Tag Archives: ICANN

Thu 28th June 2012
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ICANN Officially Kills Digital Archery - ICANN has officially killed off the Digital Archery program in an announcement today. “”Resolved the New gTLD Program Committee directs the President and CEO to terminate the Digital Archery process as approved in Resolutions 2011.12.08.04-2011.12.08.07.” Rationale for Resolution: “To remain accountable to the ICANN community, after careful consideration of the objections raised to the digital archery process, and following the suspension of the process after identification of a technical ... read more ...
Tue 26th June 2012
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ICANN sends crack notice to Tucows - Organization sends notice of breach to third largest domain name registrar. ICANN has sent a notice of breach to Tucows, the third largest domain name registrar. This breach notice is unusual in that it seems to stem from a dispute over a particular domain name. According to the letter, Tucows is in breach of its registrar accreditation agreement for two reasons: 1. Tucows’ failure to maintain registration data and records pursuant to Section 3.4 of the RAA; and 2. ... read more ...
Mon 25th June 2012
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Beckstrom: “I Took ICANN From $57 Million Under Management To $444 Million” - Rod Beckstrom in the opening ceremony at the ICANN conference this morning gave what I guess would be fair to call his farewell address as CEO of ICANN. In pointing out the accomplishments of ICANN while Mr. Beckstrom has been CEO he said: “When I came, ICANN had $57 million of funds under management. Today, $444 million. “We have seen real growth.” Now last time I looked ICANN was a non-profit corporation whose mission was not to grow “funds under management”, but to serve the public interest. The ... read more ...
 
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New ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade Impresses In Opening Session: “The Internet is a Greatest Public Gift” - The new CEO of ICANN gave an motivating and impressive speech in the ICANN opening Session. Here are some of the more memorable quotes from Mr. Chehade: “The Internet is the Greatest Public Gift” “I will be extra transparent” “I will make all my decisions for the public interest” “I care much more about getting things done than about figuring out who should get the credit. we will focus on getting things done, and this is what we need to do today” “I am all about inclusion, and ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Board Approves Renewal Of Verisign Contract To Run .Com for Another 6 Years - The ICANN board just issued a resolution renewing the Contract with Verisign to run the .com registry for another six years. Under the contract Verisign has the right to increase the wholesale price of .com 7% in any 4 of the six years of the contract. I appears the Board of ICANN did not adopt any of the suggestions made during the comment period Here is the resolution: “Whereas, the current .COM Registry Agreement is due to expire on 30 November 2012. “Whereas, Section 4.2 of the current .COM ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Officially Names Beijing, China For ICANN Meeting #46 From Apr 7th-12th 2013 - The ICANN Board has named Beijing, China as host for ICANN meeting number 46 which will be held from April 7th-12th 2013. Here is the resolution: “Whereas, ICANN intends to hold its first Meeting for 2013 in the Asia Pacific region as per its process for rotation of meetings among ICANN’s geographic regions. “Whereas, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the Internet Society of China (ISC) and the China Organizational Name Administration Center (CONAC), together submitted ... read more ...
Sun 24th June 2012
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30%-50% Of All Domain Registrations Are Through Resellers & Enom Has 8,000 of Them - A few interesting facts coming out of the afternoon ICANN session entitled; “Briefing for GAC on Domain Name Marketplace” Jeff Eckhaus of Demand Media which owns Enom.com,  speaking to the Governmental Advisory Council, (GAC) said that Enom has 8,000 resellers itself and he thought that on a volume of registrations, the percentage of domain names registered by resellers was “somewhere between 30 and 50%” I was pretty surprised with the numbers and so was the GAC, who was less than happy. As ... read more ...
 
