The GAC issued Its Advice from the ICANN meeting in Beijing and its a long one. The very long list effecting hundreds of applications which is going to push back the program for some time and may shut the door on all closed generic applications unless the company can show issuing the close generic to one company is in the "public good". We long ago said at TheDomains.com that closed … [Read more...]
-New gTLD Trademark Clearing House By The Numbers: 323 TM Holders, 450 TM: $15K To Be An AgentAdd it to my favorites
There are some interesting numbers coming out of the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) Session at the ICANN meeting today To date there are 71 active trademark agents in TMCH To dare there are 323 trademark holders that have successfully created an account with the Trademark Clearinghouse. "There are about 140 trademark accounts that are in the pipeline, meaning they are -- either they … [Read more...]
2 More Objections Hit The ICC: .Rugby & .Insurance
A couple of more objection have hit the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) site today as part of ICANN new gTLD program The International Rugby Board filed a Community Objection to .Rugby, and the American Insurance Association filed yet another objection to .Insurance. The two are in addition to the 66 objections we noted that were posted on the ICC site 5 days ago. Including this … [Read more...]
ICANN Starts “Public Conversation” On ICANN’s Future & Wants Your Input
As Fadi Chehadé, ICANN’s President & CEO, announced this week, that ICANN has launched a public conversation about ICANN’s future. ICANN has posted on its blog all the information around this Public Conversation. "We are seeking ideas from the global community to help create a new, overarching vision and five-year strategy for ICANN. " An animated video and slides have been posted in … [Read more...]
Google Lays Out Plans For A “Dotless .Search” New gTLD
In a letter to ICANN today Google laid out its plan on how it plans on operating 4 new gTLD that it applied for as a closed Registry with the most interesting being plans for .Search which is plans on operating "a redirect service on the “dotless” .search domain (http://search/)." "To further elaborate on our plans to amend these applications, I am including a brief summary of our revised … [Read more...]
ICANN: All New gTLD Initial Evaluations Should Be Completed By End Of August
ICANN now says they will be done with the Initial Evaluation for new all new gTLD applications by the end of August 2013 The statements came in a session from the ICANN Beijing meeting, entitled "New gTLD Program Status ICANN released some other important dates and time frames for the new gTLD process: "ICANN will publish all objections on new gTLD applications by this Friday April 12, … [Read more...]
Internet In China By The Numbers
Some pretty interesting numbers coming out of the ICANN meeting's Opening Session in Beijing today. China has 564 Million Internet users, which represents over 42% of their population and almost double the population of the US. China added 40 million new Internet Users in just the last year. China has 7 of the Top 30"Internet Companies" China E-Commerce … [Read more...]