Category Archives: ICANN

ICANN Update and “Monkey Business”

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Joe

Update 2012-04-30: The CEO of ICANN, Rod Beckstrom stated in an interview today that ICANN “will not publish information about who could see what”. ICANN posted an update today but it wasn’t about when TAS would reopen. Here it is… … Continue reading →

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A New, More Customer-Friendly Type Of Web Address Is Coming

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Joe

It was nice to run across an article today about new Top Level Domains that described them as “Customer-Friendly”.  We need more positive press about new TLDs.  There are plenty enough painting them in a negative way. The truth is … Continue reading →

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ICANN To Use “Digital Archery” Method for Secondary Batching in New TLDs

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Joe

ICANN announced today that since they received over 500 applications they are triggering the use of “Digital Archery” as part of the batching of applications. The last report I saw stated that there were 839 applicants. It had been stated … Continue reading →

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ICANN Adds 266 New Gtld Applicants In A Week

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Joe

ICANN has revealed that it now has 556 registered users in its Top-Level Domain Application System, up from 290 just a week ago. Each TAS account can be used to apply for 49 new gTLDs (not 50 as previously reported), … Continue reading →

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JAS Global Advisors To Be One Of Three Independent Evaluators

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Joe

A Chicago company, JAS Global Advisors, is playing a key behind-the-scenes role in an unprecedented expansion of Internet domain names – the web’s equivalent of real-estate addresses dominated by .com, .gov, .org and .edu. The expansion will open the way … Continue reading →

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