Tag Archives: independent objector

Thu 15th October 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
ICANN Board to rethink .Hospital preference subsequent week - .Hospital has been on life support since bad objection decision. .Hospital is on life support.ICANN’s Board of Directors will consider the fate of a .Hospital top level domain name when it meets on Sunday. It’s a chance for the board to right a wrong. .Hospital was killed off after two of three panelists agreed with a Limited Public Interest Objection filed by the Independent Objector. The panelists disregarded the guidelines and essentially created their own standard for if .hospital should ... read more ...
Thu 12th December 2013
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Objection Panel goes Rogue and Kills .Hospital domain name - Two members of an objection panel come up with their own rules for whether a top level domain name is acceptable. An International Chamber of Commerce panel has killed the .hospital top level domain name by siding with the Independent Objector in a Limited Public Interest Objection against Donuts. I believe the panel wrote its own rules and came to its decision improperly. It went rogue. And to back me up, I have a concise and clearly written dissent (pdf) by one ... read more ...
Thu 21st November 2013
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Donuts disses Independent Objector. Panelist disses Donuts. .Medical is dead. - The independent objector has killed Donuts’ application for .medical. Prof. Alain Pellet, the independent objector for the new top level domain name program, has won (pdf) a community objection against Donuts’ application for .medical. The case got off to a bizarre start, with Donuts calling into question Pellet’s impartiality and independence. Donuts pointed out that Pellet has a bias to the medical community and that Donuts’ TLDs make up a large part of ... read more ...
Thu 21st March 2013
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Objection! What objections opposite Donuts’ TLDs uncover us about a subsequent proviso of a new TLD game - An early look at new TLD objections shows some questionable claims. The deadline to file objections against new top level domain applications was March 13. Dispute resolution providers are slowly posting the objections, but it looks like what has been posted so far is just the tip of the iceberg. Donuts, the largest TLD applicant with 307 applications, has informed Domain Name Wire that it received around 40 objections. Donuts provided details on a limited number ... read more ...