3 More new gTLD applications have been withdrawn on the ICANN site. C.V. TLDcare out of the Netherlands withdrew its two new gTLD applications for .Ltd and .Inc Prioritization numbers for the two applications were 1,381 and 1,503 respectively Afilias, also withdrew its application for the .Mail new gTLD which had a prioritization number of 1,724 This marks the second withdrawn … [Read more...]
Radix Withdraws New gTLD Application For .Movie
Radix which had applied for 31 new gTLD's has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .Movie. Radix application for .Movie had a prioritization number of 592. There are 7 other applicants for the .movie new gTLD including Google, Amazon, Famous Four, Straat Investments which is associated with the .Co registry, Donuts and Dish Network. Radix announced a month ago that it was joining … [Read more...]
38 More New gTLD Pass IE: .Paris; .Forex; .Cpa; .Airforce, .Guide, .Melbourne
38 More new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation Today. Heading the list are the Geo's of .Paris (which had been earlier passed over on its turn) .Melbourne and .Durban Other generics passing IE include Amazon's (AMZN) applications for .Talk and .Silk, Google's (GOOG) applications for .Cal, and .Cpa Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) application for .Airforce. ICANN has now evaluated … [Read more...]
.Sexy Is Just For The Sexy People
Unregistry in a Press Release put everyone on notice that the new gTLD .Sexy will be for only the Sexy people: ""Uniregistry, the Cayman based new gTLD applicant, has announced new registration requirements to improve quality and combat abuse in their pending .sexy TLD. " "The new eligibility requirements will restrict registration in .sexy to registrants who are actually sexy. " "Upon … [Read more...]
Pinky Brand Predicts 408.5 Million Domains By The End Of 2016, 73.6M New gTLD’s
Pinky Brand just published some bold predictions for the number of domain names that will exist in 2016 including registrations from new gTLD's. For those that don't know, Pinky is one of the founders of .mobi, which is "today ranked in the top 30 off the roughly 268 existing TLDs worldwide with nearly 1.1 million active domains in the zone." "So what kind of market share can we expect by … [Read more...]
30 More gTLD Pass: .xBox, .Merck, .Thai, .Fire; .Cloud; .News; .Gripe; .Virgin; .Cars
30 more new gTLD applications passed Initial Evaluation (IE) today by ICANN. In all 245 new gTLD applications out of the first 300 reviewed have passed IE. Some of the applications passing IE today included Microsoft's application for .xBox; Amazon's application for .Cloud, .Fire, .Deal and .Room; .Thai, the brand application for one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies .Merck; … [Read more...]
Guest Post: Has ICANN Already Taken the GAC’s Advice on “Closed Generic” gTLDs?
This is a guest post By Philip S. Corwin, Esq, Founding Principal, Virtualaw LLC; Of Counsel, Greenberg & Lieberman; and Strategic Advisor, ICANN Sherpa TheDomains.com publishes Guest Posts from time to time, by well known leaders and authorities in the domain industry. As always Guest Posts are posted in their entirety … [Read more...]