Tag Archives: ICANN

Sat 21st February 2009
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Thinking About Applying For Your Own gTLD? It Could Cost You A Lot More Than $185K - Having reviewed the Second Draft of the New gTLD Guidebook released the other day by ICANN, it looks like if you are planning on applying for one of these new extensions, you better have a lot of cash on hand. We all know that the “Evaluation Fee” for a new gTLD has been set at $185,000. However that just where the money flow starts. Next there is a “Registry Services Review Fee”, if applicable, this fee is payable for additional costs incurred in referring an application to the RSTEP for ... read more ...
Fri 20th February 2009
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ICA: Trademark Holders Attempting To Greatly Expand Their Rights Through The New gTLD Process - Trademark interests, like CADNA,  are actively trying to use the new gTLD process, to obtain substantial changes in current trademark protection to greatly expand their existing rights. Of greatest concern is the fact that they are seeking: 1.   A global brand registry, that has the potential to expand trademark rights well beyond the bounds of current law, by giving special protection to trademark owners’ “virtual rights” beyond the relevant marketplace and geographic restrictions of Trademark ... read more ...
Thu 19th February 2009
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ICANN Issues Latest New gTLD Guidebook - ICANN responds to comments from first draft guidebook. [I’m on a plane to New Orleans so have had little time to review ICANN’s many documents released today. But here’s a summary.] After receiving hundreds of comments, mostly requesting major changes or clarifications to the original draft of the new TLD handbook, ICANN has made a good effort to acknowledge the comments. It released a 154 page analysis of the comments received and its response to them. ... read more ...
Wed 18th February 2009
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ICANN: Roll Out Of New gTLD’s Running Behind - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) admitted today that its plans to launch new generic top-level domains (g’TD’s) is running behind schedule.According to ICANN, it is currently investigating a number of technical and economic issues surrounding the introduction of gTLDs. These include determining whether there’s enough space on the Domain Name Servers to handle the potential influx, the cost of registration and the potential market impact. The gTLDs were intended ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign to Pay $6M More to ICANN in FY 2010 - Proposed budget includes increased contractual fee from VeriSign. Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has published its Proposed Framework for FY10 Operating Plan and Budget (pdf). ICANN’s Financial Year 2010 runs July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010. Despite the possibility of declining domain registrations, ICANN will get a $6 million windfall thanks to a fixed fee provision in its dotcom agreement with VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN). VeriSign will ... read more ...
Sun 15th February 2009
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Single Letter .Biz Domains Closer to Reality - Public comment period open for 1 and 2 character .biz domain names. Last Friday Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) opened up a public comment period on .biz registry NeuStar’s proposal to offer one and two character .biz domain names. NeuStar has cleared the initial hurdle at ICANN, which found no significant security, stability, or competition issues to releasing the short domain names. NeuStar’s original proposal was to offer a request ... read more ...
Fri 13th February 2009
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Ask ICANN A Question Without Risking Your Life - As Andrew pointed out at domainnamewire.com the ICANN meeting is being held in a very dangerous Mexico City from March 1-7. For those that don’t know Mexico city has the highest rate of kidnappings in the world. ICANN has just made available a online form that you can use to submit a question to ICANN that they may address in their meeting. If you would like to ask ICANN a question, without risking bodily harm, you can do so by clicking here. Please note the form restricts the question to 30 words. We ... read more ...
 
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Take Your Pick: Your Safety or ICANN Participation - Next ICANN meeting in Mexico City should be postponed and moved to a safer location. The next Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting is in Mexico City March 1-6. I’ve never been to an ICANN meeting, but would like to. Mexico City is just a short flight from Austin so it would seem ideal. Except that I don’t carry kidnapping insurance. ICANN is an international organization. It’s great that it holds meetings all across the world. ... read more ...
