New gTLDs

ICANN unveiled today the newly redesigned “New gTLDs” website. ICANN said that as the New gTLD Program matures, so should its communications. That’s why ICANN is committed to improving the New gTLDs microsite. Today, ICANN …

Donuts replied to Government of Samoa’s early warning that it will proceed with its application for .WEBSITE. Donuts also said that .WEBSITE—and all gTLDs, speaking generally—will benefit by the adoption of naming alternatives to .COM …

The “Hartford Fire Insurance Company” has withdrawn it’s application for the sting .thehartford. This makes it the 1st new gTLD with assigned prioritization number and the 14th string in total to withdraw. The string received …

Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services released a report on domain name disputes this Thusday February 7, 2013. The report shows that .com is likely to continue to dominate domain disputes as new gTLDS loom. Melbourne …

ICANN’s President and CEO Fadi Chehadé tried to reassure everyone at the CEO Roundtable series that the new gTLD program will continue on the planned timeline. While the topic of the roundtable was not the …

In a letter dated 31st of January 2013 Microsoft asked ICANN to consider requiring applicants for closed generic TLDs to either open the TLD or withdraw for a full refund. Microsoft expressed their concern, similar …

ICANN accredited registrar HEXONET released the latest news about it’s New gTLDs pre registrations. Some gTLD applicants are already accepting pre-registrations and HEXONET is using an “Expression of Interest”(EOI) service, to allow users to preregister …

Craig Schwartz that is the Director of fTLD Registry Services, LLC sent a letter to Ms. Christine Willett, General Manager of the New gTLD Program at ICANN asking for an extension to the objection filing …

The New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) send a letter complaining to ICANN about the numerous delays in the New gTLD program. The letter was sent on the 21st of December and was just published by …

ICANN’s last “new gTLD” Weekly Update for 2012 took a look back at everything that was accomplished this year. A significant progress moving the New gTLD Program forward was achieved. In 2013 New gTLD applications …

ICANN has collected approximately US$355 million of application fees from applicants for generic top-level domains (gTLDs) in the New gTLD Program (net from pre-reveal withdrawals). The purpose of these application fees is to cover the …

ICANN announced that it selected the Swedish registry operator Stiftelsen för Internetinfrastruktur (.SE) as the provider of Pre-Delegation Testing services for the new gTLD Program. Testing is done to verify that the new gTLD applicant …

The Prioritization Draw was held on December 17th 2012 in Los Angeles to assign priority numbers to all new gTLD applications. Each application was assigned a randomly-drawn priority number. These priority numbers will be used …

.fishing is the first contested gTLD to get a spot at the new GTLD prioritization draw. .fishing is contested by 2 applicants: United TLD Holdco Ltd. and Top Level Domain Holdings Limited Watch the live results …