Category Archives: ICANN

Anything Related to the Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers (ICANN)

ICANN Gets a new CEO

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Joe Alagna

This press release came out of ICANN this morning: Fadi Chehadé Steps into ICANN’s Top Spot on 1 October Chehadé, a leader in the formation of progressive Internet enterprises, has been named as the next President and Chief Executive Officer … Continue reading →

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Three New TLDs: .bar | .rest | .cafe

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Joe Alagna

Mexico Joins the Race for New Domain Extensions with Punto 2012’s Application for Three Essential gTLDs, .rest .bar and .cafe Punto 2012, a Mexican based company has chosen to participate in ICANN’s new gTLD program and create the first niche … Continue reading →

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ICANN’s New gTLD Domain Name List Released

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Joe Alagna

ICANN has revealed the entire list of new gTLDs today. You can download a spreadsheet here (right click and ‘save as’ since this is an Excel spreadsheet). It’s good to see so many brands. Interesting that the first press question … Continue reading →

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1930 New TLD Applications Will Be Announced

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Joe Alagna

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) received a total of 1930 applications, after refunds, for new generic top-level domains. – 1846 of those are “standard” applications. – 84 are designated as “community-based”. Of the 1930, 66 have … Continue reading →

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