Create Your Account  |  Log in  |  Contact    Latest News Two failures among latest 44 new gTLD results ICANN has released its weekly batch of new gTLD Initial Evaluation results and it includes the program’s second and third failures. Two dot-brand applications — .olayangroup and .mckinsey, filed by Olayan Investments and McKinsey Holdings — didn’t get passing scores and are now categorized as “Eligible f... DomainIncite.com - Friday, May 17, 2013 - 13:30 Donuts puts 63 new gTLDs to private auction, but at least 17 are dead on arrival Donuts has committed 63 of its 307 new gTLD applications to a private auction next month, but at least 17 of them are doomed already because rival Uniregistry won’t take part. Donuts, which does not want to enter into joint ventures with competing gTLD applicants, has decided to use a private auction managed by Cramton Relate... DomainIncite.com - Friday, May 17, 2013 - 10:6 ‘Whistleblower’ claims cronyism and fear at ICANN An anonymous individual claiming to be an ICANN staffer has warned the organization’s board of directors about senior-level cronyism and a “climate of fear” among employees. However, DI’s private conversations with other ICANN staffers suggest that the concerns may not be widely shared, at least not to the sam... DomainIncite.com - Friday, May 17, 2013 - 8:26 Donuts hires the face of the new gTLD program Portfolio gTLD applicant Donuts has hired Michele Jourdan, who until last week was head of new gTLD communications at ICANN. She has joined the company as director of sales and marketing, according to her LinkedIn profile. Applicants and others following the program closely will remember her from the regular update videos published b... DomainIncite.com - Friday, May 17, 2013 - 7:50 Ombudsman probing “late” new gTLD objections ICANN’s Ombudsman Chris LaHatte has received complaints about some new gTLD objections that were apparently filed after the submission deadline but are being processed anyway. Two companies have officially called on LaHatte to tell ICANN that “late complaints should not be received on the basis that the deadlines were wel... DomainIncite.com - Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 6:21 Healthcare dot-brand drops out of gTLD race WellPoint, a major North American health insurance provider, has dropped its application for .anthem, a proposed dot-brand gTLD. It’s the fifth application to be withdrawn this week and the 64th to be withdrawn overall. The pull-out rate from the original 1,930 applications now stands at roughly 3.3%. It’s also the second... DomainIncite.com - Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 5:30 Afilias dumps .mail bid, and three other new gTLD withdrawals Four new gTLD applications have been withdrawn so far this week, including the first to come from .info operator Afilias. Afilias has pulled its bid for .mail — the second applicant to do so — due to the number of competitors for the string. A spokesperson said in an email: The company felt there were Related posts: .tr... DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 11:17 Global standards group highlights silliness of GAC’s IGO demands The International Organization for Standardization, known as ISO, doesn’t want to have its acronym blocked in new gTLDs by the International Sugar Organization. ISO has told ICANN in a letter that demands for special favors coming from intergovernmental organizations, via the Governmental Advisory Committee, should be rejected.... DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 3:46 Massive internet policy database planned in Europe The European Commission plans to build a massive web site and database of information related to global internet policy-making. The Global Internet Policy Observatory, which is still in the planning stages, would be a “clearinghouse for monitoring Internet policy, regulatory and technological developments across the world”... DomainIncite.com - Monday, May 13, 2013 - 11:28 URS providers to get contracts The companies handling Uniform Rapid Suspension domain name disputes will be bound to a contract, ICANN has said. In a follow-up Q&A document from the public forum session at the ICANN meeting in Beijing last month, posted Friday, ICANN said: As regards Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) providers, will there be a contract developed... DomainIncite.com - Monday, May 13, 2013 - 10:31 Kiss-of-death gTLD applicant asks ICANN to reject “untimely” GAC advice One of the only two companies to receive formal, consensus, kiss-of-death Governmental Advisory Committee advice last month has called on ICANN to reject it as “untimely”. GCCIX WLL of Bahrain applied for .gcc to be an open gTLD for residents of the Persian/Arabian Gulf region. It was a ballsy application. The intended me... DomainIncite.com - Monday, May 13, 2013 - 5:50 TLDH weighs in on “terrifying” GAC advice Top Level Domain Holdings is the latest portfolio applicant to slate the Governmental Advisory Committee’s advice on new gTLDs, calling it “troubling in principle” and “terrifying in practice”. The company, which applied directly for 70 gTLDs and is involved in several others, filed its comments on the &... DomainIncite.com - Monday, May 13, 2013 - 4:42 Second .online gTLD bid and third ‘guardian’ dot-brand withdrawn Directi appears to be the last man standing in the three-way tie-up for .online, following the latest new gTLD withdrawals. Namecheap has dropped its .online application, closely following Tucows, which dropped its bid a couple of weeks ago. The three companies announced a deal in March to see them cooperate to win the contested TLD,... DomainIncite.com - Monday, May 13, 2013 - 3:54 New gTLDs applicants should brace for GAC delays New gTLD applicants affected by Governmental Advisory Committee advice may be about to find that their launch runway is quite a bit longer than they hoped. That’s the message that seems to be coming through subtly from ICANN and the GAC itself — via last week’s applicant update webinar and GAC chair Heather Dryden &... DomainIncite.com - Sunday, May 12, 2013 - 5:47 56 more new gTLDs pass evaluation ICANN’s evaluators have passed 56 more new gTLD applications through Initial Evaluation. The latest weekly batch of published results cover bids for the following strings: .aig, .airforce, .art, .axa, .baby, .basketball, .bid, .business, .bzh, .cal, .center, .ceo, .cisco, .cloud, .coach, .codes, .contractors, .cpa, .dell, .diet... DomainIncite.com - Friday, May 10, 2013 - 13:44 Will you be too sexy for .sexy? Uniregistry is planning to implement strict sexiness restrictions in its forthcoming .sexy gTLD, according to a fake press release we’ve just received. Uniregistry, the portfolio gTLD applicant run by domainer Frank Schilling, is the only applicant for .sexy. The company lied in the press release: Upon applying to register for ... DomainIncite.com - Friday, May 10, 2013 - 12:35 This is how stupid the GAC’s new gTLDs advice is For the last few weeks I’ve been attempting to write a sensible analysis of the Governmental Advisory Committee’s advice on new gTLDs without resorting to incredulity, hyperbole or sarcasm. I failed, so you’ll have to read this instead. I’m sorry, but the GAC’s Beijing communique (pdf) just has too much ... DomainIncite.com - Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 12:58 Demand Media slates GAC’s new gTLDs demands Demand Media has become the first new gTLD applicant to put its head above the parapet and tell ICANN that its latest batch of Governmental Advisory Committee advice is unworkable. While its comment on the GAC’s Beijing communique is very diplomatically worded, it’s obvious that Demand reckons most of the “safeguard... DomainIncite.com - Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 4:34 Interim CEO gets two C-level roles at Go Daddy Go Daddy’s management shake-up continues apace, with the news last night that former interim CEO Scott Wagner has been appointed COO and CFO. Wagner comes from KKR, one of three major investors to take a big stake in the registrar in 2011. He was CEO in the interregnum between Warren Adelman’s short-lived stint and the ... DomainIncite.com - Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 3:12 .pw sees strongest growth in China The recently launched .pw domain, managed by Directi, is doing particularly well in China, according to an early analysis from DomainTools. The survey of data from name servers supporting 63,736 .pw domains found that well over half — 38,356 — were on Chinese IP addresses. The Chinese registrar XinNet, which promotes low-... 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