The 68th new gTLD application has been withdrawn today. The new gTLD application was for an IDN: 广东 Which was applied for by the Xinhua News Agency and had a prioritization number of 1,772 The English equivalent for the IDN string is: Guangdong The applicant has one other new gTLD application submitted with ICANN which is the IDN of 新闻, which is the English equivalent of the word: … [Read more...]
ICANN Orders Further Study On Dotless Domains
ICANN announced last night they were authorizing further study into dotless domains. Google recently announced that they were changing their application for .Search to an open rather than closed registry and they want to operate the registry as a Dotless Domains. Here is the announcement: "On 23 February 2012, the SSAC published the SAC 053: SSAC Report on Dotless Domains. A domain name … [Read more...]
Famous Four’s DotHealth Creates Governance Council To Provide Imput On .Health
Dot Health Limited which is a Famous Four's application to operate the new .Health top-level domain (gTLD), today announced the creation of a Governance Council that will allow the world health community to provide input on the .Health TLD. The Governance Council will be called upon to monitor, advise, and recommend best practices for the .Health gTLD. It is expected that the … [Read more...]
FairSearch Tells ICANN They Still Don’t Like Google Application For .Search
In a letter sent by FairSearch.org (FairSearch) to ICANN they urge ICANN to reject the new gTLD application for .Search filed by Google even after Google changes their application to make it an opened extension. "I write to apprise ICANN that Google’s recent attempt to amend its .search Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) application is an effort to evade Google’s responsibilities to address … [Read more...]
91 New gTLD Pass IE: .NYC, .Microsoft, .GOP; .Kiwi, .Monster, .Berlin, .Youtube
a Total of 91 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) including 8 applications which were previously passed over. This is the most new gTLD applications to pass IE in a single week and ICANN is now processing 100 new gTLD applications up from 50 per week as they promised would happen in June. This weeks more interesting new gTLD applications passing IE include two killer … [Read more...]
ICANN Approves The Arab Center for Dispute Resolution (ACDR) As A UDRP Provider
The ICANN Board approved the Arab Center for Dispute Resolution (ACDR) as an UDRP provider. The approval of ACDR as the first UDRP provider located in the Middle East "enhances ICANN's accountability to the Internet community as a whole, enhancing choice for UDRP complainants". ICANN acknowledged that comments were submitted suggesting that "ICANN develop contracts with each of its UDRP … [Read more...]
ICANN Fall 2014 Meeting Heading Back To The US To Los Angeles
The ICANN Board announced tonight that is has selected Los Angeles California as its location for its third Meeting for 2014 The ICANN 2014 North America Public meeting, will be held on October 12th-17th, 2014. ICANN announced last December that the meeting location for the March 2014 ICANN will be Singapore and ICANN meeting for the June 2014 will be held in London. The … [Read more...]