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Will Anyone Qualify As a Community TLD?
Some TLD applicants have been saying that they’re “community” applications, which means that would avoid an auction and prevail over even deep-pocketed competitors. But according to ICANN’s Applicant...
View ArticleICANN Finds Its Voice
I think we are finally getting somewhere: ICANN is no longer fluttering flusteredly whenever a lobbying group sends a nastygram over the transom. Case in point: a letter from the Association of...
View ArticleNew ICANN gTLD Applicant Guidebook Released (and more)
ICANN has been quiet lately, very quiet. It has been making everyone nervous and leaving the field open to ICANN’s enemies, which has in turn encouraged domain industry hacks to resort to long “think...
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ICANN’s Brain-Dead Plan to Punish New gTLD Registries for No Good Reason
The COI + the EBERO: A Recipe to Create Failed Registries ICANN’s current plan for a Continued Operations Instrument (COI) is a self-insurance scheme that asks registries to tie up a massive amount of...
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New gTLDs and the 1%
While Occupy Wall Street and other groups representing the so-called 99% are getting most of the press, the 1% is raising its profile as well, at least when it comes to gTLDs. They are complaining that...
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U.S. Government Strongly Affirms ICANN Model and New gTLDs
Larry Strickling, who runs the NTIA (the part of the U.S. Department of Commerce that handles ICANN), yesterday gave an important and remarkable speech to the Practicing Law Institute about Internet...
View ArticleICANN Teases Applicants with Hints of new gTLD Dates
Would it hurt ICANN to be specific about their dates? Apparently it’s highly painful, to judge from a recent ICANN Twitter chat. As usual, nothing definitive was announced, but little hints were...
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The Biggest Glitch of All – ICANN’s Batching Program for new gTLDs
ICANN’s batching program, called digital archery, is deeply flawed and should be abandoned before it causes havoc with the new gTLD program. As well as arbitrarily creating winners and losers, creating...
View ArticleDigital Archery Glitch Followup
In a phone followup to our communication with ICANN regarding the glitch we discovered with the Digital Archery program, ICANN acknowledged that the issue was real, but that it related to display only...
View ArticleICANN Reveals Evaluation Timing for New gTLDs
Having now consigned to oblivion the unpopular “digital archery” method of determining who goes first in the new gTLD round, ICANN yesterday announced that it was going to evaluate all new gTLD...
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