The ICANN board in its main agenda for the regular meeting, were at the time set to discuss the formal considerations of both the Amazon EU S.à.r.l. v. ICANN Independent Review Process Final Declaration followed by the further Consideration of the Gulf Cooperation Council v. ICANN Independent Review Process Final Declarations. Both applicants prevailed against …
Amazon.com was the latest winner in the ICANN Independent Review Process IRP. Amazon was one of the largest applicants for new domain names, but its .brand strategy was slowed down when governments opposed its .amazon application. Amazon’s applications had been rejected three years ago after ICANN accepted Governmental Advisory Committee consensus advice. Amazon beat ICANN …
The ICANN new gTLD process attracted over 1,930 new applications to be added into the root from 60 countries and territories. Of the applications received, 66 were geographic name applications while 116 applications made for Internationalized Domain Names, or IDNs, for strings in scripts such as Arabic, Chinese, and Cyrillic. Broken down by ICANN’s geographic …
The largest online retailer Amazon has prevailed after appealing against a decision by ICANN to deny applications for the .amazon generic top-level domain (gTLD).The domain had been halted in 2014 after the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) asked the New gTLD Program Committee to reject the domains based on objections from Brazil and Peru, which share …
Amazon.com has become the latest winner in the ICANN Independent Review Process IRP. Amazon was one of the largest applicants for new domain names, but its .brand strategy was slowed down when governments opposed its .amazon application. Amazon’s applications had been rejected three years ago after ICANN accepted Governmental Advisory Committee consensus advice. That advice, …
The battle for a disputed .Africa top level domain appears to gain new insights as the court process continues. The court process which has taken the whole of 2016 and is set to be ruled upon in 2017 did not sit well with certain people who through a surprising proposal to the ITU’s World Telecommunication …
ICANN has been caught with the hand in the new gTLDs cookie jar again. The domains overseer faces a second loss after a panel in July 2015 ruled that the applicant for .Africa, DotConnectAfrica was the prevailing party. A Kansas company Dot Registry LLC, applied for the gTLDs .llc, .llp, and .inc as a “Community” …
A Huge Win for Legal Front-Runner DotConnectAfrica Trust! On 20th April 2016, ICANN withdrew its Motion to Dismiss [PDF] against DCA Trust’s First Amended Complaint filed on 26 February 2016. In its stipulation to the Court, ICANN moved to withdraw its dismissal citing the following reason: “in view of the Court’s order on DCA’s …
On 14 March 2014, the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its intent to transition its stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions [PDF, 3.49 MB] to the global multistakeholder community. NTIA asked ICANN to convene an inclusive, global discussion to determine a process for transitioning the stewardship of these functions …
The applicant for .Africa new gTLD , DCA Trust, has opposed the latest effort by the ICANN board to revert the .Africa application for a Governmental Committee (GAC) at ICANN to “refining” its last advise GAC gave to the ICANN Board. This comes after the DCA Trust won an Independent Review Panel decision against ICANN …