WSJ.com just published an interview with the new CEO of ICANN Akram Atallah, on how the new gTLD program was going. There were a few Q&A's that caught my eye ""WSJ: You have had a lot of complaints and objections. Was this expected, and how are you dealing with it?" "AA: Let me first separate comments from objections. There have been zero objections so far. There have been over 6,000 … [Read more...]
Business Constituency Asks ICANN To Extend Objection Period On New gTLD’s Until June/July 2013
Marilyn Cade the Chair of the Business Constituency (the BC) has asked ICANN to extend the formal objection period for new gTLD's which currently ends on January 12, 2013 until June/July 2013. The formal objection period should not be confused with the comment period currently ongoing where people can post comments to ICANN site on the new gTLD program or on a particular applicant or … [Read more...]
ICANN Announces The 7 Criteria On Whether Changes To New gTLD Applications Will Be Approved
ICANN announced overnight, how will evaluate the requested changes in new gTLD's applications. ICANN will consider the 7 criteria below and inform the applicant whether the changes are approved or denied. As usually all seems to be left to the evaluators to decide. None of the 7 factors were given any more or less weight than the others, nor did ICANN say how many of factors had to go in … [Read more...]
ICANN: 4 New gTLD Applications Withdrawn, 3 By Google
According to ICANN's site, four applications for new gTLD's have been withdrawn by the applicants so far, including three by Google. The strings Google has withdrawn its new gTLD application for are: .And .Are .Est All of Google applications were submitted by Charleston Road Registry Inc. The fourth withdrawn application belongs to KSB Aktiengesellschaft who applied for … [Read more...]
ICANN Wants To Know If You Like Their Newly Designed Site
Its been six months since ICANN rolled out a major revision to its site at ICANN.org. Now ICANN is asking you to tell them how you like their site. ""The redesign of ICANN.ORG was launched on 27 February 2012. As we pass the six-month mark, we'd like to get your feedback. Is the redesigned site easier to use? Do you find the new features useful? Did we effectively streamline site … [Read more...]
MIT Rips ICANN’s Over New gTLD Program: “ICANN’s Boondoggle”
MIT just published a post ripping ICANN for what it calls ICANN's Boondoggle referring to the new gTLD program. "ICANN is itself a monopoly. It has the freedom to mint new gTLDs and incorporate them into the "root zone file," the master list that matches human-readable URLs (such as www.technologyreview.com) with the numeric Internet Protocol addresses that are used to route packets between … [Read more...]
ICANN Publishes RoadMap For New gTLD Applications & First Delegation Request August 2013.
ICANN published a "Roadmap" for new gTLD's which we have republished below. I reviewed it a few times and its a best case scenario for an application that does not get any formal objections filed, one that doesn't get early GAC advice against it, one in which there is not another application filed for the same or a confusing similar string. In such a case ICANN says that in August 2013 they … [Read more...]