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ICANN has been instructed to place the proposed .hotel gTLD in limbo after four applicants for the string raised “sufficiently serious questions” that ICANN may have whitewashed the “theft” of trade secrets. The order was handed...
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September 3, 2020 Kevin Murphy
cpe, Domain Policy, Domain Ventures Partners, eiu, Fegistry, fti, glitch, hacking, htld, icdr, irp, mmx, reconsideration, rfr
The fight over .hotel has been escalated, with four unsuccessful applicants for the gTLD whacking ICANN with a second Independent Review Process appeal. The complaint resurrects old claims that a former lead on the successful application, now belonging...
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February 7, 2020 Kevin Murphy
cpe, Domain Policy, domain venture partners, dvp, eiu, Fegistry, fti, glitch, irp, mmx, reconsideration, rfr
ICANN has responded harshly to claims that a probe of its handling of applications for the .gay gTLD was fixed from the outset. Writing to dotgay LLC lawyer Arif Ali this week, ICANN lawyer Kate Wallace said claims that the investigation “had a p...
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March 7, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.gay, cpe, Domain Policy, eiu, fti
The Economist Intelligence Unit has threatened to sue ICANN if it publishes emails related to its evaluations of “community” gTLDs. That’s according to a document published by ICANN this week, in which the organization refused to reve...
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February 14, 2018 Kevin Murphy
cpe, Domain Policy, dotmusic, economist, eiu, fti
A few weeks ago, when I was reporting the conclusions of a probe into ICANN’s new gTLD program, I wrote a prediction on a piece of paper and placed it into a sealed envelope.* I wrote: “They’re gonna call this a whitewash.” And ...
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January 31, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.gay, cpe, Domain Policy, dotmusic, eiu, fti, irp
Five more new gTLDs could see the light of day in 2018 after a probe into ICANN’s handling of “community” applications found no wrongdoing. The long-running investigation, carried out by FTI Consulting on ICANN’s behalf, found n...
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January 2, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.gay, .llp, cpe, Domain Policy, eiu, fti consulting, Merck
An ICANN-commissioned investigation into the fairness of its Community Priority Evaluation process for new gTLDs could wind up before the end of June. In an update Friday, ICANN also finally revealed who is actually conducting the probe, which has been slammed by affected applicants for being secretive. A tentative timeline sketched out in the update […]
Several new gTLD applicants have slammed ICANN for conducting an investigation into its own controversial practices that seems to be as opaque as the practices themselves. Seven proposed new gTLDs, including the much-anticipated .music and .gay, are currently trapped in ICANN red tape hell as the organization conducts a secretive probe into how its own […]
