39 more new gTLD's passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today and more importantly ICANN has now gotten through all the IDN applications, meaning that next week non-IDN domain names for the first time will pass initial Evaluation. All applications through the priority number of 108 have now gone through IE (but not all have passed yet) meaning next week we will see the first non-IDN new gTLD … [Read more...]

There are now a total of 54 community & and limited public interest objections filed with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) , which is 26 more objections filed since last reported. While most of the 1st 28 objections were filed by the Independent Objector appointed by ICANN, this group which includes objections to .lotto, .basketball, .game, .gold, .insure and .insurance to name a … [Read more...]

In a letter sent to ICANN by The US Commerce Department's Lawrence Strickling to Steve Crocker, Commerce made it clear that the US Government was not backing the United States Postal Service (USPS) objections to the new gTLD applications for .Mail Last week we told you that the USPS filed a Legal Rights Objection with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against all seven … [Read more...]

Bridgestone Corporation has withdrawn an application for the new gTLD IDN string of 普利司通 with ICANN. The application which has a prioritization number of 1769. According to the application: .普利司通 are the Chinese characters representing “Bridgestone”, meant to be read roughly similar to the pronunciation of “Bridgestone” in English. "The string doesnʹt hold any particular meaning in … [Read more...]

32 objections on new gTLD applications filed with the International Centre For Dispute Resolution, based string confusion, are now reflected on their website. The objection process is part of the ICANN new gTLD program. Some of the objections as we noted a couple of weeks ago were filed by Verisign,Inc. who is up objecting to 13 new gTLD applications including: … [Read more...]

4 more new gTLD's applications have been withdrawn bringing the total of withdrawn application to 38. The additional applications showing as being withdrawn as of tonight are: 欧莱雅 filed by L'Oréal with prioritization number of 72. This is an interesing one as it was expected to be in intital Evaluation with this Friday's ICANN release and therefore the applicant elected to take the 70% … [Read more...]

ICANN has just posted the  Revised Registry Agreement for Review "In the interest of transparency and accountability ICANN is providing the latest revision of the previously posted "Revised New gTLD Registry Agreement" for the community’s information and review." "This revision reflects the inputs and comments received from our stakeholders and other members of the community." "We have … [Read more...]