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| 09-04-10 |
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Olympic Committee's strong arm tactics on new gTLDs
In a threatening letter posted as a comment on ICANN's Draft Applicant Guidebook V2 comment page, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) says that "it reserves its right to take action against ICANN for damages resulting to the IOC or the Olympic Movement from the implementation of the gTLD proposal."
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| 09-04-09 |
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.NL confirms plans to open up to non-Dutch registrants
In January, I gave kudos to the Dutch registry SIDN for coming up with a clever solution to open up .NL to registrants that don't have an address in Holland.
Yesterday, the DomainesInfo editorial team got confirmation from SIDN that the plan is going ahead.
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| 09-03-26 |
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The IRT black box
The noise that I'm hearing about the IRT – the Implementation Recommendation Team that the ICANN Board at its Mexico meeting requested be set up to give trademark holders sufficient protection as new gTLDs are introduced – has me slightly worried.
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| 09-03-24 |
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Auction.com sells for $1.7 million
Real Estate auction specialist REDC has made domain name headlines by shelling out $1.7 million for the domain Auction.com.
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| 09-03-06 |
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Al Gore backs .ECO
I met the .ECO guys here in Mexico during the ICANN conference just as they'd been given a huge boost by Al Gore. The former US vice president has come out in favour of the environmental new TLD proposal.
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| 09-03-05 |
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Classes and timelines, the new gTLD debate
Two of the most talked about points at this week's 34th ICANN meeting in Mexico are the new gTLD program's timeline and the possibility of having different classes for different types of new gTLD applicants.
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| 09-03-05 |
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Cities take the lead on new TLD proposals
DotCities spokesperson Dirk Krischenowski has just given a presentation on a group of City TLD projects that have banded together to form a new GNSO constituency during the GNSO Council meeting here in Mexico.
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| 09-03-03 |
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Goodbye Paul Twomey
Paul Twomey will be stepping down at the end of 2009 after 6 years as ICANN's President and CEO. Twomey explained the reasons for his desire to leave ICANN during today's Mexico City meeting opening ceremony.
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| 09-02-24 |
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.NYC gets official support
Last week, on February 12th, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn made it clear that New Yorkers are serious about getting their own TLD. During the State of the City speech, Quinn said that New York would soon have its own place on the web with .NYC.
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| 09-02-19 |
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New gTLDs: 2nd Draft Applicant Guidebook now online!
As anticipated, the 2nd version of the DAG has now been released by ICANN, and it is indeed a redline of the first document.
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| 09-02-18 |
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More delays for new gTLDs?
I have learned that although the final version of the new gTLD DAG had been scheduled for release in May 2009, this now seems unlikely. Instead, a 3rd draft would be published prior to the 2nd ICANN meeting of the year, scheduled for Sydney at the end of the June.
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| 09-02-12 |
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Question ICANN's chairman on the web!
For its upcoming meeting in Mexico, ICANN is making sure there's plenty of opportunity for people to participate. Not only will there be more public forum time than at any meeting since Vancouver 2005, with at least one session being moderated by ICANN chair Peter Dengate Thrush, but a new online "question box" has also been opened to allow people to ask questions remotely at those sessions.
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| 09-02-12 |
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Is the IDN ccTLDs fast-track really needed?
Last year, ICANN sent 252 letters to the governments and ccTLD managers of the world to let them know that they would soon be able to request an IDN national suffix and asking them if they were interested in obtaining one.
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| 09-02-10 |
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.BERLIN is already in people's heads!
The first major City TLD project, .BERLIN has now been in the works for several years. We discuss the advantages of a City TLD with DotBerlin CEO Dirk Krischenowski.
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| 09-02-09 |
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The registrar black list
Last year, a site called KnujOn published a list of registrars who have the most domains linked to abuse (spam, etc.) under management. A 2009 version of that list has just been published.
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| 09-02-05 |
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Confirmed: new gTLD fees will be changed
In a new video posted on the ICANN website yesterday, confirmation is given that the next version of the Draft Applicant Guidebook (DAG) will feature several changes, including "changes in fees paid by gTLD registry operators".
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| 09-02-03 |
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Holland's innovative take on local presence
Country code TLDs often have some kind of local presence requirement. To be eligible for a .FR domain for example, you need an address in France. Local presence rules may be seen by some as an unnecessary hurdle but on the other hand, is it really that unreasonable to expect that a country's TLD be truly representative of that country?
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| 09-02-02 |
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DotMobi giving away 1 and 2 character domains!
Stéphane Van Gelder met Francesco Cetraro Francesco the new Manager of Business Development and Sales for the .MOBI registry DotMobi in Rome last week, during the ICANN registrars and registries regional conference.
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| 09-01-30 |
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Holland's innovative take on local presence
Holland's SIDN, the registry for .NL, has a new system for balancing their local presence requirement with the desire of non-Dutch registrants to get a .NL domain name.
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| 09-01-30 |
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DotMobi giving away 1 and 2 character domains!
A look at DotMobi's method for releasing its 1 and 2 character domain names without charging for them.
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| 09-01-26 |
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New gTLDs to be delayed by third DAG?
The first version of the Draft Applicant Guidebook published by ICANN late last year has generated such a large volume of comments that ICANN may slow the new gTLD program down by introducing a third DAG.
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| 09-01-15 |
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.FR tender published
French authorities have published the long-awaited (in France at least) tender for .FR. Incumbent registry AFNIC is widely expected to retain the position when the winner is announced, probably in April this year.
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| 09-01-12 |
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Dot EU now at 3 million
Sunday January 11, 2009 will go down as a landmark date for .EU: the day it passed the 3 million registered domain mark!
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| 09-01-11 |
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ICANN releases stats on the DAG comment period
ICANN looks set to continue on its recent theme of communicating intensely on the new gTLD program. It has just released some figures on the comments received following the publication of the Draft Applicant Guidebook (DAG).
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| 09-01-02 |
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ICANN ad for new TLDs
The current issue of The Economist magazine has an advert for ICANN which focusses on the new TLD program.
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| 08-12-31 |
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Crisis or no crisis for domain names?
There's no real suspense here: yes domain names are also being hit by the current economic downturn. Aftermarket domain sale volumes may not be falling too much, but transaction values are certainly down as sellers adapt to the end of the "anything sells (even a dud domain)" era by dropping their prices.
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| 08-12-18 |
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IDN new gTLDs confirmed by ICANN
In its response further to the public forum in Cairo, ICANN confirms that applications for IDNs will be accepted and introduced at the same time as other gTLDs.
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| 08-12-11 |
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ICANN may review new TLD fees
Last Monday ICANN held a new gTLD Q&A session hosted by the GNSO Council. The subject of ICANN's proposed fee structure for initial evaluation and annual registry fees was once again at the centre of much of the discussions, during which it transpired that said fees may well be revised in the forthcoming second draft applicant guidebook (DAG), due out in February 2009.
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| 08-12-09 |
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ICANN, the luckiest organisation around?
Stéphane Van Gelder describes his experience as a member of the ICANN GNSO Council.
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| 08-12-08 |
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Pre-crisis numbers show continued domain name growth
But for how long? That's the question some people will no doubt ask themselves while reading Verisign's latest domain stats.
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