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Seven years after four companies applied for the .gay top-level domain, we finally have a winner. Three applicants, including the community-driven bid that has been fighting ICANN for exclusive recognition for years, this week withdrew their applicatio...
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February 20, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.gay, cep, cpe, Domain Registries, irp, mmx, top level design
Afilias has taken ICANN to arbitration to prevent .web being delegated to Verisign. The company, which came second in the $135 million auction that Verisign won in 2016, filed Independent Review Process documents in late November. The upshot of the fil...
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December 6, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, irp, ndc, nu dot co
Donuts has finally admitted defeat in its long-running fight to run the .spa gTLD, withdrawing its application and leaving rival Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council the victor. ASWPC, run from Hong Kong by .asia’s Edmon Chung, has now entered...
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November 26, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.spa, Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council, aswpc, Belgium, cep, cpe, Domain Registries, irp
Donuts has lost a legal appeal against ICANN in its fight to prevent Verisign running the .web gTLD. A California court ruled yesterday that a lower court was correct when it ruled almost two years ago that Donuts had signed away its right to sue ICANN...
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October 16, 2018 Kevin Murphy
cep, Domain Registries, irp, last resort, ndc, nu dot co, ruby glen
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has repeated its objection to the gTLDs .islam and .halal ever seeing the light of day. OIC Secretary General Yousef Al-Othaimeen wrote to ICANN earlier this month to declare that its position on the two controve...
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April 23, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.halal, .islam, agit, asia green it system, Domain Policy, gac, irp, oic
Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, Donuts has prevailed in the two-horse race for the .charity gTLD. The company appears to have privately resolved its contention set, paying off rival bidder Famous Four Media, judging by updates to ICANN’...
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March 13, 2018 Kevin Murphy
community objection, Domain Registries, Famous Four Media, independent objector, irp
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
ICANN has rejected claims that the .sport gTLD contention set was settled by an arbitrator who had undisclosed conflicts of interest with the winning applicant. Its Board Governance Committee last week decided that Community Objection arbitrator Guido Tawil had no duty to disclose his law firm’s ties to major sports broadcasters when he effectively eliminated […]
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 […]
