ICANN just released 40 more new gTLD's that passed Initial Evaluation today. Some of the highlights of those applications passing IE are Google's applications for .Chrome, .Soy, .How, and .Ads; The British Broadcasting Corporation application for .BBC; Top Level Domain Holdings first new gTLD application that was not an IDN passed today with the passage of its application for .Blog. With … [Read more...]
ICANN Still Has Virtually No Revenue Coming In From Last Resort Auctions
If two or more applicants applied for the same new gTLD unless the parties can resolve their contention between themselves the parties go to an ICANN last resort auction. We have chatted before that we expect some of the new gTLD string auctions to go into the $xx,xxx,xxx range. With potentially over 200 new gTLD strings going to an ICANN auction we would expect revenue to ICANN from these … [Read more...]
Now At 66 ICANN Expects 105 New gTLD Applications To Be Withdrawn Before End of IE
In its 2014 budget ICANN expects a total of 646 new gTLD applications will be withdrawn up from its estimate of 545. We know that there were 1931 applications submitted for 1,409 strings. So we know that all the non-winning applications in strings with more than one application will be withdrawn accounting for 522 of the 646 applications. Of the 646 applications it is now budgeting to be … [Read more...]
ICANN Is Planning On New gTLD To Generating Less Than 10% Of Existing TLD in 2014
According to ICANN 2014 budget it is expecting revenue coming in from New gTLD' to be less than 10% of existing TLD"s. The 2014 revised budget has $81,115,000 in revenue coming in from registries and registrars from incumbent TLD's but only $7,043,000 in revenue coming in from new gTLD's. ICANN fiscal year closes on June 30 and since new gTLD's most likely wont start until the 4th Q of … [Read more...]
WIthdrawn Applications Are Reflected On The ICANN Website The Same Day
Earlier today Straat Investments let us know they had withdrawn their application for .Book today, we now know that once a site is withdrawn with ICANN it is reflected on the ICANN site the same day. Straat's withdrawn application for .book is now reflected on ICANN's site just hours after it was withdrawn making it the 65th new gTLD application to be withdrawn. Also today another .Brand … [Read more...]
ICANN Tax Return: Ends With $440 Million In Cash & Securities
ICANN has published it's Federal tax return form 990 for the tax year ending on June 30, 2012 all 68 pages of it. According to the filing, ICANN ended its fiscal year with $466 Million in Assets and $388 Million in Liabilities therefore showing a net asset balance of over $83 Million up $3 Million from the year before. ICANN paid almost $28 Million in Salaries including $7.1 Million paid … [Read more...]
38 More New gTLD Pass IE: .Paris; .Forex; .Cpa; .Airforce, .Guide, .Melbourne
38 More new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation Today. Heading the list are the Geo's of .Paris (which had been earlier passed over on its turn) .Melbourne and .Durban Other generics passing IE include Amazon's (AMZN) applications for .Talk and .Silk, Google's (GOOG) applications for .Cal, and .Cpa Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) application for .Airforce. ICANN has now evaluated … [Read more...]