Tag Archives: ICANN

Tue 18th September 2012
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ICANN New CEO Interview With WSJ: “Beauty of a Process Is That ICANN Is Not Deciding a Outcome Of Objected Strings” - WSJ.com just published an interview with the new CEO of ICANN Akram Atallah, on how the new gTLD program was going. There were a few QA’s that caught my eye “”WSJ: You have had a lot of complaints and objections. Was this expected, and how are you dealing with it?” “AA: Let me first separate comments from objections. There have been zero objections so far. There have been over 6,000 comments. “To apply for an objection you have to have standing, you have to pay a fee, and it goes to a ... read more ...
Tue 11th September 2012
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Business Constituency Asks ICANN To Extend Objection Period On New gTLD’s Until June/July 2013 - “ICANN made a commitment in the new gTLD Program to provide robust processes to assure that the community as a whole – with particular opportunities for governments and rights holders – have the opportunity to raise objections that could lead to the rejection of applications.” “This communication to ICANN, and to the full ICANN Board raises an objection to a recent [informal]  statement by ICANN that implies a material change in a process established as part of the final Guidebook.  This ... read more ...
Thu 6th September 2012
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ICANN Announces The 7 Criteria On Whether Changes To New gTLD Applications Will Be Approved - ICANN announced overnight, how will evaluate the requested changes in new gTLD’s applications. ICANN will consider the 7 criteria below and inform the applicant whether the changes are approved or denied. As usually all seems to be left to the evaluators to decide. None of the 7 factors were given any more or less weight than the others, nor did ICANN say how many of factors had to go in the applicant who wishes to change their application for ICANN to allow it. Decision Criteria Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: 4 New gTLD Applications Withdrawn, 3 By Google - According to ICANN’s site, four applications for new gTLD’s have been withdrawn by the applicants so far, including three by Google. The strings Google has withdrawn its new gTLD application for are: .And .Are .Est All of Google applications were submitted by Charleston Road Registry Inc. The fourth withdrawn application belongs to KSB Aktiengesellschaft who applied for .KSB     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Thu 30th August 2012
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ICANN Wants To Know If You Like Their Newly Designed Site - Its been six months since ICANN rolled out a major revision to its site at ICANN.org. Now ICANN is asking you to tell them how you like their site. “”The redesign of ICANN.ORG was launched on 27 February 2012. As we pass the six-month mark, we’d like to get your feedback. Is the redesigned site easier to use? Do you find the new features useful? Did we effectively streamline site navigation? The new information architecture was designed to organize the resources that ICANN.ORG offers in a more ... read more ...
Wed 22nd August 2012
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ICANN terminates dual domain name registrars - Two small registrars get the ax. ICANN’s contract compliance efforts with domain registrars seem to go in fits and starts. The past couple months have been active, and this month the company fully terminated two accredited domain name registrars. Just yesterday ICANN sent a notice of termination to Ynot Domains Corp in New York. Ynot was canned for not escrowing registration data and being late on accreditation fees. The registrar was tiny, with just 24 .com domains ... read more ...
Tue 21st August 2012
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MIT Rips ICANN’s Over New gTLD Program: “ICANN’s Boondoggle” - MIT just published a post ripping ICANN for what it calls ICANN’s Boondoggle referring to the new gTLD program. “ICANN is itself a monopoly. It has the freedom to mint new gTLDs and incorporate them into the “root zone file,” the master list that matches human-readable URLs (such as www.technologyreview.com) with the numeric Internet Protocol addresses that are used to route packets between computers. And it’s employing this freedom to orchestrate the biggest land rush in the history of ... read more ...
Mon 20th August 2012
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ICANN Publishes RoadMap For New gTLD Applications & First Delegation Request Aug 2013. - ICANN published a “Roadmap” for new gTLD’s which we have republished below. I reviewed it a few times and its a best case scenario for an application that does not get any formal objections filed, one that doesn’t get early GAC advice against it, one in which there is not another application filed for the same or a confusing similar string. In such a case ICANN says that in August 2013 they will be ready for the “First delegation request”.  The roadmap doesn’t say from the “first ... read more ...
