Domain Extensions

The next set of Initial Evaluation Results was released by ICANN. The total number of passing applications is now 131. ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set of applications with priority numbers 109-149. …

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 …

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, …

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This past week 6 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. These 6 withdrawn applications bring the total of withdrawn gTLD applications to 39.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

Celebrating the .eu 7th anniversary a study reveals how EU residents perceive Europe’s internet extension. With registrations topping 3.74 million just ahead of its seventh birthday, .eu has established its place as a respected domain …

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 …