Marking another milestone in the implementation of the community-developed New gTLD Program, ICANN today announced the selection of three geographically diverse emergency back-end registry operators, or EBEROs. The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), Neustar, Inc. and Nominet were selected to guarantee domain names within a new gTLD continue to resolve in the event of …
In the interest of transparency and accountability ICANN is providing the latest revision of the previously posted “Revised New gTLD Registry Agreement” for the community’s information and review. Clean [PDF, 458 KB] Redline [PDF, 455 KB] Summary of Changes [PDF, 155 KB] This revision reflects the inputs and comments received from our stakeholders and other …
Companies looking to protect their brand identity on the Internet from phishers and cybersquatters will soon be faced with a dot-com identity crisis. “We’re hostage to the situation,” said Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the Association of National Advertisers, which has been fighting hard to convince Icann to put into place better trademark protections. …
According to the ICANN announcement of 29 March 2013, ICANN has released a new set of Initial evaluation results. Building upon last week’s release of results for the first 30 applications, today ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set of applications with priority numbers 31-60. There are 25 applications in this second …
The attached ICANN Board-Stakeholder Action List sets out what the board heard in Toronto where board action was required, what the proposed action was, and what we’ve done since the ICANN 45 Meeting. In the future, it is intended that an Action List like this one will continue to be published no later than 1 …
At a Glance With the GAC Member Early Warnings phase complete, the GAC is now moving to the next phase, which is GAC advice on new gTLDs. GAC advice is a key element of the overall process of the new gTLD Program. In that context, GAC sessions at ICANN’s public meeting in Beijing in April …
“For these reasons the IO, who is primarily acting as a “safety net”, does not in principle intend to file an objection on the community ground” The Independent objector has released his findings about the new gTLD ICANN applications, among the casualties of the objections are 24 objections against new applied-for gTLDs before the International Chamber of …
ICANN has on 22nd march 2013 released the first batch of the Initial Evaluation results, on their website the following was posted. Today marks a major milestone in the New gTLD Program: Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the first set of new gTLD applications have been released to applicants and the general public. This achievement …
After posting objections for new gTLD application of .Cam and .Bom, claiming that they are confusingly similar to .Com., Verisign (VRSN) the company that operates the .Com registry is reported to have filed more objections that now include .Network, .Company and .Vet. Read more
Intellectual Property Watch By Kelly Burke for Intellectual Property Watch The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced that its Trademark Clearinghouse database, through which rights holders can submit their eligible trademarks prior to and during ICANN’s launch of new domains, will start operating on 26 March. Any trademark holder, private person, or …