Tag Archives: ICANN

Fri 17th May 2013
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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 ...
Thu 16th May 2013
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WIthdrawn Applications Are Reflected On The ICANN Website The Same Day - Earlier today Straat Investments let us know they had withdrawn their application for .Book today, we now know that once a site is withdrawn with ICANN it is reflected on the ICANN site the same day. Straat’s withdrawn application for .book is now reflected on ICANN’s site just hours after it was withdrawn making it the 65th new gTLD application to be withdrawn. Also today another .Brand application was withdrawn, L’Oréal application for the new gTLD,  .KIEHLS with a prioritization number ... read more ...
 
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What they’re observant about a GAC’s guarantee advice - Is the GAC right? It depends on who you ask. The ICANN New gTLD Board Committee request for comment on the GAC’s safeguard advice has closed, and the reply period will open soon. Here are some select comments, along with links to the full comments. “Instead of Guidebook advice, the GAC has offered public policy advice and expects the whole New gTLD program to be halted until such advice is considered and adopted.” -Jonathon Nevett, Donuts Inc “The GAC is proposing ... read more ...
Wed 15th May 2013
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ICANN Tax Return: Ends With $440 Million In Cash & Securities - ICANN has published it’s Federal tax return form 990 for the tax year ending on June 30, 2012 all 68 pages of it. According to the filing,  ICANN ended its fiscal year with $466 Million in Assets and $388 Million in Liabilities therefore showing a net asset balance of over $83 Million up $3 Million from the year before. ICANN paid almost $28 Million in Salaries including $7.1 Million paid to  36 people listed by ICANN as Directors, Officers , Key employees and Highest Paid Employees. ICANN ended ... read more ...
 
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ICANN publishes 2012 taxation return - Tax return unveils compensation, legal costs. ICANN just published its FY 2012 tax return online (pdf). The form tax return covers the year ending June 30, 2012. Much of the information, including financials, had previously been published by ICANN on its web site, so there’s not much new there. What may be most interesting is the latest compensation information for ICANN’s high ranking and top paid employees. I count 17 positions earning $200,000 or more in reportable ... read more ...
Fri 10th May 2013
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38 More New gTLD Pass IE: .Paris; .Forex; .Cpa; .Airforce, .Guide, .Melbourne - 38 More new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation Today. Heading the list are the Geo’s of .Paris (which had been earlier passed over on its turn)  .Melbourne and .Durban Other generics passing IE include Amazon’s (AMZN) applications for .Talk and .Silk, Google’s (GOOG) applications for .Cal, and .Cpa Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) application for .Airforce. ICANN has now evaluated all applications with a priority number of 350 passing 301 of them.   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael ... read more ...
Thu 9th May 2013
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Stupid, incompetent, or both? - A Generally Atrocious Communiqué. I’ve learned a lot over the years while writing about the domain industry. In the past three years I’ve learned that if there’s a laborious article I need to research and write that has to do with new TLDs, I can just wait a little while and Kevin Murphy will do it instead. That’s what he’s done with “This is how stupid the GAC’s new gTLDs advice is“. The GAC’s “advice” about new top level domains coming out ... read more ...
Wed 8th May 2013
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ICANN sends crack notice to vast Argentinian domain registrar - Dattatec late on fees, slow to respond to whois inaccuracy claims. ICANN has sent a breach notice to a relatively large domain name registrar based in Argentina. ICANN claims (pdf) that Dattatec.com, SRL is in breach of a number of provisions of the registrar accreditation agreement. According to the breach notice, Dattatec is not taking reasonable steps to investigate whois inaccuracy complaints, isn’t properly maintaining registration records, and isn’t making ... read more ...
Fri 3rd May 2013
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30 More gTLD Pass: .xBox, .Merck, .Thai, .Fire; .Cloud; .News; .Gripe; .Virgin; .Cars - 30 more new gTLD applications passed Initial Evaluation (IE) today by ICANN. In all 245 new gTLD applications out of the first 300 reviewed have passed IE. Some of the applications passing IE today included Microsoft’s application for .xBox; Amazon’s application for .Cloud, .Fire, .Deal and .Room; .Thai, the brand application for one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies .Merck; Uniregistry application’s for .Cars and .Art and Virgin Enterprises Brand application for .Virgin Merchant Law ... read more ...
Thu 2nd May 2013
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Guest Post: Has ICANN Already Taken a GAC’s Advice on “Closed Generic” gTLDs? -               This is a guest post By Philip S. Corwin, Esq, Founding Principal, Virtualaw LLC; Of Counsel, Greenberg Lieberman; and Strategic Advisor, ICANN Sherpa TheDomains.com publishes Guest Posts from time to time, by well known leaders and authorities in the domain industry. As always Guest Posts are posted in their entirety and unedited: “”On the afternoon of April 11, 2013, the last day of ICANN’s recent Beijing Meeting, its Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) delivered ... read more ...
Wed 1st May 2013
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Verisign blasts ICANN over due registry agreement - Verisign says unilateral right to amend is alive and well in proposed contract. Verisign senior vice presidents Pat Kane and Richard Goshorn have sent a letter to ICANN blasting the inclusion of amendment right clauses in the proposed new registry agreement. In the sometimes snarky letter, Verisign claims that ICANN’s unilateral right to amend the new gTLD agreement is alive and well, despite some changes to language in the latest version. Verisign’s interests ... read more ...
Mon 29th April 2013
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Can Only UDRP Providers Become URS Dispute Resolution Providers? - According to Brad Bertoglio of Intersponsive Corporation, it looks like ICANN appears to be taking the position that it will not approve any application to provide URS services unless the actual applicant is directly a provider of other dispute resolution services, and potentially only UDRP providers. Intersponsive Corporation was the first company to apply to ICANN to become a URS resolution provider, and commit to the pricing goals that ICANN set for the URS provider, however according to Bertoglio ... read more ...
Fri 26th April 2013
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39 More New gTLD Pass IE: .AAA; .Chase; .NRA; .Live; .Swiss; .Vip; .Cpa - ICANN has passed another 39 new gTLD through Initial Evaluation today, including the National Rifle Association application for .NRA, The American Automobile Association application for .AAA, JPMorgan Chase application for .Chase, Microsoft’s application for .Live. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants  application for .CPA also passed IE. Google passed IE for its .Vip and .talk application,  Godaddy’s application for .Godaddy also passed IE. QVC networks application for .QVC ... read more ...
 
