According to one report ICANN will re-open the TAS system and start accepting new gTLD applications on Tueday. According to the Guardian.co.uk, ICANN will re-open the TAS system to accept applications for new gTLD's at "23.59 GMT on Tuesday for three days, and finally close on Friday 20 April at 23.59 GMT. " GMT is the same time as UTC. Although I haven't read or heard any "official" word … [Read more...]
ICM Owner of .XXX Applies For .Sex, .Porn & .Adult To Give .XXX Owners Grandfather Rights
The ICM Registry, the operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) announced it made application for the new gTLD's in SEX, .PORN and .ADULT. According to the press release issues this morning if ICM were to get any or all of the new extensions the owner of the matching .XXX domain would be given a grandfather right to acquire the matching name in the new extension. Here is the balance of … [Read more...]
TAS Crashes & New gTLD Application Deadline Is Extended Until April 20th
ICANN just announced that the TAS system which is the mechanism by which companies file their application for new gTLD's crashed and therefore was extending the time to make application from April 12th until April 20th, 2012. The official new closing time to make application is 23:59 UTC on Friday, 20 April 2012. The next big questions to be answered is will be if the "big reveal", the day … [Read more...]
Why Can’t ICANN Operate Like Mega Millions & Give Us A Date & TIME For The Big Reveal
In teasing us with a date for the big reveal for new gTLD applicants ICANN has left off something pretty important. The time. While announcing the April 30th as the date for the big reveal, they didn't announce at time or even which time zone they would be using. ICANN typically works off of UTC time zone which at this time of the year is 4 hours ahead of EST so midnight April 30th is … [Read more...]
Reprint: Our Post From May 2011 About The Dismissal Of The CFIT Case & The Resulting Prices Increases Of Verisign On .Com’s Forever
The news broke last night that ICANN was opening the public comment period on the renewal of the contract with Verisign (current one expires at the end of this year) which once again would give Verisign a 6 year contract to operate the registry with a right to raise prices in 4 of the 6 years of its choice 7% compounded. Back almost a year ago we wrote a story entitled What The Settlement Of … [Read more...]
Quick Poll: How Many New gTLD Applications Will Be Submitted?
We are now less than one month from April 12th, the last day an application for a new gTLD can be submitted. We now know that 294 people have paid $5K to put in an App of course each registered user can file 49 apps so the number of actually apps submitted to ICANN is higher but ICANN for some reason refuses to release the number of apps received just the number of registered users. With the … [Read more...]
Corwin Calls Out ICANN Board For Not Selecting URS Provider & The Board Seems Confused
Philip Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association just addressed the ICANN board in the open public session and asked about ICANN selecting a provider for the Trademark Clearing House and the URS (Uniform Rapid Suspension). As you will see below from the transcript ICANN said at the previous ICANN meeting in Dakar in October that a provider for the URS would be selected within a month and of … [Read more...]