Tag Archives: ICANN

Sat 13th April 2013
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Microsoft Doesn’t Like Google’s Dotless .Search But Supports The GAC’s Move Against Closed Generics - Microsoft issued the following statement exclusively to TheDomains.com last night regarding events this week in at ICANN: “As the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) to ICANN recommended this week, it is contrary to the free and open ideals of the Internet for a private commercial entity to act as gatekeeper to domains that consist of generic industry terms like .search, .cloud or .app. “ICANN should follow the GAC’s clear recommendation that any non-open domains that consist of generic industry ... read more ...
Fri 12th April 2013
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38 More New gTLD Pass Initial Evalutions: 1st Non-IDN’s Passed is .Play: .Church & .Mormon Pass Too - 39 more New gTLD applications have passed ICANN’s Initial Evaluation (IE) and for the record the first non-IDN new gTLD extension to pass IE, is Amazon’s application for .Play. Other applications passing today are for the generic .Party, .Energy, .Food Some of the new religion new gTLD’s passed today as well as both .Mormon.and .Church passed IE Other generic applications passing today are .Wedding, .Menu, .Camera, .Fishing, .Buy,  .City and .Tech On the brand front some domains passing IE ... read more ...
 
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MiTek USA, Inc Withdraws All 4 Of Its New gTLD Applications Making it 43 Withdrawn Apps - MiTek USA, Inc. has withdrawn all four of its new gTLD applications. The withdrawn is now reflected in ICANN’s website. The four new gTLD’s applications were for .MII, .Connectors, .MITEK  and .SAPPHIRE. .Mii faced rejection as being too close to .Mil, the domain name extension for the US military. MiTek was the only applicant for any of the 4 withdrawn new gTLD’s The four withdrawn applications by MiTek  make it a total of 43 new gTLD applications to be withdrawn out of 1,930 submitted applications.         Google+Michael ... read more ...
Thu 11th April 2013
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The GAC Puts The Brakes on Hundreds of New gTLD Applications Including Closed Generics - The GAC issued Its Advice from the ICANN meeting in Beijing and its a long one. The very long list effecting hundreds of applications which is going to push back the program for some time and may shut the door on all closed generic applications unless the company can show issuing  the close generic to one company is in the “public good”. We long ago said at TheDomains.com that closed generics were one of the biggest policy mistakes ICANN made in the new gTLD program. GAC does in fact have an ... read more ...
 
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-New gTLD Trademark Clearing House By The Numbers: 323 TM Holders, 450 TM: $15K To Be An AgentAdd it to my favorites - There are some interesting numbers coming out of the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) Session at the ICANN meeting today To date there are 71 active trademark agents in TMCH To dare there are 323 trademark holders that have successfully created an account with the Trademark Clearinghouse. “There are  about 140 trademark accounts that are in the pipeline, meaning they are — either they haven’t uploaded their contract or they haven’t wired their amount yet, and still about 100 trademark holders ... read more ...
Wed 10th April 2013
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2 More Objections Hit The ICC: .Rugby & .Insurance - A couple of more objection have hit the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) site today as part of ICANN new gTLD program The International Rugby Board filed a Community Objection to .Rugby, and the American Insurance Association filed yet another objection to .Insurance. The two are in addition to the 66 objections we noted that were posted on the ICC site 5 days ago. Including this objection, there are at least 5 objections to .insurance filed with the ICC.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Starts “Public Conversation” On ICANN’s Future & Wants Your Input - As Fadi Chehadé, ICANN’s President CEO, announced this week, that ICANN has launched a public conversation about ICANN’s future. ICANN has posted on its blog all the information around this Public Conversation. “We are seeking ideas from the global community to help create a new, overarching vision and five-year strategy for ICANN. ” An animated video and slides have been posted in six UN languages to help seed an online discourse about the complex, changing environment ICANN operates within ... read more ...
Tue 9th April 2013
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Google Lays Out Plans For A “Dotless .Search” New gTLD - In a letter to ICANN today Google laid out its plan on how it plans on operating 4 new gTLD that it applied for as a closed Registry with the most interesting being plans for .Search which is plans on operating “a redirect service on the “dotless” .search domain (http://search/).” “To further elaborate on our plans to amend these applications, I am including a brief summary of our revised plans for each of the four TLDs below: ●  .search – Our goal for .search is to provide an easily-identifiable ... read more ...
Mon 8th April 2013
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ICANN: All New gTLD Initial Evaluations Should Be Completed By End Of August - ICANN now says they will  be done with the Initial Evaluation for new all new gTLD applications by the end of August 2013 The statements came in a session from the ICANN Beijing meeting, entitled  “New gTLD Program Status ICANN released some other important dates and time frames for the new gTLD process: “ICANN will publish all objections on new gTLD applications by this Friday April 12, 2013. We expect to receive GAC advice this week . Once published, applicants will have 21 days to submit ... read more ...
 
