The WasingtonPost.com, published a story this morning on the front page of its print edition, about Donuts, Inc and its application to operate 307 new gTLD's entitled: Donuts Inc.’s major play for new Web domain names raises fears of fraud The story throws around some serious allegations about Donuts including that they have "close ties to a company with a well-documented history of … [Read more...]
Consumer Watchdog Tell Senator Rockefeller To Block Google & Amazon’s New gTLD Applications
Consumer Watchdog today urged Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D –W.VA) to block attempts by Google and Amazon to acquire the new gTLD's they applied for through Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In a letter to Sen. Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, John M. Simpson, Consumer Watchdog's Privacy Project director wrote: "If these … [Read more...]
Business Constituency Asks ICANN To Extend Objection Period On New gTLD’s Until June/July 2013
Marilyn Cade the Chair of the Business Constituency (the BC) has asked ICANN to extend the formal objection period for new gTLD's which currently ends on January 12, 2013 until June/July 2013. The formal objection period should not be confused with the comment period currently ongoing where people can post comments to ICANN site on the new gTLD program or on a particular applicant or … [Read more...]
Brand Owners Write To Dept Of Commerce: Want No Cost URS, Loser Pays Model, TM Blocks & More
The United States Brand Owner Summit sent to the United States Department of Commerce asking the Government for new protections in the roll out of the new gTLD's program. The letter which is called "NEW gTLD RECOMMENDATIONS TO STRENGTHEN SECOND-LEVEL RIGHTS PROTECTION MECHANISMS" was sent to Lawrence E. Strickling the Assistant Secretary for Communications & Information National … [Read more...]
Top 50 Most Pre-Registered New gTLD’s Domain Names From UnitedDomains.com
UnitedDomains.com an ICANN accredited registrar has taken almost 850,000 "pre-registrations" of new gTLD's domain names. The registrar has been publishing a top 10 list of the new gTLD's by number of "pre-registrations" now has a top 50 list. The numbers are in real time so they are valid as of time of publication. As we always point out there is no charge to pre-register a new gTLD at … [Read more...]
Donuts, Inc., Applicant for the New gTLD .City Says Its Not Confusing Similar To .Citi
In a comment posted on ICANN site today Donuts, Inc. which has applied for the new gTLD .City, weighted in on whether the new gTLD's of .Citi and .City are similarly confusing In Donuts opinion that they are not. Writing for Donuts, Inc. was Richard Tindal said: "Donuts agrees with Citigroup's comment that .CITY and .CITI are visually dissimilar. The Citigroup comment correctly states … [Read more...]
MIT Rips ICANN’s Over New gTLD Program: “ICANN’s Boondoggle”
MIT just published a post ripping ICANN for what it calls ICANN's Boondoggle referring to the new gTLD program. "ICANN is itself a monopoly. It has the freedom to mint new gTLDs and incorporate them into the "root zone file," the master list that matches human-readable URLs (such as www.technologyreview.com) with the numeric Internet Protocol addresses that are used to route packets between … [Read more...]