another two year term. The ombudsman serves as an intermediary between ICANN and its constituents on matters related to things done by ICANN, its board, its staff, and constituent bodies. Some of LaHatte’s recent decisions have been about late objections to new top level domains and a complaint by DotAfrica Connect. LaHatte has proven less controversial ... read more ...
Sat 20th July 2013
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The ICA Forces ICANN To Issue A “Status Report on UDRP/URS Providers & Uniformity of Process” - ICANN issued a Status Report on UDRP Providers and Uniformity of Process, last night and the timing of it makes it look as a direct result of the criticism of Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) made public during the ICANN meeting that concluded on Thursday. First for the report, then some comments will follow: “”Issues relating to Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“UDRP”) and uniformity of providers started to arise within ICANN in 2010. Commenters raised ... read more ...
Fri 19th July 2013
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.Christmas Comes Early As 89 New gTLD Pass IE: .Madrid; .Nokia; .Audi; .Xfinity; .Faith; .Brother; .Dupont; .WTF - Christmas came early for Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry whose new gTLD application for .Christmas was one of the 89 to pass ICANN’s Initial Evaluation (IE) today Other application passing IE of note today were: The Gergraphic application by the city of Madrid for .Madrid The Brand applications for .Nokia by the cell phone maker; .Xfinity submitted by Comcast; .Dupont by the global conglomerate of the same name; .Brother filed by the company best known for their printers and .Datsun filed by Nissan ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Withdraws Two More New gTLD Applications: .Media & .Country - Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry withdrew applications for two new gTLD’s today reflected on ICANN’s site. The application were for .Media and .Country Both of these application were due to have Initial Evaluation by ICANN released tomorrow as they had prioritization numbers 1,242 and 1,232 respectively so by withdrawing tonight Uniregistry picks up a 70% refund instead of the 35% it would have been entitled to after tomorrow. The withdrawal of Uniregistry application for .Country is an outgrowth ... read more ...
 
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ICANN still deliberation IGO protections, though adds deadline to discussions - No acronym protections if IGO protections not resolved by Buenos Aires. One of the Governmental Advisory Committee’s (GAC) requests for new top level domain names is that both the names and acronyms of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) be protected from second level registrations. This is, I imagine, because of the grave damage that would be inflicted on the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts if ECMWF.baseball were to be registered. The GAC’s ... read more ...
Thu 18th July 2013
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Over €1M Deposit Required To File A New gTLD Objection With The ICC, Partridge IP Law Tells ICANN - At the ICANN Open Forum today at Durban An attorney Mark Partridge took the floor to tell ICANN how much money an objector has to tie up to get their objection heard by the ICC. The ICC hear objections to new gTLD’s that are based on limited public interest objections and  community objections. Here is his statement: I have a new issue to present involving TLD objection process. I’m counsel for parties engaged in community am and limited public interest objections administered by the icc. I’m ... read more ...
 
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GAC Mucks Around But Leaves Durban With Hundreds Of New gTLD Apps Hanging In The Wind - The Government Advisory Counsel (GAC) just issued a summary of what it did during the ICANN meeting in Durban and issued what now appears to be a trend for ICANN meetings by issuing a “Communique”  in this case forever to be known as the Durban Communique in which it addressed a few new gTLD applications but left the elephant in the room as Pink as ever. Going into the meetings the BIG question was what further advice would the GAC issue regarding Closed Generic applications as well as hundreds ... read more ...
 
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.Amazon May Not Be Dead Yet As Trademark Groups Urge ICANN To Follow International Law Not GAC Advice - Trademark Groups urged ICANN to follow International Law not GAC advice and to approves the new gTLD application for .Amazon Claudio Digangi spoke on behalf of the International Trademark Association (INTA) on particularly on the geographic names issue. “INTA strongly supports the recent views expressed by the United States. in particular, that it does not view the sovereignty as a valid basis for objecting to the use of terms and we have concerns about the effect of such claims on the integrity ... read more ...
 
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GAC plays God with a Durban Communiqué - New TLD applicants’ disdain for the GAC must be growing. The Governmental Advisory Committee has released its Durban Communiqué (pdf), summarizing what it did during this week’s meeting in Durban and its advice to ICANN’s board. Even as someone who’s not directly involved with new TLD applications, I have to admit I got angry reading the Communiqué. I think this sums up my reaction: Just who do these guys think they are? It’s almost as if the GAC knows ... read more ...
Wed 17th July 2013
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Lawyers Jump On New gTLD Wagon To Sell Webinar On “Challenging Unfavorable ICANN Objection & Application Decisions” - We knew that the new gTLD process would cause a lot of new businesses to spring up but we weren’t counting on this one. A company is selling a Webinar aimed at Attorney’s On “Challenging Unfavorable ICANN Objection and Application Decisions“. The Webinar is subtitled: “Leveraging the Appeals Process and Courts to Overcome ICANN Determinations Absent Guidance” Here is a description of the Webinar: “As ICANN makes determinations about the applications for website domains, some applicant ... read more ...
 