Sun 19th August 2012
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China: “US Must Hand Over Internet Control to a World” - The Government of China said today that the US must hand over control of the Internet to the world. The Government’s position was made in today daily newspaper, The People’s Daily which “provides direct information on the policies and viewpoints of the Communist Party of China (CPC)“. Here is the full story of what China had to say: “”The Internet has become one of the most important resources in the world in just a few decades, but the governance mechanism for such an important international ... read more ...
Sat 18th August 2012
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Orgainzation That Run Thailand’s ccTLD (.Th) Objects To new a gTLD .Thai - “Although, THNIC views ICANN’s new gTLDs program as a mean to open up opportunities for innovations thus drive for further developments for the Internet as a whole, the program should be carried out without causing confusions or disturbances to the users of the Internet.” “THNIC would like to provide the following comments for the panel for consideration:” “(1) The applicant has made a claim to work closely with THNIC in the following statement:” “BLM will closely collaborate with ... read more ...
 
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6 ways to solve new tip turn domain “metering” problem - Six examples of ways to meter top level domains, but many of them are basically the same things. ICANN plans to allow only 1,000 new top level domain names into the root per year, and as evenly as possible over a 12 months time span. Its initial idea for figuring out which domains go first — so called “digital archery” — was scrapped. Now the non-profit has come up with six new alternatives. It hopes to figure out a solution by December. Here are six examples ... read more ...
Fri 17th August 2012
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WSJ: Banks Looking To New gTLD’s To Stop Phishing - The WallStretJournal published a story on how banks are looking to using their applied for new gTLD’s to cut down on phishing of bank sites on the net. “Financial-services companies are snatching up new, exclusive Internet addresses in an effort to crack down on cybercrime, which one analyst said cost the industry an estimated $2.5 billion last year.” “The companies buying up addresses include some of the biggest players in the industry: American Express Co., Capital One Financial Corp.,  ... read more ...
Thu 16th August 2012
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Objection To .Earth: We Already Own It & ICANN Awarding It To Any Applicant “Would be Larceny” - In interesting objection was just filed with ICANN on the new gTLD .Earth, by John Palmer of American Webmasters, Inc who claims to already own the TLD since 1995 having been granted the TLD by none other than Dr. Jon Postel. “The TLD “.EARTH” is an existing TLD which is the property of American Webmasters, Inc / dba AGN Domain Name Service, Inc, a Delaware Corporation.” “We have been operating this TLD since 1995 when we claimed it from IANA (Dr. Jon Postel). ” “This is documented ... read more ...
Wed 15th August 2012
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Court Uses Case Of CFIT Vs. Verisign To Hammer ICM’s & ICANN’s Motion To Dismiss Manwin Claims - A federal court made a ruling in the case involving Manwin, the owner of YouPorn.com, brought against ICM, the operator of the .XXX extension, and ICANN the non-profit organization which gave ICM the contract to operate the .XXX TLD ICM. The ruling involved ICM ICANN’s motion to dismiss the case. Bottom line ICM ICANN got two of the 2 of the 6 cause of actions thrown out but the court let the case continue on 4 of the 6 claims. The court cited time and time again throughout its ruling the federal ... read more ...
 
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Citibank: New gTLD .Citi Is Not Confusing to Applications For .City or .CITIC - Citibank today filed two comments with ICANN stating that theie application for .Citi should not be found to be confusing similar to either the 3 applications for .City (although the are pronounced exactly the same) or for the brand application for .CITIC filed by .CITIC Group Corporation. Citibank filed the comment pro-actively as I don’t see any objections to .Citi filed by anyone else based off of confusion. On the applications for .City, Brian J. Winterfeldt Counsel on behalf of Citigroup ... read more ...
Tue 14th August 2012
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ICANN’s Just Posted the Webinar it Held Last Week on The New gTLD Program - ICANN just posted its Webinar it held last week on the new gTLD program You can listen to it by clicking here According to ICANN “here is an overview of what was covered during last week’s webinar”: “Initial Evaluation Is Underway All applications have now been assigned to the relevant geographic, string similarity, and DNS stability evaluation panels. Of the 1927 applications, 342 have been allocated to both the financial capability and the technical and operational capability panels. Clarification ... read more ...
Fri 10th August 2012
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ICANN Extends Comment Period For New gTLD’s 45 Days Until Sep 26th - After requests of many groups, ICANN has officially extended the comment period on the new gTLD’s for an additional 45 days. The new end date is now 26 September 2012. Its a good move by ICANN, which by eliminating digital archery and going with a one batch application processing system, is basically out to at least June before much else happens. Many trade groups including the Business Constituency (BC) to ICANN requested an extended comment period and granting this extension allows more comments ... read more ...
