ICANN has just published an announcement that it expects that some new gTLD's to be approved late this year and be live in early 2013. In its new updated timeline ICANN under the date of November 30, 2012 says: ""In the ideal case, an application that has encountered no problems has passed evaluation by this date. "The applied-for string can begin a transition that will result in being … [Read more...]
ICANN Opens Comment Period To Hear About Defensive New gTLD Extensions
ICANN has just opened a comment period to hear from people and companies concerned about defensive applications for new gTLD's. ""Public comment is requested as to why there may be a perceived need for defensive new gTLD applications and steps that could be considered to help alleviate this concern."" The comment period closes on February 27th. In announcing the opening of the comment … [Read more...]
Hawaii Proposes Bill To Force State To Apply For New gTLD’s; 1 Of Which Isn’t Even Allowed
A bill just proposed in the Hawaii state legislature seeks to require the Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to make application for the new gTLD's of .hawaii, .hi, and .aloha. One of the TLD the legislature is requiring the state to apply for .Hi isn't even available to be applied for under the Guidebook so if they make application for it, they will basically be … [Read more...]
UPDATED: Reports Say ICANN’s New gTLD TAS System Is Missing Applications
According to tweets from a couple of people at NeuStar, the ICANN TAS system is having problems today. Jeff Neuman of NeuStart Tweeted today: "Check your applications in TAS. Reports of missing applications- Our application 4 .Neustar is 1 of them" ""TAS also lost our "unique" ID which we got upon paying initial 5k. We need ID to pay remainder, fill out app & see all apps."" Ken … [Read more...]
ICANN’s Beckstrom Update On New gTLD Program
I just listened in to a call with the CEO of ICANN Rod Beckstrom, on an update on the new gTLD program he gave to some bloggers. "For us, No news is good news, things are running smoothly we have not encountered any major technical or service issues." Beyond that Mr. Beckstrom was unwilling to give any updated numbers in terms of the number of applications submitted or the number of … [Read more...]
Sedari Working On .Moscow Application
According to a press release we were sent today, Sedari, a consulting and technology company focusing on TLD Business Management has been engaged by the Foundation for Assistance for Internet Technologies and Infrastructure Development (FAITID), a not-for-profit Russian foundation which is preparing applications for the .MOSCOW and .MOCKBA (in Cyrillic) top-level domain names. The … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines To Submit Its “First Batch” Of Applications For 20 New gTLD Strings
According to a press release today Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM:TLDH.L) "will shortly be purchasing its first batch of twenty application slots for new gTLDs on behalf of itself and clients of Minds + Machines." "This first tranche will include slots for client applications for geographic-based gTLDs and generic words." "The Company expects to submit multiple batches for … [Read more...]