Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Thu 18th July 2013
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Over €1M Deposit Required To File A New gTLD Objection With The ICC, Partridge IP Law Tells ICANN - At the ICANN Open Forum today at Durban An attorney Mark Partridge took the floor to tell ICANN how much money an objector has to tie up to get their objection heard by the ICC. The ICC hear objections to new gTLD’s that are based on limited public interest objections and  community objections. Here is his statement: I have a new issue to present involving TLD objection process. I’m counsel for parties engaged in community am and limited public interest objections administered by the icc. I’m ... read more ...
 
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GAC Mucks Around But Leaves Durban With Hundreds Of New gTLD Apps Hanging In The Wind - The Government Advisory Counsel (GAC) just issued a summary of what it did during the ICANN meeting in Durban and issued what now appears to be a trend for ICANN meetings by issuing a “Communique”  in this case forever to be known as the Durban Communique in which it addressed a few new gTLD applications but left the elephant in the room as Pink as ever. Going into the meetings the BIG question was what further advice would the GAC issue regarding Closed Generic applications as well as hundreds ... read more ...
 
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Constantine Roussos Says ICC Must Disregard Any New Policies/Changes & GAC Advice Made After Objection Deadline - In a letter sent to ICANN by Constantine Roussos on behalf of DotMusic, Limited who objected to other applications for the .Music new gTLD it urges ICANN to tell the ICC that is must disregard any new polices, changes and GAC advice given after the deadline for filing formal objection which was April 12, 2013. Mr. Roussos told TheDomains.com; “We note that Objections were filed BEFORE GAC Beijing Advice and any resolutions passed by ICANN pertaining to GAC Advice/PICS should be treated as material ... read more ...
 
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Pinterest Lastest To Lose Legal Rights Objections To .New gTLD .Pin As 3 More Objections Are Thrown Out By Wipo - WIPO has decided three more Legal Rights Objections to New gTLD application and in all three cases the Objector has lost and the New gTLD applicant has won. The cases decided today are: Pinterest’s objection to Amazon’s application for the new gTLD .Pin; Defender Security Company objection to Merchant Law Group’s application to its application for the new gTLD .Home and The Canadian Real Estate Association’s objection to the new gTLD application of Afilias on  .MLS In the decision on .Pin ... read more ...
 
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.Amazon May Not Be Dead Yet As Trademark Groups Urge ICANN To Follow International Law Not GAC Advice - Trademark Groups urged ICANN to follow International Law not GAC advice and to approves the new gTLD application for .Amazon Claudio Digangi spoke on behalf of the International Trademark Association (INTA) on particularly on the geographic names issue. “INTA strongly supports the recent views expressed by the United States. in particular, that it does not view the sovereignty as a valid basis for objecting to the use of terms and we have concerns about the effect of such claims on the integrity ... read more ...
Wed 17th July 2013
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Lawyers Jump On New gTLD Wagon To Sell Webinar On “Challenging Unfavorable ICANN Objection & Application Decisions” - We knew that the new gTLD process would cause a lot of new businesses to spring up but we weren’t counting on this one. A company is selling a Webinar aimed at Attorney’s On “Challenging Unfavorable ICANN Objection and Application Decisions“. The Webinar is subtitled: “Leveraging the Appeals Process and Courts to Overcome ICANN Determinations Absent Guidance” Here is a description of the Webinar: “As ICANN makes determinations about the applications for website domains, some applicant ... read more ...
Mon 15th July 2013
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GoDaddy: First Major Registrar to Sign ICANN’s New Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) - According to a press release we received, GoDaddy, announced today it was the first major registrar to sign ICANN’s new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). The new agreement provides customers a better experience, allows registrars to offer the upcoming new gTLDs and sets the standard for the future of the Internet. Signing the new agreement enables GoDaddy to offer the new top level domain names (new gTLD’s) “This agreement is a great step forward for the Internet,” said GoDaddy CEO ... read more ...
 
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As ICANN Meets, Two More New gTLD Apps Are Withdrawn One Brand, One Famous Four - As ICANN is holding its meeting in Durban, two more new gTLD applications have been withdrawn reflected on ICANN’s site. L’Oréal which originally applied for 14 new gTLD, has withdrew its 7th application, all .Brand applications .REDKEN which is one of L’Oréal product lines which had a prioritization number of 1,228 has been withdrawn. Famous Four withdrew its 2nd new gTLD application, the one for .Health which was applied for by dot Health Limited, which had a Prioritization Number of 1,548. At ... read more ...
 
