[authors: Rosemary Wallis and James Morrison] A rapid transformation of the internet landscape is underway. By “Reveal Day”, 13 June 2012, ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) had received 1,930 applications for global Top-Level Domain names (gTLDs). While a few of these applications are for the same name, so that the actual [...]
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TLD Transformation Underway
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012Protect your company’s rights in the race to register new gTLDs
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012The eagerly anticipated unveiling of the list of generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) names (the letters to the right of the dot) was revealed in June by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Historically, only 22 general use-approved TLDs, including .com, .org, and .net, just to name a few, have existed across the [...]
ICANN Seeks Input on gTLD Batching – ag-IP
Monday, July 30th, 2012MARINA DEL REY, CA – At the Prague Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting, the new gTLD Program Committee decided to terminate Digital Archery, and instructed ICANN staff to proceed with the initial evaluation of applications as quickly as possible. This evaluation, according to ICANN, is in progress based on a tentative [...]
The Internets Own Your Religion
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012I am a scholar of religion by profession, but I like to play in technology. So when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body responsible for generic top level domains (gTLD) like .com, .org., and .net, asked for proposals for new gTLD, I watched with some fascination. One of the earliest [...]
Dubai: Domain name
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012The California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has published the long-awaited list of organisations seeking to obtain new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), commonly recognised as internet address endings or suffixes. Dubai eGovernment (DeG) is one of the more than 1900 applicants for gTLDs and is hoping to secure the recently dubbed dotDubai [...]
Internet Adds More Domain Names – Analyst Blog
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign Inc. (VRSN), approximately seven million names were added to the Internet in the first quarter of 2012. Therefore, the total number of registered domain names increased to approximately 233 million on a worldwide basis. The addition of 7.5 million domain names represents a 3.3% [...]
Internet’s New Wild West: gTLDs
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012Possible generic top level domain names (gTLDs), many of which were applied for recently. (Graphic by Elizabeth Wiley/Flip the Media) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a little known entity that controls the naming system on the Internet, just got $347 million richer this year. And it appears to be only the beginning. [...]
ICANN cancels Digital Archery program, has no immediate alternative
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012IDG News Service – The Digital Archery contest, devised by ICANN to determine which gTLD applications would be handled first, was canceled on Thursday, the chair of the gTLD Program Committee announced during the ICANN 44 summit in Prague. No alternative was announced. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was planning to [...]
ICANN Publishes List of Applications in gTLD Expansion Program
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012Over the last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been engaged in the first round of its planned expansion of generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) names. gTLDs are internet domains with general address extensions, such as .com, .net and .edu. There are presently 22 gTLDs, and this expansion plan could add [...]
Desi Networks Applies for .DESI TLD with KSregistry
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012(Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) – Desi Networks, LLC submitted an application for a new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD), DOT DESI as part of the new gTLD program of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. DOT DESI will use the registry system of the German based provider KSregistry GmbH as technical framework. [...]
Desi Networks applies for .DESI TLD with KSregistry as backend provider – Your
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012Tweet Tweet Desi Networks, LLC submitted an application for a new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD), DOT DESI as part of the new gTLD program of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. DOT DESI will use the registry system of the German based provider KSregistry GmbH as technical framework. Desi Networks, LLC [...]
ICANN cancels Digital Archery program, has no immediate alternative
Saturday, June 30th, 2012The Digital Archery contest, devised by ICANN to determine which gTLD applications would be handled first, was canceled on Thursday, the chair of the gTLD Program Committee announced during the ICANN 44 summit in Prague. No alternative was announced. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was planning to use a Digital Archery [...]
ICANN Cancels Digital Archery Program, Has No Immediate Alternative
Friday, June 29th, 2012The Digital Archery contest, devised by ICANN to determine which gTLD applications would be handled first, was canceled on Thursday, the chair of the gTLD Program Committee announced during the ICANN 44 summit in Prague. No alternative was announced. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was planning to use a Digital Archery [...]
gTLDs – Application Process Derailed; ICANN Seeks Solutions From Internet …
Thursday, June 28th, 2012The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has quickly gone from resurgent “Little Engine That Could” to train wreck. Having just weathered an embarrassing six-week delay in its gTLD application process, it took ICANN less than a week to come off the rails again. Over the past weekend, and just before its semi-annual [...]
gTLDs – Application Process Derailed; ICANN Seeks Solutions From …
Thursday, June 28th, 2012The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has quickly gone from resurgent “Little Engine That Could” to train wreck. Having just weathered an embarrassing six-week delay in its gTLD application process, it took ICANN less than a week to come off the rails again. Over the past weekend, and just before its semi-annual [...]
ICANN suspends Digital Archery contest for gTLD program
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012June 25, 2012, 8:15 AM — ICANN has suspended the Digital Archery contest part of its new Generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) Program, which was destined to decide which gTLD applications would be handled first, the organization announced on Saturday. The future of this application process is still to be determined, ICANN said during a news [...]
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ICANN’s New gTLDs Program: Disputes, Comments and Objections
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012What 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 [...]