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Amazon’s application for the .amazon gTLD has yet again been frozen, after a South American government invoked ICANN’s appeals process. The bid, as well as applications for the Chinese and Japanese versions, were returned to “on-hold&...
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June 25, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, dot-brands, icann 65, marrakech, reconsideration, rfr, spec 13
The contention set for .cpa has been resolved, clearing the way for a new accountancy-themed gTLD. The winner is the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, which submitted two bids for the string — one “community”, one va...
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February 20, 2019 Kevin Murphy
aicpa, cep, cpa australia, cpe, Domain Registries, mmx, reconsideration, rfr
ICANN’s board of directors has voted to put a March deadline on talks over the future of the .amazon gTLD. Late last week, the board formally resolved to “make a decision” on .amazon at ICANN 64, which runs in Kobe, Japan from March 9...
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January 21, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, bac, Domain Policy, reconsideration, rfr
Amazon’s application for the .amazon dot-brand may not be as secure as it was thought, following an ICANN decision over the Christmas period. Directors threw out a South American government demand for it to un-approve the .amazon bid, but clarifi...
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January 9, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, bamc, Domain Policy, reconsideration
When ICANN’s board of directors voted in late October to let Amazon have its controversial .amazon gTLD, it was not entirely clear what governments in the Amazon region of South America thought about it. Now, it is: they’re pissed. The gove...
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December 4, 2018 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, dot-brands, gac, reconsideration
ICANN has postponed the planned auction of the .kid(s) gTLDs after an appeal from one of the applicants. The last-resort auction had been penciled in for January 25, and there was a December 8 deadline for the three participants to submit their info to...
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December 12, 2017 Kevin Murphy
cpe, Domain Registries, dotkids, last resort, reconsideration, rfr
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 […]
