In the public forum at the ICANN Meeting, Chairman of ICANN Steve Crocker told the crowd that when it comes to excess funds coming from application fees and auction proceeds, they don't know what they are going to do with the money, only that the excess money will will not be coming back to the applicants that paid the money. "On the subject of application funds received, we heard it's not … [Read more...]
Cnet Asks Will Google Change The Domain Industry By Giving Away Domains Like .Web & .Shop For Free
In yet another story from Paul Sloan on the new gTLD space, writing for Cnet.com, Mr. Sloan looked at the 101 new gTLD applications that Google filed for under the registry it set up, Charleston Road Registry and asks will Google change the domain name industry by giving domains ending in .Home or .Web or .Shop for free. "The question is how Google would sell domain names to the … [Read more...]
ICANN Suspends Digital Archery Part of New gTLD Program Throwing Batching Process Into Limbo
Just one day after Kurt Pritz took over direct oversight of the entire New gTLD program, ICANN announced that it suspended the Digital Archery portion of the New Generic Top-level Domain Program "pending further analysis of the process", thereby throwing the whole batching process of new gTLD applications into limbo. "The primary reason is that applicants have reported that the timestamp … [Read more...]
WSJ.com: “Domain Wheeling and Dealing Applicants for New Web Extensions Head to ICANN Meeting
The Wall Street Journal just covered a story about the anticipated wheeling and dealing expecting to occur at the ICANN meeting this week. The story is entitled "Domain Wheeling and Dealing, Applicants for New Web Extensions Head to ICANN Meeting" WSJ.com "Entrepreneurs and big companies are battling one another for the rights to manage hot new Web address endings, including .app, .home and … [Read more...]
ICANN: Kurt Pritz Appointed to Take On Direct Oversight of the Entire new gTLD Program
ICANN just announced that "Kurt Pritz has been appointed to take on direct oversight of the entire New gTLD program in an interim capacity". "He will assume the responsibilities of New gTLD Program Director Michael Salazar, who has resigned, in addition to his responsibilities as Senior Vice President for Stakeholder Relations." "Kurt will remain in this interim role, building on the … [Read more...]
Paul Sloan Writes For Cnet On Amazon’s 76 New gTLD Applications: “We Want To Own Them All”
Paul Sloan just wrote a piece for Cnet.com about Amazon's 76 new gTLD applications of which all Amazon plans to run as a closed registries, meaning that no one will be able to register any domain names under any string other than Amazon that Amazon wins. "Whether it's .you, .book, .shop, or .news -- and you'll find similar language. Not just that "All domains in the .YOU registry will remain … [Read more...]
Quick Poll: Pound For Pound Whose New gTLD Strings Are The Best
Now that all of the players who applied for multiple new gTLD strings are know and the strings they applied for are on the table I figured you might want to chime in on who you thought had the best set of new gTLD strings, pound for pound, dollar for dollar (brands not included) What I mean by pound for pound is that of the company's that made application for 10 or more strings who did you … [Read more...]