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 provoked more debate, anger and confusion [...]
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XXX Registry Launches Promotion
ICM Registry, the guys behind .xxx, have announced a big pricing promotion available via select registrars. The promotion, which runs for the entire month of May, has .xxx domain names available from as low as USD$8.99 Disclosure: We are one of the registrars
Uniregistry Hiring For Cayman Islands
Uniregistry, who have applied for 54 new TLDs, are hiring for their Cayman Islands offices. The company is currently looking for software developers, front-end developers, Sysadmins and marketing staff. It’s not clear how much the roles pay, but they’re obviously using the location as a selling point: Full details including how to apply on [...]
ICANN Board Seeks Input On Government Advice
ICANN has opened a comment period to get feedback and guidance on the GAC advice from Beijing. The comment period details and some background may be found here. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out, as it’s very clear that a lot of new TLD applicants are very angry when faced with potentially [...]
ICANN Publish 2013 For Comment
Following on from talks during the ICANN public meeting in Beijing the final text of the proposed 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement has been published for comment Full details here
Google Does The Right Thing Opening Several Closed Generic Applications
Over the last few months one of the areas of attention in the new TLD project has been “closed generics”. I’ve written about this several times in the past and I’ve also raised the issue in as many fora as possible. Yesterday ICANN published a letter they’d received from Google with respect to several of [...]
Latin American Countries Reject .Amazon & .Patagonia
While the ICANN 46 meeting in Beijing was warming up on the other side of the globe the “Cuarta Conferencia Ministerial sobre la Sociedad de la Información de América Latina y el Caribe” (4th ministerial conference on information society of Latin America and Caribbean) was taking place in Montevideo. The “Montevideo Declaration” (PDF) runs to [...]
European Hotel Association Files Objections Against .Hotel Applications
HOTREC, the European association of hotels, restaurants and cafes has filed four community objections with the ICC. They’re concerned about several of the “closed generic” applications for .hotel and derivatives of the string. With that in mind they’ve filed against the following: Application # 1-1016-75482 for HOTELS by Booking.com B.V. Application # 1-1249-36568 for HOTEL [...]
A New Domain For Canada
CIRA’s CEO, Byron Holland, made an important announcement today aimed at all Canadian internet users. CIRA currently runs .ca, but feels that maybe it’s not quite Canadian enough… At present the .eh ccTLD is not assigned, though I’m not sure what the process would be for getting it assigned to Canada Meanwhile ICANN’s CEO has [...]
ICANN Launch New WHOIS Inaccuracy System
ICANN’s Compliance team put the new WHOIS inaccuracy reporting system live earlier today. (Oddly enough Google alerts picked up on the new page!). The new system should make reporting issues easier for all parties involved ie. reporters, ICANN and the affected registrars. They’re also including generic information on how registrants may update their own domain [...]
More DotConnectAfrica Fun And Games
If you’ve been following the ICANN new TLD program over the last couple of years you’ll probably be aware of some of the applications and the applicants. However in the case of the competing bids for the .africa string the competitors, or at least one of them, has brought more “colour” to the proceedings than [...]
ICANN Beijing Schedule Published
The full schedule for the 46th ICANN public meeting in Beijing has been published. The schedule starts on the Thursday with GAC meetings and runs until Thursday’s Public Forum. As is common with ICANN meetings the days are long, with many meetings scheduled to start before 8am local time. If you’re not attending in person [...]
New Domain Association Site Launched
During the regional ICANN meeting in Amsterdam earlier this year there was a “side meeting” held by several companies in the domain name industry. The objective? To work on some form of strategy for marketing and education around the domain name industry and domains in general. The meeting was organised by Google‘s new TLD team, [...]
Registrar Negotiating Team Issues Statement On RAA
Last night ICANN published a version of the RAA and related documents for public comment. While the Registrar Stakeholder Group’s negotiating team (RrSG NT) have been in talks on and off with ICANN staff for the last 18 months the publication of the documents at this time is felt to be premature by the RrSG [...]
Google Bows To Pressure On Closed Generics
The debate surrounding “closed generics”, which we’ve covered several times in the past, has attracted a lot of attention in recent weeks. At the centre of the debate were a number of new TLD applications from large companies including Google, Amazon and others. Google had stated that they planned to establish a number of domain [...]
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Big Brands Trying To Corner Generic Namespaces?
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Registrar Negotiating Team Issues Statement On RAA
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IEDR Data Dump
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Registrar Stakeholder Group Issues Statement on RAA Negotiations
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Centralnic’s Gb.com In Dispute – gb.com now wildcarded
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Nominet Offering Apprenticeships
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Making Sense of GAC Advice?
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More Premium Domains Released by ME Registry
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XXX Registry Launches Promotion
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Uniregistry Hiring For Cayman Islands
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