It appears that Donuts has lost is 3rd private auction as their application for the new gTLD .College was withdrawn from ICANN site today. Yesterday we reported that Donuts was one of the losing bidders for the new gTLD .Club which was won by .Club Domains, LLC. The day before we noted that another Donuts Application was withdrawn for .Vote which we figured at the time was the result of a … [Read more...]
113 New gTLD Pass IE: .London; .Windows; .Bloomberg; .Broadway; .Ferrari; .Sony; .Samsung
113 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today. The winner of the day might be Uniregistry which had 12 applications pass IE today which had been previously passed over. Today also saw the most number of previous passed over applications passing IE, by my count 28, thereby making 113 applications passing IE with only 100 new gTLD application being evaluated Other … [Read more...]
Big New gTLD Brand Withdraws As L’Oréal Drops Application For .LOREAL
L'Oréal which is one of the largest brand applicants for new gTLD's just withdrew its application for the its matching new gTLD brand .LOREAL L'Oréal which applied for 14 new gTLD has now withdrawn 3 applications. L'Oréal previously withdrew its application for .KIEHLS and the IDN of .欧莱雅 This marked the 73rd withdrawn new gTLD application with ICANN L'Oréal still has these 11 new gTLD … [Read more...]
.CLUB DOMAINS WINS The New gTLD .CLUB “IN HISTORIC FIRST PRIVATE AUCTION”
.Club Domains, LLC announced today they have won the rights to the new generic top level domain (gTLD) name .CLUB The .CLUB name was obtained in the first private auction to be completed since ICANN began the new gTLD process. The other applicants for .Club that participated in the private auction was Donuts and the Merchant Law Group LLP. This appears to be the second new gTLD private … [Read more...]
ICA Tells ICANN The Draft Of RAA Agreement Is “Deficient in Scope”
The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) submitted comments to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) website, on the current draft statement of Registrants' Rights and Responsibilities (RRR) calling it "deficient in scope". "We prefer the alternate version proposed to ICANN by the Non Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) and propose that a modified … [Read more...]
The CEO Of Blacknight Elected Chair of Registrar Stakeholder Group of ICANN
Michele Neylon the CEO of the ICANN accredited domain name registrar, Blackight, has been elected Chair of The Registrar Stakeholder Group of ICANN (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), becoming the first European to hold such position. "The Registrar Stakeholder Group (RrSG) is one of several Stakeholder Groups within the ICANN community and is the representative body of … [Read more...]
1st Private Auction May Be Complete As Donuts Withdraws Its 1st New gTLD Application: .Vote
Donuts has withdrawn its 1st new gTLD of the 307 applications it filed with ICANN. This certainly could be the result of a private auction which are underway this week. There is only one other applicant for the new gTLD .Vote and that company application, under the name of Monolith Registry LLC was filed by Afilias which operates the .info TLD. Donuts application which is now withdrawn is … [Read more...]