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Kuek Yu-Chuang to Lead ICANN’s Asia Engagement Strategy
June 6, 2013 @ 6:01 AMKuek Yu-Chuang, a leading executive in technology policy development has been named Vice President for Global Stakeholder Engagement for the Asia Region. He will assume the role on August 1st, 2013. Kuek has served most recently as a Senior Director …
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27 Investors Chip $7 Million Into .club As It Wins Private TLD Auction
June 6, 2013 @ 5:56 AM.Club applicant eliminates competition and raises $7 million to launch top level domain. .Club Domains, LLC has raised a combined $7 million from 27 individual investors and has eliminated its competition for the .club top level domain through a private auction. The new top level domain applicant recently filed its SEC Form D to raise […]
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.club Domains Wins The New gTLD .club “In Historic First Private Auction”
June 6, 2013 @ 4:54 AM.Club Domains, LLC announced today they have won the rights to the new generic top level domain (gTLD) name .CLUB. The .CLUB name was obtained in the first private auction to be completed since ICANN began the new gTLD process. The other applicants for .Club that participated in the private auction was Donuts and the Merchant Law Group LLP…
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Heads Up, .gmbh Applicants: This Trademark Application is Slipping Through The Cracks
June 6, 2013 @ 4:20 AM.GMBH applicant’s trademark application approved for publishing. I’ve written numerous times about companies trying to trademark top level domain name strings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Although the USPTO won’t grant trademarks on top level domains, some applicants have been able to sneak their applications through at least part of the process. One […]
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ICA Tells ICANN The Draft of RAA Agreement is “Deficient in Scope”
June 6, 2013 @ 12:43 AMThe Internet Commerce Association (ICA) submitted comments to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) website, on the current draft statement of Registrants’ Rights and Responsibilities (RRR) calling it “deficient in scope”…
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The CEO of Blacknight Elected Chair of Registrar Stakeholder Group of ICANN
June 5, 2013 @ 11:42 PMMichele Neylon the CEO of the ICANN accredited domain name registrar, Blackight, has been elected Chair of The Registrar Stakeholder Group of ICANN (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), becoming the first European to hold such position…
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Centr Report: 64.2 Million ccTLD Registrations in Europe, 112 Million ccTLD World Registrations
June 5, 2013 @ 7:40 PMCouncil of European National Top level Domain Registries (CENTR) published the DomainWire Stat Report for May 2013 that is CENTR’s biannual publication covering basic domain name statistics with a focus on European ccTLDs (country code Top Level Domains). A ccTLD …
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The official (unrealistic) go-live date for new gTLDs is September 28
June 5, 2013 @ 7:22 PMSeptember 28 could be (won’t be) the launch date of the first new gTLD sunrise period, according to a (unrealistic) timetable released by ICANN yesterday. During a webinar for new gTLD applicants, program head Christine Willett presented the following slide: As you can see, using this timetable the first registry contract would be signed one […]
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GNSO Wins Minor Victory in Trademark+50 Dispute
June 5, 2013 @ 6:26 PMThe ICANN board has rescheduled an important decision for trademark owners, apparently at the behest of members of the Generic Names Supporting Organization Council. The board’s New gTLD Program Committee was due to vote June 11 on whether to approve the rejection of a Reconsideration Request filed by the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group. But the item […]
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Donuts Withdraws Its .vote Bid, Raising Questions About New gTLD Auctions
June 5, 2013 @ 5:19 PMOne down, only 306 to go! Donuts has withdrawn its application for the .vote new gTLD, leaving an Afilias joint venture as the sole remaining applicant, it emerged today. It’s reasonable to assume that this is the first result of the private string auctions, designed by Cramton Associates, that are being run by Innovative Auctions […]
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