Tag Archives: ICANN

Mon 17th December 2012
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ICANN New gTLD Draw Through #150 Most Applied For Strings Get No Love - Through the 1st 150 non-IDN strings in the  ICANN Priority Numbers Drawsome of the most applied for new gTLD’s extensions didn’t have one pick. Unofficially I didn’t hear any applications announced for .home, .music, .Inc, .LLC .Shop and .book, . 6 of the  top 8 most applied for new gTLD;s and only one for .App. and .Blog. Others without any presence in the 1st 150 include what many consider to be the most valuable string, .web Brands seemed to do very well in the top 150, while we only spotted ... read more ...
 
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As Soon As The ICANN New gTLD Draw Starts, The Live Feed Goes Out - Almost on Cue as soon as the  ICANN Priority Numbers Draw for New gTLD Applications was starting the  live Audio/Video stream went out. When it was last working it looked like less than 300 people were tuned in. ICANN has already Tweeted that the draw will not start until the audio/video stream is fixed. Before it went off air, ICANN let the crowd know there were 1,766 tickets sold at $100 each with the proceeds all going to three charities; Kiva, Invenio, and WikiMedia Foundation The good news ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Withdraws Notice Of Breach Against .Jobs Registry - ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, announced today that its has formal withdrawn the February 2011 Notice of Breach against Employ Media, the registry operator of .JOBS, and confirmed that Employ Media is in good standing. Accordingly, Employ Media has dismissed arbitration proceedings with ICANN. This settlement brings to a close the dispute between the two parties regarding how non-company names (such as geographic, occupation, and dictionary terms) in .JOBS are registered ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Draw Starts in 2 Hours: What Will We Know Today? - The ICANN Priority Numbers Drawn for New gTLD Applications starts today at 4PM EST, 1PST local time The question is what will we know by the end of today? The draw will be broadcast live but as of now there is no URL for the broadcast. You can check on ICANN site, where we expect to see the draw or be provided a link to it later on. The draw as far as we know at this point will be a draw of numbers which have been assigned to those who have purchased tickets. So watching the draw is likely to be ... read more ...
Sat 15th December 2012
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Godaddy Issues Statement In Support Of US Opposition To ITU Treaty - GoDaddy.com which found it on the wrong side  last year in its initial support of SOPA issued a statement today in its “steadfast support of the U.S. government’s position opposing the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) treaty and a last-minute resolution aimed at relinquishing control of the Internet to the United Nations”. Godaddy went on to say: “The U.S. government, along with several Internet companies including Google and Go Daddy, has adamantly opposed new government controls ... read more ...
Fri 14th December 2012
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5 More New gTLD Apps Withdrawn: Including .Swiss, .GMBH,.HILTON - 5  more new gTLD applications have been formerly withdrawn, for a total of 13 withdrawn new gTLD applications Here are the 5 new gTLD application just posted as withdrawn on the ICANN website: .GMBH .Swiss .Hilton .Ansons .Skolkovo Here are more details about each withdrawn application .GMBH This application was submitted by GMBH Registry, LLC of Reston, Virginia and was submitted  by Josh Borne of Fairwinds Partners. The TLD mission was to: “bringing to market a trusted, hierarchical, and intuitive ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: We Signed Agreement For Trademark Clearing House: Price Capped At $150 Per Record/Per Year - “”I am pleased to announce that we have signed an agreement with Deloitte Enterprise Risk Services to be the first provider of validation services for the Trademark Clearinghouse.” “As promised, we will be posting that agreement shortly. The terms are in line with what I shared in my last blog entry: “ICANN retains all intellectual property rights in the Trademark Clearinghouse data. (Note this is as between ICANN and Deloitte. ICANN claims no intellectual property rights with respect to ... read more ...
Tue 11th December 2012
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ITU: Russia Gives Up Its Plan To Have The UN Rule The Internet - According to Reuters, A Russian-led coalition has withdrawn its proposal to turn Internet governance over to the United Nations. The plan would have in part take control away from ICANN over the domain naming system and give it to the U.N. “The proposal, supported by China, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and others, would have called on the U.N. to help member states seize control of key Internet engineering assets, including domain names, addresses, and numbering. The United States, ... read more ...
Mon 10th December 2012
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ICANN Ombudsman Issues Report Finding No Conflict Of Interest On .Africa By ICANN Board Members - The ICANN Ombudsman Chris LaHatte, issued a report today on a complaint by Sophia Bekele on behalf of DotAfrica, alleging a conflict of interest on 2 members of the ICANN Board, finding no conflict existed. “The essence of the complaint is a complaint about a conflict of interest with members of the ICANN board in considering issues about new gTLDs applications. This was first raised by DotConnectAfrica which sent 2 separate letters dated July 9, 2012 to report a matter of Conflict of Interest ... read more ...
Sun 9th December 2012
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Reuters: ITU: Russia Backed By China, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Sudan and a UAE Wants To Take Control Away From ICANN - Reuters, is reporting that Russian is backing a proposal with the support of China, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates at the ITU is calling for sweeping new  powers to regulate cyberspace. The United States, Europe and other allies including Australia and Japan insist the treaty should continue to apply only to traditional telecommunications such as international wireline and wireless calls. A leaked draft of the Russia-led proposals would give countries “equal rights to ... read more ...
Wed 5th December 2012
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Congress Passes A Resolution Unanimously 397-0 Calling On The US To Oppose UN Control of a Internet - The House of representatives voted today unanimously to pass Senate resolution S.Con.Res. 50 that calls on the U.S. government to oppose United Nations control of the Internet. The Senate approved the resolution  unanimously in September so the total Congressional vote was 397-0. The resolution, says it is the sense of Congress that the U.S. government should “continue working to implement the position of the United States on Internet governance that clearly articulates the consistent and unequivocal ... read more ...
 
