Are you confused about what is going on with ICANN, the TAS system and the whole new gTLD process?
You’re not the only one.
The Wall Street Journal just published a post entitled “7 Friday Must Reads” and number 1 on the list, is on the new gTLD program which WSJ.com says:
“”Small businesses are facing a big choice when it comes to their Web presence.”
“The application window for brands to bid for the domain name suffix of their choosing (such as .shop) closes today.””
No it’s doesn’t.
We don’t know when the window is going to close because despite several “updates” this week from ICANN, they still haven’t said when the TAS system will re-open.
ICANN has already stated the TAS system will re-open for three days but hasn’t re-opened it yet.
Despite shooting for a Friday restart ICANN, did not re-open the system today, nor has it announced exactly when it will re-open it.
ICANN also hasn’t updated its previously announced date of April 29th for the “Big Reveal” last saying they were still shooting for that date but clearly with 3 days of TAS in the hopper and today being the 20th its pretty hard to see how the “Big Reveal” date hasn’t been officially pushed back.
Very Dateline-esque video released by the almighty ICANN today regarding the glitch. Thankfully, they brought in their own PR guy to get all the answers.
I’ve seen a few mentions of this. To be fair, if you read that a deadline is a certain day then you probably don’t check to see if it’s been changed.
Andrew
Well to be fair it is the Wall Street Journal and if they are covering a story they need to keep up.
I mean it is arguably the top business news site in the world.
How does one “keep up”, exactly, with the masters of The Internet (ICANN) when even the information given we mortals by the great Technology Gods themselves is incorrect?
Seriously, the irony of ICANN having this kind of problem while being entrusted with the duty of being THE Technical Operator of basically the entire internet is absolutely ridiculous.