As part of its Webinar today ICANN laid out a "best case scenario" for when the first new gTLD's might roll out. According to a time line laid out by ICANN the first new gTLD could be delegated to the root by as early as August 28, 2013 in which event the Sunrise notice for trademark and other rights holders for the new gTLD could start the following day August 29th. Based on that time line … [Read more...]
ICANN New gTLD Contention Auctions To Start In October
During a Webinar today, ICANN announced it is intending to hold the first round of the ICANN Last Resort auction starting in October for those Contention sets which DO NOT include community applications. Auctions are also not expected for strings that have outstanding objections in the first group of strings. Under the ICANN Guidebook, Last resort auctions are to be held in groups at set … [Read more...]
Radix Withdraws Its 2nd Application .Play & Starting Dot Withdraws .Design
Two more new gTLD application were withdrawn on ICANN's site tonight making the total of new gTLD applications that have been withdrawn to 71. Radix which is part of the Directi Group which originally applied for 31 new gTLD's, withdrew its application for .Play. Radix is now down to 29 applications as it withdrew its application for the new gTLD .Movie a few weeks ago. Like with .Movie, … [Read more...]
Famous Four Applicant for new gTLD .Rugby Launches .Rugby Council
Dot Rugby Limited, which has submitted its application to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to operate the .Rugby top-level domain (gTLD), today announced the launch of the .Rugby Governance Council. Worldwide rugby stakeholders are being invited to contribute their perspective on the direction of the .Rugby gTLD, including advice on best practices for the sport's premier … [Read more...]
Private New gTLD Auctions Are Underway
According to ApplicantAuction.com the first private auction for new gTLD strings are underway. Although other than .Club which publicly announced it would be participating in the auction which started today, there hasn't been any public announcement on how many other auctions are going on or what the string are. Both Donuts and Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) announced it was entering the private … [Read more...]
TLDH Raises Another $10 Million For New gTLD Auctions
Top Level Domain Holdings just annoucned they have raised an additional $10 million (approximately £6.6 million) conditionally raised from institutional and other investors and directors for new gTLD auctions and to be used for launch and marketing of .london. ""The Board of Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM:TLDH.L), is pleased to announce that the Company has today conditionally placed … [Read more...]
ICANN Appoints First Two New gTLD Data Escrow Agents
ICANN announced today that it has selected the first two new gTLD Data escrow agents. All new gTLD registry operators will be required to regularly deposit a backup copy of their TLD registration data through one of the approved data escrow service providers. The data held in escrow may be released to ICANN under certain circumstances in order to preserve the stability of the TLD in case of … [Read more...]