The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, Inc. (CADNA), a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit corporation founded in 2007, and it’s President Josh Bourne say that Cybersquatting is a serious issue in the current domain name space, and with …
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Governmental Advisory Committee announces IGO list of 192 organizations protected in new gTLDs
The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) send a letter to ICANN about the Protection of the Names and Acronyms of the Intergovernmental Organisations (IGOs) in new gTLDs. Following consultations between the IGO coalition and the GAC, …
Read More »China Unicom objects to the contention set including .UNICOM and .UNICORN
China Unicom objects to the contention set including .UNICOM and .UNICORN by sending a letter to ICANN. When ICANN released the string similarity contention sets for New gTLD program, ICANN only focused on the visually …
Read More »ICANN launches strategy public conversation and is looking for feedback
As Fadi Chehadé, ICANN’s President & CEO, announced this week, ICANN launched a public conversation about ICANN’s future. ICANN is seeking ideas from the global community to help create a new, overarching vision and five-year …
Read More »CAX.com starts offering seller financing with monthly installments
CAX.com, the domain name marketplace owned by Francois Carrillo, that is also the owner of Domaining.com, started offering payment plans to domain names listed there beginning April 9, 2013. A buyer can choose to make …
Read More »GAC’s advice to the ICANN Board derails the whole new gTLD program
The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) met in Beijing during the week of 4 April 2013. Sixty one (61) GAC Members participated in the meetings and …
Read More »Search.xxx Ad platform now available – $75 .xxx credits can be used now
The Search.xxx ad platform is now available and you can start using your Search.xxx ad credit beginning today. Each account has been populated with the Ad Credit balances: $75 for each .XXX domain name registered. …
Read More »Sedo sells 738 domains worth $1.47 million: ConnectNow.com 120k USD, DublinHotels.com 25k GBP – Week 1/4-7/4
This week, 738 transactions (704 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.47 million ($1.25 last week). Only 236 domains (233 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …
Read More »ICANN starts using Salesforce.com for the customer portal
ICANN will be implementing a new and improved self-service customer portal, based on the trusted Salesforce.com platform. Starting Tuesday, April 16, 2013 (UTC), you will be able to electronically submit cases and receive real-time updates …
Read More »Google amends 4 new gTLD applications: .app, .blog, .cloud, and .search
Charleston Road Registry (Google) send a letter to ICANN announcing the amendment of 4 new gTLD applications. Google intends to operate a redirect service on the “dotless” .search domain (http://search/), the .app TLD will be …
Read More »ICANN Signs Affirmations of Intent with CNNIC, Neustar and Nominet for EBERO Services
On 8 April, ICANN President and CEO Fadi Chehadé signed affirmations of intent with China Internet Network Information Center, Neustar, Inc., and Nominet for the provision of emergency back-end registry operation, or EBERO, services for …
Read More »Duncan Burns to Lead ICANN Communications Team
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced that Duncan Burns has been named as the organization’s Vice President of Global Communications. Burns is leaving Hill+Knowlton Strategies in Washington, D.C. to lead …
Read More »32 string confusion objections filed at the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (Verisign filed 17)
32 more string confusion objections have been filed at the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). Here is the complete list of the 33 string confusion objections so far: NO. OBJECTOR STRING APPLICANT 1. Starting …
Read More »92 objections filed at the International Chamber of Commerce for new gTLD strings such as .CLOUD and .MAIL
92 more objections were filed at the International Chamber of Commerce for new gTLD strings. The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) received the objections on March 12 and 13, 2013 and these were posted on the …
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