Wed 4th February 2009
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CADNA IS Coming & Washington Is Listening - A story in the National Journal today, affirms what we predicted for 2009. CADNA is gearing  up for a new laws to expand trademark rights and increasing penalties for violation, using the launch of the new gTD’s as the basis for getting before congress. On Tuesday, the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) hosted a briefing for executives and Capitol Hill staffers to discuss how Congress can get involved, ICANN officials were told they were not welcome. On Friday, the U.S. Chamber of ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Loses $4.6 Million Of Your Money In The Stock Market - According to a new post on Circle ID, ICANN lost $4.6 million last year in the stock market, which the author’s post points out is equivalent to its fee ($.20) on 23 million domain registrations. How did this happen you ask. Well basically, when it was formed in 1998, ICANN was allowed to set up “reasonable reserves for future expenses and contingencies reasonably related to the legitimate activities of the Corporation”. In 2002, ICANN proposed having a $10 Million dollar reserve. By the 2007-2008 ... read more ...
Wed 21st January 2009
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Larry Seltzer Struggles with “Whois Identity Theft” - eWeek writer can’t get copycat whois record changed. I’ve heard people complain about “whois identity theft” before. Essentially, this is when someone uses your name on their whois record. You can imagine how this could potentially be troubling for you, depending on the domain name. But in the case of eWeek writer Larry Seltzer, the “identity thief” went several steps further. First, the domain that is being spoofed is LarrySeltzer.net. Second, the ... read more ...
Fri 16th January 2009
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Why Don’t You Care About ICANN? - My new buddy from domaining.com, tells me that any post dealing with ICANN issues is DOA. Domaining.com tells me that any post dealing with ICANN is largely ignored by the domain community. Not read, no interest, done and over. Posts having Jokes get more response. Posts having cartoons get more response. Really? You guys realize that ICANN is the body which regulates domains and like the FCC which regulates television, is in control to a large degree of your destiny, don’t you? I actually didn’t ... read more ...
Thu 15th January 2009
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PcWorld.com Article on New Domain Extensions: Should ICANN Be Spilt in Two? - In an article published yesterday by PCWorld.com on the new gTLD domain extensions, widely quoting ICA’s Philip Corwin, talks about the push back of many businesses to the new gTLD’s and raises the question of whether a fundamental change in policy should take place, now that ICANN contract with the US government is up for renewal. The Idea is floated around the article, that ICANN’s duties should be split into two organizations, with ICANN handling the administration of top level domains, ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Responds to Our Post on New gTLD’s: We’re “Not In It For The Money” - We wrote a post back on January 3rd about ICANN annual report. In chatting about ICANN plan to introduce hundreds or maybe thousands of new extension I commented, that in my opinion, the is little demand for the new extensions and that its seemed to be driven by ICANN to generate additional revenue. Kieren McCarthy, General manager of public participation, for ICANN has responded to the post and due to the importance of the response and the fact that ICANN rarely responds publicly, I have put this ... read more ...
Tue 13th January 2009
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Register.com Must Stop “Call In” Practice by March - Transfer authorization code process will be easier under new ICANN policy. Under ICANN’s new Policy on Transfer of Registrations between Registrars, which goes into effect March 15, Register.com will no longer be able to require customers to call the company to request transfer authorization codes. These codes are used to transfer domains to a different domain registrar. (See Register.com’s Customer Service Lie) The policy states “Registrars may not employ ... read more ...
Fri 9th January 2009
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VeriSign Notifies Registrars About Domain Tasting Changes - VeriSign sends notice about changes to add grace period rules. As required by a new ICANN policy, VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) has notified its registrars about changes to the Add Grace Period policy. These changes were made to limit the practice of “domain tasting”, which is registering a domain and returning it for a refund within the grace period if it doesn’t deliver enough traffic. The text of the notice is below: Please be advised that ICANN formally announced ... read more ...
Wed 7th January 2009
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The .ORG Registry Adopts A Domain Anti-Abuse Policy; Allows For Domain Cancellation: Are Your .Org’s At Risk? - Today The Public Interest Registry (“PIR”), the company which runs the .Org registry, announced a Domain “Anti-Abuse Policy”, effective 5 February 2009. In announcing this policy PIR is taking a strong stand against what is defines as Domain Abuse and it gives itself the right to cancel,  any .org, domain registration which is considered to be abusive. From the announcement: “”””Abusive use(s) of .ORG domain names should not be tolerated. The nature of such abuses creates security ... read more ...
