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…
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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…
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…
Two More New gTLD Applications Withdrawn: .HEINZ & .KETCHUP
ICANN just posted on its site the withdrawal of two more new gTLD applications bring the total of withdrawn applications to 21.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…
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…
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…
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…