Verisign released its latest Domain Name Industry Brief, as of June 30th 2015: The total number of registered domain names rose to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains Two million domain names were added to the Internet in Q2 2015, equates to a growth rate of 0.8% over Q1 2015 Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.4 million, or 5.9%, year over year. The .com and .net … [Read more...]
ICANN Publishes “An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance” Finding They Are Not
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), in conjunction with the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) announced the results of a study: "An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance", Universal Acceptance (UA) is the concept of removing all technical barriers that might hinder a user from accessing any name in any top-level domain (TLD) from any web browser, email … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Picks Up $3.5 Million For Withdrawing New gTLD Apps For .Art & .Data
Minds + Machines (LSE:MMX), today announced the Company has gained, in aggregate, net proceeds of over $3.5 million (approximately £2.3 million) for withdrawing its applications for .data and .art. The new gTLD .Art was won by UK Creative Ideas beating 9 other applicants in a private auction including Minds + Machines .Data is still showing on ICANN site as being in contention between Minds … [Read more...]
ICANN Gives You The Chance To Review Trademark Clearinghouse’s Performance & Get Paid
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) announced today that it's "seeking one or more provider(s) to conduct an independent review of the Trademark Clearinghouse to assess the effectiveness of three key areas related to the Clearinghouse in meeting its intended objectives and to identify considerations for future application rounds of the New gTLD Program. The three … [Read more...]
Strickling: “Let Your Voice Be Heard”: ICANN Opens Up Comment Period For Transition From US Control
Lawrence Strickling the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator in a blog post yesterday asked everyone to weight in on the ICANN transition away from the United States Supervisory Roll. "I urge all parties with an interest in the IANA transition to review these proposals and provide feedback to the working groups. This is the best way to make your voice … [Read more...]
Fed Court of Appeals Affirms Dismal Of Name.Space’s Claim Against ICANN’s New gTlD Program
The United States' Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of antitrust and other claims against ICANN made by a company called name.space, related to ICANN's new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Program, in an opinion published today In 2013, a federal district court dismissed all of name.space's claims, and today the Ninth Circuit affirmed that dismissal in all respects. … [Read more...]
Want TO Be The Next CEO Of ICANN? Here’s How To Apply
ICANN just published details regarding how to apply to become the next CEO of ICANN. The CEO of ICANN is currently making close to $900K in Salary and Bonus plus gets to travel at least 3 times a year to ICANN meetings which are usually held in some nice locations. The deadline to submit an application is September 20, 2015 Here is the info: Following the announcement by ICANN CEO Fadi … [Read more...]