Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Wed 21st November 2012
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So What Does A GAC Early Warning Really Mean & Where Do Applicants Go From Here - Last night we published the list of the 242 new gTLD’s applications that got hit with a GAC early warning. The GAC is the Governmental Advisory Group to ICANN. So what is the effect of receiving an GAC early warning and what happens from here, we look to the new gTLD Guidebook for answers: The GAC Early Warning is a notice only. It is not a formal objection, nor does it directly lead to a process that can result in rejection of the application. However, a GAC Early Warning should be taken seriously ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Launches .blackfriday Website - Frank Schillings new gTLD company, Uniregistry.com just launched a new site promoting its .blackfriday new gTLD application. Uniregistry is the only company that filed an application to operate the new gTLD of  .blackfriday. .blackfriday did NOT receive a GAC early warning. According to the site here is the vision for .blackfriday: More meaning packed into a single domain name. While some may find it difficult to imagine owning a domain name ending in anything but .com, we are at the beginning ... read more ...
 
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GAC Issues 242 Early Warnings To New gTLD’s Applicants - The Government Advisory Council (GAC) to ICANN issued 242 early warnings to new gTLD applicants tonight involving 145 strings. After a quick review,  The government of Australia seems to have issued the most early warnings with Germany and India following. The United States only issued a few early warnings, but they included Demand Media,Inc (DMD) applications for .Army, .Navy and .Airforce. The US also issued an early warning against all 31 of Radix application but that seemed to be due to a letter ... read more ...
Tue 20th November 2012
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Did TechCrunch Just Tip Everyone Off On How Amazon Plans To Use The New gTLD’s They Applied For? - An Article today in TechCrunch.com talks, about Amazon rolling out its ‘Pages” project and how that that might be how at least some of the new gTLD’s they applied for will be used by the company. “The company is quietly pushing a service called Amazon Pages, which lets companies set up their own pages on Amazon.com as “custom destinations,” complete with www.amazon.com/brandname URLs and dynamic designs with large photos and social media links. ” “Along with this, it is also offering ... read more ...
Sun 18th November 2012
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CNET: Russian Continuing To Push To Take Over Control Of Domain Naming System From ICANN - According to a story published in Cnet.com last night, according to ” documents leaked on Friday from an upcoming treaty conference, the Russian Federation is calling on the United Nations to take over key aspects of Internet governance, including addressing and naming. “The Russians made their proposal on November 13 in the lead-up to December’s World Conference on International Communications in Dubai.” “The conference will consider revisions to the International Telecommunications Regulations ... read more ...
Sat 17th November 2012
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ICANN CEO: Until a initial new gTLD is Delegated, Akram Attalah & we Will Personally Oversee a Whole New gTLD Program - According to a blog post by the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehadé, he and Akram Attalah will “personally oversee the whole new gTLD program until the 1st new gTLD is delegated. This comes only days after Kurt Pritz who was heading up the new gTLD program resigned from ICANN due to a still undisclosed conflict of interest. The rest of the blog post was on his meeting he had this past week on the Trademark Clearinghouse and its associated rights protection mechanisms. Its clear from the post that the both ... read more ...
Fri 16th November 2012
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Guest Post: Clarifying Clarifying Financial Questions: What New gTLD Applicants Need To Do To Pass Evaluation - This is a guest post by Phil Buckingham, CEO Dot Advice Ltd. Mr Buckingham was involved at the start of the DNS in the UK in 1995, as CFO of Netnames, the pioneering corporate domain portfolio registrar. Mr Buckingham  was involved in the Financial Evaluation process, served on ICANN’s GNSO Vertical Integration WG. Dot Advice Ltd provides applicant advice and develops fully integrated gTLD financial models, utilising the new vertical integrated market and SRSU brand models. Here is the post: It ... read more ...
Mon 5th November 2012
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BusinessWeek Becomes Lastest Publication To Raise Concern Over Donuts & Demand - Donuts, Inc.,  the largest applicant under ICANN’s new gTLD program has just been covered again by a major publication, this time by  BusinessWeek.com in a story entitled: “Donuts’ Grab for Domains Raises Fears of Cybersquatting” “Stoler, the McCarter English lawyer, said in his July letter to Icann that Donuts has clear links to Demand Media and its subsidiaries, which have received more than two dozen “bad- faith” rulings from Icann-recognized dispute panels.” “”Examples ... read more ...
