Now that ICANN voted to approve the new gTLD program today in Singapore its interesting to note that ICANN fulfilled the promise it made just a few months ago at its meeting in San Fransisco in March.
Back at the San Fransisco ICANN Meeting, Chairman Thrush ended the meeting by saying:
“We are going to have a vote early in the Singapore meeting so we ALL can have a party and celebrate” said Chairman Thrush
“we are glad to see this time table and are going to stick to it and have a fabulous party to celebrate it.”
“resolved, as set forth in the timetable, ICANN will target 15th of April 2011 as the date for publication of the final response to the GAC scorecard, along with applicant guidebook extracts showing changes.”
“resolved, the board intends to complete the process set forth in the time line in time for final approval of the new gTLD implementation program at an extraordinary meeting of the ICANN board to be held on Monday, the 20th of June 2011, at the ICANN meeting in Singapore.”
“You notice we have set up a special meeting early in the week so we don’t have to spend all of the week in Singapore in any kind of last-minute efforts because we want to have a party on — we want to have a resolution to celebrate –closure. and we haven’t finalized the plans for that but it looks like that could very well be the subject of the usual gala.”
“see we also don’t want to upset, we are doing this resolution on the Monday so we don’t upset constituency day.”
“We are aware, as I say, we have interfered to a certain extent with many of the plans of people at this meeting in terms of giving this priority.”
“So that’s the contents of the timetable, to make sure that we have gone through all the processes, taken the advice, and bridged all the gaps that we can.”
“So what we want to do is, the idea is we, in Singapore, can all IP Constituency, GAC, ccTLD’s, can come to that party thinking we have built a new gTLD program that we can all be proud off and get behind. ”
“Not everybody will have gotten everything they wanted at the start of the process but we ought to be able to look back at what improvements we have made since we began and what great improvements there are over the current systems.”
“So that’s the board’s thinking about bringing this to closure. and as a result of that i can tell that you the board is very keen to see this timetable and intends to adhere to it.
this is what we are going to do. so get behind us, please, and let’s make sure that we have a fantastic new gTLD launch party in Singapore.”
Well now on June 2oth ICANN did indeed pass the new gTLD program and the party tonight at the Sands Marina Hotel was nothing less than fabulous celebrating the passage of the new gTLD program. All and all the day went according to the plan laid out by ICANN in March.
Most importantly, the Chairman’s statement in March, still rang true today, that “Not everybody will have gotten everything they wanted at the start of the process but we ought to be able to look back at what improvements we have made since we began and what great improvements there are over the current systems.”
We agree and think at the end of the day ICANN got it right and kept its promise.
If you had to pick what the new gTLDs are about, would you pick “innovation” as ICANN is quoted as saying is the driving force behind them, or money as the estimates of 500 to 1000 new gTLDs at a million a pop?
When they added .mobi did that drive innovation? If so, where? Because allowing .coke or .microsoft or whatever is no different then any other extension which has been added in the past.
IMO all this will do is increase confusion and now people will need to remember where to go for what.
Congrats to ICANN-at least they kept their promise.
Now time to party in the wee hours of the hot summer nites of Singapore with MyThai and eat lots of durians.
Do you think this will help or hurt .tv, .us, .la, .travel and other existing extensions that never took off yet seem right in line with many of the goals of this plan.
Good, done & dusted. Will the corporates defensively use the new TDL, Yes. Will the corporates continue to use the dot com as the default domain brand? IMO yes, BE IMPARTIAL what do you think?MHB How about a poll?
“…IMO all this will do is increase confusion and now people will need to remember where to go for what.”
I agree.
.CONFUSION is the new gTLD
It also make big companies spend more money in domain names to protect their branding and trademarks.
For example, a brand name like HILTON
Hilton have hilton.com
Then, Hilton needs to buy:
hiltonhotel.com
hiltonhotel.hotel
hilton.hotel
hilton.london
hilton.uk
hilton.america
hilton.deals
hiltonhotel.deals
hiltonlondon.deals
hiltontravel.deals
hilton.resort
hilton.cloud
parishilton.hotel
parishilton.celebrity
parishilton.saigon
love.parishilton
SOOOO…..CONFUSING…
You people don’t understand. The whole idea about this is to give as many people the opportunity to make money online. Because no business will be able to have monopoly in all extensions and keywords in every extensions they will leave a hole where new business or new people will exploit and make money. This is about giving everybody an opportunity to make money. The extensions that will be very successful will be geographical and ethnic. .NYC or .HISPANIC will be successful
@emma
dotHispanic? Seriously? I’ll bet you three cheese enchiladas it bombs.
“we are glad to see this time table and are going to stick to it and have a fabulous party to celebrate it.”
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ie: we have already decided the outcome of the vote so get with the programme or the ICANN gravy train will steamroll right over you 🙂
Party on Dudes !
@emma
I’ll bet you a bag of fish & chips that .christian, .jewish, .muslim, .islam, .gay, .lesbian etc will keep the lawyers going for the best part of a decade 😉
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@emma…you are full of Emma BS
go register dot emma
Don’t worry about the hangover till after the party!
.com’s just became more valuable – in the aggregate
@japanville…”.com’s just became more valuable ”
No shi*t…Sherlock!!!
DC
“”Do you think this will help or hurt .tv, .us, .la, .travel and other existing extensions that never took off yet seem right in line with many of the goals of this plan.””
1st I disagree with your assessment that .tv never took off. I think its a solid extension for video related content type of sites and personally know of some very high 5 and 6 figure sales but they went unreported.
Now as far as the rest, I think no on .US.
Its a county code as its always been and I think adding hundreds of new extensions insistent going to help it.
.travel can turn it around but it needs to officially change its status from a sTLD to a gTLD to my knowledge its still a restricted extension
.La has a real chance for geocentric domains related to the city.
As there will be a .nyc, .paris .berlin and maybe 50 more .LA has a good chance of re-branding itself but of course the registry doesn’t control all the domains so its harder.
In all cases it would take a big marketing and education effort by the registry with money behind it, just like for the new gTLD’s.
We are telling people to plan on having at a very minimum $1M set aside for marketing but ideally they need more.
Its a lot hard to fix an extension or re-brand it than it is to do it right the 1st time.
That’s why its SO important that any new gTLD gets it right from the beginning.
I agree with MHB: now that .nyc and the likes will come out people will assume that other states have their extensions as the state abbreviation.
Run and buy .la (Laos), .ma (Morocco), .pa (Panama), .al (Albania) and others that match a US state. What does insurance.ma mean to a a MA resident? Or Boston.ma?
Now after the June 20 ICANN meeting, the world can have the option of FULL domain names in their own language (before the dot AND after the dot): russianword-dot-com, where the -com is in russian characters. http://bit.ly/jIRtJ1