Tag Archives: ICANN

Mon 20th June 2011
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CNN.com: Forget .Com Here Comes .Coke - CNN.com is just one of the hundreds of new outlets that have already written about ICANN’s approval of the new gTLD program while you were sleeping. In a story entitled “Forget .com, here comes .coke”,  CNN.com covers what almost ever major new publication has already written about overnight in the US, that the domain industry has changed forever. “The trusty old Internet addresses we know and love — the .coms, .nets, .orgs — are about to get some new competition.” “Today’s decision ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Overwhelmingly Approves New gTLD Program - The ICANN Board just voted to approve the new gTLD program to a standing ovation to those in attendance. The vote took place as promised on the first day of the ICANN Singapore meeting. The vote now allows the process under which hundreds of new domain name extensions can be applied for. Applications for the first round will open on January 12, 2012 and will close on April 12, 2012. According to a chart posted in the Board meeting room, it looks like no new gTLD’s will be operational until November ... read more ...
 
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Live Blogging From The ICANN Board Meeting On The New gTLD Vote - We are now going to be blogging live as ICANN discusses and votes on the new gTLD program We will be updating frequently so keep hitting refresh. The meeting is starting in minutes. You can also follow us on Twitter.com/berkens Only one  members of the ICANN board stated that they have a conflicts and all will not vote on the new gTLD proposal. In the .XXX application vote,  4 members abstained from voting including ICANN CEO  Rod Beckstrom. Looks like ICANN is going to have to give up or drastically ... read more ...
 
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Live Blogging: ICANN Gets Ready For Vote On New gTLD’s: Beckstrom “Today We Can & Will Make History” - In a few minutes, at 9AM local time the ICANN Board is going to hold is introductory remarks and its welcoming ceremony The Board isn’t scheduled to vote on the new gTLD plan until 2 hours later at 11AM all local time. After yesterday’s long and contentious meeting with the Board and the GAC, it appears to me that ICANN is ready to pass the program over the objection of the GAC with the looming threat of the renewal of the IANA contract with ICANN later this year. I’m going to be live blogging ... read more ...
Sun 19th June 2011
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ICANN/GAC Session Marred By Name Calling & Disagreement - Today’s much anticipated meeting between the ICANN Board and the Government Advisory Counsel was marred by name calling and disagreement. The meeting scheduled to run from 4pm-6pm didn’t start until 4:45 and ran until well after 7pm local time. The main topic of the day was once again Trademarks with the GAC wanting to recognize Trademark holders rights based off of the local law under which the trademark was issued, including many EU countries where a trademark can be issued without use. Other ... read more ...
 
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Looks Like The New gTLD Process May Hinge On Today’s Meeting Between The GAC & The ICANN Board - As Kevin Murphy chatted about on Domainincite.com today, a letter sent by the chair of the Government Advisory Council (GAC) Heather Dryden who happens to be the representative from Canada, to the ICANN board makes it clear that the GAC still has major issues with ICANN over the new gTLD program. One of the lingering issues The GAC has is  “competition concerns in particualr those resulting from changes to the registry-registrar cross ownership rules.” Larry Strickling, who is the Assistant ... read more ...
Sat 18th June 2011
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USA Today Covers The New gTLD’s: “The Most Sweeping Transformation of a Domain Name System Since the Creation” - USA Today is just one of the many publications covering the ICANN meeting and the expected approval on Monday of the new gTLD program. In an article entitled: Internet braces for ‘.Vegas’ and other not-coms USA Today Notes that: Coming soon to the Internet: website addresses that end in “.bank,” “.Vegas” and “.Canon.” calling it “the most sweeping transformation of the Domain Name System since its creation in the 1980s.” Here are a few other quotes from the article: “The new ... read more ...
Wed 15th June 2011
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As Your Reading This I’m On My Way To ICANN Singapore On The World’s Longest Non-Stop Flight (Really) - As the ICANN meeting in Singapore gets going Sunday night with a few receptions, I’m aboard Singapore Flight 21, which according to Wikipedia.org, is the longest non-stop flight in the world. The flight clocks in at 18 1/2 hours and travels some 10,000 miles. Add that to the time change that has Singapore 12 hours ahead from EST and I arrive some 30 hours on the clock after I take off. Once in Singapore I may have some slight jet lag for a month or so. We will be giving you a and on report from ... read more ...
Mon 13th June 2011
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Here is The Letter The EU Sent To The US & The US Response Back ON .XXX: Hint The EU Is Not Happy - ankabooot.com just published the letter that the .EU sent to the US Commerce Department objecting to the addition of .XXX to the root and the response the US sent back to the letter. Its an interesting read: Here is the letter from the .EU:   Dear Gary, I am writing to express my concern regarding the recent decision by ICANN on 18th March in its meeting in San Francisco, to approve the proposed Internet Top Level Domain (TLD) “.XXX”. As you will be aware, the Governmental Advisory Committee ... read more ...
 
