According to a press release out today WIPO “has been appointed by ICANN as the exclusive provider of dispute resolution services for trademark based ‘pre-delegation’ Legal Rights Objections under ICANN’s New gTLD Program,” WIPO has a Q&A page on their site about this. ""The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has embarked on a program of allowing new generic … [Read more...]
ICANN: Some New gTLD’s Will Be Approved Late This Year & Be Live In Early 2013
ICANN has just published an announcement that it expects that some new gTLD's to be approved late this year and be live in early 2013. In its new updated timeline ICANN under the date of November 30, 2012 says: ""In the ideal case, an application that has encountered no problems has passed evaluation by this date. "The applied-for string can begin a transition that will result in being … [Read more...]
Despite $100M Dollar Budget, ICANN Calls For Volunteers
In an announcement just issued by ICANN (pdf) they are calling for volunteers to "assist in the evaluation of those organizations seeking financial support to apply for a new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD)." Hum ICANN has budgeted some $100 Million dollars from incoming application fees from the new gTLD program and they are asking people to volunteer their time to evaluate applicants … [Read more...]
ICANN Opens Comment Period To Hear About Defensive New gTLD Extensions
ICANN has just opened a comment period to hear from people and companies concerned about defensive applications for new gTLD's. ""Public comment is requested as to why there may be a perceived need for defensive new gTLD applications and steps that could be considered to help alleviate this concern."" The comment period closes on February 27th. In announcing the opening of the comment … [Read more...]
Beckstrom Tells USA TODAY On New gTLD’s: “We’re improving Internet Domain Space”
In an OpEd piece published by USA Today, the CEO of ICANN Rod Beckstrom says of the new gTLD program that "It will create space on the Internet that is more secure than what exists today." "Applicants will undergo criminal background checks, financial evaluations and challenging technical assessments. More than 300 pages of rules govern the application process." "Tough standards will be a … [Read more...]
UPDATED: Reports Say ICANN’s New gTLD TAS System Is Missing Applications
According to tweets from a couple of people at NeuStar, the ICANN TAS system is having problems today. Jeff Neuman of NeuStart Tweeted today: "Check your applications in TAS. Reports of missing applications- Our application 4 .Neustar is 1 of them" ""TAS also lost our "unique" ID which we got upon paying initial 5k. We need ID to pay remainder, fill out app & see all apps."" Ken … [Read more...]
ICANN’s Beckstrom Update On New gTLD Program
I just listened in to a call with the CEO of ICANN Rod Beckstrom, on an update on the new gTLD program he gave to some bloggers. "For us, No news is good news, things are running smoothly we have not encountered any major technical or service issues." Beyond that Mr. Beckstrom was unwilling to give any updated numbers in terms of the number of applications submitted or the number of … [Read more...]