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Replacement For Digital Archery: How About Carnival Games? - Now that ICANN has suspended the Digital Archery program, to batch applications, the question becomes what other alternatives can ICANN use to batch applications. The issue is that ICANN believes that a random drawing could constituent a lottery in some jurisdictions especially since you have to pay to enter and in this case $185,000. To avoid being called a lottery you can run a game of skill, which gave birth to Digital Archery. Now that Digital Archery seems to be pushed off the table, ICANN needs ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: Batching to Be Done in 3 Batches of 5 Months Each Or In One Batch Which Will Take A Year - Out of the ICANN Session this morning on the issue of batching, ICANN is now saying they will either go with 3 batches each taking 5 months or a total of 15 months, or they will go with just one batch which will take 1 year. Of course the issue of batching is now back to square one and the Digital Archery program which was going to determine batching was suspended the other day by ICANN. “This is all about quality and getting it right” said Kurt Pritz the interim head of the new gTLD program.     Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: Trademark Clearinghouse To Cost Each Registry $7K-$10K & Will Launch In Oct 2012 - ICANN has laid out for the first time, a timeline for the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) In a session today ICANN stated the cost to each registry would be between $7,000-$10,000 It seems unclear based on questions from the crowd whether that $7K-$10K fee would be per registry or per TLD. Despite the question being asked, there was no answer. For those applicants which applied for multiple new gTLD’s that one factor could make a HUGE difference in cost. Take Donuts, Inc, for example which applied ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: “URS $300-$500 Price Target For URS May Not Be Met” - In a morning session at the ICANN Conference, in what was called an update to the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) system “implementation work indicates that the $300-$500 cost target any not be met.” To remind you the URS is suppose to be a quicker faster and cheaper version of the UDRP of “clear cut cases of abuse” a repaid take down of sites. “How can we refashion the URS to get closer to our cost goals and still keep the protection rights for registrants? It has become clear that none ... read more ...
Sat 23rd June 2012
 
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Did a digital archery association put a final spike in a coffin of cursed scheme? - Company claims it reported issue to ICANN earlier this week. So ICANN has “suspended” digital archery, a way to divide up new top level domain applicants into batches. This was the right move, albeit a couple weeks late. Now 20% of applications have shot an arrow, and many more applicants have invested significant resources into the process. True to form, ICANN pushed forward with its plan despite multiple warning signs that it should take another look at it. Now, ... read more ...
Fri 22nd June 2012
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ICANN Names Fadi Chehade As CEO - On Friday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is announcing Fadi Chehade as its CEO effective this fall. According to ABC News here is some background on Mr. Chehade: AGE: 50 EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree, computer science, Polytechnic Institute of New York, 1985; master’s degree, engineering management, Stanford University, 1986 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Systems engineer, Bell Labs; president, Nett Information Products; vice president, customer information services, Ingram ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: Kurt Pritz Appointed to Take On Direct Oversight of a Entire new gTLD Program - ICANN just announced that “Kurt Pritz has been appointed to take on direct oversight of the entire New gTLD program in an interim capacity”. “He will assume the responsibilities of New gTLD Program Director Michael Salazar, who has resigned, in addition to his responsibilities as Senior Vice President for Stakeholder Relations.” “Kurt will remain in this interim role, building on the significant work done to date, until a new Program Director is appointed. He is authorized to bring the ... read more ...
 
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New ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé doesn’t have his possess name as domain name - FadiChehade.com registered today, but not by new ICANN CEO. ICANN announced this morning that software executive Fadi Chehadé would be its new CEO come October. Naturally, the first thing I did was look up his presence on the web. Here’s his LinkedIn profile. Here’s his domain name, FadiChehade.com. Did you click on his domain name? If so, you noticed he doesn’t own it. It was registered this morning by Theo Geurts. And Geurts says he got the idea from me ... read more ...
Thu 21st June 2012
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Sorry, though this turn of new TLDs isn’t revolutionary - Rules of engagement make this round of new TLDs less than satisfactory. Last week ICANN released the names of the 1,400 some odd top level domains that might be headed to the web in the next year or two. Despite every cliche ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom made about how the web will be changed forever, this is the biggest thing in the history of the internet, etc., I’m afraid to say it’s just not the case. This isn’t to say that applicants didn’t come up with interesting ... read more ...
Tue 19th June 2012
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ICANN might let new TLD field cgange their applications - Plan may allow new TLD applicants to fix errors. ICANN is considering allowing applicants for new top level domains to make changes to their applications, the organization confirmed to Domain Name Wire today. The group is working on a process that could allow applicants to fix errors in their final applications. Officially: ICANN has received requests for changes to submitted applications. We take these requests very seriously and are working on developing guidelines ... read more ...
Mon 18th June 2012
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How You Can Object To A New gTLD Extension & What Its Going To Cost You (Hint It’s Not Cheap) - So what if you want to object to a new gTLD string? The first thing you should know is that not everyone can file an objection. The second thing you should know is that filing an objection is not free, nor is it exactly cheap (pricing is at the end of the piece). The cost to object varies depending on the basis for your objection, of which there are 4, and like the UDRP in some cases,  if you want a hearing, how many panelists you want to decide on your objection, how long the hearing lasts and ... read more ...
Fri 15th June 2012
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ICANN: Issue 2.0 Takes New gTLD Application Details Offline - Another ominous ‘issue” has been revealed tonight by ICANN which forced them “temporarily disabled viewing of the application details” for the new gTLD applications that was just published yesterday. In an announcement posted  on ICANN’ site: “We are looking into reports of an issue with the posted new gTLDs applications on the ICANN website. We have temporarily disabled viewing of the application details. We will provide an update soon.” “We will provide an update soon” is a familiar ... read more ...
Thu 14th June 2012
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ICANN: .WeScrewedUpAgain - Group publishes private details of new top level domain applicants. During the ICANN press conference on Wednesday a reporter stood up and asked if ICANN had told applicants that their email addresses and phone numbers would be published. Yes, was the response. Something to the tune of “we told everyone this would be an open process”. But only some of this information was to be published. Certainly not the home addresses of the applicants, which apparently were ... read more ...
Wed 13th June 2012
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Multiple Application Leaders For New gTLD’s: .App; .Inc; Home; .Art; .Shop; .Blog; .LLC; .Music & More - We are going through the list of all new gTLD’s applications and finding those strings that have the most applications. We will be updating this list for a while so continue to check back in: 13 Apps for .App 11 Apps For .Home and 1 for .Homes 11 Apps for .Inc 10 Apps for .Art 9 Apps for .Shop 9 Apps For .Book 9 Apps for .Blog 9 Apps for .LLC 8 Apps For .Music 8 Apps For .Movie, 3 Apps for .Film 8 Apps For .Design 7 Apps For .Love 7 Apps For .LTD 7 Apps for .Hotel, 1 for HOTELES, 1 for .Hotels 6 ... read more ...
 
