Some pretty big companies are beginning to show an active interest in ICANN’s new TLD project. The most recent of them is bookseller Barnes & Noble. The letter, which is available both on the ICANN website and below, is quite narrow and pointed in its scope and focusses on the perceived competition issues with Amazon’s… Continue reading Barnes & Noble Weigh In On Amazon’s New TLDs
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5 Reasons Why Closed Generic New gTLDs Should Be Opposed
I’m on the record multiple times over the last few months for my opinions on “closed generics”. I first posted about it here back in June of last year: Big Brands Trying To Corner Generic Namespaces? Since then I’ve sent several letters to ICANN (supported by many others) and have been quoted and referenced in… Continue reading 5 Reasons Why Closed Generic New gTLDs Should Be Opposed
Going To ICANN 47 Durban? Check The Hotel Restrictions!
ICANN’s first public meeting of 2013 will be held in Beijing in April, but they’ve opened registration for the subsequent one in Durban, South Africa in July. The July meeting – ICANN 47 – will be held in Durban International Convention Centre with hotel accommodation available in the surrounding area. However attendees need to be… Continue reading Going To ICANN 47 Durban? Check The Hotel Restrictions!
ALAC To Submit Objection Against .health
ICANN’s ALAC plans to submit an objection against .health Why? Their rationale is as follows: Objection statements on community grounds will be drafted for the applications for .health given that the four tests for community objection grounds were passed. ALAC were also examining a few other strings including: .nyc .patagonia .amazon However they did not… Continue reading ALAC To Submit Objection Against .health
ICANN Sets Firm Launch Date For New TLDs
ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé has announced a firm date for new TLD launch. In a video interview, with Brad White, Fadi Chehadé put April 23rd as a date when the first new TLD could be delegated. He admits, however, that the date may “slip”, though this time the “slippage” should be days or weeks and not… Continue reading ICANN Sets Firm Launch Date For New TLDs
ICANN Terminates Lime Labs, DomainMonger & DomainsToBeSeen
ICANN’s compliance team has been busy of late. Earlier today they followed through on 3 previous breach notices and terminated 3 registrars: Lime Labs LLC Central Registrar Inc DBA DomainMonger.com R. Lee Chambers Company LLC d/b/a DomainsToBeSeen.com All three registrars appear to have failed to comply with their contractual obligations or to satisfy ICANN that… Continue reading ICANN Terminates Lime Labs, DomainMonger & DomainsToBeSeen
Cheapies.com Gets Another Breach Notice From ICANN
It looks like there’s a pattern emerging. Remember the 10 registrars that got breach notices last week? While some have “cured” the breach another one of the 10 has been sent a new breach in the last 24 hours. Cheapies.com was sent a new breach notice yesterday. You can download the letter here. This time round… Continue reading Cheapies.com Gets Another Breach Notice From ICANN
Mat Bao Fix Some Of Their Compliance Issues
Vietnamese registrar Mat Bao appears to have fixed *some* of their issues with ICANN’s Compliance team: But if you scroll down the Compliance notices page you’ll see that they’re still not out of the woods: The earlier, and arguably more serious, breach still remains open. Assuming they don’t ask for an extension they’ve got until… Continue reading Mat Bao Fix Some Of Their Compliance Issues
Verisign To Dual Stack EPP Servers
Verisign has been offering IPv6 connections to their EPP servers for the last year. However as of March 14th the Verisign registry backend will become dual stacked ie. the hostnames for IPv4 and IPv6 connections will be identical. While this may not impact that many registrars now, it will become more important over time, though… Continue reading Verisign To Dual Stack EPP Servers
Vietnamese Registrar Mat Bao Has Two Breaches At Once
Today’s list of 10 registrars that received breach notices included Vietnamese registrar Mat Bao. What makes this quite interesting is that the company had already got a breach notice back in December. The original breach notice, which I wrote about back then, was in relation to them not complying with a number of obligations under… Continue reading Vietnamese Registrar Mat Bao Has Two Breaches At Once