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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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: 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…