Mon 5th January 2009
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ICANN Advertises to a Mainstream, Update on New TLDs - Ad in The Economist likely the first of many. As I finished the Christmas Double Issue of The Economist, I flipped through the final pages of ads and was surprised to see this: Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) promised to do mainstream marketing for the launch of new top level domains, and this is the first ad I’ve seen. The tag line on the ad reads “New Generic Top Level Domains – Openness, Change, Innovation” I hope ICANN takes ... read more ...
Sat 3rd January 2009
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ICANN Publishes It’s Annual Report: Here is Ours - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, published it’s annual report, The report puts a bright face on what ICANN calls the “organization’s achievements and progress during 2008″ The report highlights the three major initiatives ICANN has undertaken this year: the process for introducing new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to the Internet; the introduction for the first time of internationalized domain names (IDNs); and an extensive Improving Institutional Confidence ... read more ...
Mon 22nd December 2008
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3/31/09: Death of Domain Tasting (Or is it?) - Domain tasting is down, and will take another hit in March. But that may not be the end of it… Domain tasting — the practice of registering a domain to test for traffic and deleting it for a refund within a specified grace period — is down 84% since ICANN inacted a budget measure to make the scheme more expensive. But that was just a temporary fix. By March 31, 2009, all registrars will face even harsher penalties for engaging in the practice. But as I detail ... read more ...
Fri 19th December 2008
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Demand Media Wants to Introduce New Domain Names - Demand Media wants to offer new top level domain names using its eNom registrar. The owner of the world’s second largest domain registrar, eNom, plans to apply to ICANN to offer new top level domains. That’s the only plausible assumption based on the company’s one-sided comments to ICANN about the proposed new gTLDs. The comments were filed a couple days late, but are very thorough and cover every module. The company was in favor of every provision that will ... read more ...
 
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Analysis: U.S. Government Has Domainers’ Backs - Documents from U.S. Government question ICANN’s actions. You’ve probably read a lot about ICANN’s introduction of new top level domains. Now, as reported over at DNJournal, the U.S. Government is weighing in. Domainers should be happy with its response. I just completed reading the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Commerce responses to ICANN’s plans. These are perhaps the most knowledgeable and well crafted responses to the plan I’ve seen, ... read more ...
Wed 17th December 2008
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Microsoft, Time Warner, Others Weigh In On New TLDs - A quick synopsis of public comments about new top level domains. The deadline to comment on the latest revisions of ICANN’s plan for introducing new top level domains was Monday. As is usually the case, the big companies waited until the last minute to file their comments. The general consensus is: 1. We don’t like the trademark implications 2. There’s no need to add more TLDs (save for IDNs) as they won’t actually create competition for .com 3. Don’t ... read more ...
Mon 15th December 2008
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Push Against “Variable Domain Pricing” Gets Media Attention - Network World picks up variable domain pricing story. Domain owners have been commenting on ICANN’s proposed new gTLD structure including the potential for “variable pricing”, and the technology media is starting to pick it up. Today Network World published a story titled “New top-level domain plan dangerous, too costly, critics tell ICANN” that summarizes criticism of the plan. Although most of it discusses trademark concerns, the story also mentions a ... read more ...
Mon 8th December 2008
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Last Chance To Comment To ICANN On Proposed gTLD’s - The comment period for the proposed gTLD’s has been extended until next Monday December 15th. Yesterday in a post entitled “Why Domaining Sucks”, my friend Sahar posted as reason number 3 “We lack influence with ICANN”.  I think this is common complaint. However, as of today there are less than 100 comments posted on any of the six topics you can comment on regarding the new gTLD’s. Certainly, if you do not comment when ICANN asks for it, you have no say. When the last comment period ... read more ...