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…
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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….
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…
ICANN: 4 New gTLD Applications Withdrawn, 3 By Google
According to ICANN’s site, four applications for new gTLD’s have been withdrawn by the applicants so far, including three by Google. The strings Google has withdrawn its new gTLD application for are:…
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…
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…
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…