ICANN during its Webinar today gave some updated data on the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) Today 636 trademark holders have filed marks with the TMCH. A total of 3,027 trademark records have been filed of which 1,380 have been verified. There are another 1,132 in the process of being verified. 503 have been determined by the TMCH to have been submitted incorrectly and 12 have been … [Read more...]
1st New gTLD’s Could Be Delegated As Soon As Aug 28th w/ Sunrise Ending Oct 27th
As part of its Webinar today ICANN laid out a "best case scenario" for when the first new gTLD's might roll out. According to a time line laid out by ICANN the first new gTLD could be delegated to the root by as early as August 28, 2013 in which event the Sunrise notice for trademark and other rights holders for the new gTLD could start the following day August 29th. Based on that time line … [Read more...]
ICANN New gTLD Contention Auctions To Start In October
During a Webinar today, ICANN announced it is intending to hold the first round of the ICANN Last Resort auction starting in October for those Contention sets which DO NOT include community applications. Auctions are also not expected for strings that have outstanding objections in the first group of strings. Under the ICANN Guidebook, Last resort auctions are to be held in groups at set … [Read more...]
Private New gTLD Auctions Are Underway
According to ApplicantAuction.com the first private auction for new gTLD strings are underway. Although other than .Club which publicly announced it would be participating in the auction which started today, there hasn't been any public announcement on how many other auctions are going on or what the string are. Both Donuts and Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) announced it was entering the private … [Read more...]
ICANN Orders Transfer Of Domains At 4 De-Accredited Registrars To Astutium
ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of gTLD domain names from four registrars, three are due to the de-accreditation of the registrars; C I Host, Inc., Central Registrar, Inc. DBA Domainmonger.com, Power Brand Center Corp. and one transfer was ordered due to the termination of its Registrar Accreditation Agreement of Dotted Ventures, Inc. All of the domains from all four domain name … [Read more...]
ICANN Appoints First Two New gTLD Data Escrow Agents
ICANN announced today that it has selected the first two new gTLD Data escrow agents. All new gTLD registry operators will be required to regularly deposit a backup copy of their TLD registration data through one of the approved data escrow service providers. The data held in escrow may be released to ICANN under certain circumstances in order to preserve the stability of the TLD in case of … [Read more...]
80 New gTLD Pass: .Amex; .Nike; .Goog; .Fox; .Arab; .Java; .Polo; .HomeDepot
80 more new gTLD applications have passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today. One application .Pay did not pass IE but was made eligible for Extended Evaluation, that applicant was made by DOTPAY SA, whose contact is listed as Ms. Liz Williams from Sedari.com. In all ICANN is has now completed Initial Evaluation on applications up to prioritization number 600 with 518 being passed or … [Read more...]