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ICANN Public Comment: New gTLD Financial Assistance Implementation Plan
ICANN is introducing today for public comment the implementation plans for the gTLD Applicant Support Program. Among other goals, the program seeks to provide financial...
More Financial Options May Mean More Applicants for New gTLDs by Pat Kane
In developing its plan to create potentially hundreds of new top-level domains, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had to strike a difficult...
Hogan Lovells: Appeal Court Finds AFNIC Not Liable For Failing To ‘Freeze’ A Domain Name
by Sarah Taïeb, Jane Seager, David Taylor from Hogan Lovells Facts Francelot registered the FRANCE LOTS trademark in France in 1989 and registered the domain...
QuoteBaby.com Tops Quiet Weekly Sales Chart
There were no six-figure sales in the week to 6 November according to Domain Name Journal’s list of top reported sales, but quotebaby.com did come top of the list,...
Key-Systems Announced As New Operator Of .DM Registry
The DotDM Corporation, the official administrator for the top level domain of the Eastern Caribbean’s Commonwealth of Dominica .DM has partnered with Germany’s...
US Government Departments Differ On ICANN’s New gTLD Programme
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have given differing views as to whether they believe...
Renewed DNS.be registration platform on 13 December 2011
DNS.be announced it has renewed its registration platform used by the network of 470 registrars to register and manage domain names. These registrars have access...
ICANN Notice of Publication: Revised IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Implementation Plan
Following the ICANN Board’s approval on 8 December 2011 of the amendment to the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Implementation Plan, ICANN is providing this notice...
Large Online Porn Firm Sues .XXX Challenging Its Right To Exist
XXX logo Manwin Licensing International took action in November in the courts to protest against the introduction of the new .XXX domain which went live this month...
Court Decides On Sex.eu, Case Concluded
[news release] After five years of legal proceedings, the case surrounding the domain name sex.eu is now concluded, reports the .eu registry, EURid. Following...
ICM Registry Acts in Response to Reports of Cyber-squatting
[news release] ICM Registry, the official registry of the new .xxx top-level domain TLD, announced that as part of its investigation of reported cybersquatting...
ICANN: Preliminary GNSO Issue Report on the Registrar Accreditation Agreement Amendments
Section I: Description, Explanation, and Purpose The Preliminary Issue Report on the Registrar Accreditation Agreement Amendment is published in response to the...
ICANN: CEO Search Committee Progress
The CEO Search Committee has met several times since Dakar, and has scheduled conference calls at least weekly through the Costa Rica meeting in March 2012.
ICANN Critics Complain Over New gTLDs to Senate, But Little Any Can Do
Some of the critics of ICANN’s plan to introduce new generic Top Level Domains vented at the organisation’s plans at a US Senate hearing Thursday, but...
Distinguished Chinese Internet Expert Named ICANN Vice President for Asia
Noted Internet expert Dr. Xiaodong Lee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been selected as ICANN’s Vice President for Asia.
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