ICANN has just posted the Revised Registry Agreement for Review "In the interest of transparency and accountability ICANN is providing the latest revision of the previously posted "Revised New gTLD Registry Agreement" for the community’s information and review." "This revision reflects the inputs and comments received from our stakeholders and other members of the community." "We have … [Read more...]
27 More New gTLD Applications Pass Initial Evaluation
ICANN just passed 27 more new gTLD applications today bringing the total of passed applications to 52. Included in today list an application from Verisign another application for Donuts and One From Google, Amazon, and Afilias. This batch of new gTLD applications brings the prioritization number of reviewed applications up to 60. All the applications passed today are all still … [Read more...]
ICANN: GAC Expects To Deliver Advice On New gTLDs In Beijing
ICANN has posted that the Government Advisory Council (GAC) Expects to Deliver Advice on New gTLDs in Beijing ""With the GAC Member Early Warnings phase complete, the GAC is now moving to the next phase, which is GAC advice on new gTLDs. " "GAC advice is a key element of the overall process of the new gTLD Program. " "In that context, GAC sessions at ICANN's public meeting in Beijing in … [Read more...]
Should Verisign’s Attempt To Get .Co Bar Its Objections To .Cam & The Rest?
Now that we published the objection filed by Verisign to .Cam as being to similar to .Com, along with the supporting documents, I have been asked what my opinion is on the objection, which is likely to be duplicated in large part when we see Verisign's objections to .Vet, .Company, .Network and .Bom and maybe many more. I think Verisign raises some good points regarding confusion between .cam … [Read more...]
Here Are the Affidavits & Study Verisign Used In Support Of Its Objection To .Cam:
A couple of weeks ago we told you we were hearing that Verisign had filed objections to new gTLD strings that they believe are confusing to .com or .net for which Verisign is the registry including .Cam, .Bom, .Vet, .Company, .Network. Last night we published Verisign's objection to .Cam as being too close to .Com In support of their objection, Verisign provided the Centere with two … [Read more...]
Progressive Insurance Withdraws Application For New gTLD .Insurance
Progressive Insurance has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .insurance. The formal name of the applicant was "Progressive Casualty Insurance Company". The application which had a prioritization number of 1847 was to operate the TLD on a closed basis. Closed generics have been getting a lot of push back and ICANN recently closed a comment period for the topic of whether companies … [Read more...]
Latin American Telecom Files Objection Against Google On .Tube
Latin American Telecom, LLC has filed a Legal Rights objection against Google's new gTLD application for .Tube Latin American Telecom is also an applicant for .Tube The third applicant for .Tube is Donuts. Of course Google owns and operates the largest Tube site in the world, YouTube.com Here is some information on this company from Esquire.com, attorney Ari Goldberger's … [Read more...]