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So Is The World Going To Give The US The Power Over Every New gTLD? - As Kieren McCarthy points out this weekend in his excellent post entitled: “”US government overhauls main Internet contract”” In the document called the “further notice of inquiry” which will be formally published next week and put up for public comment the ‘IANA contract’ which is currently run by ICANN and is due to expire in September 2011. The Notice is signed by Larry Strickling who in his position of Assistant Commerce Secretary, who has given ICANN a pretty hard time at every ... read more ...
Wed 8th June 2011
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ICANN Responds to U.S. Government Questions About New Top Level Domains - Kurt Pritz responds to Congress. ICANN Senior Vice President Kurt Pritz has responded (pdf) to a written question and expanded on his answers to questioning from U.S. representatives during a hearing about new TLDs on May 4. Representative Howard Coble submitted a written question asking if ICANN was going to make special arrangements for “brand” top level domain names should a brand owner decide to wind down operation of the new top level domain name. At the ... read more ...
 
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ICANN “Hedge” In Singapore Will Kick off New gTLD Communications Plan - I predict new TLD marketing will start after ICANN’s Singapore meeting this month. Just about everyone — including me — is horrible at predicting what ICANN will do and when it will do it regarding new top level domain names. The only people who’ve been right are those that said “it’s not going to happen at this meeting”. That said, I’m going to take another crack at it. Here’s what I predict for this month’s ICANN meeting in Singapore: ICANN ... read more ...
Sat 4th June 2011
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Exclusive: ICA Letter To ICANN Brass On Variable Pricing & URS Application To Existing TLD’s Including .Com - Yesterday Phil Corwin sent a letter to ICANN and copied several individuals concerning comments made by existing TLD operators that want the same terms and conditions placed on them that the new gTLD operators are getting most notable no more price caps, and therefore the ability to charge what amounts to a premium annual renewal fee which could GREATLY increase the costs of renewing premium domains. Through this process we could also wind up with things like the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) applying ... read more ...
Thu 2nd June 2011
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ICA: “Registry/Registrar Integration during Existing gTLDs Could End Price Controls and Impose URS on .Com and .Net” - The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) has just put up a post that all domainers need to take notice of and therefore I’m republishing it on theDomains. The Post is written by Phil Corwin of the ICA which talks about a topic we have been warning about for a couple of years now, which is the existing Registries may want the same terms and conditions in their contract the new gTLD operators will be getting including the right to price domains differently (variably pricing) and there is also a movement ... read more ...
Sun 22nd May 2011
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ICANN: We Might Still Be Able To Approve New TLDs in June - Organization says it still might be able to move ahead with program next month. ICANN’s Board thinks it might still be able to approve the new top level domain name program at the beginning of next month’s meeting in Singapore. The approval was put into doubt after comments from government officials. But ICANN and the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) just released a joint statement about another “productive meeting” between the two of them. The statement ... read more ...
Fri 13th May 2011
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Olympics and Red Cross Push for Special Rights with New TLDs - GAC backs move by groups to get names added to reserved names lists for new TLDs. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) continues to pester ICANN about giving it special privileges for new top level domain names, and now the American Red Cross is adding its name to the hat as well. IOC’s outside counsel for intellectual property met with ICANN representatives during the ICANN meeting in San Francisco earlier this year, a letter just published on ICANN’s web ... read more ...
Thu 12th May 2011
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What The Settlement Of The CFIT Case Means To The Cost Of Your .Com Registrations & Renewals - Now that VeriSign settled the CFIT case, I thought we should take a look at what that means in dollars and cents to domain holders. Verisign contract to run the .Com registry (.Net too) calls for presumptive renewals  and the ability to increase the wholesale cost of domain name registrations and renewals, 7% in 4 of every 6 years. Currently the wholesale price of domain name registrations and renewals sits $7.85 (there is also an ICANN fee of $.18 but we are going to exclude that for now). Lets ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Handicaps a Chances of New TLDs Kicking Off In Singapore - Will the new TLD application process finally get approved next month? For a while it looked assured that the new top level domain name applicant guidebook would get the green light at ICANN’s meeting in Singapore this June. But then Lawrence Strickling, head of the NTIA, said he didn’t think this was possible unless ICANN got on board with government demands. So what does Tucows CEO Elliot Noss think the chances are? BMO Capital Markets analyst Thanos Moschopoulos ... read more ...
Tue 10th May 2011
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Tucows Comes Out Swinging Against Applying a URS To .Net’s - Bill Sweetman, General Manager, has just filed comments on behalf of Tucows against applying the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS)  to .Net domains. Its a very good comment and though worth a read especially for those who still have to submit their comments which are due by midnight tonight. “As an ICANN-accredited registrar with nearly 1 million .Net domain names under management, Tucows is deeply concerned to learn that ICANN is being urged to impose the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) and Trademark ... read more ...
 