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WIPO Panel Denies Constantine Roussos Objection Amazon’s Application For .Tunes - A one member WIPO panel has rejected the objection of Dot Tunes Limited, which is Constantine Roussos company,  to  Amazon’s new gTLD application of .Tunes. Another one of Mr. Roussos  company’s DotMusic Limited  is an applicant for .music and also filed objections to all other applicants for .music Here are the relevant facts and findings by the panel:  “The Objector is the registered proprietor of a European Community Trademark .TUNES in classes 35, 42 and 45 The mark was applied for ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Gets StartingDot Sunrise, Landrush & Premium Domains For New gTLD’s .Ski; .Immo; .Bio & .Archi - Sedo announced today that they will run “sunrise” and “landrush” auctions for Starting Dot’s new gTLD extensions, and assist with sales and brokerage of premium domains for  .Bio, .Ski, .Archi and .Immo. It should be noted that while StartingDot has the only application for .Bio, they are not the only applicant for .Ski.  Donuts has an application for that new gTLD as well. .Immo is heavily contested with four applicants While StartingDot has the only application for .Archi, Donuts has ... read more ...
Sat 13th July 2013
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ICANN’s Update Of New gTLD Program Status By The Numbers + 1st 50 Start Contracting Proceess - ICANN’s  Christine Willett just gave an update  on the New gTLD program from the first session at the ICANN meeting in Durban: “As Yesterday my team has published results for through priority number 1,200 of the application. so we’ve released 1,100 initial evaluation results. Over 1,000 applications having passed initial evaluation. we have had 13 applications identified as eligible for extended evaluation. There have been 49 withdrawn applications out of that first 1,200 prioritized. Two ... read more ...
Fri 12th July 2013
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95 New gTLD Pass IE: .Africa; .Miami; .Amsterdam; .Bible; .Adult; .Landrover; .Amazon; .Dodge; .Jaguar; .Bestbuy - 95 new gTLD application passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today and 2 applications are headed for the dreaded Extended Evaluation. Leading the way passing IE, today are the Geographical applications for .Africa; .Miami; .Amsterdam. Beyond that a couple of very interesting new gTLD passed IE today .Bible which was filed by the American Bible Society and .Adult which was filed by ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX extension Several Brand applications passed IE today. Applications for car makers ... read more ...
Thu 11th July 2013
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Internet Architecture Board: Dotless Domains May “Cause Significant Harm To The Security of a Internet” - The Internet Architecture Board, has come out strongly against Dotless Domains as proposed by Google to operate the .Search new gTLD. “It has come to the attention of the IAB that there are proposals for so-called “dotless” domains in the root zone, and that some existing top-level domains (TLDs) are already operating in such a mode. “TLD operators of dotless domains are intending that single label names — those containing no dots — resolve to the TLD itself, rather than be resolved locally, ... read more ...
Wed 10th July 2013
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Dan Warner Picks The Winners & Losers: New gTLD’s In The Sports Category - Dan Warner, who many in the domain industry know is a numbers/stats guy, has some interesting thoughts on winners and losers of the new gTLD’s in the “sports” category which he recently published. Mr. Warner has done guest posts for TheDomains.com and you can read more about his background and domain experience here. Its an interesting read but you would have to agree with Mr. Warner’s basic theory which is “The very best indicator on market size for new gTLDs is the number of contextually ... read more ...
 
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Key-Systems To Offer .HIV Domain At Below Cost To Its Customers & Free To Some Org’s - The German based domain registrar Key-Systems today announced that they will support the charitable work of the dotHIV association within the field of HIV/AIDS prevention and fundraising with three distinct activities: Key-Systems will offer their customers the registration of .hiv web addresses (domains) below net cost price. With the start of the .hiv top level domain in winter and before the introduction of the low pricing, Key-Systems will moreover conduct a fundraising campaign linked to .hiv ... read more ...
 
