Tag Archives: ICANN

Thu 6th June 2013
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ICA Tells ICANN The Draft Of RAA Agreement Is “Deficient in Scope” - The Internet Commerce Association  (ICA) submitted comments to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) website, on the current  draft  statement   of  Registrants’   Rights  and   Responsibilities  (RRR)  calling it “deficient in scope”. “We prefer the alternate version proposed to ICANN by the Non­ Commercial  Stakeholders  Group  (NCSG) and propose  that a modified  version  of it be adopted   as  the  final   RRR said Phil Corwin in his ... read more ...
 
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The CEO Of Blacknight Elected Chair of Registrar Stakeholder Group of ICANN - Michele Neylon the CEO of the ICANN accredited domain name registrar, Blackight, has been  elected Chair of The Registrar Stakeholder Group of ICANN (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), becoming the first European to hold such position. “The Registrar Stakeholder Group (RrSG) is one of several Stakeholder Groups within the ICANN community and is the representative body of domain name Registrars worldwide. It is a diverse and active group that works to ensure the interests ... read more ...
 
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1st Private Auction May Be Complete As Donuts Withdraws Its 1st New gTLD Application: .Vote - Donuts has withdrawn its 1st new gTLD of the 307 applications it filed with ICANN. This certainly could be the result of a private auction which are underway this week. There is only one other applicant for the new gTLD .Vote and that company application, under the name of Monolith Registry LLC was filed by Afilias which operates the .info TLD. Donuts application which is now withdrawn is under the corporate name Double Falls, LLC which had a prioritization number of 663. Now that Donuts application ... read more ...
 
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ICANN hires new COO, moves Atallah - ICANN shakes up leadership positions. ICANN has moved chief operating officer Akram Atallah to a new role and hired a replacement from outside the organization. Atallah has been named president of the Generic Domains Division. This new group will focus on generic domain operations, domain name industry engagement and web services for the community. The division is being created because of the increase in “scale and responsibility” for ICANN in the wake of new ... read more ...
Wed 5th June 2013
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ICANN: Trademark Clearing House Update - ICANN during its Webinar today gave some updated data on the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) Today 636 trademark holders have filed marks with the TMCH. A total of 3,027 trademark records have been filed of which 1,380 have been verified. There are another 1,132 in the process of being verified. 503 have been determined by the TMCH to have been submitted incorrectly and 12 have been determined to be invalid. There will be a Webinar held on June 19th at 7pm PST which will be dedicated to the TMCH. Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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1st New gTLD’s Could Be Delegated As Soon As Aug 28th w/ Sunrise Ending Oct 27th - As part of its Webinar today ICANN laid out a “best case scenario” for when the first new gTLD’s  might roll out. According to a time line laid out by ICANN the first new gTLD could be delegated to the root by as early as August 28, 2013 in which event the Sunrise notice for trademark and other rights holders for the new gTLD could start the following day August 29th. Based on that time line the Sunrise notice period would then run from August 29th-September 27th where trademark holders would ... read more ...
 
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ICANN New gTLD Contention Auctions To Start In October - During a Webinar today, ICANN announced it is intending to hold the first round of the ICANN Last Resort auction starting in October for those Contention sets which DO NOT include community applications. Auctions are also not expected for strings that have outstanding objections in the first group of strings. Under the ICANN Guidebook, Last resort auctions are to be held in groups at set times. So the October auctions will be the first set not the only or the last set. Much more information on the ... read more ...
Mon 3rd June 2013
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Private New gTLD Auctions Are Underway - According to ApplicantAuction.com the first private auction for new gTLD strings are underway. Although other than .Club which publicly announced it would be participating in the auction which started today, there hasn’t been any public announcement on  how many other auctions are going on or what the string are. Both Donuts and Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) announced it was entering the private auction for a number of new gTLD strings they applied for but there has not been confirmation by other parties ... read more ...
Sat 1st June 2013
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ICANN Orders Transfer Of Domains At 4 De-Accredited Registrars To Astutium - ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of gTLD domain names from four registrars, three are due to the de-accreditation of the registrars; C I Host, Inc., Central Registrar, Inc. DBA Domainmonger.com, Power Brand Center Corp. and one transfer was ordered  due to the termination of its Registrar Accreditation Agreement of Dotted Ventures, Inc. All of the domains from all four domain name registrars were transferred to Astutium Limited which is headquartered out of London. The affected gTLD registries ... read more ...
Fri 31st May 2013
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ICANN Appoints First Two New gTLD Data Escrow Agents - ICANN announced today that it has selected the first two new gTLD Data escrow agents. All new gTLD registry operators will be required to regularly deposit a backup copy of their TLD registration data through one of the approved data escrow service providers. The data held in escrow may be released to ICANN under certain circumstances in order to preserve the stability of the TLD in case of an emergency. ICANN selected Iron Mountain Intellectual Property Management, Inc. and NCC Group have been approved ... read more ...
 
