ICANN 47 in Durban, South Africa, 14-18 July From ICANN ICANN 47 | 14-18 July 2013 ICANN has opened links for hotel booking and conference registration for its upcoming 47th Public Meeting to be held in Durban, South Africa from 14-18 July 2013. The meeting site will be the International Convention Centre. ICANN holds three public meetings each calendar year in different r...
NameSmash.com - Monday, May 20, 2013 - 13:41
Current list of passing New gTLD Applications From ICANN ICANN has released the next set of Initial Evaluation Results for the new gTLDs. The total number of passing applications is 300. See the list HERE.
NameSmash.com - Monday, May 13, 2013 - 13:36
The 411 on ICANN New gTLD EBEROs From ICANN Marking another milestone in the implementation of the community-developed New gTLD Program, ICANN today announced the selection of three geographically diverse emergency back-end registry operators, or EBEROs. The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), Neustar, Inc. and Nominet were selected to guarantee domai...
NameSmash.com - Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 8:47
New gTLD Program Posts Next Set of Initial Evaluation Results From ICANN ICANN has released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set of applications with priority numbers 31-60. There are 25 applications in this second set that received a passing score. This takes the total number of IDN applications receiving a passing score to 52. ICANN will continue to post IE results weekly, ramping
NameSmash.com - Monday, April 1, 2013 - 19:25
Proposed ICANN 2013 RAA Open for Comment (closes 28 March) From ICANN After nearly 18 months of negotiations, ICANN is posting a new version of the proposed 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) for public comment. The Registrar Negotiating Team (NT) has continued to engage in good faith negotiations to understand ICANN‘s perspective with respect to the outstanding issues, and t...
NameSmash.com - Monday, March 11, 2013 - 11:27
New gTLD Program: String Similarity Contention Sets From ICANN ICANN has published the contention sets identified by the string similarity review for applications submitted as part of the New gTLD Program. Review the full list of contention sets here: PDF [162 KB], CSV [65 KB] or from the Applicants’ Corner page on the new gTLD microsite. Overall statistics about Contention Sets...
NameSmash.com - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - 12:18
ICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse Coming Soon! From ICANN On 26 March 2013, ICANN will unveil a global repository for trademark data, the first of its kind in the domain name space. The Trademark Clearinghouse will enable companies and individuals to protect their trademarks, while new generic Top-Level Domains are introduced into the Domain Name System. Rights holders whose tra...
NameSmash.com - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 7:10
Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services Members Selected From ICANN The Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services (EWG) is the first step in fulfilling the ICANN Board’s directive to help redefine the purpose and provision of gTLD registration data. This project is designed to provide a foundation for the creation of a new global policy for gTLD directory services, and requisit...
NameSmash.com - Friday, February 15, 2013 - 10:4
A Sexier ICANN New gTLD Info Page From ICANN Applied-for names, application status, objection procedures, trending topics, the new timeline, Webinars: all the info available right now on the juggernaut that is the launch of the New gTLDS making it’s way though the birth canal of hope, process and concern is right HERE in a pleasing and dynamic presentation. ...
NameSmash.com - Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 16:35
Trademark Clearinghouse FAQs From our friends at Com Laude: 1. What is the Trademark Clearinghouse? The internet is changing. ICANN, which administers the domain name system is running a process that will see the creation of nearly 1400 new registries. As part of the process, it has mandated the creation of a Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), for which
NameSmash.com - Monday, February 11, 2013 - 15:25
All about the Trademark Clearinghouse From our good friends at Com Laude The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) is a database of verified trademark information. Often mis-represented as a Rights Protection Mechanism, it is better to think of the TMCH as a Platform for RPMs in the New gTLDs (ngTLDs), designed to minimize costs. The TMCH will allow trademark owners to
NameSmash.com - Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 15:43
April in Beijing… From ICANN ICANN 46 will be gathering in Beijing, China 7-11. For more information about schedule, venues, sponsors and hotel booking, please go HERE.
NameSmash.com - Thursday, December 20, 2012 - 7:27
ICANN Sells Tickets for their New gTLD Lottery From DomainNameNews ICANN has opened their ticket sales for the lottery for new TLD applicants earlier today. Ticket sales end on December 17th at 11am PST.Due to the lottery laws in California, the tickets have to purchased for $100 in person. Originally ICANN had proposed a digital archery system, where applicants would provide a t...
NameSmash.com - Friday, December 14, 2012 - 15:31
Obama Signs Safe Web Act into Law From The Hill President Obama signed into law on Tuesday a bill that would reauthorize the Federal Trade Commission’s authority to clamp down on Internet fraud and online scammers based abroad. Outgoing California Republican Rep. Mary Bono Mack was the lead co-sponsor of the bill, the U.S. Safe Web Act, which expands the FTC...
NameSmash.com - Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 11:4
ICANN New gTLDs Prioritization Draw: FAQs From ICANN About the Draw What is the Prioritization Draw? The Prioritization Draw is an equitable and fair way to order the release of initial evaluation results for all new gTLD applications. The Draw will determine the order by which applications move through the remaining stages of the program. When and where will the Draw
NameSmash.com - Monday, December 3, 2012 - 16:10
News from ICANN’s Trademark Clearing House Meetings From ICANN Blog To wrap up the series of meetings ICANN convened with stakeholders to find common ground on Trademark Clearinghouse implementation, we conducted a follow-up briefing today for the group who worked on these issues during our meetings in Brussels and Los Angeles. We discussed two items: An update on the Trademark Cleari...
NameSmash.com - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 17:23
GAC Rings in with Early Warnings From Tech World A panel representing about 50 of the world’s national governments has revealed a list of the proposed generic top-level domain (gTLD) names to which there have been objections. Back in May, the ICANN registration process for new gTLDs finally drew to a close, and in June ICANN published a list of which
NameSmash.com - Monday, November 26, 2012 - 11:7
New gTLD Prioritization Draw From ICANN A Prioritization Draw (“Draw”) will be held on 17 December 2012 in Los Angeles to assign priority numbers to all new gTLD applications. Each application will be assigned a randomly-drawn priority number. These priority numbers will be used to determine the order in which initial evaluation results are released....
NameSmash.com - Friday, November 23, 2012 - 16:46
Leahy Scuttles His Warrantless e-Mail Surveillance Bill From CNET After public criticism of proposal that lets government agencies warrantlessly access Americans’ e-mail, Sen. Patrick Leahy says he will “not support” such an idea at next week’s vote. Sen. Patrick Leahy has abandoned his controversial proposal that would grant government agencies more surveillance p...
NameSmash.com - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - 11:32