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Patagonia, Inc. Withdraws Its Application For New gTLD .PATAGONIA - In what I would say is not great shock, Patagonia, Inc, has withdrawn its application to operate the .Patagonia new gTLD. Patagonia, Inc. has been in a well documented battle (and here) with Argentina over its application for .patagonia. Patagonia is geographic area and the application drew early warning GAC objections from both the governments of Argentina and Chile. The ICANN Independent Objector also filed an objection to .Patagonia .Patagonia also drew a formal objections filed with the ICC. .Patagonia ... read more ...
Tue 9th July 2013
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Rabbi’s Say ICANN Unequal Treatment Of .Halal Is Not .Kosher - In a letter to ICANN, several Kosher certification organizations, responsible for certification of approximately 63% of kosher ingredients worldwide, objected to the “unequal treatment of the new gTLD applications for  .Kosher and .halal The letter was sent on “behalf of leading kosher certification organizations the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (OU Kosher), STAR-K Kosher Certification, Inc. (STAR-K), Chicago Rabbinical Council, Inc. (cRc), Kosher Supervision Service, Inc. ... read more ...
Sat 6th July 2013
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Google’s .App Draws Fire From The Association for Competitive Technology - Google’s new gTLD application to operate the .APP new gTLD come under fire yesterday by the The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT). In a  a letter to Dr. Stephen D. Crocker Chairman of the Board of Directors and  Mr. Fadi Chehadé President and CEO of  ICANN, Jonathan Zuck President of the The Association for Competitive Technology which boosts having over 5,000 small and mid-size mobile application “app” developers and information technology firms. “ACT is an international group ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Withdraws 1st New gTLD Application: .Bar - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) withdrew its first new gTLD application,  .Bar. The application had a prioritization  number of 1,689. According to the ICANN website, “the Geographic Names Panel determined that the .Bar falls within the criteria for a geographic name contained in the Applicant Guidebook Section 2.2.1.4.” “The applicant was contacted to provide documentation of support/non-objection per Section 2.2.1.4.3 of the Applicant Guidebook.” “Bar” is a commune of Montenegro. However ... read more ...
Thu 4th July 2013
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New gTLD Program Committee Tells ICANN Not To Contract With Apps For Strings With GAC Safeguard Advice - In a resolution tonight, the New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) told ICANN to “defer moving forward with the contracting process for applicants who have applied for TLD strings listed in the GAC‘s Category 1 Safeguard Advice, pending a dialogue with the GAC”. The dialogue with the GAC is according to the resolution to be held at the ICANN Meeting in Durban which is from July 14 – 18th, 2013. Here is the resolution: Whereas, the GAC met during the ICANN 46 meeting in Beijing and issued a Communiqué ... read more ...
 
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98 New gTLD’s Pass IE: .HBO; .Jaguar; .Yahoo; . Bugatti; .Delta; .Marriott; .Gucci - 98 new gTLD’s passed ICANN initial evaluation (IE) today. Highlighting this week was Google’s application for .App and the brand applications for .Jaguar; .Yahoo; . Philips; .Delta; .Marriott; .Gucci and .Bugatti. With today’s action ICANN has now gone through applications with a prioritization number of 1,100. Out of 1,100 there are still 82 applications that have not passed, failed or sent for extended evaluation. Here are all the applications that passed IE today: <![CDATA[]]>    Google+Michael ... read more ...
Wed 3rd July 2013
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AllState Withdraws 2 New gTLD Applications - Two more new gTLD application were withdrawn today as reflected on the ICANN site. Allstate Insurance withdrew .carinsurance and .Autoinsurance Both were to be operated as closed generic gTLD’s “opened only to restricted to AFCIC and its qualified subsidiaries, affiliates, business partners or others having the Required Agreement. The registry will be closed to registrants who do not have a formal, written agreement from AFCIC or an affiliate of AFCIC, specifically allowing the registration of ... read more ...
 
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75 Stories Published By Mainstream Media On .NYC in Less Than 24 Hours - Since the city of New York let everyone know yesterday, that their application for .NYC passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE), which actually occurred on May 24th,   75 media outlets from the BBC to PC Magazine, to Time Magazine, Cnet, to FastCompany.com to Mashable.com, to the WashingtonPost.com, have covered the story with more being added hourly. We have been telling you for quite a while that the new gTLD program will get more coverage for the domain name industry in the next two years than the ... read more ...
Tue 2nd July 2013
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4 some-more New gTLD Apps Withdrawn Including Dish Networks Application For .Movie - Four more New gTLD applications have  been withdrawn today on ICANN website. All four were either brand or closed generic applications. Dish Network dropped its closed application for the new gTLD .Movie Dish was to operate .movie “gTLD as a restricted, exclusively-controlled TLD and as such, will not be commercially offered for registration by the general public.” Afterdot LLC applications to run closed new gTLD’s of .CHESAPEAKE and .CHK for Chesapeake Energy Corporation with a prioritization ... read more ...
Mon 1st July 2013
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1 & 1 Jumps Into The New gTLD “Pre-Order” Game - 11 Internet Ltd, become the latest registrar to start accepting “pre-orders” or expressions of interest in new gTLDs. In a press release 1 1 says: “The new wave of domains will see scores of attractive new endings to be launched such as .london, .restaurant, .rugby, .shop and .web. 11’s portal offers the chance to express interest in registering such domains, and provides a range of informative advice and news on the subject. ” “Over the next 3 years, the creation of more than 1000 new ... read more ...