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80 New gTLD Pass: .Amex; .Nike; .Goog; .Fox; .Arab; .Java; .Polo; .HomeDepot - 80  more new gTLD applications have passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today. One application .Pay  did not pass IE but was made eligible for Extended Evaluation, that applicant was made by DOTPAY SA, whose contact is listed as Ms. Liz Williams from Sedari.com. In all ICANN is has now completed Initial Evaluation on applications up to prioritization number 600 with 518 being passed or placed into Extended Evaluation One application of note that passed today that was previous passed over was that ... read more ...
 
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68th New gTLD Application Is Withdrawn - The 68th new gTLD application has been withdrawn today. The new gTLD application was for an  IDN: 广东 Which was applied for by the Xinhua News Agency and had a prioritization number of 1,772 The English equivalent for the IDN string is: Guangdong The applicant has one other new gTLD application submitted with ICANN which is the IDN of 新闻, which is the English equivalent of the word: News.  That application has a prioritization number of 29 and has already passed ICANN initial evaluation. The ... read more ...
Wed 29th May 2013
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ICANN Orders Further Study On Dotless Domains - ICANN announced last night they were authorizing further study into dotless domains. Google recently announced that they were changing their application for .Search to an open rather than closed registry and they want to operate the registry as a Dotless Domains. Here is the announcement: “On 23 February 2012, the SSAC published the SAC 053: SSAC Report on Dotless Domains. A domain name that consists of a single label is referred to as a “dotless domain name”. ” “Use of dotless names could ... read more ...
Sat 25th May 2013
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Famous Four’s DotHealth Creates Governance Council To Provide Imput On .Health -   Dot Health Limited which is a Famous Four’s application to operate the new .Health top-level domain (gTLD), today announced the creation of a Governance Council that will allow the world health community to provide input on the .Health TLD. The Governance Council will be called upon to monitor, advise, and recommend best practices for the .Health gTLD. It is expected that the Governance Council will be comprised of practitioners, scientists, researchers, and others involved in health industries, ... read more ...
Fri 24th May 2013
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FairSearch Tells ICANN They Still Don’t Like Google Application For .Search - “I write to apprise ICANN that Google’s recent attempt to amend its .search Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) application is an effort to evade Google’s responsibilities to address objections through the dispute resolution process at the ICC International Centre for Expertise.” “Instead of responding directly to the areas of concern raised in objections to Google’s .search application that are on record, Google now seeks to alter its application. ” “The proposed amendments do not remedy ... read more ...
 
