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Artemis Signs 30 Anchor Tenants for .secure gTLD
July 3, 2013 @ 10:08 PMArtemis, the NCC Group subsidiary applying for .secure, says it has signed up 30 big-name customers for its expensive, high-security new gTLD offering. CTO Alex Stamos said that the list includes three “too big to fail” banks and three of the four largest social networking companies. They’ve all signed letters of intent to use .secure […]
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New gTLD Program Committee Tells ICANN Not to Contract With Apps for Strings With Gac Safeguard Advice
July 3, 2013 @ 9:10 PMIn a resolution tonight, the New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) told ICANN to “defer moving forward with the contracting process for applicants who have applied for TLD strings listed in the GAC‘s Category 1 Safeguard Advice, pending a dialogue with the GAC”. The dialogue with the GAC is according to the resolution to be held at the ICANN Meeting in Durban which is from July 14 – 18th, 2013…
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Allstate Withdraws 2 New gTLD Applications
July 3, 2013 @ 3:28 PMTwo more new gTLD application were withdrawn today as reflected on the ICANN site.
Allstate Insurance withdrew .carinsurance and .Autoinsurance. Both were to be operated as closed generic gTLD’s “opened only to restricted to AFCIC and its qualified subsidiaries, affiliates, business partners or others having the Required Agreement. The registry will be closed to registrants who do not have a formal, written agreement from AFCIC or an affiliate of AFCIC, specifically allowing the registration of a second-level domain names”… -
U.S. Wine Group Questions GAC Advice On .wine and .vin Domain Names
July 3, 2013 @ 11:19 AMWine Institute questions GAC concerns about geographic second level domains under .wine and .vin. A trade group for the California wine industry has sent an e-mail to ICANN Chairman of the Board Dr. Stephen Crocker questioning the GAC’s advice regarding the .wine and .vin domain names. Wine Institute Director of International Trade Policy Tom LaFaille […]
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97 New gTLD Applicants Get Pass From ICANN
July 3, 2013 @ 9:36 AMICANN has just released this week’s batch of Initial Evaluation results, with 97 passing applications to report. The results were published a couple of days early due to the Independence Day holiday in the US. There were no failures this week. The following applications received passing scores and proceed to the next phase of the […]
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75 Stories Published By Mainstream Media On .nyc in Less Than 24 Hours
July 3, 2013 @ 6:21 AMSince the city of New York let everyone know yesterday, that their application for .NYC passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE), which actually occurred on May 24th, 75 media outlets from the BBC to PC Magazine, to Time Magazine, Cnet, to FastCompany.com to Mashable.com, to the WashingtonPost.com, have covered the story with more being added hourly…
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ICANN Board Approves New TLD Registry Agreement
July 3, 2013 @ 6:11 AMBoard approves agreement that will govern new top level domain operators. The New gTLD Program Committee of the ICANN Board of Directors has approved the registry agreement that will be signed by most new TLD operators. The 93 page agreement governs how top level domain operators must manage their namespaces, fees they’ll pay ICANN, and […]
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New gTLD Registry Contract Approved, But Applicants Left Hanging By GAC Advice
July 3, 2013 @ 5:13 AMICANN has approved the standard registry contract for new gTLD registries after many months of controversy. But its New gTLD Program Committee has also decided to put hundreds more applications on hold, pending talks with the Governmental Advisory Committee about its recent objections. The new Registry Agreement is the baseline contract for all new gTLD […]
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Network Solution Offers Expiration Protection
July 2, 2013 @ 10:17 AMCompany charges $9.99 to renew your domain name for another year in case you forget. As Web.com points out frequently on its investor conference calls, it believes that it has room to grow its cross selling activities to existing customers. This latest sales pitch gave me a good laugh. Network Solutions (owned by Web.com) is […]
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GNSO Still Breathing As ICANN Retracts “Flawed” Trademark+50 Thinking
July 2, 2013 @ 4:12 AMThe Generic Names Supporting Organization isn’t dead after all. ICANN’s Board Governance Committee has retracted a document related to new gTLD trademark protections that some on the GNSO Council believed spelled the end of the multistakeholder model as we know it. The BGC, in rejecting a formal Reconsideration Request related to the “Trademark+50″ mechanism, had […]
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