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…
Category: New gTLD’s
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…