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• in Technology
  New .xxx Domains for Adult Sites Now Available to Public
  The rush is on as adult content sites grab up the new .xxx domains made available today.
  by deputyscraps / on Dec 6, 2011
• in Technology
  .WHATEVER - How ICANN Is Changing the Way You Think of Domains
  ICANN opens domain registrations to vanity domains.
  by patm7 / on Jun 25, 2011
• in IT
  .com Has a New Competitor Now, .coke
  ICANN to make way for domain names tailor made for brands and organizations.
  by nevillekb / on Jun 22, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “icann”

 

• Verisign questions ICANN’s letter posting policies

  
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  Company suggests ICANN is only posting letters that “will advance its positions”. Verisign has sent a letter to ICANN questioning why it isn’t publishing certain correspondence on the ICANN.org web site. ICANN has a section on its web site where it publishes many letters it receives and sends. But ...
  3 days ago

• Amazon May Not Get Its .Amazon Domain-Name Extension After All

  
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  Walmart (NYSE:WMT) , Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and more than a dozen other retailers who applied for their own top-level domains (TLDs) were expecting to see them rolled out starting this year. But the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is running into more delays in approving the vanity ...
  4 days ago

• Making Sense of GAC Advice?

  
  I Squatted Your EU - Domains / Internet Technology News — Authority: 123
  On the final day of the recent ICANN meeting in Beijing the GAC, which includes representatives from many countries’ governments, issued their communique as they do at all ICANN meetings. While the contents of a GAC communique always attracts commentary and reaction, the GAC communique from Beijing has probably ...
  1 week ago

• ICANN: FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget

  
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  Purpose (Brief):  ICANN is now opening a public comment forum for the FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget. FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget PPT [779 KB] PDF [1.81 MB] FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget (AtTask) XLS [95 KB] PDF [338 KB] Community members are kindly asked to provide ...
  1 week ago

• ICANN: NGPC Progress on GAC Advice

  
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  The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) wishes to share with the ICANN community its progress in consideration of the GAC advice and what steps are still to be taken. The NGPC met on 8 May to consider a Plan for responding to the Governmental Advisory Committee’s advice on New gTLDs, transmitted to ...
  1 week ago

• ICANN: Whois Information Status Policy

  
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  Purpose (Brief):  ICANN is opening a Public Comment Period for the proposed Whois Information Status Policy. Members of the Internet Community are asked to provide feedback on the proposed document. The proposed Policy is based on a recommendation from the Generic Names Supporting Organization Council related ...
  1 week ago

• .MELBOURNE One Of 300 Passing ICANN’s Initial Evaluation

  
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  The first Australian generic Top Level Domain application has passed its initial evaluation. On Friday ICANN said ‘.melbourne’ has passed its technical and financial evaluations, with the number passing this stage now reaching 300, and being the next step in getting the gTLD up and running. The .melbourne is ...
  1 week ago

• What New gTLD Applicants Need Is a Quick, Lightweight Answer to the Worlds Governments. Here It Is.

  
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  Its safe to say that with just a week to go before ICANN intended to sign the first contract for a new gTLD, the last thing anyone wanted was a 12-page document from the worlds governments with 16 new "safeguards", six of which it wants to see applied to every new extension. But what the industry shouldnt overlook, ...
  1 week ago

• 38 More New gTLD Pass IE: .Paris; .Forex; .Cpa; .Airforce, .Guide, .Melbourne

  
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  38 More new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation Today. Heading the list are the Geo’s of .Paris (which had been earlier passed over on its turn)  .Melbourne and .Durban Other generics passing IE include Amazon’s (AMZN) applications for .Talk and .Silk, Google’s (GOOG) applications for .Cal, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Asian IDNs Now Available Under .Co

  
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  We’ve mentioned IDNs in the past. Basically an IDN domain name allows you to register using non-ASCII characters. At the simplest level that might be the addition of an accent to a vowel, but if your native language is Arabic, Greek, Chinese, Korean etc., then it’s an entirely different character set. Of course ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stupid, incompetent, or both?

  
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  A Generally Atrocious Communiqué. I’ve learned a lot over the years while writing about the domain industry. In the past three years I’ve learned that if there’s a laborious article I need to research and write that has to do with new TLDs, I can just wait a little while and Kevin Murphy will do it instead. ...
  2 weeks ago

• ICANN: New gTLD Board Committee Consideration of GAC Safeguard Advice

  
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  Purpose (Brief): To solicit input on how the New gTLD Board Committee should address GAC advice regarding safeguards applicable to broad categories of New gTLD strings. Current Status: GAC Beijing Communiqué issued on April 11, 2013 includes GAC Advice on New gTLDs. Next Steps: New gTLD Board Committee will ...
  2 weeks ago

• NCSG Cites ICA in Request for ICANN Board Reconsideration of TMC Claims “Trademark + Fifty” Decision by Philip Corwin

  
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  On April 19, 2013 ICANN’s Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) filed a formal Request for Reconsideration with ICANN’s Board Governance Committee to review a unilateral staff decision to expand the scope of the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMC) claims service for new gTLDs. That decision would allow trademark ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fun and Games in ICANN’s new gTLD Process

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 598
  Jacqueline Lipton Most readers are probably aware that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has recently introduced a process to open up the domain system to a myriad of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). In this context “generic” may be somewhat of a misnomer, because a number of ...
  2 weeks ago

• ICANN: Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Procedures for New gTLDs: ICANN Seeks Service Providers for Registry Restriction DRP and Trademark PDDRP

  
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  ICANN is issuing today two Requests for Proposals (RFPs) to identify potential providers of Registry Restrictions Dispute Resolution Procedure (RRDRP) services and Trademark Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Procedure (Trademark PDDRP) services. These Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Procedures have been ...
  2 weeks ago

• What to expect at the WTPF

  
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  Next week, I’ll be in Geneva for the 2013 World Telecommunication/ICT Policy Forum , better known by the acronym WTPF-13. This is the first major ITU conference since the WCIT in December, and the first real test of whether what some are calling the “post-WCIT era” really exists, and if so, what it means. For ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google grants Palestinian statehood

  
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  Internet search engine Google took a symbolic step this week, changing the tagline on the homepage of its Palestinian edition from “Palestinian territories” to “Palestine.” Google grants Palestinian statehood: The move marks another victory for the Palestinian Authority, after it won a historic upgrade at ...
  2 weeks ago

• ICANN: Location Recommendations Now Being Accepted for ICANN’s 2015 Meetings in Africa, Latin America/Caribbean Islands, Europe

  
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  ICANN is actively seeking locations for its three public meetings to be held 8-12 February 2015 in Africa, 21-25 June 2015 in Latin America/Caribbean Islands, and 18-22 October 2015 in Europe. Those in the geographic regions are invited to submit recommendations for specific locations to hold the events. These ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Puppy Gets It [Podcast #61]

  
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  Easyjet does away with checkins This is very cool if you’re a Mac fan (but eye bleedingly expensive .. ). Twitter warns journos about security  and open up their advertising platform . Ultra secure messaging – wipe the messages on both ends – they’ve even got a hacker challenge! The Ennis ...
  3 weeks ago

• 30 More gTLD Pass: .xBox, .Merck, .Thai, .Fire; .Cloud; .News; .Gripe; .Virgin; .Cars

  
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  30 more new gTLD applications passed Initial Evaluation (IE) today by ICANN. In all 245 new gTLD applications out of the first 300 reviewed have passed IE. Some of the applications passing IE today included Microsoft’s application for .xBox; Amazon’s application for .Cloud, .Fire, .Deal and .Room; .Thai, the ...
  3 weeks ago

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