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Internet In China By The Numbers -       Some pretty interesting numbers coming out of the ICANN meeting’s Opening Session in Beijing today. China has 564 Million Internet users, which represents over 42% of their population and almost double the population of the US. China added 40 million new Internet Users in just the last year. China has 7 of the Top 30″Internet Companies” China E-Commerce has reached $7 Billion. In terms of domain names, China’s ccTLD,  .Cn has 7.5 Million registered domains, making it number seven ... read more ...
Fri 5th April 2013
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66 More Objections To New gTLD: .Shop, .Search, .Book, .Music, .Cloud ++ - 66 More Community Objection to New gTLD applications have hit the official site of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Objectors include Ralph Lauren which objected to .polo; TD Ameritrade which objected to .MutualFunds, .IRA, .Broker and .Retirement;  American Association of Independent Music which objected to .Band, .Song, .Tunes and .Music; the Universal Postal Union which objected to .Mail;  Charles Schwab Co., Inc. which objected to the same strings that TD Ameritrade objected to; the ... read more ...
 
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39 More New gTLD Pass Initial Evaluation As ICANN Gets Through The IDN’s - 39 more new gTLD’s passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today and more importantly ICANN has now gotten through all the IDN applications, meaning that next week non-IDN domain names for the first time will pass initial Evaluation. All applications through the priority number of 108 have now gone through IE (but not all have passed yet) meaning next week we will see the first non-IDN new gTLD pass IE. Of the 108 new gTLD application in IE, all of them IDN’s, 93 passed, none failed with the balance ... read more ...
Thu 4th April 2013
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26 More Community/Limited Public Interest Objections on New gTLD Filed With ICC - There are now a total of 54 community and limited public interest objections filed with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) , which is 26 more objections filed since last reported. While most of the 1st 28 objections were filed by the Independent Objector appointed by ICANN, this group which includes objections to .lotto, .basketball, .game, .gold, .insure and .insurance to name a few. have been filed by private associations and companies including, The Financial Services Roundtable, World ... read more ...
 
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US Dept Of Commerce: Us Govt Doesn’t Agree With Postal Service Objections To .Mail - In a letter sent to ICANN by The US Commerce Department’s Lawrence Strickling to Steve Crocker, Commerce made it clear that the US Government was not backing the United States Postal Service (USPS) objections to the new gTLD applications for .Mail Last week we told you that the USPS filed a Legal Rights Objection with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against all seven applications for  the new gTLD  .Mail. The applicants for the new gTLD .Mail include Google, Amazon, and Donuts, ... read more ...
 
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39th New gTLD & 3rd IDN Application Withdrawn - Bridgestone Corporation has withdrawn an application for the new gTLD IDN string of 普利司通 with ICANN. The application which has a prioritization number of 1769. According to the application: .普利司通 are the Chinese characters representing “Bridgestone”, meant to be read roughly similar to the pronunciation of “Bridgestone” in English. “The string doesnʹt hold any particular meaning in Chinese.” This marks the 39th new gTLD application withdrawn from the ICANN program out ... read more ...
Wed 3rd April 2013
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32 Objections To New gTLD Applications Filed; 13 By Verisign, 9 By Google - 32 objections on new gTLD applications filed with the International Centre For Dispute Resolution, based string confusion, are now reflected on their website. The objection process is part of the ICANN new gTLD program. Some of the objections as we noted a couple of weeks ago were filed by Verisign,Inc. who is up objecting to 13 new gTLD applications including: <![CDATA[]]>Verisign Switzerland SA objected to 3 new gTLD applications Google objected to 9 new gTLD applications including one’s ... read more ...
 
