News
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Wednesday, 9 May 2012
ICANN have issued a statement today in relation to the ongoing issues with the new gTLD application system. The statement is as follows:
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Tuesday, 8 May 2012
ICANN has been a hive of activity in recent months. The new gTLD application window opened in January 2012 and over 1250 applications began streaming in to beat the closing deadline of 12 April 2012.Before the window closed however, the application system (known as TAS) failed and ICANN were forced to halt proceedings.
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Tuesday, 8 May 2012
ICANN could net $150 million from a 2,000-application new gTLD round reports Domain Incite. That’s according to a proposed budget published for comment last night, which for the first time contemplates more than 500 new generic top-level domain applications.
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Tuesday, 8 May 2012
A sad shake of the head, a melancholy sigh followed by the inevitable "Oh dear, oh dear! What have they done now?” these are a daily litany for those domain name professionals involved in the New gTLD programme. Confusion is rife, conspiracy theories are rife, unbridled anger is rife; in fact the only thing that isn't rife at the moment is good news and a close date for the New gTLD submission window.
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Thursday, 3 May 2012
Statement by Akram Atallah, ICANN COO on 2 May 2012
"ICANN is in the process of notifying applicants whether they were affected by the software glitch that caused us to take the TLD Application System, or TAS, offline. As we announced earlier this week, we plan to complete this notification process on or before 8 May.
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Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Statement by Akram Atallah, ICANN COO on 27 April 2012
"ICANN will notify all applicants within the next seven business days whether our analysis shows they were affected by the technical glitch in the TLD application system.
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Monday, 16 April 2012
There were long faces all over the new gTLD ecosystem on Friday — applicants, consultants and technical operators alike — when ICANN took their application system (TAS) offline and announced that it would not be brought back up for five days.
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Thursday, 12 April 2012
NetNames has just received an important announcement from ICANN regarding the TAS system which is used to submit new gTLD applications.
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Tuesday, 3 April 2012
ICANN has recently issued an announcement on how TLD applications will be ‘prioritised’ should the number of applications exceed the 500 that ICANN have stated that they can handle in a single batch.
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Friday, 16 March 2012
Rarely has there been a domain name issue that has two high profile contrasting viewpoints in such as short period of time as the matter of how Google will treat the new gTLDs in terms of search engine ranking.
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Wednesday, 7 March 2012
With the ICANN registration deadline for companies to register their own .brand top level domain name in less than four weeks away, ICANN has revealed that it has received 207 applications.
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Thursday, 16 February 2012
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Friday, 20 January 2012
ICANN revealed yesterday (Thursday 19 January 2012) that 25 companies have so far registered applications for a new TLD.
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012
A new organization called Dot Kiwi Ltd has applied for the domain suffix .kiwi as part of the new gTLD application window.
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012
After more than seven years of planning, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has begun accepting applications for the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The world of .com, .gov, .org and 19 other gTLDs will soon be expanded to include all types of words in many different languages and for the first time, generic TLDs can also include words in non-Latin languages, such as Cyrillic, Chinese or Arabic.
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Monday, 9 January 2012
In only a few days, ICANN (the body that regulates Internet naming conventions) will be opening its doors to applications to run the next generation of domain extensions (the new form of .com, .net, .org).
This momentous occasion is set to revolutionize the nature of the Internet domain name space forever. No longer will companies, which have the foresight to apply, be constantly battling cybersquatters for their brand name, acquiring domain names already registered at hugely inflated prices in an over populated market and spending way more than necessary chasing brand misuse from online counterfeiters, phishers and fakers.
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Tuesday, 3 January 2012
New generic top-level domain applicants will have to find between $18,000 and $300,000 per gTLD to cover the risk of their business failing, according to DomainIncite.
ICANN revealed the figures, which have been calculated from prices quoted by 14 potential emergency back-end registry operators.
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Tuesday, 3 January 2012
From Stephane Van Gelder, Head of Group NBT's New gTLD Team and Chair of ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organization:
In late December, I received a "Happy Christmas" call from ICANN's CEO Rod Beckstrom. A thoughtful gesture, but more importantly a great opportunity to ask him about the current anti-new gTLD pressure that seems to be building in the US.
