38 More New gTLD Pass Initial Evalutions: 1st Non-IDN’s Passed is .Play: .Church & .Mormon Pass Too

39 more New gTLD applications have passed ICANN’s Initial Evaluation (IE) and for the record the first non-IDN new gTLD extension to pass IE, is Amazon’s application for .Play.

Other applications passing today are for the generic .Party, .Energy, .Food

Some of the new religion new gTLD’s passed today as well as both .Mormon.and .Church passed IE

Other generic applications passing today are .Wedding, .Menu, .Camera, .Fishing, .Buy,  .City and .Tech

On the brand front some domains passing IE today include .SamsClub, and .Delmonte

The first Geo new gTLD domain name that passed IE is .Helsinki

There were 50 domain names in the group evaluated today meaning that 12 domains were not cleared through IE.

As of today 131 new gTLD’s have passed IE out of the first 150 applications.

It should be noted that some of the applications that have passed IE still fact objections from rights holders or others who filed objections.