Two new gTLD applications have been rejected by ICANN that were submitted under the SARP financial Assistance program after ICANN decided that they did not meet the criteria for financial assistance. The new gTLD applications were for; .IDN submitted by NameShop and .UMMAH which was applied for by Ummah Digital. In all three new gTLD financial assistance requests were submitted to ICANN by … [Read more...]
Another Brand New gTLD Drops Out as .Olympus Withdraws it’s Application
Olympus Corporation has become the latest company to withdraw it new gTLD application for its .brand application .Olympus which had a Prioritization number of 1,861. .Olympus becomes the 22nd new gTLD application to be withdrawn not including the withdrawal of .home and .casa which it announced this week by Godaddy.com, which is not yet reflected on ICANN's site. According to the … [Read more...]
ICANN’s “Geographic Names Panel” Says .Vegas Is Not A Geo
.Vegas apparently is not a Geo, so says the ICANN Geographic Names Panel. The panel "has determined that the string .Vegas does not fall within the criteria for a geographic name contained in the Applicant Guidebook Section 2.2.1.4." The .Vegas application says: "Dot Vegas, Inc. (herein referred to as “Dot Vegas”, “Dot Vegas, Inc.ʺ, the ʺCompanyʺ or “Applicantʺ), in cooperation with and … [Read more...]
Two More New gTLD Applications Withdrawn: .HEINZ & .KETCHUP
ICANN just posted on its site the withdrawal of two more new gTLD applications bring the total of withdrawn applications to 21. ProMark Brands Inc. withdrew the only two new gTLD applications it had for .HEINZ & .KETCHUP. .KETCHUP had a Prioritization number of 737, and HEINZ had a Prioritization of 1345. It should be noted at this point, applicants still get 70% of their application … [Read more...]
The Independent Objector For ICANN’s New gTLD Program Decides Not To Object To Anything
As part of the new gTLD program ICANN provided it would establish an Independent Objector who could file an objection to new gTLD strings or applicants and May 14th 2012 on named Professor Alain Pellet as the Independent Objector (IO). "Acting solely in the best interests of global Internet users, the Independent Objector may lodge Limited Public Interest and Community objections in cases … [Read more...]
Fallout From Contention Sets: .Law/.Lawyer; .Hotel/.Hotels; .Car/.Cars & Many More
Now that ICANN has stuck to its guns and only placed 4 new gTLD's strings that look confusingly similar into contention sets, rather than those that sound identical, such as .inc and .ink or those that have the same meaning like .Law and .Lawyer or those that are singular and plurals of the same word, we now know what we will get when the new gTLD's roll out and in part its going to be a very a … [Read more...]
Breaking: ICANN Publishes Contention Sets & Only Puts Four Non-Match gTLD’s Strings Together
ICANN just published it long awaited New gTLD String Similarity Contention Sets fand quite surprisingly just put four non-matching applications into two contention sets. ICANN placed the new gTLD application for: .Hoteis by Despegar Online SRL into the same contention set as the application by Booking.com for .Hotels ICANN however, did not include the 7 applications for .Hotel into the … [Read more...]