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Internet Commerce Association (ICA): “ICANN Lied about URS Contracts” - The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) to which our company is a Silver Level Supporter of wrote today on its blog that ICANN has gone back on its word that it would create a standardizes contract for all Uniform Rapid Suspension providers to prevent forum shopping. Phil Corwin on behalf of the ICA writes today that ICANN “staff today stated in Durban that it is NOT developing a standard and enforceable contract for Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) arbitration dispute providers, going back on its ... read more ...
Tue 16th July 2013
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ICANN Still Has No Idea What’s Its Going To Do With The Surplus From New gTLD Fees & Auctions - We have been saying for quite sometime that ICANN has not committed on how what its going to do with the surplus from the new gTLD program and today at the ICANN meeting in Durban ICANN confirmed it. Speaker at the meeting of the ICANN Board and Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) Steve Crocker Chairman of the Board of ICANN stated: “Although there’s a lot of money that’s been raised, there’s also a projected use of those funds and one of the things that we take very seriously, and i have ... read more ...
 
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Trademark Clearinghouse Tops 5,000 submissions - Trademark protection service for new top level domains releases statistics. The Trademark Clearinghouse for new top level domains has received 5,000 submissions, the group announced today. 44% of the submissions have come from the United States. 10% are from France, 7% from the United Kingdom, and 4% from Germany. The top category of submissions so far are for “scientific or teaching apparatus” with 23%. That includes a wide range of products, from medical equipment ... read more ...
 
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ICANN launches ICANN Labs - Group that runs domain name system creates ICANN Labs to help improve communication and engagement. You’re not a cool tech company unless you have a “labs” group. Apparently you’re not a cool tech non-profit if you don’t have one, either. ICANN has launched ICANN Labs, a new initiative to increase participation and engagement in the ICANN process. ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé explains ICANN Labs: The success of ICANN’s multi-stakeholder model hinges on bottom-up, ... read more ...
 
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Verisign downgrades sponsorship of ICANN meetings - After peaking in 2011 meeting, Verisign’s sponsorship of ICANN meetings has steadily dropped. Thinks there’s a lot of bad blood between Verisign and ICANN right now? That may be why Verisign isn’t sponsoring the Durban meeting at as high of a level as it has sponsored previous meetings. The Durban meeting offers six sponsorship levels, ranging from Bronze ($7,500) to Diamond ($250,000). For this meeting, Verisign sponsored at the $15,000 Silver level. Let’s ... read more ...
Mon 15th July 2013
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GoDaddy: First Major Registrar to Sign ICANN’s New Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) - According to a press release we received, GoDaddy, announced today it was the first major registrar to sign ICANN’s new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). The new agreement provides customers a better experience, allows registrars to offer the upcoming new gTLDs and sets the standard for the future of the Internet. Signing the new agreement enables GoDaddy to offer the new top level domain names (new gTLD’s) “This agreement is a great step forward for the Internet,” said GoDaddy CEO ... read more ...
 
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Four new tip turn domain name contracts signed - Four IDN top level domains backers sign contracts with ICANN. Yesterday Domain Name Wire reported about dotShabaka Registry signing the first registry agreement for a new TLD with ICANN for شبكة. Today ICANN held a signing ceremony during its meeting in Durban, South Africa, with dotShabaka and three additional top level domain names: Core Association’s онлайн, Russian for “Online”, and сайт, Russian for “Web site” Donuts’ 游戏, Chinese ... read more ...
 
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First 5 domain name registrars pointer 2013 RAA - Five domain name registrars, including GoDaddy, signed the new registrar accreditation agreement today. Five domain name registrars signed the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) during a signing ceremony at ICANN’s meeting in Durban today. The group was headlined by GoDaddy, which registers about half of all new domain names. The 2013 RAA places significant new requirements on domain registrars, including validating registrant information and retaining ... read more ...
Sat 13th July 2013
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ICANN’s Update Of New gTLD Program Status By The Numbers + 1st 50 Start Contracting Proceess - ICANN’s  Christine Willett just gave an update  on the New gTLD program from the first session at the ICANN meeting in Durban: “As Yesterday my team has published results for through priority number 1,200 of the application. so we’ve released 1,100 initial evaluation results. Over 1,000 applications having passed initial evaluation. we have had 13 applications identified as eligible for extended evaluation. There have been 49 withdrawn applications out of that first 1,200 prioritized. Two ... read more ...
Fri 12th July 2013
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95 New gTLD Pass IE: .Africa; .Miami; .Amsterdam; .Bible; .Adult; .Landrover; .Amazon; .Dodge; .Jaguar; .Bestbuy - 95 new gTLD application passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today and 2 applications are headed for the dreaded Extended Evaluation. Leading the way passing IE, today are the Geographical applications for .Africa; .Miami; .Amsterdam. Beyond that a couple of very interesting new gTLD passed IE today .Bible which was filed by the American Bible Society and .Adult which was filed by ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX extension Several Brand applications passed IE today. Applications for car makers ... read more ...
Wed 10th July 2013
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Patagonia, Inc. Withdraws Its Application For New gTLD .PATAGONIA - In what I would say is not great shock, Patagonia, Inc, has withdrawn its application to operate the .Patagonia new gTLD. Patagonia, Inc. has been in a well documented battle (and here) with Argentina over its application for .patagonia. Patagonia is geographic area and the application drew early warning GAC objections from both the governments of Argentina and Chile. The ICANN Independent Objector also filed an objection to .Patagonia .Patagonia also drew a formal objections filed with the ICC. .Patagonia ... read more ...