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ICANN says it can spend quarter-billion-dollar auction fund however it likes

ICANN can tap into its $236 million new gTLD auction fund whenever it wants, and there’s nothing the community can do about it, according to its board of directors. The board this week said it has a “legal and fiduciary responsibility&#8221...

October 12, 2018 Kevin Murphy auctions. last resort, Domain Policy

.Islam top level domain name rejected

.Islam, .Halal and .PersianGulf rejected as top level domains. ICANN’s board of directors has formally rejected an application for the .Islam top level domain name, as well as .Halal and .PersianGulf. The board made the decision at a special meeting last week. Asia Green IT System applied for the three domain names as part of […]

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October 8, 2018 Andrew Allemann .halal, .islam, .persiangulf, Policy & Law

CentralNic buys .fans for peanuts

CentralNic has acquired the flailing new gTLD .fans for an undisclosed sum. The value of the deal was low enough that publicly traded CentralNic was not obliged to disclose the purchase to the market, CEO Ben Crawford confirmed. The ICANN contract seem...

October 8, 2018 Kevin Murphy Domain Registries

Chinese registrars on the decline

Having been on a growth trajectory for some years, the number of ICANN-accredited registrars based in China appears to be on the decline. According to my records, so far this year 26 registrar contracts have been terminated, voluntarily or otherwise, 1...

October 1, 2018 Kevin Murphy compliance, Domain Registrars

Cloudflare selling all domains at cost: “All we’re doing is pinging an API”

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare has promised to sell domains in all TLDs at the wholesale cost, with no markup, forever. The company made the commitment yesterday as it announced its intention to get into the registrar business. Founder Ma...

September 28, 2018 Kevin Murphy Cloudflare, Domain Registrars, tierra, zoho

Millennial #domainer invests in new dot .BRO gTLD

New gTLDs are all the rage these days, although some old school domainers still refuse to accept this new domain world order. Millennial domain investors running Austin or Silicon Valley corporations, are openly investing in new gTLD extensions, and th...

September 26, 2018 DomainGang .BRO domains, dot .BRO, dot .BRO domains

Chutzpah alert! DotKids wants ICANN handout to fight gTLD auction

New gTLD applicant DotKids Foundation has asked ICANN for money to help it fight for .kids in an auction against Amazon and Google. The not-for-profit was the only new gTLD applicant back in 2012 to meet the criteria for ICANN’s Applicant Support...

September 24, 2018 Kevin Murphy applicant support, Domain Policy, dotkids, last resort

Will .Amazon ever see the light of day? There’s some movement.

Amazon region countries reject $5 million gift card but ICANN pushes forward to help Amazon.com get .Amazon top level domain name. Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) long battle to get rights to run the .Amazon top level domain name might still pay off, but countries that are part of the Amazon region continue to play hardball. On […]

September 19, 2018 Andrew Allemann Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, nasdaq:amzn, new top level domains, Policy & Law, top story

ICANN turns 20 today (or maybe not)

ICANN is expected to celebrate its 20th anniversary at its Barcelona meeting next month, but by some measures it has already had its birthday. If you ask Wikipedia, it asserts that ICANN was “created” on September 18, 1998, 20 years ago tod...

September 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy Domain Policy, IANA, icann 63, Jon Postel, jones day, Network Solutions

ICANN surveys domain registrants about trademark claims notices

Survey is well-intentioned but is unlikely to provide good data. ICANN is requesting feedback from domain name registrants about trademark claims notices from the Trademark Clearinghouse. Domain name investors that registered new top level domain names are probably familiar with these notices. When you try to register a domain that matches a trademark in the […]

September 7, 2018 Andrew Allemann Policy & Law, rights protection mechanisms, trademark clearinghouse

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