ICANN just posted a letter sent from the President of the GNSO Intellectual Property Constituency to ICANN of it's "Consensus Position of Business Constituency and Intellectual Property Constituency" for changes for the new gTLD program Extend Sunrise Launch Period from 30 to 60 days with a standardized process. Extend the TMCH and Claims Notices for an indefinite period; ensure … [Read more...]
ICANN On New gTLD’s: “No Contracts Will be Executed or Delegations Made Before the Beijing Meeting”
At the ICANN Meeting today Kurt Pritz who is in charge of the new gTLD program laid out a timeline for the new gTLD program. "In December, we're going to hold this prioritization drawing. This drawing will prioritize the applications, meaning it will be the order in which applications are released and then processed through the rest of the evaluation. So the ability to choose the form … [Read more...]
ICANN Launches MyICANN.ORG Beta
In the opening ceremony at the ICANN conference the new CEO of ICANN, FadiI Chehade announced that ICANN just Launched MyICANN.org Here is what Mr. Chehade has to say about the new site: "ICANN.org will continue to be a great vehicle for communications, for publication, for education. anyone new coming to learn what is ICANN, that's what ICANN.org is. But what we were missing is an area … [Read more...]
United TLD Asks ICANN To Remove Lawfirm’s Comment On Donuts New gTLD Application
A letter sent to ICANN by United TLD asks ICANN to remove comments posted by the law firm of McCarter & English against the new gTLD applications of Donuts, Inc. I'm not sure what interest United TLD has that is asking for the comment to be removed but ICANN has in fact removed a least one comment, but so far only upon request of the commentator, more on that below but here is the letter … [Read more...]
ICANN To Hold Lottery To Get New gTLD’s To Market Sooner: Draw To Occur December 4-15; Objection Period Extended To March 13th
If you have been following the new gTLD process then you know that ICANN has been trying to figure out a "fair" way to determine which new gTLD applications would be processed and how new gTLD's would be delegated. We noted back in August that ICANN which couldn't define a method for the order in which it would process the applications, they would have the same problem when figuring out how to … [Read more...]
ANA Warns Commerce Department About “Top-Level Domain Tsunami”
According to marketingvox.com, The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) urged the US Department of Commerce (DOC) to work within the Internet stakeholder processes of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to advocate for a "Do Not Sell registry" at the upcoming ICANN Board meeting next month in Toronto. The letter went on to note that "it would be a disaster for … [Read more...]
Over 3K Comments Posted Today & 11,000 Overall As Today Is The Last Day To Comment On New gTLD Program
The ICANN comment section for the new gTLD program has logged over 3,000 comments today and now totals over 11,000 comments We are trying to keep up with the more important and interesting comments posted by groups, company's and individual's from all over the world on the new gTLD program. Many organizations seem to be weighing in at the last moment including the, The Association of … [Read more...]