Thu 1st November 2012
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Right Of The Dot™ Teams adult with Escrow.com™ To Provide Neutral Auction & Mediation Resolution for gTLD String Contention - “”Hot on the heels of ICANN’s welcome announcement of the drawing process, Right Of The Dot is launching a private auction and mediation service to accelerate the process of settling claims between applicants for the same new gTLD string, in turn reducing the time it takes for new gTLDs to go live. Right Of The Dot has been granted a special Auction License, which specifically allows them to conduct TLD Auction Services for new gTLDs. To further support new gTLD applicants in their auction ... read more ...
Wed 31st October 2012
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TLDH: Turning Point Has Been Reached For New gTLD Program & Some Registries Will Be Revenue Producing In 2013 - According to a press release just issued by Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) “a turning point has been reached for the timetable for the implementation of the new generic top level domain (“gTLD”) program.” and they expect that certain new registries “are likely to be revenue producing in 2013.” “The first contracts or delegations are expected to be concluded following the next ICANN meeting in Beijing in the second week of April 2013. ” “ICANN’s proposal will give priority to ... read more ...
Sat 27th October 2012
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Registrars Come Out Against Additional Rights Protections Policy Changes For New gTLD’s - In a letter sent by the Registrar Stakeholder Group to ICANN, today, the group has come out against making any additional changes to the Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPM) for trademark holders in the new gTLD’s. The letter was sent by the Chair of the Registrar Stakeholder Group Matt Serlin who wrote in part: “”We also understand various parties are advocating for the inclusion of additional Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs), in excess of what is currently in the Guidebook. We are extremely ... read more ...
Sat 20th October 2012
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The Future Of Geo Domains: Chicago.com Makes $125K In 1st Year Of Selling SubDomains & Email Addresses - I had a chance to sit down with Josh Metnick who owns Chicago.com and started selling subdomains email addresses ending in Chicago.com. In the first year, sales of subdomains and vanity email addresses using Chicago.com generated some $125,000 in revenue with virtually no marketing. Josh shared the numbers with TheDomains.com exclusively: “”Chicago.com is going well — our first year sales were approximately $125,000, but it’s recurring high-margin revenue. ” “First batch of yearly renewals ... read more ...
Wed 17th October 2012
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GNSO IP Constituency Sends Letter To ICANN WIth Changes Of Right Protections For New gTLD’s - ICANN just posted a letter sent from the President of the GNSO Intellectual Property Constituency to ICANN of it’s “Consensus Position of Business Constituency and Intellectual Property Constituency” for changes for the new gTLD program   Extend Sunrise Launch Period from 30 to 60 days with a standardized process. Extend the TMCH and Claims Notices for an indefinite period; ensure the process is easy to use, secure, and stable. Complete the URS as a low cost alternative and ... read more ...
Mon 15th October 2012
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ICANN On New gTLD’s: “No Contracts Will be Executed or Delegations Made Before a Beijing Meeting” - At the ICANN Meeting today Kurt Pritz who is in charge of the new gTLD program laid out a timeline for the new gTLD program. “In December, we’re going to hold this prioritization drawing. This drawing will prioritize the applications, meaning it will be the order in which applications are released and then processed through the rest of the evaluation. So the ability to choose the form agreement as your form of contract, to select an appointment and to go through predelegation testing and then, ... read more ...
Thu 11th October 2012
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ICANN To Hold Lottery To Get New gTLD’s To Market Sooner: Draw To Occur Dec 4-15; Objection Period Extended To Mar 13th - If you have been following the new gTLD process then you know that ICANN has been trying to figure out a “fair” way to determine which new gTLD applications would be processed and how new gTLD’s would be delegated. We noted back in August that ICANN which couldn’t define a method for the order in which it would process the applications, they would have the same problem when figuring out how to roll the new gTLD’s. ICANN rejected the idea of a random draw, then went the idea of a batching, ... read more ...
Tue 9th October 2012
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Al Jazeera TV Covers Donuts & Its New gTLD Applications - Donuts new gTLD applications and its relationship (or lack therefor) to Demand Media, Inc, has made it all the way to the Middle East as the news network AlJazeera just covered the company. The video of the AlJazeera report by Tarek Bazley is on YouTube.com The video includes a interview and a Akram Atallah appears as the representative for ICANN, Richard Tindal appears for Donuts and Intellectual property attorney David Weslow of Washington DC is also interviewed for the piece. To see the video ... read more ...