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NCSG hurdles ICANN preference to extend Trademark Clearinghouse rights - Formal Request for Reconsideration challenges trademark owners ability to add 50 derivatives of trademarks to clearinghouse. The GNSO Noncommercial Users Stakeholders Group has submitted a Request for Reconsideration to ICANN’s Board Governance Committee concerning a decision by ICANN to extend trademark protections in new top level domains. The reconsideration request argues that ICANN shouldn’t have added the so-called “Trademark +50″ protection in the Trademark ... read more ...
Wed 24th April 2013
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TLDH Withdrawing 4 New gTLD Applications: .Free; .Sale; .Spa; .Zulu - According to a press release we received this morning, The Board of Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM:TLDH) issued an update to its new gTLD application with the biggest news out of the release is that it is withdrawing 4 of its new gTLD application TLDH announced that is decided to withdraw its application for .Free; .Sale; .Spa; .Zulu. Those withdrawals are not reflected on ICANN’s site. “We are pleased to announce that the meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Sends Out Notices Of Breach Due To 3 Domain Registrars - ICANN send three registrars Notices Of Breach Of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement The three domain name registrars are: Dotted Ventures, Inc. (IANA# 833) of Atlanta, GA which owes past due accreditation fees in the amount of $9,289.10 A. Telecom S.A. (IANA# 1458) of Sao Paulo Brazil which owes past due accreditation fees in the amount of $10,863.67 Basic Fusion, Inc. (IANA# 813) of New York NY which owes past due accreditation fees in the amount of $5,091.59. Each registrar was given until May ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Opens Comment Period On GAC Advice For New gTLD’s - ICANN just opened a comment period to get input on a portion of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Beijing Communiqué in which it provided advice on New gTLDs. ICANN is looking for input on “how the New gTLD Board Committee should address GAC advice regarding safeguards applicable to broad categories of New gTLD strings”. Comments can be left from now until the period closed on May 14th 2013 at 23:59 UTC. “The Board New gTLD Committee, acting on behalf of the ... read more ...
 