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If Your In Contention For a New gTLD Your Draw Number Is Only As Good As The Worst Number Picked By A Competing Applicant - As the ICANN draw of December 17th is less than two weeks away, one issue that has been debated on Facebook is the importance of the draw for those new gTLD’s strings in contention. Today ICANN settled one issue giving IDN applications preference, but not giving preference to any other applicant including Geographic applicants which had lobbied ICANN for priority as well. So now with all issues settled all eyes turn towards the Draw where applicants are hopping to get a good number. Certainly for ... read more ...
Tue 4th December 2012
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ICANN asks justice to boot Name.Space lawsuit over tip turn domains - ICANN claims Name.Space released ICANN from claims when it applied for top level domains in 2000. ICANN has (not surprisingly) filed a Motion to Dismiss the lawsuit brought by Name.Space against ICANN for its new top level domain program. Name.Space runs an alternative root with a number of its own top level domains, such as .art and .book. Back in 2000 Name.Space applied to ICANN to run 118 of these top level domains in the main root. ICANN’s starting defense: ... read more ...
Sun 2nd December 2012
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On Eve Of Start of The ITU Meeting In Dubai, The US Makes Issues A Statement In Support of ICANN - The ITU meeting gets underway in Dubai tomorrow and the United States has issued the following statement in support of the ICANN multistakeholder holder model of governance. The statement is signed by Lawrence E. Strickling, Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), Julius Genachowski, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Phillip L. Verveer, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, State Department: The Necessity ... read more ...
Sat 1st December 2012
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ICANN Opens Up Comment Period On “Strawman” Rights Protections For New gTLD’s - ICANN just opened up the comment period on a the IPC/BC proposal for Improvements and Enhancements to the RPMs for new gTLDs [PDF, 68 KB]. Out of discussions evaluating the merits of these recommendations, the group produced at a strawman solution to address the concerns of affected stakeholders. This strawman solution is being posted for public comment. Here are the points of the proposal: Business Constituency and Intellectual Property Constituency Presented: October 16, 2012 Extend Sunrise ... read more ...
Thu 29th November 2012
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Conference On Who Should Govern The Internet Is On For Tomorrow In Washington & Is Being Streamed Live -   9am — Should the U.N. Save the Internet? Andrew McLaughlin – @McAndrew Entrepreneur-in-Residence, betaworks Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States (2009-2011) 9:15 — Rethinking America’s Dot-Com Hegemony Ellery Biddle – @ellerybiddle Policy Analyst, Center for Democracy and Technology Andrew McLaughlin – @McAndrew Entrepreneur-in-Residence, betaworks Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States (2009-2011) Milton Mueller – @miltonmueller Professor, Syracuse ... read more ...
Wed 28th November 2012
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ICANN extends protections to Red Cross, Olympics, and IGOs - New gTLD Program Committee approves two measures designed to protect big non-profit brands. ICANN Board’s New gTLD Program Committee has approved two resolutions granting added domain name protections at the second level to special interests the Red Cross, Red Crescent, and the International Olympic Committee, and lays the framework for protecting IGO names and acronyms. The resolutions come after the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council gave a ... read more ...
 