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4 More New gTLD’s Withdrawn: L’Oréal, American Heart Association & .Buy - 4 more new gTLD’s applications have been withdrawn bringing the total of withdrawn application to 38. The additional applications showing as being withdrawn as of tonight are: 欧莱雅 filed by L’Oréal with prioritization number of 72. This is an interesing one as it was expected to be in intital Evaluation with this Friday’s ICANN release and therefore the applicant elected to take the 70% refund just days before that amount dropped to 35%. .Stroke filed by the American Heart Association, ... read more ...
Tue 2nd April 2013
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ICANN Publishes “Changes to Registry Agreement for New gTLDs” - ICANN has just posted the  Revised Registry Agreement for Review “In the interest of transparency and accountability ICANN is providing the latest revision of the previously posted “Revised New gTLD Registry Agreement” for the community’s information and review.” “This revision reflects the inputs and comments received from our stakeholders and other members of the community.” “We have carefully considered the feedback on the revised Agreement and many suggestions have now been implemented ... read more ...
Mon 1st April 2013
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Video: How to contention an shabby WHOIS complaint - The whois complaint form is now part of ICANN’s web site. Long time readers know that I’m not a fan of videos when you can explain something with text. Yet I realize that how one person prefers to consume media isn’t necessarily the same as everyone. So today I’m posting my first DNW “How To” video. The video shows how to submit an invalid whois report on ICANN.org. ICANN recently added the whois complaint form directly to its web site, but the process ... read more ...
Fri 29th March 2013
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27 More New gTLD Applications Pass Initial Evaluation - ICANN just passed  27 more new gTLD applications today bringing the total of passed applications to 52. Included in today list an application from Verisign another application for Donuts and One From Google, Amazon,  and Afilias. This batch of new gTLD applications brings the prioritization number of reviewed applications up to 60. All the applications passed today are all still IDN’s: <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 27th March 2013
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ICANN: GAC Expects To Deliver Advice On New gTLDs In Beijing - ICANN has posted that the Government Advisory Council (GAC) Expects to Deliver Advice on New gTLDs in Beijing “”With the GAC Member Early Warnings phase complete, the GAC is now moving to the next phase, which is GAC advice on new gTLDs. ” “GAC advice is a key element of the overall process of the new gTLD Program. ” “In that context, GAC sessions at ICANN‘s public meeting in Beijing in April will be mainly focused on delivering GAC advice to the ICANN Board on categories of strings ... read more ...
Tue 26th March 2013
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Should Verisign’s Attempt To Get .Co Bar Its Objections To .Cam & The Rest? - Now that we published the objection filed by Verisign to .Cam as being to similar to .Com, along with the supporting documents, I have been asked what my opinion is on the objection, which is likely to be duplicated in large part when we see Verisign’s objections to .Vet, .Company, .Network and  .Bom and maybe many more. I think Verisign raises some good points regarding confusion between .cam and .com No doubt on a quick look people could be visually confused between the two. .Com and .Cam sound ... read more ...
 
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Here Are a Affidavits & Study Verisign Used In Support Of Its Objection To .Cam: - Verisign, Inc., operator of the .com TLD registry, has filed objections to three applications with ICANN for a new gTLD, .cam. Verisign retained me to design and conduct a survey to determine whether there is likely to be string confusion between the applied-for .cam gTLD and the existing .com TLD.  This report details the methodology and results of the survey. As described in more detail later in this report, the survey results showed a net confusion level of 39% that must be attributed to the ... read more ...
 
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Progressive Insurance Withdraws Application For New gTLD .Insurance - Progressive Insurance has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .insurance. The formal name of the applicant was  “Progressive Casualty Insurance Company”. The application which had a prioritization number of 1847 was to operate the TLD on a closed basis. Closed generics have been getting a lot of push back and ICANN recently closed a comment period for the topic of whether companies should be allowed to own a right of the dot generic extension. According to the application, Progressive ... read more ...
 
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Latin American Telecom Files Objection Against Google On .Tube - Latin American Telecom, LLC has filed a Legal Rights objection against Google’s new gTLD application for .Tube Latin American Telecom is also an applicant for .Tube The third applicant for .Tube is Donuts. Of course Google owns and operates the largest Tube site in the world, YouTube.com Here is some information on this company from Esquire.com, attorney Ari Goldberger’s site: “”Latin American Telecom LLC (LATELCO), a Delaware corporation with principal offices in Pittsburgh, Pa. and Mexico ... read more ...