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ICANN will now be means to postpone domain name registrars - [Well, looks like ICANN actually had a similar provision in its 2009 RAA, just in a different section. Sorry about that.] One of the big improvements in the proposed 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) over the 2009 version is the ability for ICANN to suspend registrars. Previously, if a registrar was in breach of contract, ICANN only had the “nuclear option” – to terminate the domain registrar. Many in the ICANN community felt this was why ICANN would ... read more ...
Tue 23rd April 2013
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What a new RAA means for YOU, a domain registrant - Your responsibilities when registering a domain name will soon change. Late yesterday ICANN published the proposed “final” new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) for public comment. The update RAA will have an impact on how you register domain names. You must verify your phone number or email address. After you register a domain, transfer it to a new registrar, or transfer ownership of a domain, you will have to confirm your email address or phone number ... read more ...
Mon 22nd April 2013
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NAF Sets URS Fees $375-$500 Per Complaint & $400 For Domain Holder - The National Arbitration Forum, (NAF) has just released its proposed Supplemental Rules for Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) , including complainant fees that range from $375 – $500 depending on number of domains involved. The fee for the domain holder who gets hit with a URS is $400 if the complaint is for more than 16 domain names. However all domain holders will have to pay for a re-evaluation of a negative URS decision and an appeal of a URS decision. Here is a complete set of the proposed rules ... read more ...
Sat 20th April 2013
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ICANN selects second URS provider - Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre second to sign up with ICANN for rapid domain suspension system. ICANN has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC) to be a provider under Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS). URS is sort quick and less expensive version of UDRP in which a winning complainant does not get control of the infringing domain name but it is taken offline. URS only applies to the new top level ... read more ...
Fri 19th April 2013
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38 More New gTLD Pass IE: .Hiv. .Eco, .Green. .Wiki, .Coupon - 38 more new gTLD applications passed Initial Evaluation (IE) today in results released by ICANN. Those passing today includes an .Eco application by Donuts, the application for  .Green filed by dotgreen.org, .Hiv,  and Google application for .Docs. Other applications passing IE today include those for the new gTLD strings; .Blog, .Online .Cam,  .Wiki, Tattoo  .insurance and Amazon’s new gTLD application for .Coupons to name a few. On the brand side the car manufacturer  .Fiat, CBS’s application ... read more ...
Thu 18th April 2013
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Name.space sends lawsuit opposite ICANN over new TLDs to Court of Appeals - Company that offers domain names in alternative root pushes forward with legal challenge. Alternative root company name.space isn’t letting its beef with ICANN die just yet. The company has filed an appeal (pdf) with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit after its suit against ICANN was tossed out by a lower court last month. Name.space offers domain names in an alternate root, and applied to ICANN in 2000 to add 118 of its domains to the “real” ... read more ...
Tue 16th April 2013
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.Bloomingdales Becomes 45th WIthdrawn New gTLD Application - Macy’s Inc. just withdrew its new gTLD application for .Bloomingdales with ICANN. The application had a prioritization number of 1150 and becomes the 45th new gTLD application to be withdrawn. The .Bloomingdales registry was going to be operated on a  closed basis. Here is how Macy’s described registry, the new .bloomingdales gTLD will operate as a restricted registry, in which Macy’s Inc (Macy’s) can create and control domain spaces that promote the Bloomingdale’s brand identity and authenticity. ... read more ...
 
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1&1 Owner of Mail.com Withdraws Application For New gTLD .Mail - 11 Mail Media GmbH, whose parent company is United Internet AG, just withdrew its application to operate the new gTLD  .Mail. I think this is a very meaningful withdrawal because of the fact that as the applicant owns Mail.com and stands to be the biggest benfificaly of having the .Mail new gTLD and the most at risk for loss of business to a .Mail new gTLD. .Mail for this particular application, would have be a either big business opportunity or a big defensive play and they simply withdrew their ... read more ...