Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) withdrew its first new gTLD application, .Bar. The application had a prioritization number of 1,689. According to the ICANN website, "the Geographic Names Panel determined that the .Bar falls within the criteria for a geographic name contained in the Applicant Guidebook Section 2.2.1.4." "The applicant was contacted to provide documentation of … [Read more...]
New gTLD Program Committee Tells ICANN Not To Contract With Apps For Strings With GAC Safeguard Advice
In a resolution tonight, the New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) told ICANN to "defer moving forward with the contracting process for applicants who have applied for TLD strings listed in the GAC's Category 1 Safeguard Advice, pending a dialogue with the GAC". The dialogue with the GAC is according to the resolution to be held at the ICANN Meeting in Durban which is from July 14 - 18th, … [Read more...]
98 New gTLD’s Pass IE: .HBO; .Jaguar; .Yahoo; . Bugatti; .Delta; .Marriott; .Gucci
98 new gTLD's passed ICANN initial evaluation (IE) today. Highlighting this week was Google's application for .App and the brand applications for .Jaguar; .Yahoo; . Philips; .Delta; .Marriott; .Gucci and .Bugatti. With today's action ICANN has now gone through applications with a prioritization number of 1,100. Out of 1,100 there are still 82 applications that have not passed, failed or … [Read more...]
4 more New gTLD Apps Withdrawn Including Dish Networks Application For .Movie
Four more New gTLD applications have been withdrawn today on ICANN website. All four were either brand or closed generic applications. Dish Network dropped its closed application for the new gTLD .Movie Dish was to operate .movie "gTLD as a restricted, exclusively-controlled TLD and as such, will not be commercially offered for registration by the general public." Afterdot LLC … [Read more...]
90 New gTLD Pass IE: .Apple; .Baidu; .AOL; .CBS; .Republican; .Navy; .CPA
90 new gTLD's passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today with 2 applications heading for the dreaded extended evaluation. The 2 applications heading for extended evaluation was the application by Commercial Connect LLC for .Shop and SuperSport International Holdings Limited application for .Supersport Some of the more interesting applications pass IE today were Apple Computers brand … [Read more...]
Two More gTLD Applications Are Withdrawn; .Movie By Straat & .BWAY
Two more new gTLD application were withdrawn and reflected on the ICANN site tonight. Straat which applied for 13 new gTLD's withdrew their second application tonight this time for the new gTLD .Movie. There were originally 8 applications filed for .movie and with Radix previous withdrawal of their application for .movie there are now 6 applicant left including Amazon's application to … [Read more...]
Breaking: New gTLD Program Committee Votes Not To Change Policy on Singulars/Plurals
The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) voted tonight to not change the policy on new gTLD applications concerning singular and plural terms. The GAC advised ICANN that it should place singular and plural new gTLD strings into the same contention set. For example there were applications for .Car/.Cars: .Auto/.Autos, .Hotel/.Hotels; .Coupon/.Coupons; .Deal/.Deals; .Game/.Games; … [Read more...]