Although the objection period for the new gTLD's closed on March 13th, tonight ICANN stated that it will not post all objections across all Dispute Resolution Service Providers until mid-April ""The period for filing formal objections to new generic Top-Level Domains began on 13 June 2012 and closed on 13 March 2013 at 23:59 UTC."" "ICANN will post a list of all Objections filed across all … [Read more...]

10 new Legal Rights Objections to gTLD applications have been filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO),  hitting Google and Donuts among others. Google was hit with an objection for the new gTLD .Goo by NTT Resonant Inc which operates a internet search engine and web portal based in Japan, which crawls and indexes primarily Japanese language websites known as … [Read more...]

FairSeach.Org, which has support from Microsoft Corp. Oracle Corp and Nokia has filed objections to Google’s request to control new top-level domains “.search,” “.fly” and “.map” ICANN accepting Google’s application will enable the dominant search provider to “gain an unfair competitive advantage against other members of this community through the improper grant of a perpetual monopoly of … [Read more...]

One of the applicants for .Med has withdrawn their new gTLD application with ICANN DocCheck AG withdrew its application just a couple of days after the ICANN Independent Objector, posted it objection to the application. There are still more .Med applications including one filed by Google. DocCheck Ag is from Germany and the contact on the application is Mr. Philip Stadtmann, who only … [Read more...]

On 12 March 2013, the Independent Objector (IO) lodged 24 objections against new applied-for gTLDs before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). The 24 objections were on 13 separate strings, three for .Amazon including 2 IDN's; .Charity; .Med; .Health,; .Healthcare; .Hospital; .Indians; .Patagonia; .Medical. The IO is limited to filing objections on the grounds of Limited Public … [Read more...]