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The ICA Files Its Comment To The .Net Contract, As IP Groups Push For URS To Be Included - The Internet Commerce Association has just filed its comments to ICANN on the renewal of the .Net registry contract with VeriSign. Yesterday the Business Constituency of ICANN came out in support of placing the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proposal into the .Net contract. Earlier today we told you that though the hard work of Phil Corwin of the ICA, the BC dropped its request. However some other Intellectual Property (IP) interests have now filed comments with ICANN asking that the URS be placed ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: ICA Gets Proposal To Apply The Uniform Rapid Suspension To .Net Dropped - Yesterday we wrote about the Business Constituency (BC) group of ICANN that proposed including the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) into the renewal of the Verisign contract to operate the .Net registry. Today word comes from Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association that the BC has dropped this proposal in its new comments to ICANN. In his letter to the BC today Mr. Corwin Wrote: “The ICA supports this new draft.” “We greatly appreciate the response of other BC members to our concerns ... read more ...
Mon 9th May 2011
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ICA Sounds The Alarm: Mark Monitor Pushes For Uniform Rapid Suspension Be Applied To .Net’s & Deadline Is Tuesday - Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association, (the “ICA”) sounded the alarm yesterday on a sleepy Mothers Day that trademark interests led by Elisa Cooper, Director of Product Marketing at MarkMonitor, are pushing for ICANN to add the URS (Uniform Rapid Suspension) to the propose .Net VeriSign contract currently opened for public comment. Ms. Cooper was the primary drafter of a proposed position statement by ICANN’s Business Constituency that advocates this move. I have for years been ... read more ...
Fri 6th May 2011
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EuroDNS and ICANN Trade Jabs - Popular European domain registrar and ICANN continue to spar over Facebok.com. Following a notice of breach sent by ICANN to EuroDNS, the two companies have traded jabs in correspondence. On April 25 EuroDNS CEO Xavier Buck sent a letter (pdf) to ICANN explaining why it had not transferred the domain name Facebok.com, which was lost in a UDRP case. Buck expressed disappointment that ICANN sent the breach notice that publicly “put under question” EuroDNS’ reputation. ... read more ...
Wed 4th May 2011
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From House Hearing; ICANN: Domainers Are Against New gTLD’s Because They Will Lose The Value Of There Beachfront Property - The House subcommittee on the new gTLD’s just ended in Washington and it was as bloody as expected. Of course the representative from ICANN, Kurt Pritz its Senior Vice President, didn’t help himself or ICANN but making inaccurate statements, failing to explain the new gTLD process properly or putting the new gTLD process in a positive light. IP trademark interests dominated the hearing not only though the witnesses that were called but in statements made by the Representatives which appearently ... read more ...
 
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Industry Leaders Send An Open Letter To The House Subcommittee on IP Regarding Today’s Hearing & Why we Signed It - Today some industry leaders submitted an open letter to the United States House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and the Internet regarding the Oversight Hearing on new Top-Level Domains to be held on today, Wednesday 4 May. As you will note I signed the Letter. Actually somehow I wound up as the first signature on the letter, although its not alphabetical. I signed the letter because I believe it to be quite unfair for the United States House Of Representatives to hold a hearing on an issue ... read more ...