New gTLDs

Nominet announced their next .uk Registrar Conference that will take place on Wednesday 5th March at the Royal College of General Practitioners in London. Nominet and its registrars are all adapting to a changing domain …

As HEXONET continues with the introduction of interesting new gTLD applicants, this week they wanted to highlight dotBerlin (.BERLIN). HEXONET had the opportunity to speak with Ms. Katrin Ohlmer at dotBerlin recently, which is considered …

The next set of Initial Evaluation (IE) Results was released by ICANN. ICANN has ramped up the number of results to batches of 100 prioritized applications per week. The total number of passing applications is now …

The International Sugar Organization sent a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on the 29th of May saying that because if the International Organization for Standardization complaint to ICANN about the preventative protection for the acronyms of …

Radix Registry, operators of the upcoming .host TLD announced the launch of pre-registration for .hostdomain names. .Host has received a prioritization number of 1096 and has not yet passed the initial evaluation by ICANN. .host is the new TLD created specifically for the …

Demand Media, a leading media and domain services company, today announced the debut ofDesigns.com, the latest step in the company’s efforts to facilitate the launch of upcoming generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). Today’s move brings a robust platform …

The next set of Initial Evaluation (IE) Results was released by ICANN. ICANN has ramped up the number of results to batches of 100 prioritized applications per week. The total number of passing applicationsis now 720 (was 628 last week). ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set ofapplications with priority numbers 700-800. There are 92 (some were from previous weeks) applications in this set …

Microsoft sent a letter to ICANN about Google’s Proposed Dotless Domain to its .search gTLD.Microsoft expressed its continuing concern over Google’s proposed amendment  to run its gTLD application for .search as a “dotless” domain, as Microsoft strongly urges ICANN to follow the advice of the SSAC and ensure that dotless domains are only used in the private space. Microsoft said that “Google’s proposed amendment would interfere …

The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) met on 4 June 2013 and adopted a resolution accepting nine items of the GAC‘s Beijing advice with respect to New gTLD applications. The Resolution addresses most though not all of the GAC‘s non-Safeguard Advice and does not address any of the Safeguard Advice in Annex …

The next set of Initial Evaluation (IE) Results was released by ICANN. ICANN has ramped up the number of results to batches of 100 prioritized applications per week. The total number of passing applicationsis now 628 (was 514 last week). ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set ofapplications with priority numbers 600-700. There are 114 (some were from previous weeks) applications in this set …

ICANN’s president Fadi Chehadé announced some organizational changes that will be taking place at the start of the new fiscal year on July 1, and which are part of Fadi Chehadé’s desire to increase ICANN’s focus on management …

Iron Mountain Intellectual Property Management, Inc. and NCC Group have been approved by ICANN to provide data escrow services to new gTLD registry operators. All new gTLD registry operators will be required to regularly deposit a backup copy of their TLD registrationdata through one of the approved data escrow service …

The next set of Initial Evaluation (IE) Results was released by ICANN. ICANN has ramped up the number of results to batches of 100 prioritized applications per week. The total number of passing applicationsis now 514 (was 433 last week). ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set ofapplications with priority numbers 500-600. There are 81 applications in this set that received a passing …

Highlights • US$10 million (approximately £6.6 million) conditionally raised from institutional and other investors and directors • Company strongly positioned to participate in upcoming gTLD auctions • Funds also to be used for launch and marketing of .london • TLDH has largest portfolio …