Fri 3rd August 2012
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Guy insane about CentralNic domains sues ICANN and Network Solutions - Hi Andrew: Quick work … I’ve not even received my ‘official’ AO440 forms, that need mailing to the above mentioned; and here thank’s to your effective journalistic efforts, they now know that my aggrieved plodding is moving forward. FYI ~ I DID NOT withdraw from the UDRP “Expert” services of Nominet! Nominet … DID NOT … do the work contracted, ample documents were presented to Visa for a charge back; and they conceded, now I’m moving forward, then back. I’m well ... read more ...
Thu 2nd August 2012
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How Can ICANN “Meter” The Roll out Of New gTLD’s When It Couldn’t Decide Which Applications To Process 1st - ICANN in announcing that it would process all new gTLD applications in one batch, did so after abandoning its Digital Archery service which was its last attempt to figure out which applications to process first. Quite a while ago ICANN rejected a first filed, first processed application approach which left them to figure out another method for selecting which applications got processed first, second, third and so on. ICANN felt a purely random selection could be viewed as an illegal lottery since ... read more ...
Sun 29th July 2012
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Beckstrom: “The Internet Needs To Be An Organized Chaos” - “The Internet needs to be an organized chaos” said the former CEO of ICANN Rob Beckstrom, speaking at the Def Con conference in Las Vegas, according to Venture Beat. “Rod Beckstrom called for the hacker community to protect the Internet from regulation.” “We should not move our nation of the Internet from a multi-stakeholder model, which includes all voices, to a process that only includes one,” said Beckstrom at Def Con. “Beckstrom believes the Internet should remain open, global, ... read more ...
Mon 23rd July 2012
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Poll: Are we going to TRAFFIC or ICANN? - Two domain conferences in back-to-back weeks this fall. After a long absence of North America domain name conferences, two are on tap for October: TRAFFIC in Fort Lauderdale October 7-10 and ICANN in Toronto October 14-19. While both shows are sure to attract different crowds, there will surely be domain investors at both. Which do you plan to attend? Answer the poll question and feel free to comment below. [poll id=”17″] ... read more ...
Mon 9th July 2012
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Verisign “Domain Exchange” obvious focus says use would be useful for typosquatters - Application filed shortly after pulling ICANN request admits a domain exchange service could be a boon for typosquatters. In April 2010 Verisign asked ICANN to allow it to introduce a “Domain Name Exchange” service. The service would have allowed registrars to exchange one domain name for another. The use case VeriSign proffered was that a web host that offers short term packages could swap out a domain if a customer canceled their account. The new service request ... read more ...
Tue 3rd July 2012
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ICANN Awarded Renewal Of IANA Contract By US Department of Commerce - Thought Domainincite.com broke the news last night, here is the official press release by ICANN that its contract with IANA has been renewed with the US Department of Commerce.” Apparently the outgoing CEO Rd Beckstrom signed off on it on his last day on the job. “ICANN will continue to perform the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions following the awarding of a new contract by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration(NTIA). The ... read more ...
Fri 29th June 2012
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Hottest New Idea Out Of ICANN Meeting, Private Auctions Where Losing Applicants, Not ICANN Gets The Money - So as we discussed over at CircleID.com today, over the last week arguably best idea coming out of the ICANN meeting is the concept that applicants for new gTLD strings with more than one application, hold a private auction amongst themselves with the winning amount going to the other losing applicants instead of to ICANN. As a backdrop, under the Guidebook multiple applicants for a new gTLD extension are encouraged to work together and come to an agreement to resolve the conflict. Under the Guidebook, ... read more ...
Thu 28th June 2012
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ICANN On Excess Funds From Fees & Auctions: “We’re Not Going To Give You The Money Back” - In the public forum at the ICANN Meeting, Chairman of ICANN Steve Crocker told the crowd that when it comes to excess funds coming from application fees and auction proceeds, they don’t know what they are going to do with the money, only that the excess money will will not be coming back to the applicants that paid the money. “On the subject of application funds received, we heard it’s not ICANN’s money.” “We have been asked “when will applicants get their money back? What will happen ... read more ...