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ICANN Approves $200 Million Dollar Budget for 2014; 306 Employees & Still No Revenue From New gTLD Auctions
August 27, 2013 @ 1:47 PMICANN just approved its 2014 budget which is coming in at over $200,000,000 in revenue. The budget anticipates ICANN staff growing to over 300 people but the real kicker, in our opinion is that ICANN still has virtually no revenue allocated coming in from the “Last Resort” New gTLD auctions…
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Registries Stakeholder Group (Rysg) Supports NTAG Letter On Name Collision; Except for Verisign
August 27, 2013 @ 9:02 AMIn a comment posted on ICANN website concerning the new gTLD name collision report, the Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) issued a consensus statement that they support the letter submitted by the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) asking ICANN to allow the 20% of new gTLD applications classified as :Unknown Risk” In the Collision Report To Move Forward…
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Daniel Negari Has Bold Ambitions for Changing The Domain Space With .xyz
August 27, 2013 @ 8:17 AMDaniel Negari is on a mission to brand .xyz as the go-to domain name. He has big ambitions, and he’s not afraid of putting his money where his mouth is. At just 27 years old, Daniel Negari has already proven his knack for smart investments. He’s built up both a physical real estate portfolio and […]
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Roussos Loses Last .music LRO
August 27, 2013 @ 7:46 AMConstantine Roussos’ DotMusic Ltd has lost its seventh and final Legal Rights Objection against rival .music applicants. In the decision in DotMusic Ltd v DotMusic Inc, published (pdf) this hour, WIPO panelist Mark Partridge ruled: the Panel is compelled to conclude that the Objector lacks enforceable rights. The term “.music” (or “dotMusic”) would in the […]
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30 Community and Limited Public Interest Objections Withdrawn
August 27, 2013 @ 6:41 AM30 new top level domain name objections filed with the International Chamber of Commerce have been terminated. Objectors have withdrawn 30 new TLD objections filed with the International Chamber of Commerce as of yesterday, according to the group’s updated list of objections. 27 are community objections and three are limited public interest objections. Although some […]
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ICANN Renews Contracts for .org, .biz, and .info
August 27, 2013 @ 5:54 AMNew registry agreements don’t include URS, but do include 10% annual price hikes. ICANN’s Board of Directors approved the renewal of contracts for .org, .biz, and .info last week. The board declined to add a provision to the contracts that could require the registry operators to add Uniform Rapid Suspension in the future. The Intellectual […]
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All gTLD Confusion Decisions in One Handy Chart
August 27, 2013 @ 4:08 AMDirk Krischenowski of DotBerlin has produced an interesting chart plotting all the new gTLD string confusion decisions to come out of ICANN and its objection panels to date. He’s kindly allowed us to reproduce it here. Click to enlarge. Each string-pair’s percentage of similarity, as determined by the Sword algorithm, determines its position on the […]
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ICANN's Name Collision Plan “Creates Risk of Abuse”
August 27, 2013 @ 3:09 AMOne of ICANN’s proposed methods of reducing the risk of name collisions in new gTLDs actually may create its own “significant risk for abuse”, according to RIPE NCC. Asking registry operators to send a notification to the owner of IP address blocks that have done look-ups of their TLD before it is delegated risks creating […]
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15 New gTLD Applications Enter Extended Evaluation
August 27, 2013 @ 1:09 AMThe first batch of new gTLD applications have officially entered the Extended Evaluation stage of the process. Fifteen bids that failed to achieve passing scores during Initial Evaluation are now taking a second crack at getting approved. Extended Evaluation is voluntary but in most cases — such as when additional financial or geographic support information […]
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Breaking: .com Domain Name Registrations Top 110 Million Mark for The 1st Time
August 27, 2013 @ 1:04 AMFor the first time in the history of the Internet there are no more than 110,000,000 .com domain names registered according to Verisign. As of 8:36:10 AM UTC there are now over 110,024,017 active .com domain names registered…
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