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Here Are a 307 New gTLD’s That Donuts Applied For - Here are the 307 new gTLD’s that Donuts, Inc. applied for: academy accountants agency apartments app architect art associates attorney auction audio auto baby band bargains baseball basketball beauty bet bike bingo blog boats book boutique broadway broker builders business buy cab cafe camera camp capital cards care careers cars casa cash casino catering center charity chat cheap church city claims cleaning clinic clothing cloud club coach codes coffee college community company computer condos construction consulting contractors cool corp coupons cpa credit creditcard cricket cruises dating deals degree delivery dental dentist design diamonds diet digital direct directory discount doctor dog domains eco education email energy engineering enterprises equipment estate events exchange expert exposed express fail family fan farm fashion film finance financial fish fitness flights florist flowers food football forsale forum foundation free fund furniture futbol gallery games garden gifts glass global gmbh gold golf graphics gratis gripe group guide guru haus health healthcare help hockey holdings holiday home hospital hosting hot hotel house immo inc industries institute insurance insure international investments jewelry juegos kitchen land law lawyer lease legal life lighting limited limo live living llc loans love ltd luxury mail maison management market marketing mba media medical memorial mobile money mortgage movie music network news now online opinion partners parts pets phone photography photos pictures pizza place plumbing plus poker productions properties property racing radio realestate realty recipes red reisen rent rentals repair report restaurant reviews rocks rugby run sale salon sarl school schule search security services shoes shop shopping show singles site ski soccer software solar solutions spa sports storage store studio data style sucks supplies supply support surgery systems tax taxi team tech technology tennis theater tickets tienda tips tires today tools tours town toys trading training tube university vacations ventures vet viajes video villas vin vip vision vote voyage watch web website wedding wine works world wtf yoga zone Chinese ... read more ...
 
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Google Applies For 101 New gTLD’s; Amazon 77; Microsoft 11; Apple 1 - We are digesting the new gTLD list right now and have found that Google Has applied for 101 new gTLD strings, Amazon 76, Microsoft 11 Apple only applied for .Apple Here are the new gTLD’s that Microsoft applied for:   Here are the new gTLD’s that Amazon Applied for: Here are the new gTLD’s that Google applied for under the name Charleston Road Registry Inc. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Here Are All 1,930 Applications For New gTLD’s - Well here they are all 1,930 applications for new gTLD’s   String [1] Applicant AAA American Automobile Association, Inc. AARP AARP ABARTH Fiat S.p.A. (“società per azioni”) ABB ABB Ltd ABBOTT Abbott Laboratories ABBVIE Abbott Laboratories ABC American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. ABLE Able Inc. ABOGADO Top Level Domain Holdings Limited ABUDHABI Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre ACADEMY Half Oaks, LLC ACCENTURE Accenture Global Services Limited ACCOUNTANT dot Accountant Limited ACCOUNTANTS Knob ... read more ...