There are some interesting numbers coming out of the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) Session at the ICANN meeting today To date there are 71 active trademark agents in TMCH To dare there are 323 trademark holders that have successfully created an account with the Trademark Clearinghouse. "There are about 140 trademark accounts that are in the pipeline, meaning they are -- either they … [Read more...]
2 More Objections Hit The ICC: .Rugby & .Insurance
A couple of more objection have hit the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) site today as part of ICANN new gTLD program The International Rugby Board filed a Community Objection to .Rugby, and the American Insurance Association filed yet another objection to .Insurance. The two are in addition to the 66 objections we noted that were posted on the ICC site 5 days ago. Including this … [Read more...]
GAC Is Concerned About Plural & Singular Generic New gTLD’s
The Government Advisory Council (GAC) has an open meeting with the ICANN Board late yesterday afternoon in Beijing and shared some of its concerns with the Board. The GAC is quite concerned about plural and singular generic new gTLD's and that they weren't placed into contention sets using .car and .cars as an example. This is the same criticism that TheDomains.com had when the contention … [Read more...]
Google Lays Out Plans For A “Dotless .Search” New gTLD
In a letter to ICANN today Google laid out its plan on how it plans on operating 4 new gTLD that it applied for as a closed Registry with the most interesting being plans for .Search which is plans on operating "a redirect service on the “dotless” .search domain (http://search/)." "To further elaborate on our plans to amend these applications, I am including a brief summary of our revised … [Read more...]
Donuts Secures Additional New gTLD Funding For Auctions
Donuts Inc., the applicant for the largest number of new gTLD strings, announced tonight that is has closed on "Series B equity investment which was "oversubscribed" and which "nearly doubles our capacity to compete". The investment round was "led by existing investor Generation Partners, at twice the valuation of the initial Series A round, as well as additional financing from Columbia … [Read more...]
ICANN: All New gTLD Initial Evaluations Should Be Completed By End Of August
ICANN now says they will be done with the Initial Evaluation for new all new gTLD applications by the end of August 2013 The statements came in a session from the ICANN Beijing meeting, entitled "New gTLD Program Status ICANN released some other important dates and time frames for the new gTLD process: "ICANN will publish all objections on new gTLD applications by this Friday April 12, … [Read more...]
66 More Objections To New gTLD: .Shop, .Search, .Book, .Music, .Cloud ++
66 More Community Objection to New gTLD applications have hit the official site of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Objectors include Ralph Lauren which objected to .polo; TD Ameritrade which objected to .MutualFunds, .IRA, .Broker and .Retirement; American Association of Independent Music which objected to .Band, .Song, .Tunes and .Music; the Universal Postal Union which objected to … [Read more...]