Of the over new gTLD 1,900 applications received by ICANN, Google's application for .Search has gotten arguably the most attention of the mainstream media (neck and neck with Amazon's .Amazon TLD) Google originally filed its application for .Search to operate on a closed basis, meaning that the registry generally would not be open to registrations by third parties, but amended its application … [Read more...]
NY Times Covers New gTLD’s: “Like Derivatives on Wall Street, They Have No Value”
The New Tork Times just covered the coming new gTLD's and quotes a number of sources which give some juicy quotes like the one in the title which came from Esther Dyson Some of the new gTLD's getting a mention in the article were: .bible, .blog, .family, .game, .gay and .pizza. The article quotes Akram Atallah, from ICANN who says: “With .com and .net, if you wanted a nice name, it’s … [Read more...]
95 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE: .Visa; .College; .Casino; .Poker; .Hamburg; . Cologne; .Kia; .Playstation; .Sina
95 new gTLD's passed ICANN Initial Evaluation today. Two Geographic applications passed today both a large German cities; .Cologne and .Hamburg Some generic applications passing today include .College; .Earth; .World; .Golf; .Poker; .Casino; .Taxi;. .Yoga; .Tickets; .Foundation and .Gives and Amazon's application for .Kids and .Author. Some of the .Brand applications passing today was … [Read more...]
ICDR Rejects Verisign’s String Confusion Objection To .Cam As Being Too Confusing to .Com
One of the more interesting objections filed at the International Centre for Dispute resolution (ICDR) based on String Confusion was Verisign's objection to the new gTLD .Cam being too confusing to .Com. Today a panel has ruled that .Cam is not confusing to .Com, finding "the visual similarity of the two strings does not allow a conclusion that confusion would result". "The test is not to … [Read more...]
Secretaries of All 50 States Tells ICANN To Follow GAC Advice On INC, .LLC, .CORP and .LLP
National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) is an organization whose members include Secretaries of State and Lieutenant Governors of the 50 U.S. states and territories send a letter to ICANN in late July that was just published today, that the new gTLD's .INC, .LLC, .CORP and .LLP.should only be allowed to be registered by 'entities that are appropriately registered and in good- standing … [Read more...]
105 New gTLD Pass ICANN: .Google; .Vegas; .Brussels; .NFL; .MLB; .Nissan; .Irish; .Jeep; .Barclays
105 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) on Friday. A few geographic area new gTLD's passed including .Brussels; .Osaka; .Yokohama; .Bayern Leading the way on the .Brand applications were the new gTLD applications of Google for .Google; The National Football League's application for .NFL; Major League Baseball's application for .MLB and .Baseball; The car makers … [Read more...]
Verisign’s New Letter To NTIA On New gTLD’s: Its Important to Differentiate Between “Ability” and “Advisability.”
In a letter send by Verisign today to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), U.S. Department of Commerce; Verisign made it clear it is ready, willing and able to delegate up to 20 new gTLD's to the root upon request of the NTIA but it also made clear that it doesn't advise that the 1,000 new gTLD strings a year get delegated to the root saying: "The introduction … [Read more...]