Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
A fourth draft of ICANN’s New gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook has been released.
In addition to the Applicant Guidebook, ICANN has also published summaries and analysis of the public comment period.
The latest version includes:
Incorporation of trademark protections, including improvements to the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS), the Trademark Clearinghouse (TM Clearinghouse), and ...
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
In a recent survey of MarkMonitor’s global corporate client base*, nearly 22% of respondents stated that their companies are intending to apply for a new gTLD.
Twenty-three percent stated that their companies did not intend to apply for a new gTLD, while more than 55% still did not know which route ...
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
For those closely following the ICANN Meeting in Nairobi this week, the EOI (Expression of Interest) model seemed like a foregone conclusion. In fact, ICANN had scheduled a webinar on March 18th to explain the process despite the complaints of the community and large-scale disagreement amongst proponents of the EOI.
As ...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
Today ICANN published a draft model for soliciting Expressions of Interest for new generic top-level domains. According to the model, parties interested in submitting applications to acquire new gTLDs will be required to provide basic information about the application and a deposit of $55,000 which can be used as a ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
To say that it’s been quite a year in the world of domain names would be an understatement. From compromised ccTLD registries, to the delay of new gTLDs, some of the events of the past year have been surprising, while others could easily have been predicted.
Regardless of whether you could ...
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
For years, corporate domain name administrators have scoffed at every new second-level and third-level ccTLD liberalization, and rightly so. Until recently, most had continued the practice of registering significant numbers of variations, misspellings and typo-squats.
While I have never encouraged the practice of registering every variation in every geography, as this becomes ...
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
In a recent Washington Post article, Rod Beckstrom, former Director of the National Cyber Security Center and ICANN’s newly appointed CEO, provided his initial views on ICANN, and its plans for the launch of new gTLDs.
According to the article, Mr. Beckstrom said that he was “a bit overwhelmed by the ...
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Yesterday, ICANN released Preliminary Report of Dennis Carlton Regarding Impact of New gTLDs on Consumer Welfare and Preliminary Analysis of Dennis Carlton Regarding Price Caps for New gTLD Internet Registries.
Commissioned by ICANN, these reports were prepared by Dennis Carlton, an independent third-party, who is a Professor of Economics at the ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
The top-level domain process is going forward but will likely be delayed. Original estimates were that the application process would begin this spring. However, in an advertisement in the current issue of the Economist magazine, ICANN stated that the new top-level domain process will commence in the second half of ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Last week, ICANN released a draft of the Applicant Guidebook for new top-level domains. The draft answers many of the questions our customers have asked.
Most rights holders will be immediately interested in the modules covering the application process and fees (module 1), evaluation procedures (module 2) and the dispute ...
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