Tue 2nd October 2012
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Hexonet Becomes The Lastest Registrar To Start Taking Pre-Registrations Of New gTLD’s - HEXONET (http://www.hexonet.net) announced today the release of its Expression of Interest (EOI) system to handle the burgeoning demand for yet-to-be-released new Top-Level-Domains (NewTLDs) from ICANN. With the cost and value of domain names rising, businesses, investors, and entrepreneurs are already looking for ways to be first in line as these domains are released. HEXONET’s EOI system takes nonbinding requests on future domain names to ensure clients are immediately notified and informed on ... read more ...
Sat 29th September 2012
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ANA Warns Commerce Department About “Top-Level Domain Tsunami” - According to marketingvox.com, The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) urged the US Department of Commerce (DOC) to work within the Internet stakeholder processes of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to advocate for a “Do Not Sell registry” at the upcoming ICANN Board meeting next month in Toronto. The letter went on to note that “it would be a disaster for its competitors if L’Oreal snapped up generic domains like .hair, .makeup, and .beauty; but that ... read more ...
Thu 27th September 2012
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Radix Responds To Attack Letter on New gTLD Applications By Publishing Threat Letters From Attorneys - We wrote earlier today about the comment filed by the global law firm of Winston Strawn LLP to ICANN saying that Radix’s applications for new gTLD should be denied by ICANN based on the activity of Directi. I just received this response from Radix, which applied for 31 new gTLD’s including .Ping, to the comment posted by the law firm, which represents the Ping golf equipment maker, Karsten: This is in response to the comments submitted to ICANN questioning our eligibility to participate in ICANN’s ... read more ...
Wed 26th September 2012
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eBay Loves Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Trademark Rights Protection Mechanisms For New gTLD’s & Hates TLDH - eBay filed several comments this afternoon with ICANN in support of Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry applications for new gTLD’s. While praising Uniregistry eBay bashes Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) policy. In its comments praised Uniregistry’s trademark rights protection mechanisms contained in their application. eBay writes: “”eBay Inc. supports Uniregistry’s proposed trademark rights protection mechanisms, including a 60-day Sunrise period during which a trademark owner can obtain ... read more ...
 
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Manwin Owner of YouPorn.com Files Comment To ICANN Objecting To ICM’s Application for .Sex, .Porn & .Adult - Manwin owner of YouPorn.com just filed a comment with ICANN Objecting To ICM’s Application to operate the new gTLD’s  .Sex, .Porn .Adult. ICM is the operator of the .XXX TLD. Like the FSC yesterday,  Manwin objected just to the applications filed by ICM not the application to operate .Sex filed by Internet Marketing Solutions Limited. In its comment, Manwin Licensing International S.à.r.l. writes they own and license trademarks and domain names used for many popular adult websites, including ... read more ...
 
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American Medical Colleges Files Comments In Objection To a New gTLD .Health, .Medical, .Hospital .Doctor, .Healthcare & More - The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) “a nonprofit association representing all 138 accredited US and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools; nearly 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems; and 90 academic and scientific societies” filed an objection today with ICANN against the application for the new gTLD .Health, .Medical, .Hospital, .Healthcare., .Doctor, .College, .Degree, .School, .Education and .University The comments letters are all the same except that the new ... read more ...
 
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Blacknight to ICANN: “The Registration of Generic Key Word TLDs Should Be Available to All People” - According to a press release we received today,  Irish registrar and hosting company Blacknight sent an objection letter to ICANN concerning several new gTLD applications, which may seek to operate non-trademarked generic word TLDs in a “closed” manner. “”Blacknight have drafted a letter to ICANN (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) seeking clarification on pending gTLD applications for generic term TLDs, which intend to operate in a “closed” (not open to the public ... read more ...
Tue 25th September 2012
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Washington Post Blast Donuts & Its Bid For 307 New gTLD’s: “Raises Fears of Fraud” - The WasingtonPost.com, published a story this morning on the front page of its print edition, about Donuts, Inc and its application to operate 307 new gTLD’s entitled: Donuts Inc.’s major play for new Web domain names raises fears of fraud The story throws around some serious allegations about Donuts including that they have “close ties to a company with a well-documented history of providing services to spammers and other perpetrators of Internet abuses. “ “Donuts Inc.  $57 million play ... read more ...
Thu 20th September 2012
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Consumer Watchdog Tell Senator Rockefeller To Block Google & Amazon’s New gTLD Applications - Consumer Watchdog today urged Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D –W.VA) to block attempts by Google and Amazon to acquire the new gTLD’s they applied for through Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In a letter to Sen. Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, John M. Simpson, Consumer Watchdog’s Privacy Project director wrote: “If these applications are granted, large parts of the Internet would be privatized. ” “It is one thing ... read more ...