Tag Archives: ICANN

This past week 7 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. These 7 withdrawn applications bring the total of withdrawn gTLD applications to 33. Progressive …

This past week 47 new objections were filed at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center for new gTLD strings. The WIPO center received the objections from March 8, 2013 to March 13, 2013 and these …

Last Friday marked a major milestone in the New gTLD Program: Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the first set of new gTLD applications were released to applicants and the general public. This achievement is the …

The New gTLD Program continues to move forward. Release of Initial Evaluation results will begin this week and the Trademark Clearinghouse will launch on 26 March. Below is a list of all ICANN staff-led new …

The State of Nevada joined the state of Delaware asking ICANN to protect new gTLDs with company endings .inc, .lIc, .corp and .lIp. The free and unregulated issuance of names using these extensions is a …

The Delaware Department of State sent a letter to ICANN and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), that is part of the US Department of Commerce, on the 5th of March regarding applications for new …

ICANN‘s 2013 Nominating Committee (NomCom) will be attending the 46th ICANN Meeting in Beijing, China, (http://beijing46.icann.org/) and conduct a number of open meetings to provide detailed information to the community about the NomCom’s work and …

A Public Interest Commitments (PIC) dispute resolution procedure has been introduced by ICANN. A third Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Procedure (PDDRP) – along with the already approved Trademark PDDRP and Registration Restriction Dispute Resolution Procedure (RRDRP) …

This past week 2 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. These 2 withdrawn applications bring the total of withdrawn gTLD applications to 26. GlobalX …

Objection period for New gTLDs is closing in a few hours. Objections to new gTLD strings must be submitted by 13 March 2013 at 23:59:59 UTC (8:00 pm EDT) in order to be considered by …

The President of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said he is moving ahead immediately with plans to have six new ICANN representatives on the African continent. “ICANN used to say if …

MiTek USA, Inc.’s application for the string .mii was deemed to be similar to .mil and can’t continue. The String Similarity Panel has determined that this string is visually similar to an existing TLD (.mil), …

The Geographic Names Panel has determined that 6 new gTLD strings do not fall within the criteria for a geographic name contained in the Applicant Guidebook Section 2.2.1.4. The 6 strings with the applicant names …

This past week 5 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. 3 of them were “brands” new gTLDs. ProMark Brands Inc. withdrew 2 gTLDs: .HEINZ and …