The Government Advisory Council (GAC) to ICANN issued 242 early warnings to new gTLD applicants tonight involving 145 strings. After a quick review, The government of Australia seems to have issued the most early warnings with Germany and India following. The United States only issued a few early warnings, but they included Demand Media,Inc (DMD) applications for .Army, .Navy and … [Read more...]
Did TechCrunch Just Tip Everyone Off On How Amazon Plans To Use The New gTLD’s They Applied For?
An Article today in TechCrunch.com talks, about Amazon rolling out its 'Pages" project and how that that might be how at least some of the new gTLD's they applied for will be used by the company. "The company is quietly pushing a service called Amazon Pages, which lets companies set up their own pages on Amazon.com as “custom destinations,” complete with www.amazon.com/brandname URLs and … [Read more...]
CNET: Russian Continuing To Push To Take Over Control Of Domain Naming System From ICANN
According to a story published in Cnet.com last night, according to " documents leaked on Friday from an upcoming treaty conference, the Russian Federation is calling on the United Nations to take over key aspects of Internet governance, including addressing and naming. "The Russians made their proposal on November 13 in the lead-up to December's World Conference on International Communications … [Read more...]
ICANN CEO: Until the first new gTLD is Delegated, Akram Attalah & I Will Personally Oversee the Whole New gTLD Program
According to a blog post by the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehadé, he and Akram Attalah will "personally oversee the whole new gTLD program until the 1st new gTLD is delegated. This comes only days after Kurt Pritz who was heading up the new gTLD program resigned from ICANN due to a still undisclosed conflict of interest. The rest of the blog post was on his meeting he had this past week on the … [Read more...]
Guest Post: Clarifying Clarifying Financial Questions: What New gTLD Applicants Need To Do To Pass Evaluation
This is a guest post by Phil Buckingham, CEO Dot Advice Ltd. Mr Buckingham was involved at the start of the DNS in the UK in 1995, as CFO of Netnames, the pioneering corporate domain portfolio registrar. Mr Buckingham was involved in the Financial Evaluation process, served on ICANN’s GNSO Vertical Integration WG. Dot Advice Ltd provides applicant advice and develops fully integrated gTLD … [Read more...]
BusinessWeek Becomes Lastest Publication To Raise Concern Over Donuts & Demand
Donuts, Inc., the largest applicant under ICANN's new gTLD program has just been covered again by a major publication, this time by BusinessWeek.com in a story entitled: "Donuts’ Grab for Domains Raises Fears of Cybersquatting" "Stoler, the McCarter & English lawyer, said in his July letter to Icann that Donuts has clear links to Demand Media and its subsidiaries, which have received … [Read more...]
Right Of The Dot™ Teams up with Escrow.com™ To Provide Neutral Auction & Mediation Resolution for gTLD String Contention
According to a Press Release out today RightOfTheDot ,LLC, announced their independent private auction resolution and mediation services for competing gTLD applicants. ""Hot on the heels of ICANN’s welcome announcement of the drawing process, Right Of The Dot is launching a private auction and mediation service to accelerate the process of settling claims between applicants for the same new gTLD … [Read more...]