New gTLDs

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) said today it has secured additional funding as new gTLDs approach. The financing includes a Series B equity investment led by existing investor Generation …

This past week 6 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. These 6 withdrawn applications bring the total of withdrawn gTLD applications to 39. The …

Building upon last week’s release of results for the second 30 applications, ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set of applications with priority numbers 61-108. There are 39 applications in this second set …

The GSM Association, that is located in the United Kingdom, sent a letter to ICANN regarding applications for closed gTLDs .MOBILE and .PHONE. The letter from GSMA  actually supports the Donuts applications for .phone and …

Architelos Inc. and Kurt Pritz announced a collaboration to provide advisory services to the new gTLDs applicants and registries. The duo aim to translate their clients’ strategic objectives into the successful pursuit and operation of …

The Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information from the United States Department of Commerce send a letter to ICANN, on April 2, stating United States government’s views on the USPS objections to the applications for …

Marking another milestone in the implementation of the community-developed New gTLD Program, ICANN today announced the selection of three geographically diverse emergency back-end registry operators, or EBEROs. The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), Neustar, …

ICANN and IBM negotiated the terms for a proposed statement of work for operation of the Sunrise and Trademark Claims services offered by the Trademark Clearinghouse. The New gTLD Program Committee has reviewed the terms …