104 new gTLD's passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today. The highlights for this week include the one of the most beautiful cities in the world .Sydney and some applications filed by Google's Charleston Road Registry Inc which had been passed over in some previous weeks IE results including .Gmail; .Wow; .FYI; .Shop; .Fun .Fly and .RSVP Other interesting new gTLD applications passing this … [Read more...]
Tucows Follows Uniregistry & Withdraws Two gTLD Applications .Media & .Marketing Leaving Donuts The Only Applicant
Three more new gTLD applications were withdrawn with ICANN today and two are very interesting. Tucows, Inc. withdrew two of its new gTLD applications one for .Media, just one week after another applicant Uniregistry dropped their application for .Media. and .Marketing just a little over a month after Uniregistry dropped their application for .Marketing. Tucows application for .Media had … [Read more...]
4 More Legal Rights Objections Denied At WIPO: 17 Objections, 17 Thrown out: .Song; .YellowPages; .Cam
Earlier today we wrote about two Legal Right Objections (LRO) that were denied at WIPO one for .GMBH and the 5th objection filed be Defender against an applicant for .Home Since then three more decisions came out all against the objectors on the strings .Song; .YellowPages and .Cam The objection to .Song was brought by DotMusic Limited of Lemesos, Cyprus, which is owned by Mr. Constantine … [Read more...]
WIPO Rejects 13th & 14th Legal Rights Objections To New gTLD’s on .GMBH & Another The 5th On .Home
WIPO today released two more Legal Rights Objections (LRO) decisions today and for the 13th and 14th time ruled against the Objector. Objectors are now 0-14 at WIPO on Legal Rights Objections A WIPO panel ruled against Defender Security Company for the new gTLD .home for the 5th time. Defender filed 9 LRO to the other applicants for .Home. In the other WIPO decision today TLDDOT GmbH, … [Read more...]
Afternic To Provide New gTLD .Kiwi Reserve Lists Of Premium Domains
Afternic, today announced a strategic partnership with Dot Kiwi Ltd, the applicant for the new Top Level Domain (TLD) .KIWI. Afternic has been selected by Dot Kiwi to to create reserve lists for their new TLD and "provide definition and valuation services for .KIWI premium domains, expected to launch in late 2013". The .KIWI registry will offer New Zealand businesses greater branding … [Read more...]
Juan Calle On Plans For Future Growth Of The .Co Registry: “We’re Doubling Down on Our Target Market”
Juan Diego Calle the CEO of the company that operates the .CO registry, just published a post on the .Co blog in part laying out plans for future growth of the .CO registry and of its parent company Straat as it moves into the new gTLD program. Here is a portion of the post: We’re Doubling Down on Our Target Market. First, we’re putting more emphasis than ever on our target market of … [Read more...]
.Christmas Comes Early As 89 New gTLD Pass IE: .Madrid; .Nokia; .Audi; .Xfinity; .Faith; .Brother; .Dupont; .WTF
Christmas came early for Frank Schilling's Uniregistry whose new gTLD application for .Christmas was one of the 89 to pass ICANN's Initial Evaluation (IE) today Other application passing IE of note today were: The Gergraphic application by the city of Madrid for .Madrid The Brand applications for .Nokia by the cell phone maker; .Xfinity submitted by Comcast; .Dupont by the global … [Read more...]