The fallout from the .Sport objection continues as 12 new gTLD applicants sent a letter to ICANN today signed "expressing our ever-growing concerns relating to the Community Objection process". A ICC panel upheld the objection of SportAccord to Famous Four application for .Sport finding that SportAccord represented the community of "Sports" The letter was signed by Radix Registry and … [Read more...]
Demand Media’s Domain Services Spinoff Is Rightside.co & Names Taryn Naidu As CEO
Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD), that it has selected the name Rightside Group, Ltd. (“Rightside”) for the spun off domain services business. The company is going with the domain name Rightside.co. Taryn Naidu, who currently serves as Demand Media’s Executive Vice President of Domain Services, will become the CEO and a Director of the newly formed domain services company … [Read more...]
Epik Starts Charging $199 For New gTLD’s Pre-Reservations
Epik is taking pre-reservations for new gTLD's and are charging for it I just got this email from Epik.com: Hello, "I am contacting you in regards to your domain name VETERINARYDENTIST.COM. As you may be aware, starting this Fall, the world of domain names is undergoing a very significant change. After more than 20 years of .COM, a much larger selection of descriptive domains will become … [Read more...]
ICANN Issues Rules For Last Resort Auction But Fails To Address Many Of Applicants Concerns
ICANN published rules for its Last Resort auction last night. To bid in an auction each applicant will have to put up 10% of its maximum bid and if they want to bid an unlimited amount or more than $20 Million they have to put up $2 million per string. Under the rules applicants will not be able to '"share" the deposit (although once concluded the money can be moved to another auction) … [Read more...]
Famous Four On .Sport Decision “We Will Rigorously Pursue All Legal Avenues To Have It Reversed”
Famous Four Media issued a statement on the ICC decision granting an objection to Famous Four Applications for .Sport, finding that the other applicant for the gTLD. Sport, SportAccord represented the community of Sports, saying that they intend to "rigorously pursue all available legal avenues available to it to have the decision independently reviewed by ICANN and/or others as the case may be, … [Read more...]
Wrap Up From OTA’s New gTLD Domain Collisions Workshop: Collision Issue Is Like Y2K
The Online Trust Alliance's (OTA) held a new gTLD Domain Collisions Workshop yesterday in Herndon, VA over what "many stakeholders believe there are significant risks of "domain collisions" occurring with the introduction of the new gTLD's The workshop ran well over 7 hours and the overriding theme is that the domain collision issue is a lot like Y2K. Domain collisions are the result of a … [Read more...]
WOW: ICC Upholds Community Objection Of SportsAccord To Famous Four’s App For New gTLD .Sport
The ICC has Upheld the Community Objection of SportAccord against the application of Famous Four for the new gTLD .Sport SportAccord is also an applicant for the new gTLD .Sport, actually the only other applicant for .Sport so what this ruling means if it stands, is that Famous Four's application for .Sport will be rejected and SportAccord will wind up with the new gTLD .Sport. The ICC panel … [Read more...]