Matias Vangsnes

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ICANN Reveals the Applications for the New gTLD’s: It’s Time for Brand Owners …

Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

You may recall that earlier this year the International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) began a historic expansion of the internet domain name system by accepting applications for new generic top level domain names (“gTLD’s”) (i.e. the string of letters to the right of the dot in a domain name). (See Changes in [...]

ICANN’s New gTLDs Program: Disputes, Comments and Objections

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

What if someone applied for a new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) that is confusingly similar to the gTLD applied for by your company?  Who has standing to file an objection or to submit a public comment in response to an applied-for gTLD?  These are the questions that many participants and observers of the Internet Corporation [...]

From the Application Window to the Ballot Box

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

Politics and government abound when your headquarters are located in Washington, DC. The White House is a relatively short walk down Pennsylvania Avenue from our office in Georgetown, and the Capitol is not much further than that. There are even rumors that the CIA used to have a secret drop-off spot just a block from [...]

List of Applied-For New gTLDs Released – Should You File an Objection?

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

In June, 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a program to expand the Internet’s Domain Name System through the introduction of new generic Top-Level Domain Names (new gTLDs). See Protecting Your Domain: What You Need to Know About ICANN’S New Top Level Domain Changes. On January 12, 2012, ICANN began [...]

List of Applied-For New gTLDs Released – Should You File an Objection?

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

In June, 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a program to expand the Internet’s Domain Name System through the introduction of new generic Top-Level Domain Names (new gTLDs). See Protecting Your Domain: What You Need to Know About ICANN’S New Top Level Domain Changes. On January 12, 2012, ICANN began [...]

List of Applied-For New gTLDs Released – Should You File an Objection?

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

In June, 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a program to expand the Internet’s Domain Name System through the introduction of new generic Top-Level Domain Names (new gTLDs). See Protecting Your Domain: What You Need to Know About ICANN’S New Top Level Domain Changes. On January 12, 2012, ICANN began [...]

Demand Media’s Military, Political gTLD Choices Simply Driven By …

Friday, June 15th, 2012

There are a lot of interesting sub-stories behind the big Internet land rush that has been the gTLD application process. This week, ICANN released its big list of the gTLDs that were applied for during the application window, as well as the companies that applied for them. Google applied for as many as 101 of [...]

Demand Media’s Military, Political gTLD Choices Simply Driven By …

Friday, June 15th, 2012

There are a lot of interesting sub-stories behind the big Internet land rush that has been the gTLD application process. This week, ICANN released its big list of the gTLDs that were applied for during the application window, as well as the companies that applied for them. Google applied for as many as 101 of [...]

Demand Media’s Military, Political gTLD Choices Simply Driven By …

Friday, June 15th, 2012

There are a lot of interesting sub-stories behind the big Internet land rush that has been the gTLD application process. This week, ICANN released its big list of the gTLDs that were applied for during the application window, as well as the companies that applied for them. Google applied for as many as 101 of [...]

Demand Media’s Military, Political gTLD Choices Simply Driven By …

Friday, June 15th, 2012

There are a lot of interesting sub-stories behind the big Internet land rush that has been the gTLD application process. This week, ICANN released its big list of the gTLDs that were applied for during the application window, as well as the companies that applied for them. Google applied for as many as 101 of [...]

Demand Media’s Military, Political gTLD Choices Simply Driven By …

Friday, June 15th, 2012

There are a lot of interesting sub-stories behind the big Internet land rush that has been the gTLD application process. This week, ICANN released its big list of the gTLDs that were applied for during the application window, as well as the companies that applied for them. Google applied for as many as 101 of [...]

Taking Stock of New gTLDs in the Public Markets

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

A woman on the radio talks about revolution, though it’s already passed. The window is now closed. A snapshot can be taken. A baseline can be set. How have the public markets valued the new gTLD program? And more importantly, how will public markets value it going forward? Until a few months ago, the new [...]

Imagine… 40000 or more new gTLD strings such as .web, .google and .lol in a …

Monday, June 4th, 2012

In a recent blog post, Frank Schilling of NA Media, owner of close to 400,000 domain names, one of the domain industry’s most powerful and successful individuals of all time has made some bold predictions regarding new gTLD’s. In the post titled “In New gTLDs, The Only Certainty is Change” Schilling brings up a few [...]

gTLD seminar to be held in Brussels on June 22

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

The seminar is titled “Challenges in the extended Internet: How to Defend Your Interests and Addressing the Competition in the New gTLDs, Whether you Applied or Not”. It is hosted by ICC Belgium and the arbitration centre Cepani/Cepina. Speakers include Brian Beckham of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, Michel Flamée of Cepani/Cepina, John Murino [...]

ICANN re-opens application system for generic top-level domains

Saturday, May 26th, 2012

ICANN is re-opening its generic top-level domain application system. The announcement comes 40 days after ICANN shut down the system in response to a security breach that exposed over 150 applicants’ private data. Thanks to the re-opening, organizations are once again free to apply for novel domains like “.theverge” for a modest fee of $185,000. [...]

ICANN gTLD application system back in action

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

“During the last few weeks, we have fixed the technical glitch that caused us to take the system offline,” Atallah said. “Also, to address user feedback, we have improved the overall system performance and the HTML preview function.” ICANN had earlier reported that system response had slowed down before TAS was taken down because of [...]

ICANN Re-Opens TAS System For New gTLD’s

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

In a statement in the middle of the night EST ICANN annoucned that they have as promissed re-opened the TAS system after taking it off line for almost 6 weeks. ” The TLD Application System, or TAS, has reopened. All registered applicants can now log in, review and submit their applications. The system will remain [...]

ICANN prepares for gTLD application re-opening

Monday, May 21st, 2012

ICANN will reopen the application system for generic top-level domains on Tuesday, the organisation said late last week. Read this Beckstrom: I came to change ICANN Read more The body, which administers the DNS root zone, had to shut down the gTLD application system on 12 April due to a bug that made some applicants’ [...]

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