The New gTLD Program Committee of ICANN (NGPC) pased a resolution, directing the ICANN President and CEO, to initiate a public comment period on the framework principles of a potential review mechanism…
Category: ICANN
ICANN’s Sweetheart Of A Contract To PowerAuctions Covers All Costs & Gives Them 10’s Of Million In Upside
On 13 September 2013, ICANN entered into what may well be the most lucrative contract ever granted in ICANN’s history with Power Auctions LLC to conduct its Last Resort Auctions for new…
European Commission Weights In On ICANN Last Resort Auction & They Are Not Happy
The European Commission filed a comment on the recently updated ICANN’s New gTLD Auction Rules. To summarize the European Commission is “deeply concerned about the implications that the Auction Rules in the…
Fadi Chehadé: If We Fragment The Internet, ‘It Will Not Be The Internet As We Know It’
In an article in the Huffington Post, the CEO of ICANN said that fragmentation of the Internet was a primary concern. From the article: Fadi Chehadé, CEO Of ICANN, told HuffPost Live…
IBM/ Deloitte Goes With Trademark-ClearningHouse.Uno & TMCH.Uno to Promote Spanish Brand Awareness.”
IBM & Deloitte which operates the Trademark Clearing House for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) announced they will use the domain names TRADEMARK-CLEARINGHOUSE.UNO and TMCH.UNO to Promote Spanish…
ICANN BC Committee Tells ICANN Not To Allow Singular & Plurals Strings (Again)
Elisa Cooper the Chair of the ICANN Business Constituency has told ICANN (again) not to allow singular and plural’s strings of the same word. The letter dated December 30, 2013 was just …
Google Registry Tells ICANN They Should Finish Off Last Resort Auctions In Six Months
Google Registry in its comment filed on the ICANN Last Resort says ICANN plan to conduct all of the Last Resort Auctions within one year is too long. Google wants the ICANN…