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91 New gTLD Pass IE: .NYC, .Microsoft, .GOP; .Kiwi, .Monster, .Berlin, .Youtube - a Total of 91 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE)  including 8 applications which were previously passed over. This is the most new gTLD applications to pass IE in a single week and ICANN is now processing 100 new gTLD applications up from 50 per week as they promised would happen in June. This weeks more interesting new gTLD applications passing IE include two killer Geo’s .NYC and .Berlin; .budapest, a pseudo Geo of .Kiwi;  Google’s application for .youtube, Microsoft’s ... read more ...
Thu 23rd May 2013
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Applicants record 722 responses to GAC advice - Applicants flood ICANN with responses to GAC advice on new top level domains. ICANN has published applicant responses to the Governmental Advisory Committees “Advice” on new top level domains. 722 responses were filed in total. Many applicants submitted the same comment on each TLD they believed was affected by the advice. The overarching theme in responses was: we have what we believe are adequate protections for our strings, the GAC should not be concerned, ... read more ...
Wed 22nd May 2013
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ICANN Approves The Arab Center for Dispute Resolution (ACDR) As A UDRP Provider - The ICANN Board approved the Arab Center for Dispute Resolution (ACDR)  as an UDRP provider. The approval of ACDR as the first UDRP provider located in the Middle East “enhances ICANN‘s accountability to the Internet community as a whole, enhancing choice for UDRP complainants”. ICANN acknowledged that comments were submitted suggesting that “ICANN develop contracts with each of its UDRP providers as a means to require uniformity among providers. ” However the Board stated that “Contracts ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Fall 2014 Meeting Heading Back To The US To Los Angeles - The ICANN Board announced tonight that is has selected Los Angeles California as its location for its third Meeting for 2014   The ICANN 2014 North America Public meeting, will be held on October 12th-17th, 2014. ICANN announced last December that the meeting location for the March 2014 ICANN will be Singapore and  ICANN meeting for the June 2014  will be held in  London. The meeting facilities and production budget of the Singapore meeting is not to exceed US$885,000, the meeting facilities ... read more ...
Mon 20th May 2013
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Verisign questions ICANN’s minute posting policies - Company suggests ICANN is only posting letters that “will advance its positions”. Verisign has sent a letter to ICANN questioning why it isn’t publishing certain correspondence on the ICANN.org web site. ICANN has a section on its web site where it publishes many letters it receives and sends. But Verisign says ICANN hasn’t published three prior letters the company sent regarding the proposed new domain registry agreement. The company says it is aware of other ... read more ...
Fri 17th May 2013
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40 New gTLD’s Apps Pass IE: .Chrome; .BBC; .AmericanExpress; .BMW; .Ads - ICANN just released 40 more new gTLD’s that passed Initial Evaluation today. Some of the highlights of those applications passing IE are Google’s applications for .Chrome, .Soy, .How, and .Ads; The British Broadcasting Corporation application for .BBC; Top Level Domain Holdings first new gTLD application that was not an IDN passed today with the passage of its application for .Blog. With these results ICANN has gone through new gTLD application with a prioritization number of 400 with a total ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Still Has Virtually No Revenue Coming In From Last Resort Auctions - If two or more applicants applied for the same new gTLD unless the parties can resolve their contention between themselves the parties go to an ICANN last resort auction. We have chatted before that we expect some of the new gTLD string auctions to go into the $xx,xxx,xxx range. With potentially over 200 new gTLD strings going to an ICANN auction we would expect revenue to ICANN from these last resort auction to generate Hundreds of Millions of dollars to ICANN. Yet ICANN 2014 budget includes virtually ... read more ...
 
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Now At 66 ICANN Expects 105 New gTLD Applications To Be Withdrawn Before End of IE - In its 2014 budget ICANN expects a total of 646 new gTLD applications will be withdrawn up from its estimate of 545. We know that there were 1931 applications submitted for 1,409 strings. So we know that all the non-winning applications in strings with more than one application will be withdrawn accounting for 522 of the 646 applications. Of the 646 applications it is now budgeting to be withdrawn, 105 are projected to be withdrawn prior to the end of Initial Evaluation at a 70% rate. There are ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Is Planning On New gTLD To Generating Less Than 10% Of Existing TLD in 2014 - According to ICANN 2014 budget it is expecting revenue coming in from New gTLD’ to be less than 10% of existing TLD”s. The 2014 revised budget has $81,115,000 in revenue coming in from registries and registrars from incumbent TLD’s  but only $7,043,000 in revenue coming in from new gTLD’s. ICANN fiscal year closes on June 30 and since new gTLD’s most likely wont start until the 4th Q of 2013, that is taking into account less than a full year of operation. Moreover many new gTLD’s will ... read more ...
 
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ICANN headcount bursting 50% this mercantile year - Non-profit plans to continue hiring in all departments. ICANN expects to end FY 2013 this June with nearly 50% more employees than it began the year with. That’s according to the non-profit’s FY 2014 draft operating plan, which shows an expected 233 employees by the end of June. It ended June 2012 with 158 employees. That’s nearly 50% growth in just one year. The forecast shows that ICANN expects to hire 47 people in this quarter alone. 19 of those are allocated ... read more ...