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ICANN is set to reject a plea for it to reconsider its decision to allow Donuts to buy Afilias last December. Its Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee recently threw out a Request for Reconsideration filed by Dot Hotel and Domain Venture Partners,...
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May 12, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, dot hotel, dvp, reconsideration, rfr
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
ICANN has rejected an unprecedented attempt to get a UDRP decision overturned using the Reconsideration process. The Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee late last week summarily dismissed a Request for Reconsideration filed by a group called the ...
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July 20, 2020 Kevin Murphy
bamc, Domain Policy, emily rose, homevestors, 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
The Uniform Rapid Suspension process is to stay in .org, after the ICANN board of directors rejected an appeal from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF had challenged the inclusion of URS in the recently renegotiated .org Registry Agreement, on...
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December 18, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, ethos, isoc, reconsideration, rfr, URS
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
ICANN has rejected two appeals against its decision to lift price caps and introduce new anti-cybersquatting measures in the .org space. In other news, gambling is going on in Rick’s Cafe. NameCheap and the Electronic Frontier Foundation both fil...
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November 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
bamc, Domain Policy, icann 66, price caps, public interest registry, rfr
ICANN’s Ombudsman has sided with with ICANN in the fight over the lifting of price caps on .org domains, saying many of the thousands of comments objecting to the move were “more akin to spam”. Herb Waye was weighing in on two Request...
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September 11, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Namecheap, Ombudsman, price caps, public interest registry, reconsideration, rfr
Amazon’s application for .amazon has moved another step closer to reality, after ICANN yesterday voted to reject an appeal from the Colombian government. The ICANN board of directors voted unanimously, with two conflict-related abstentions, to ad...
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September 9, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, bamc, Domain Registries, dot-brands, reconsideration, rfr