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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
In an unprecedented move, ICANN’s Address Supporting Organization has exercised its special powers to demand ICANN hand over documents relating to the Ethos Capital acquisition of .org’s Public Interest Registry. There’s a possibility...
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January 2, 2020 Kevin Murphy
bylaws, didp, Domain Policy, empowered community, ethos, inspection request, irp, isoc, reconsideration, rfr
ICANN’s board of directors will gather today to consider whether the acquisition of Public Interest Registry by a private equity company means that it should reverse its own decision to allow PIR to raise .org price arbitrarily. Don’t get t...
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November 21, 2019 Kevin Murphy
cep, Domain Policy, eff, irp, isoc, Namecheap, price caps, reconsideration, rfr
Failed .africa gTLD applicant DotConnectAfrica appears to have lost its lawsuit against ICANN. A California judge has said he will throw out the portions of DCA’s suit that had not already been thrown out two years ago, on the grounds that DCA wa...
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September 9, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, dotconnectafrica, gac, irp, zacr
With the tide of international opinion turning against Brazil due to the ongoing forest fires in the Amazon, could we see governments change their tune when it comes to Amazon’s application for .amazon? A much higher number of forest fires than u...
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August 26, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, dot-brands, g7, irp, rfr
Afilias thinks it has found the smoking gun in its fight to wrestle .web out of the hands of rival Verisign, but for now the details are still a closely guarded secret. The company recently filed an amended complaint in its Independent Review Process c...
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May 21, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, irp, last resort, ndc, nu dot co
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