Donuts the largest applicant for new gTLD program has passed the Initial Evaluation of ICANN new gTLD program. Donuts applied for 307 new gTLD domain names including the IDN for the string: 商店 This is the first new gTLD application filed by Donuts to be evaluated by ICANN. As part of the initial evaluation, ICANN had to determine if each applicant has meet all the requirements to operate … [Read more...]
CORRECTION: Famous Four Did Not File Any Objections To .Music or .Song
Earlier today we incorrectly reported that Famous Four filed an objection to the other 7 applicants for the .Music gTLD's and to the .Song new gTLD filed by Amazon. Famous Four did not file the objections. The Objection were filed by DotMusic Limited a company whois is affiliated to Constantine Roussos which is another applicant for .Music Famous Four whose application for .Music is … [Read more...]
4 More New gTLD Applications Withdraw Making It An Even 30
Four more new gTLD application have been withdrawn, reflected on ICANN's website bringing the number of withdrawn applications to an even 30. The newly withdrawn applications are for .GDN; .OVERHEIDNL; .GUARDIANMEDIA and .SVR All but .Overheidnl seem to be Brand applications. As initial evaluations (IE) from ICANN are due out any day, we many see a rush of withdrawals as applicants at … [Read more...]
17 New gTLD Objections Filed At WIPO: Including .Vip; .Food; .Now
17 more Legal Rights Objections have been filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization: (WIPO) today largely filled with one applicant for a particular gTLD filing a Right's Objection to all the other applicants for the same string. This is in addition to the 10 objections reflected on WIPO's site yesterday. Including in today's update is objections filed to 5 applications for … [Read more...]
ICANN: Objections To New gTLD’s Will Not Be Fully Posted Until Mid-April
Although the objection period for the new gTLD's closed on March 13th, tonight ICANN stated that it will not post all objections across all Dispute Resolution Service Providers until mid-April ""The period for filing formal objections to new generic Top-Level Domains began on 13 June 2012 and closed on 13 March 2013 at 23:59 UTC."" "ICANN will post a list of all Objections filed across all … [Read more...]
10 New Objections Filed: Google & Donuts Get Hit On Goo: .Coach
10 new Legal Rights Objections to gTLD applications have been filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), hitting Google and Donuts among others. Google was hit with an objection for the new gTLD .Goo by NTT Resonant Inc which operates a internet search engine and web portal based in Japan, which crawls and indexes primarily Japanese language websites known as … [Read more...]
FairSearch.Org Files Objections To Google’s New gTLD Apps For .Search .Fly & .Map
FairSeach.Org, which has support from Microsoft Corp. Oracle Corp and Nokia has filed objections to Google’s request to control new top-level domains “.search,” “.fly” and “.map” ICANN accepting Google’s application will enable the dominant search provider to “gain an unfair competitive advantage against other members of this community through the improper grant of a perpetual monopoly of … [Read more...]