The Times of India sat down with Fadi Chehade of ICANN and conducted a small interview. Fadi Chehade is the president and CEO of the International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an organization that allocates web addresses and assigns unique protocol numbers on the internet. In an email interview with Kim Arora, he discussed ICANN's globalization efforts, digital … [Read more...]
ICANN Opens Comment Period On Last Resort Auctions
ICANN has opened a comment period on its Last Resort Auctions "To gather community input regarding the detailed rules and processes for Auctions to resolve string contention sets in the New gTLD Program." "The Auction Rules have been updated since the initial release of the Preliminary Auction Rules on 1 Nov 2013 based on feedback received including during the Auctions Webinar on 7 November … [Read more...]
Intellectual Property Owners Association Tells ICANN Registries Should Not Be Able To Hold Trademarked Domains
The President of The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), Richard Phillips, sent a letter to ICANN telling them that that new gTLD registries should not be allowed to be reserved names that are filed with the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) and if they are allowed the IPO wants the registry to be subject to a UDRP like dispute resolution procedure. "We are particularly concerned that … [Read more...]
GAC Communiqué: Wants To Look At “Public Policy Implications of Holding Auctions to Resolve String Contention”
The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) just issued its Buenos Aires Communiqué from the ICANN Meeting and "requests a briefing on the public policy implications of holding auctions to resolve string contention (including community applications)". The GAC considers that new gTLD registry operators should be made aware … [Read more...]
WOW: .Wow Leads All Strings In Number of Domains On Collision Report With Over 205,000
Wow is right .Wow has the highest number of collisions in the ICANN report of new gTLD strings released today with over 205,000 domain names. I think most people in the domain industry wouldn't think there would be 200K domain registrations in .Wow much less than 205,000 strings in the collision report. For the record here are the top 10 new gTLD with the most domain names listed on the … [Read more...]
NCSG: ICANN Board-Staff Violated Its Own Corporate Bylaws By Unilaterally Imposing “TM+50 Policy”
The Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) says ICANN Board-staff violated ICANN Bylaws by adopting the Trademark+50 policy without following the proper policy modification process The specific policy at issue in this CEP is ICANN staff’s unilateral decision to grant trademark holders significantly greater rights via its “trademark plus 50” (“TM+50”) policy in contradiction to the GNSO … [Read more...]
ICANN: No New gTLD’s Last Resort Auctions Until Early March 2014
In a webinar held by ICANN today on its Last Resort Auction for new gTLD strings in contention, ICANN stated that no new gTLD ICANN last resort auction will be held in 2013 and most likely not until March 2014. Moreover the ICANN schedule is 10-20 auctions per month, with no applicant being able to participate in more than 5 auctions per month. So a company like Donuts which has over 100 … [Read more...]