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Announcement on daub about that new TLDs will get priority diagnosis in ICANN’s Powerball - Which new TLDs will get to skip to the front of the queue? We’ll find out soon. Fortunately for new top level domain applicants, the chances of getting a top spot in December’s top level domain “prioritization draw” are much better than winning tonight’s $550 million Powerball lottery. Unfortunately, tickets to the draw cost quite a bit more (and I’m not talking about the $100 ticket fee.) But many applicants still have questions about whether certain ... read more ...
 
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Noss: use new TLD auction deduction to move some-more internet to Africa - Elliot Noss argues that auction proceeds should be used to fun wireless internet in Africa. Tucows CEO Elliot Noss, along with “internet in a suitcase” advocate Sascha Meinrath, have penned an op-ed for Slate arguing that new TLD auction proceeds should be used to grow internet access in Africa. In ICANN, Make a Difference, the pair suggests that the auction process for new top level domains might bring in $100 million to ICANN. Since the new TLD program is already ... read more ...
Sat 24th November 2012
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Just Because Your gTLD Application Escaped GAC Early Warning, It Doesn’t Mean The GAC Won’t Object To It - This week the Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) issued 242 early warnings on new gTLD applications. There seems to be a belief held in the domainer community that if an application didn’t receive a GAC early warning, the GAC will can’t or won’t object to a string or an application. Wrong. This is what the latest ICANN Applicant Guidebook (dated June 4, 2012)  has to say about GAC early warnings: “”1.1.2.4 GAC Early Warning Concurrent with the 60-day comment period, ICANN’s Governmental ... read more ...
Wed 21st November 2012
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ICANN Issues Details On New gTLD Prioritization Draw For Dec 17th -                 ICANN just released details on the Prioritization Draw (“Draw”) that will be held on 17 December 2012 in Los Angeles to assign priority numbers to all new gTLD applications including the place that the draw will take place. Each application will be assigned a randomly-drawn priority number. These priority numbers will be used to determine the order in which initial evaluation results are released. Only those Applicants who purchase a ticket will be able to participate ... read more ...
 
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GAC Issues 242 Early Warnings To New gTLD’s Applicants - The Government Advisory Council (GAC) to ICANN issued 242 early warnings to new gTLD applicants tonight involving 145 strings. After a quick review,  The government of Australia seems to have issued the most early warnings with Germany and India following. The United States only issued a few early warnings, but they included Demand Media,Inc (DMD) applications for .Army, .Navy and .Airforce. The US also issued an early warning against all 31 of Radix application but that seemed to be due to a letter ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Wants your Imput On White Paper on Making it “Relevant, Responsive and Respected” - A white paper put up by ICANN tonight entitled “At-Large White Paper on Future Challenges Entitled Making ICANN Relevant, Responsive and Respected” opens up for comments on January 3rd Of course no need to wait to comment here at TheDomains.com as our comment section is already opened. Here you go: “”The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is well into its second decade. Overall, informed Internet users and professionals consider that ICANN has performed its role as ... read more ...
 
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Watch ICANN’s new TLD lottery online - The biggest sweepstakes in the history of ICANN. ICANN will hold its new TLD lottery “prioritization draw” on December 17 in Los Angeles. The results will be used to determine the order in which initial evaluation results are released. This will have some correlation to when you can actually get your TLD live on the web, so it’s a big deal. ICANN is doing four things for the draw that I think are smart: 1. It’s at the Hilton LAX. You can literally fly into ... read more ...
Tue 20th November 2012
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ICANN threatens registrar for unwell to respond to UDRP requests - Registrar not responding to UDRP verification requests, says ICANN. ICANN has sent a notice of breach to Grand Cayman domain name registrar Bargin Register, Inc., for failing to respond to UDRP verification requests. In a letter dated November 19 (pdf), ICANN claims that Bargin Register has frequently failed to respond to UDRP verification requests from multiple UDRP providers. The latest issue appears to involve the domain name Rexrothdistributors.com, which was ... read more ...